Rosamond Lehmann
1) Dusty answer
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English
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A semiautobiographical portrayal of upper-class adolescence that contains a groundbreaking examination of lesbianism in the young.
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English
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Rosamond Lehmann's only autobiographical work recreates the events that shaped her life-from childhood to motherhood to the death of her daughter Rosamond Lehmann was born during a violent February thunderstorm and lived a sheltered, privileged life with her parents, brother, and sisters. Writing from the distance of decades, she reveals why no adult would ever apologize to a child, shares thoughts on her "first conscious memory," and discusses the...
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English
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A young girl befriends an elderly woman during the First World War in this remarkable novel by one of Britain's best-loved authors Sibyl Jardine, the former best friend of Rebecca Landon's grandmother, has recently returned to the Priory, her home at the top of a hill. Rebecca is instantly drawn in by Sibyl's magnetic personality and blunt, shocking manner. Decades earlier, Sibyl had left her husband Charles for another man and, as a result, lost...
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English
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This collection of stories by one of Britain's most beloved novelists depicts domestic life during World War II as seen through the eyes of both children and adults In "The Red-haired Miss Daintreys," four six-foot-tall sisters capture the imagination of young Rebecca when she and her family are on holiday. Beautifully crafted and informed by Lehmann's eye for telling detail, it is a moving meditation on familial ties, romantic love, and the end...
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Chivers Press
Pub. Date
1979.
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English
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Rosamond Lehmann's enduring classic, told from the point of view of its seventeen-year-old heroine, who has been invited to her first dance Today is Olivia Curtis's seventeenth birthday. In exactly one week, she will attend her first dance. She is thrilled . . . and terrified. Will Tony Heriot ask her to dance? Will he even remember that they once attended the same costume party? What will she wear? Something bright and beautiful-red silk?...
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Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
1976.
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English
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A woman searches for a fresh start on a remote Caribbean island in this sequel to Rosamond Lehmann's classic The Ballad and the Source The year is 1933. After a heart-wrenching betrayal by her married lover, Rebecca Landon leaves London for a tiny island in the Caribbean. There, she meets a colony of expatriates, including the voluble Captain Cunningham and his wife, Ellie, who were the first white settlers on the isle. She also meets Johnny, a...
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Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
1953.
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English
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When Rickie Masters dies he makes widows of two women, his wife Madeleine and her sister Dinah, with whom he conducted a clandestine affair for many years. The author explores the pain of these fatally interrelated lives, showing the fracturing of human personality under the pressure of emotion.
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BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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Beautiful and determined Olivia Curtis abandons her dull and lifeless marriage for a hard-won independence. Her meeting with the handsome aristocrat Rollo Spencer ten years after their first encounter leads to a forbidden affair that will scandalise society.
10) The heart of me
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Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Socialite Madeleine invites her bohemian sister Dinah to stay with her and her husband, Rickie. Rickie and Dinah find themselves unable to control their desire for each other. What starts as a momentary affair spirals into decades of deception.
