My Reading Journal 2
Thoughts and notes about the books I am reading. My entries are not book reviews but just my personal thoughts and opinions about what I'm reading at the moment. The entries obviously contain SPOILERS.
Sunday 3 November 2024
Hons and Rebels 2 (Pages 56 - 104)
The family had a house in London, 26 Rutland Gate, in Kensington. 26 Rutland Gate is a large, detached house on Rutland Gate in the Knightsbridge district. In the 1920s and 1930s, the house was the London home during the Season of the Mitford family, who acquired the lease on the house for £28,000 after selling Asthall Manor, their country house in Oxfordshire
Saturday 2 November 2024
New Book - Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford (Pages 1 - 56)
This is a memoir written by Jessica Mitford about her life with her family. Jessica Lucy "Decca" Freeman-Mitford (11 September 1917 – 23 July 1996) was an English author, one of the six aristocratic Mitford sisters noted for their sharply conflicting politics.
The Foundling - Facts
Bess leaves her baby girl in the Foundling Hospital in London. The Foundling Hospital was a children's home in London, founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram.The Foundling Hospital was a home for abandoned children rather than a medical hospital. The first children were admitted to the Foundling Hospital on 25 March 1741. At first, no questions were asked about child or parent, but a note was made of any 'particular writing, or other distinguishing mark or token' which might later be used to identify a child if reclaimed.
The Foundling by Stacey Halls
First Published: 2020
In November 1747 Bess Bright leaves the baby girl she has just given birth to in the Foundling hospital in London.
Trust - Facts
Chloe grew up in the New Forest but she moved to London, which she prefers. The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire.
Sunday 27 October 2024
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Hons and Rebels 2 (Pages 56 - 104)
The family had a house in London, 26 Rutland Gate, in Kensington. 26 Rutland Gate is a large, detached house on Rutland Gate in the Knights...
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First Published: 1940 Henry Morley is a dentist who lives with his sister, and this morning he is complaining about everything, especially a...
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First Published: 2018 This is a novel based on the life of Charmian London, the second wife of Jack London, the famous writer.