37 Results for : matrons
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Bringing Down Romeo: Black Hills Wolves, Book 53 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 152min
Hide your girlfriends, hide your daughters. Tad Dawson, confirmed bachelor and runway model, has come back to the Black Hills for his brother's wedding. Also known as Romeo for his love-them-and-leave-them attitude, Tad has a reputation to lose and a woman to win. However, he won't be able to do it on his own, since the woman he wants would rather assault him with nail guns, power saws and rocks. Not what he expected when he turned on the charm. Megan could use a good dose of anger management, along with a shot from Cupid's bow, and lord knows she has a lot to be mad about when it comes to Romeo. Tad left her five years before, after she declared they were mates. Not only did she have to deal with a crazy Alpha, who got off on tossing her to the wolves, she's heard rumors Tad's appetite for anything with a skirt has grown since he left. Not that she could confirm it. He's hasn't called or written once. For Tad to win the love of his life, he's going to need some help, and the four pack matchmakers have decided they are just the wolves to assist, whether he wants their help or not. No tactic is too dirty or underhanded. Bringing down Romeo is going to take every trick in their match-maker's bag. Bagging the girl, well, that could be a bit trickier. Will the four matchmakers beat the nearly impossible odds, or will their tactics unravel at the seams? Before the wedding is over, someone is going down, and if the matrons have any say, it's going to be hard. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Al Benelli. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/081876/bk_acx0_081876_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Rational Creatures: Stirrings of Feminism in the Hearts of Jane Austen's Fine Ladies: The Quill Collective, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1083min
“But I hate to hear you talking so, like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.” (Persuasion, Jane Austen)Jane Austen: True romantic or rational creature? Her novels transport us back to the Regency, a time when well-mannered gentlemen and finely-bred ladies fell in love as they danced at balls and rode in carriages. Yet her heroines, such as Elizabeth Bennet, Anne Elliot, and Elinor Dashwood, were no swooning, fainthearted damsels in distress. Austen’s novels are timeless classics because of their biting wit, honest social commentary - because she wrote of strong women who were ahead of their day. True to their principles and beliefs, they fought through hypocrisy and broke social boundaries to find their happily-ever-after.In the third romance anthology of The Quill Collective series, 16 celebrated Austenesque authors write the untold histories of Austen’s heroines, brave adventuresses, shy maidens, talkative spinsters, and naughty matrons. Peek around the curtain and discover what made Lady Susan so wicked, Mary Crawford so capricious, and Hettie Bates so in need of Emma Woodhouse’s pity.Rational Creatures is a collection of humorous, poignant, and engaging short stories set in Georgian England that complement and pay homage to Austen’s great works and great ladies who were, perhaps, the first feminists in an era that was not quite ready for feminism.“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.” (Mary Wollstonecraft)Stories by: Elizabeth Adams, Nicole Clarkston, Karen M Cox, J. Marie Croft, Amy D’Orazio, Jenetta James, Jessie Lewis, KaraLynne Mackrory, Lona Manning, Christina Morland, Beau North, Sophia Rose, Anngela Schroeder, Joana Starnes, Brooke West, and Caitlin WilliamsEdited by Christina B ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Victoria Riley. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/158232/bk_acx0_158232_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Terms and Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 425min
When I asked a group of girls who had been at Hatherop Castle in the 1960s whether the school had had a lab in those days they gave me a blank look. 'A laboratory?' I expanded, hoping to jog their memories. 'Oh that kind of lab!' one of them said. 'I thought you meant a Labrador.' As we discover from Ysenda Maxtone Graham's quietly hilarious history of life in British girls' boarding schools between 1939 and 1979, this was a not untypical reaction. Today it's hard to grasp the casual carelessness and even hostility with which the middle and upper classes once approached the schooling of their daughters. Education, far from being regarded as something that would set a girl up for life, was seen as a handicap which could render her too unattractive for marriage, and, with some notable exceptions such as Cheltenham, schools went along with the idea. While their brothers at Eton and Harrow were writing Latin verse and doing quadratic equations, girls were being allowed to give up any subject they found too difficult and were instead learning how to lay the table for lunch. Fathers tended to choose schools for arbitrary and often frankly frivolous reasons. Hatherop, for example, was popular with some because of its proximity to Cheltenham Racecourse. One girl's parents chose Heathfield 'because none of the girls had spots'. Not surprising, perhaps, that many of them left school without a single O-level. Harsh matrons, freezing dormitories and appalling food predominated, but at some schools you could take your pony with you, and occasionally these eccentric establishments - closed now or reformed - imbued in their pupils a lifetime love of the arts and a real thirst for self-education. In Terms and Conditions, Ysenda speaks to members of a lost tribe - boarding school women, now grandmothers and the backbone of the nation - who look back on their experiences with a mixture of horror and humour. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christine Kavanagh. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lbas/000014/bk_lbas_000014_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 694min
He called her Mrs. Kennedy. SHE called him Mr. Hill. For four years, from the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in November 1960 until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964, Clint Hill was the Secret Service agent assigned to guard the glamorous and intensely private Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. During those four years, he went from being a reluctant guardian to a fiercely loyal watchdog and, in many ways, her closest friend. Now, looking back 50 years, Clint Hill tells his story for the first time, offering a tender, enthralling, and tragic portrayal of how a Secret Service agent who started life in a North Dakota orphanage became the most trusted man in the life of the First Lady who captivated first the nation and then the world. When he was initially assigned to the new First Lady, Agent Hill envisioned tea parties and gray-haired matrons. But as soon as he met her, he was swept up in the whirlwind of her beauty, her grace, her intelligence, her coy humor, her magnificent composure, and her extraordinary spirit. From the start, the job was like no other, and Clint was by her side through the early days of JFK's presidency; the birth of sons John and Patrick and Patrick's sudden death; Kennedy-family holidays in Hyannis Port and Palm Beach; Jackie's trips to Europe, Asia, and South America; Jackie's intriguing meetings with men like Aristotle Onassis, Gianni Agnelli, and André Malraux; the dark days of the year that followed the assassination; to the farewell party she threw for Clint when he left her protective detail after four years. All she wanted was the one thing he could not give her: a private life for her and her children. Filled with unforgettable details, startling revelations, and sparkling, intimate moments, this is the once-in-a-lifetime story of a man doing the most exciting job in the world, with a woman all the world loved, and the tragedy that ended it all too soon - a tragedy that haunted him f ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jeremy Bobb. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/005938/bk_sans_005938_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World
Prostitutes and Matrons in the Roman World: ab 19.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Missouri's Murderous Matrons
Missouri's Murderous Matrons: ab 19.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Women Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua
Women Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua - Matrons Mystics and Monasteries: ab 48.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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