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1 review
Carole A Jones

iUniverse, Inc., 2008

Remarkable family with a remarkable story
My heart both ached and rejoiced for this family. Their story is one that will touch and help many. Romans 8:28

Beatrice Webb: A Life
Carole Seymour-Jones

Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1992

This life of the brilliant and beautiful Beatrice is a very modern story of choices--of socialism over love, and social commitment over social privilege. An intriguing biography of an independent Englishwoman with important reverberations for our own time. You've got to buy this book. --Carolyn See, Los Angeles Times

Painted Shadow

3 reviews
Carole Seymour-Jones

Robinson Publishing, 2002

Absorbing and excellent
This is a superb study of the frustration that a bad marriage can wreak on two (mostly) admirable individuals: Vivienne Haig, sexually hungry and emotionally fragile, and Thomas Stearns Eliot, a homosexual who blithely imagined that marriage would cure him. The chafing these two endured makes for painful reading, though the author tells her story with such dispassion and aplomb that she ...

A Dangerous Liaison

1 review
Carole Seymour-Jones

Century, 2008

Gurus with feet of clay
This very readable book is about the relationship between Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and although the author is of course knowledgeable about their philosophies, her main interest is in the psychology of the pair, which is brought out with great perceptiveness. From their adolescence onwards they had both rejected belief in God. This had two consequences in particular: the ...

The Developing World of the Child

Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006

1000 Years of Laughter: An Anthology of Classic Comic Prose

1 review

Naxos Audiobooks, 2002

Disappointing
I'm normally a great fan of the Naxos audiobook surveys. I've already enjoyed the History of the Theatre and the Story of English Literature, both involving the participation of David Timson. But this one just doesn't work for me. Perhaps my sense of humour is too rooted in the present, but I chuckled at very few of the pre-1850 extracts. And yet the compilation does have its moments. I will be ...

Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T. S. Eliot

1 review
Carole Seymour-Jones

Anchor, 2003

Bangs and Whimpers
700 pages of commonplace minutiae is probably tons more than anyone wants to know about Vivienne Eliot but, even allowing for such proffered particulars as V.E.'s 1934 cockroach problems, the story told by Carole Seymour-Jones is fascininating...and repulsive. If they are ever to pick up The Collected Works again without a shudder, devotees of T. S. Eliot will have to study a juggling ...

Teach Yourself The Cold War (Teach Yourself)
Carole Bryan Jones

McGraw-Hill, 2004

Teach Yourself the Cold War covers all the basics, from the conflict's post-WWII origins, to the culture it created, to how the balance between the major powers was eventually tipped in the West's favor. This engaging title also describes controversial topics, such as what JFK and his assassin held in common and whether or not the tension between East and West was truly relieved after the Berlin Wall fell. The Teach Yourself History series ...

Teach Yourself Twentieth Century USA (Teach Yourself History)
Carole Bryan Jones

Hodder & Stoughton, 2005

Beatrice Webb: Woman of Conflict
Carole Seymour-Jones

HarperCollins Publishers, 1993

Leisure and Tourism (Longman GNVQ Foundation)
Carole Jones, Margaret Radcliffe

Longman, 2000

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