Bøker utgitt av Edward Everett Root

Late-Victorian England ushered in a new phenomenon, a 'mass' reading and book buying public. But it was a long time coming. How and when did this public ultimately emerge, and who reached it? Whose ambitions were achieved, and whose frustrated? What worked, and what didn't? How were the most popular publications created, marketed, and sold?

This richly imagined novel tells the surprising story of two of Bloomsbury's most unlikely lovers - John Maynard Keynes, the distinguished economist, and the extrovert Russian dancer Lydia Lopokova. Firebird is the third novel of prize-winning author Susan Sellers, who is also an expert on Bloomsbury and the writing of Virginia Woolf. / Weaving biography and fiction, Firebird explores the tangle of Bloomsbury's bohemian relationships as lifestyles are challenged and allegiances shift following Lydia's explosive arrival. / It is the winter of 1921 and Diaghilev's Ballets Russes launch a flamboyant new production at London's Alhambra Theatre. Maynard Keynes is in the audience, though he expects little from the evening. Despite Lydia's many triumphs, including the title role in Stravinsky's Firebird, Maynard's mind is made up - he considers her 'a rotten dancer'. Besides, Lydia has at least one husband in tow and Maynard has only ever loved men. Tonight, however, he is moved by her performance, and when the ballet closes in financial disaster leaving its cast penniless, he invites Lydia to move into his Bloomsbury house. / No strangers to scandalously unconventional liaisons, Maynard's Bloomsbury friends - Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa and Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and Lytton Strachey - are intrigued to find the resolutely homosexual Maynard falling for a woman. They assume it is a passing fad. After all, Lydia is a noisy, uneducated chatterbox, while Maynard is a brilliant intellectual whose encylopaedic knowledge and genius for strategy have already made him indispensable to the Treasury. But when Maynard pulls out of a Royal Commission tour to stay close to Lydia, his friends realise they must act. As Virginia writes to her sister Vanessa, everything they value risks ruin from this 'parokeet' whose conversation is limited to 'one shriek, two dances'. Anything other than a brief affair would be 'a fatal and irreparable mistake'. Maynard must be rescued from himself. / Vividly recreating Lydia's life-changing journey from Tsarist St Petersburg to Jazz Age London via the Paris of Proust and Picasso, this compelling new novel celebrates a love story that is utterly unexpected, true, and stranger than fiction.

This major new novel by the best-selling Maggie Humm is the story of artist Gwen John's tumultuous affair with the French sculptor Auguste Rodin.

This fascinating novel prompts many unusual questions about the most famous play in the world. / It explores the mind of the quizzical Hamlet himself, and of Shakespeare - if he was, indeed, the author. / It features a 21st-century Psychotherapist of mixed race, Jacob Fortune, who doesn't like the age-old classic play - especially its conclusion. / In detective style, through virtual reality, he travels back to try to get into the mind of Hamlet, in order to change the narrative of the play and also to prove himself right about the false claim of authorship.

This lively work offers a wide-ranging account of the social history of the motorised age, and of the machine which has reshaped the character and development of the modern world.

This book offers a radical rethinking of Jane Eyre from feminist and post-colonial positions.

The first book-length study of poet and political writer Violet Fane (Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie, n¿e Lamb, 1843-1905) recovers her work to a central position in the literary canon.

This new book vividly presents previously undiscovered biographical information about Elizabeth Gaskell, the author of Mary Barton, Cranford, The Life of Charlotte Bront¿, and Wives and Daughters. It also provides much contextual material about Harriet Martineau, the Bront¿ family and the history of Manchester.

Hannah Lynch (Dublin 1859 - Paris 1904), restless wanderer, cosmopolitan, cultural observer and commentator, was the author of feminist fiction, travel writing and journalism. Her short story for girls, ''A Girl Revolutionist'' (1899) and serialised novella, ''Marjory Maurice'' (1884-85), were based on her own experiences as an active member of the Ladies'' Land League (1881-1882). ''A Girl Revolutionist'' (1899), published in Alice Corkran''s nineteenth-century girls'' magazine, Girl''s Realm, traces the ideals of young Moya O''Connell who ''dreamed of freeing Ireland'' that end in disillusionment. ''Marjory Maurice'' was serialised between 1884 and1885 in the nationalist ''story paper'', the Shamrock. The Ladies'' Land League activists portrayed in this narrative are not only New Women avant la lettre, but also canny and knowledgeable readers of the periodical and newspaper press in ways that anticipate the suffragette movement and their savvy manipulation of the press to further their own ends.The stories in this volume will be a vital resource for readers and scholars interested in Hannah Lynch, (Irish) New Girl and New Woman fiction, the Ladies'' Land League, literary representations of the land wars, nineteenth century periodical and newspaper culture and history. Reprinted here for the first time and fully annotated, the edition also includes a comprehensive introduction, bibliography and appendices of material relevant to the works'' social, political and publishing contexts. Together these short fictions offer vivid insights into the shaping of rebel feminist and nationalist identities in the closing decades of the nineteenth century.