This study guide follows the 2020 Walker Books, London edition. The plot itself carries some resemblance to that of Great Expectations, echoing the story of a young man hopelessly in love with a beautiful, cold young woman confined by her evil-tempered guardian. All the chapter titles in Chain of Gold are taken from poetry of the Victorian and Edwardian era, and the book title alludes to Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1860-61). Shadowhunters also prevent Downworlders-earth’s other supernatural beings consisting of warlocks, faeries, werewolves, and vampires-from attacking the mundanes.ĭrawing heavily on her itinerant childhood and love for reading, the author always represents diverse cultures and sexual orientations in her texts, and she includes rich historical and literary references. The Shadowhunters’ mandate is to protect the unseen world and mundanes from demons, who are destructive inter-dimensional beings. Chief among these beings are Nephilim, or Shadowhunters, a group of humans with angelic blood. In the Shadowhunter universe, supernatural beings coexist with regular humans, known as “mundanes.” The supernatural beings live in the unseen world and include creatures drawn from various mythologies.
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Based on extensive first-hand research, drawing on diaries, memoirs and letters, this richly entertaining group biography reveals what they thought of their new lives in England - and what England thought of them. From 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known "Dollar Princess", married Randolph Churchill - to 1905, dozens of young American heiresses married into the British peerage, bringing with them all the fabulous wealth, glamour, and sophistication of the Gilded Age.Īnne de Courcy sets the stories of these young women and their families in the context of their times. The incomers were a group of young women who, 50 years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise. The citadel of power, privilege, and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. Towards the end of the 19th century and for the first few years of the 20th, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The Husband Hunters is a deliciously told historical audiobook about the young, rich, American heiresses who married impoverished, British gentry at the turn of the 20th century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey Anne de Courcy is the author of several widely acclaimed works of social history and biography, including The Husband Hunters: American: American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy (2018), Margot at War (2014), The Fishing Fleet (2012), Debs at War (2005), and The Viceroys Daughters (2000). To save her family, Jiara must find her sister’s killer. A DRAGONBIRD IN THE FERN Trailer Buy Praise In The Media When an assassin kills Princess Jiara’s older sister Scilla, her vengeful ghost is doomed to walk their city of glittering canals, tormenting loved ones until the murderer is brought to justice. If she marries the king, Jiara can hunt the murderer and release her family from Scilla’s ghost, whose thirst for blood mounts every day. Then Jiara discovers evidence that her sister’s assassin comes from the king’s own country. She’s terrified of life in a foreign land where she’ll be unable to communicate. Marrying the young king intended for her sister and traveling to his distant home is distressing enough, but with dyslexia and years of scholarly struggles, Jiara abandoned any hope of learning other languages long ago. While the entire kingdom mourns, Scilla’s betrothed arrives and requests that seventeen-year-old Jiara take her sister’s place as his bride to confirm the alliance between their countries. : A Dragonbird in the Fern (9781635830651) by Laura Rueckert and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. When an assassin kills Princess Jiara’s older sister Scilla, her vengeful ghost is doomed to walk their city of glittering canals, tormenting loved ones until the murderer is brought to justice. 8.99 9.99 Save 10 Current price is 8.99, Original price is 9.99. Order comes with a paperback copy of A DRAGONBIRD IN THE FERN. Shipped via Media Mail. |