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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Not since the bloody deeds of Jack the Ripper have Londoners felt such terror as that aroused by the gruesome beheadings in Hyde Park. And if newly promoted Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt does not quickly apprehend the perpetrator, he is likely to lose his own head, professionally speaking. Yet even with the help of Charlotte Pitts subtle investigation, the sinister violence continues unchecked. And in a shocking turn of events that nearly convinces...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Her eleventh year brings many changes in the life of Charlotte Tucker and her family, including the building of a dam near their home in Roxbury, Massachusetts, attending school, meeting her mother's older brother, and the birth of her own baby brother.
Author
Series
Readings in literary criticism volume 2
Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
115 pages 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xxvi, 537 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): Beecher-descendent, zealous reformer, exhilarating lecturer, prolific writer, scandalous divorcee, "unnatural mother," international celebrity, and life-long controversialist. It offers the definitive account of this controversial writer and activist's long and eventful life. She launched her career as a lecturer, author, and reformer with the story for which she is best-known today, "The...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Sukey Forbes lost her six-year-old daughter Charlotte to a rare genetic disorder, her life felt as if it were shattered forever. Descended from two distinguished New England families, Forbes was raised in a rarefied--if eccentric--life of privilege. Yet Forbes's family history is also rich with spiritual seekers, including her great-great-great-grandfather Ralph Waldo Emerson. On the family's private island enclave off Cape Cod, apparitions...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
To celebrate the beginning of 1800, Queen Charlotte invites 100 children to Windsor Castle, where England's first Christmas tree, laden with gifts, is the centerpiece. Includes biographical information about Queen Charlotte and a timeline.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
191 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1711, twelve-year-old Cʹecile Revel unexpectedly gets the chance to serve Louis XIV's sister-in-law at the palace of Versailles, but instead of a dream come true, life at court proves to be complicated and precarious.