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Bitten by Witch Fever - Wallpaper Arsenic in the Victorian Home by Lucinda Hawksley
60.00 AUD
Category: Interior Design
Beautiful to look at and compelling to read, Bitten by Witch Fever is a highly original and captivating volume that interleaves facsimile sections of alluring, arsenic-laden wallpapers with thought-provoking narrative, tracing the arresting story of the use and effects of the toxic pigments ingrained in ...Show more
Letters of Great Women: Extraordinary correspondence from history's remarkable women by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
49.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A collection of the most inspiring, illuminating, poignant and compelling correspondence from remarkable women through history. Letters of Great Women is a collection of the most inspiring, illuminating, poignant and compelling correspondence from remarkable women through history. Including 100 letters ...Show more
Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
19.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' model whose face captivated a generation. Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by a young Pre-Raphaelite artist, Lizzie Siddal rose to become on ...Show more
London Treasury by Lucinda Hawksley
19.99 AUD
Category: History
London is now some 2,000 years old, and for the last thousand has been one of the greatest cities on earth. Engulfed in calamities that seemed to mark its end - fire, plague, riot, civil war, mass bombing - it has emerged from each crisis stronger than ever. Its cultural life and long heritage has made ...Show more
March, Women, March by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley
17.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Voices of the Women's Movement explores the women's movement in Britain, from the passing of the Marriage and Divorce Act in 1857 to women attaining the vote in 1928. Published to commemorate the centenary of the death of the suffragette Emily Wilding Davison, who threw herself under King George V's hor ...Show more
Moustaches, Whiskers and Beards by Lucinda Hawksley
19.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: NPG Short Histories
Taking as her starting point images from the holdings of the National Portrait Gallery, London, writer and art historian Lucinda Hawksley explores the history of facial hair, from prehistoric times to the present day. By way of introduction, she investigates how cave men shaved, the Pharaonic beard in a ...Show more
Mystery of Princess Louise: Queen Victoria's Rebellious Daughter by Lucinda Hawksley
19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Spirited biography and quest to unearth the secrets of Princess Louise -- a royal desperate to escape her inheritance. The secrets of Queen Victoria's sixth child, Princess Louise, may be destined to remain hidden forever. What was so dangerous about this artistic, tempestuous royal that her life has b ...Show more
When Art Really Works by Lucinda Hawksley, Andy Pankhurst
16.99 AUD
Category: Art
Why do some artworks stand head and shoulders above others? Exceptional art somehow satisfies at a deeper level than the rest. When Art Really Works showcases a selection of eighty outstanding paintings and sculptures from around the world and throughout time, assessing just what it is that makes them s ...Show more
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