Our Lizzie

Author: Anna Jacobs
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1848948832
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
They say you only regret the things you don't do . . . Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit; ever since her father's death she has had to be a survivor. Home life is harsh, though, and desperate to escape it, she makes an ill-advised marriage. But she discovers all-too-quickly that she's married a selfish and violent man. His beatings never seem to stop and she soon comes to a decision: she must run far, far away. With the help of some suffragettes she escapes to Manchester, where she finds work in a munitions factory - she is finally the independent woman she has always longed to be. But her husband, whose cruelty knows no bounds, tracks her down and drag her back home to more beatings than ever. But when his violence causes her to lose the one thing she's always wanted, Lizzie knows she must find the strength to make the changes in her life that are so sorely needed. ******************* What readers are saying about OUR LIZZIE 'I'd recommend this book to all saga lovers' - 5 stars 'Another fantastic read . . . It made me laugh and it made me cry . . . Another page turner' - 5 stars 'Brilliant series of books. Lovely stories. Lovely characters' - 5 stars

Our Lizzie

Author: Anna Jacobs
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 146688231X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482

Book Description
Lizzie Kershaw is an independent spirit. At twelve, she loses her father and her happy family life ends as her mother grows to resent her. Then circumstances push Lizzie into an early marriage, where she finds her mother's petty cruelties replaced by her husband's frequent beatings. But she is a survivor. When World War I breaks out, Lizzie's husband is forced to join up and she seizes the opportunity to run away. She finds independence and friendship in a munitions factory - plus the promise of a new love. But as war ends, the shadow of her husband looms again. Can she break free of him and find happiness? This is a vivid and engrossing tale of endurance, set in Lancashire from 1909-1914. Anna Jacobs has once again created characters so real you laugh and weep with them and you will never forget Our Lizzie.

Our Strange New Land

Author: Patricia Hermes
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780439368988
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 109

Book Description
Nine-year-old Elizabeth keeps a journal of her experiences in the New World as she encounters Indians, suffers hunger and the death of friends, and helps her father build their first home.

Lizzie Leigh

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 520

Book Description

Lizzie Leigh, and Other Tales

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Lizzie's Heart

Author: Susan Lantz Simpson
Publisher: Zebra Books
ISBN: 1420149830
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
Fall in Southern Maryland’s Amish country is a time of fiery falling leaves, a bountiful harvest, and bracing, frost-touched days. It’s the perfect season for one irrepressible maidel to try an unexpected match . . . Good-hearted and impulsive, twenty-year-old Lizzie Fisher has many chores—and secrets. She’s caring for kittens abandoned by their mother and practicing her drawing talent away from disapproving eyes. So the last thing she needs is someone like handsome Stephen Zimmerman constantly “helping” her out of trouble. But when she discovers they both have lovelorn siblings, she has an idea: why can’t she and Stephen bring his older brother and her older sister together? After all, how hard could matchmaking be? Even though he’s the youngest son of an Old Order Mennonite family, Stephen is used to looking out for everyone else. Yet somehow the romantic schemes he and Lizzie cook up keep going awry—in ways that hint they may suit each other. But their deepening bond is both delightful and complicated. For bridging their differences will take bravery, compromise—and faith in their hopes and dreams . . . Visit us at www.kensingtonbooks.com

The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell

Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 4649

Book Description
This meticulously edited Elizabeth Gaskell collection includes: Introduction: "Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell" Novels: Mary Barton The Moorland Cottage Cranford Ruth North and South Sylvia's Lovers Wives and Daughters A Dark Night's Work Short Stories & Novellas: Round the Sofa My Lady Ludlow An Accursed Race The Doom of the Griffiths Half a Life-Time Ago The Poor Clare The Half-Brothers Cousin Phillis Company Manners Mr. Harrison's Confessions The Sexton's Hero The Grey Woman Curious if True Six Weeks at Heppenheim Libbie Marsh's Three Eras Christmas Storms and Sunshine Hand and Heart Bessy's Troubles at Home Disappearances Lizzie Leigh The Well of Pen-Mortha The Heart of John Middleton Traits and Stories of the Huguenots Morton Hall My French Master The Squire's Story Right at Last The Manchester Marriage Lois the Witch The Crooked Branch The Old Nurse's Story Clopton House Crowley Castle Two Fragments of Ghost Stories The Shah's English Gardener Martha Preston The Deserted Mansion Uncle Peter A Visit to Eton The Cage at Cranford Some Passages from the History of the Chomley Family The Ghost in the Garden Room Poetry: Sketches Among the Poor Bran The Scholar's Story Other Works: The Life of Charlotte Brontë The Last Generation in England Cumberland Sheep-Shearers Traits and Stories of The Hugenots Modern Greek Songs French Life An Italian Institution Shams A Fear for the Future Biography: Mrs. Gaskell and Knutsford by George A. Payne Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford, North and South, and Wives and Daughters.

The Ladies' Repository

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universalism
Languages : en
Pages : 486

Book Description

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 1

Author: Joanne Shattock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351220403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 302

Book Description
A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

Lizzie’S Luck

Author: Vivienne Loranger
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499022468
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 474

Book Description
Being born on Friday the 13thunlucky for some? It was for Lizzie. Orphaned at ten was just the beginning. And when fate threw in the added tragedies of further deaths, thwarted loves, and mishaps in her nursing career, it only served to give credence to Lizzies long-held superstition regarding her unlucky birth date. However, with tenacity and fortitude as tools for survival, she was to realize that if any of her objectives in life were to be met, it could only happen through belief in herself and not in destiny.