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Books Cumbria : People : Biography

Biography

Cumbrian Biography and Autobiography <<prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | next>>
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Senhora Small Fry: Mary Barker and the Lake Poets

David Bradbury
£4.75

This book is a short introduction to the life of a woman who for over 150 years has existed largely as a series of footnotes, in works about a variety of great and goodish people who, for one reason or another, encountered her and whose lives were made

Published by : Past Presented
Published date : 2003
Format : Paperback.

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Sesame and Lilies

John Ruskin
£5.99

A facsimile edition to mark the centenary of the death of John Ruskin. His most popular work.

Published by : Hendon Publishing
Published date : 2000
Format : Small paperback.

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Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836 - 1942

James Price
£6.95

An historical study of a firm of architects in Lancaster.

Published by : University of Lancaster
Published date : 1998
Format : Large paperback.

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She Was Loved: Memories of Beatrix Potter

Josefina de Vasconcellos
£11.95

Josefina de Vasconcellos gives a fascinating insight into her great friendship with Beatrix Potter. Accompanying the text are works by Beatrix Potter herself, including previously unpublished paintings and a series of nature drawings from the Armitt Trust

Published by : Titus Wilson
Published date : 2003
Format : Large paperback.

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Sheepwrecked

Jackie Moffat
£6.99

This journey through the changing seasons at Rowfoot Farm - tupping time in the autumn, winters as wet, bleak and cold here in Cumbria as elsewhere, lambing and the glories of spring, a bucolic, bee-filled Eden Valley summer with its many shows and fairs -



Published by : Bantam Press
Published date : July 2007
Format : 126mm x 198mm paperback

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Significant Sisters: The Grassroots of Active Feminism, 1839 - 1939

Margaret Forster
£7.99

Authors study of the role of women in society.

Published by : Penguin
Published date : 1986
Format : Paperback.

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Stan Bowles - The Autobiography

Stan Bowles
£8.99

'I think that Frank Worthington summed my life up quite well when he said, "Stan has spent all of his money on gambling, booze and birds."

Published by : Orion
Published date : December 2007
Format : 130mm x 198mm paperback

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Stanley Webb Davies 1894-1978

Hugh Wright
£10.00

Stanley Webb Davies of Windermere is now recognised as one of the foremost designers and makers of furniture in the Arts and Crafts Movement.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : November 2006
Format : 210mm x 150mm small paperback

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Storms of Silence

Joe Simpson
£7.99

By the author of Touching the Void comes another classic tale of endurance.

Published by : Vintage
Published date : 1997
Format : Paperback.

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Strong Lad Wanted For Strong Lass: Growing Up In Carlisle

Hunter Davies
£8.99

Hunter Davies is one of the country's best known writers and journalists, author of over 30 books. This is his fascinating personal story of growing up in Carlisle in the 1950's.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : 2004
Format : Paperback.

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Sutton and his Circle: The Cockermouth School of Painting 1750-1880

M.E. Burkett
£14.50



Published by : Skiddaw Press
Published date : 2001
Format : Hardback.

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The Armitt Story

Eileen Jay
£11.50

The story of a small private subscription library, founded in 1909.

Published by : Loughrigg Press
Published date : 1998
Format : Large paperback.

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The Autobiography of William Farish: The Struggles of a Hand-Loom Weaver

William Farish
£35.00

Born at Carlisle in 1818, William Farish first started work as bobbin wheel operative at the age of eight, graduating to the loom two years later. His autobiography was privately printed in 1889, adn includes an account of the hardship and poverty of his childhood.

Published by : Caliban Books
Published date : 1996
Format : Hardback.

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The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

Frances Wilson
£18.99

Ordinarily presented as a self-effacing virgin or sacrificial saint, Dorothy Wordsworth was a talented writer and exceptional woman.

Published by : Faber & faber
Published date : March 2008
Format : 136mm x 220mm hardback

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The Baroness of Belsfield by Windermere

Ian Jones
£8.00

This is the story of a remarkable lady, an off-comer of common but respectable birth who, by great fortune, inherited considerable wealth, espoused an aristocratic title, and built as her principle seat one of the finest houses to grace the shores of Windermere.

Published by : Ian Jones
Published date : June 2008
Format : 238mm x 160mm paperback

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The Beatles Football and Me

Hunter Davies
£7.99

Hunter Davies is one of the most respected writers in the country. "The Glory Game" is a footballing classic still in print some 30 years since its original publication but Hunter is also a successful novelist and distinguished biographer, whose subjects include The Beatles, Wayne Rooney and Paul Gascoigne.

Published by : Hodder Headline
Published date : June 2007
Format : 130mm x 198mm paperback

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The Beatles, Football and Me

Hunter Davies
£18.99

Hunter Davies has enthralled Beatles and football fans, been an influential journalist, and written ground-breaking books for over forty years. He wrote the only authorised biography of the Beatles and the seminal book about Tottenham Hotspur FC, 'The Glory Game', years before football writing became fashionable. His story starts on a Carlisle council estate in the 1950s and moves on to his early years in Fleet Street at the height and heart of the 1960s - which is when he wrote his first novel, 'Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush' later a cult film.

Published by : Headline Review
Published date : 2006
Format : Small hardback

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The Black Angel

Colin Bardgett
£8.95

A valuable military record providing a fascinating insight into local history. The author has assembled diaries and letters written by men of the Penrith Volunteer Company.

Published by : Bookcase
Published date : 1997
Format : Paperback.

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The Bluebird Years: Donald Campbell and the Pursuit of Speed

Arthur Knowles; Graham Beech
£9.95

Here is the complete story of Donald Campbell's heroic attempts to take the world water-speed record past 300 mph - and how the wreck of his jet-boat Bluebird was recovered from Coniston Water more than 34 years later.

Published by : Sigma Leisure
Published date : 2001
Format : Paperback.

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The Boss

John Budden
£6.99

The life and times of horseracing legend Gordon W. Richards, who died in Carlisle in 1998.

Published by : Mainstream Publishing
Published date : 2000
Format : Paperback.

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The Choyce Letters: Beatrix Potter to Louie Choyce 1916 - 1943

Judy Taylor (ed)
£7.00

Edited by a relative of Louie Choyce, this is a collection of 38 transcripts of letters between the two women.

Published by : Beatrix Potter Society
Published date : 1994
Format : Paperback.

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The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford

D.J.H. Clifford (ed)
£7.99

In her diaries, Lady Anne Clifford, the remarkable Stuart noblewoman, vividly documents both the great and the trivial events of her long life. They cover her life from her childhood days, when she witnessed the funeral of Queen Elizabeth I, to her last

Published by : Sutton
Published date : 2003
Format : Paperback.

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The Diary of Isaac Fletcher of Underwood, Cumberland 1756 - 1781

Angus J.L. Winchester (ed)
£36.00

The daily record of a Quaker yeoman, lawyer and merchants activities over a quarter of a century.

Published by : CWAAS
Published date : 1994
Format : Large hardback.

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The Eddie Stobart Story

Hunter Davies
£6.99

Twenty five years ago, Edward Stobart had eight lorries and twelve staff. Today, he has one thousand lorries and over two thousand staff. Despite having no marketing or publicity department, the company has an annual turnover of £150 million pounds.

Published by : HarperCollins
Published date : 2002
Format : Paperback.

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The Everest Years

Chris Bonington
£14.99

In The Everest Years, the last volume of his autobiography, Chris chronicles his four expeditions to the worlds highest peak. He tells of his fascination with the highest point on earth and why it meant so much to him to finally stand there himself.

Published by : Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Published date : 2001
Format : Large paperback.

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