Mansfield Park 4 (Chapters 35 - 42)

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Mansfield Park 3 (Chapters 16 -34)

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Mansfield Park 2(Chapters 3 - 16)

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New Book - Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (Chapters 1 - 2)

 First Published: 1814

This is a book by Jane Austen which I have never read. 

A Wilder Rose 3 - The End (Pages 165 - end)

 RATING: GOOD

A Wilder Rose 2 (Pages 39 - 165)

 In the book Rose tells us how her parents moved to Mansfield, Missouri when she was young. 

New Book - A Wilder Rose by Susan Wittig Albert (Pages 1 - 39)

 First Published: 2015

This is a novel based on true facts about the life and relationship between Rose Wilder Lane and her mother Laura Ingalls WIlder, the author of the Little House on the Prairie books.

Candles and Roses - Characters

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Candles and Roses - Facts

 

The Black Isle in Scotland is where the victims are found. The Black Isle (Scottish Gaelic: an t-Eilean Dubh, pronounced is a peninsula within Ross and Cromarty, in the Scottish Highlands.

Candles and Roses - DI Alec McKay 1 - by Alex Walters

 First Published: 2016

RATING: GOOD

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Scissors, Paper, Stone - Facts

 Anne was studying in Newnham College, Cambridge, when she met Charles. Newnham College is a women's constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1871 by a group organising Lectures for Ladies. It was the second women's college to be founded at Cambridge. 

Paper, Scissors and Stone by Elizabeth Day

 First Published: 2011

RATING: VERY GOOD

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Hons and Rebels 3 - The End (Pages 104 - end)

 RATING: GOOD

This is the last part of the book. I have enjoyed Jessica Mitford's vision of her own family. I loved the part about her growing up, but I have to say that I found the last part dull. When Jessica travels to America with her husband and meets all these new people, that did not grip my attention so much.

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

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. 

Trust 3 - The End (Pages 226 - end)

 

RATING: VERY GOOD

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