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The Pink Bomber: Cockpit Memories
Robert A. Spelman
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The years when American aviation came of age are illustrated in The Pink Bomber. It will especially interest veterans of the North African and Italian campaigns during World War II, their families and friends, and students and teachers who hope to describe those critical events with flesh and blood reality.
Bob Spelman records events in which he participated or which he witnessed in the 1940s and 1950s. His articles on pilot training demonstrate the need for continuous learning for success in the air.
Chapters report some of Bob's 53 missions in the Mediterranean Theater. They describe aerial achievements and ground-based activities. They show continuing training routines, and the controlled terror of men facing mortal danger due to enemy action or friendly errors.
The Bomb Group to which the author belonged was part of 9th U.S. Army Air Force. For months, he flew under overall British command, attached to the Eighth Army in North Africa. The author describes the experience with great respect for the lessons learned from the Royal Air Force.
The author deals with the perennial scourge of "friendly fire", and the more pleasant prospects of finding food, drink and entertainment in North Africa, and in newly-allied Italy. He describes men who proved their heroism in peaceful as well as combat situations; he also describes men who somehow came up short in similar situations.
The book concludes with sections describing service with American Airlines. These include both personal experiences and yarns picked up from pioneer airline pilots with whom the author flew. The Pink Bomber shows its author's growth from a collegian with a boyhood dream of flying, to an experienced professional military and transport pilot, with an enduring love for the cockpit, its challenges and its rewards.
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Lise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. Braving the sexism of the scientific world, she joined the prestigious Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry and became a prominent member of the international physics community. Of Jewish origin, Meitner fled Nazi Germany for Stockholm in 1938 and later moved to Cambridge, England. Her career was shattered when she fled Germany, and her scientific reputation was damaged when Hahn took full credit--and the 1944 Nobel Prize--for the work they had done together on nuclear fission. Ruth Sime's absorbing book is the definitive biography of Lise Meitner, the story of a brilliant woman whose extraordinary life illustrates not only the dramatic scientific progress but also the injustice and destruction that have marked the twentieth century.
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A Sordid story of Racist and Sexist Finally Told.......2007-03-30
This is the story, well told, of one of the world's most important achievements by one of its finest scientific heroes who was forced to suffer the indignities of both racism and sexism.
Against improbably long odds, beginning with her family who did not want her to become a Physicist, to Nazi persecution for being a Jew, to her eventual need to flee Nazi Germany to exile in Sweden, Lise Meitner's career progression led her to be among the logical choices to discover how to split the atom and to infer that it could lead to a chain reaction, and eventually to the development of the fissional atomic bomb.
This gripping story tells of how her less able male colleague, Otto Hahn, a Nazi Chemist, rather than a Physicist, effectively stole her ideas and went on to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1944) for an achievement that should justly have gone to a Physcist, and Meitner in particular.
In fact Hahn had no idea how to interpret the experimental data in his hand until Meitner, through correspondence from exile in Sweden interpreted it for him. Based on her continuous advice via mail, Hahn was eventually able to take credit for her ideas. And although this egregious error was never formally corrected, Meitner, with great dignity and strength remains larger than life and stands as a towering monument to what the human spirit can accomplish in the face of racism and chauvinism. Five stars.
A Telling Tribute.......2006-04-17
Ruth Sime's, Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics, is a tribute to one of the most outstanding women physicists in the world's history. Sime's includes a detailed account of Meitners childhood, career, trials, tribulations, misfortunes, and fulfilling accomplishments through a collection of Meitner's personal papers, correspondences, and interviews with her contemporaries and friends. The reader enjoy's learning about the young girl in Vienna, who travels to Germany with only the ambition to learn and breathe physics. The reader enjoys Meitner's accomplishments, as she is promoted to being Max Planck's assistant in Prussia, despite her gender, and feels the betrayal when she is not credited with Otto Hahn for the Nobel Peace Prize.
All in all, Sime's does an excellent job of telling Meitner's story and providing insight on the historical and scientific contexts. The scientific explanations of both Meitner's research and of her contemporaries is hard to understand for those who are amateur physicists and are not cognizant of many basic principles of chemistry and physics. However, for a woman who was not given her credit where it was due, Sime's biography is truly telling of her life and just how remarkable this physicist of humanity really was.
An amazing account on the life of Lise Meitner.......2006-04-12
This book was a very detailed description of Lise Meitner's life-her family growing up, her hardships, her fond memories, accounts of important events, etc. Meitner was surrounded in an intellectually stimulating environment, one that her family encouraged and which continued throughout her life. She attended school at the University of Vienna, where she was able to attend lectures and classes from famous professors, such as Franz Exner and Ludwig Boltzmann. She graduated summa cum laude and was even awarded a doctoral degree. She became the first woman Assistant in Prussia under Max Planck, and was also the first woman in Germany to gain the title of Professor. She and Otto Hahn developed a reputation together in radioactivity and went into nuclear physics independently. She also faced many hardships, the main one being deprived of the Nobel Prize she deserved for her contributions to the discovery of nuclear fission. However, despite great disappointments and unfair events, Lise Meitner was able to look forward. She is remembered as "a physicist who never lost her humanity."
The author of this book, Ruth Lewin Sime, wrote this book to give a voice to a woman of science who has almost vanished. Throughout the years, women have been deprived of recognition for their contributions. Although women have made all kinds of accomplishments, many go unnoticed, neglected, and become almost invisible. In Meitner's case, her name is hardly seen in literature and the distortion of reality and the suppression of memory are evident, especially since it was during the time of Nazi Germany. Even her contributions to nuclear fission were ignored and unrecognized. Although she faced unbearable unfairness, she kept quiet and did not complain or fight for herself. Sime wished to be the voice of the amazing life Lise Meitner lived, surrounded by family, friends, and a love for physics.
If you are truly interested in physics and the events that took place "behind-the-scenes," then you should read this book. It gives amazingly accurate accounts of Meitner's life and everything she went through. Not only does it give the personal account of Meitner, it also has scientific explanations of her discoveries and collaborations with other scientists. It blends the personal life and the scientific life of Lise Meitner in an interesting way.
a turbulent time.......2005-10-03
The times of Lise Meitner spans two World Wars, and the ensuing Cold War between the two super powers of the East and the West. Lise Meitner's career also spans some of the most fascinating developments of modern physics. As it happened, this includes the beginning of the nuclear age; and it continues with the age of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy resulting from pioneering and basic research into nuclear fission, started by the two Meitner and Otto Hahn.
Lise Meitner was born in Vienna in 1878, and she started her career in the turbulent times of the First World War, at a time when Germany was a clear leader in physics research, in the Golden Era of physics. Yet, Lise Meitner was the first woman German scientist. When she started her studies, German universities were almost entirely closed to women; and especially so in the sciences.
The author Ruth Sime paints a personal and a compassionate portrait of Lise Meitner, her life and her times; and she vividly brings to life the tragic events in our modern history which shaped Lise Meitner's turbulent career. A central theme in the book is the physics community's reaction to the first use by the USA of a fission bomb over Japan in 1945, (in fact it was two nuclear bombs, one was a Uranium bomb, and the other Plutonium.)
In Berlin, building on a decade of research by Meintner and Otto Hahn, in 1938, the three Lise Meitner, Hahn, and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission. The Nobel Prize went to Hahn alone, and Lise Meitner has been largely forgotten. The book weaves together the individuals, their thoughts (through correspondence), their ambitions, and their flawed judgments.
A part of the story is the ensuing events following the discovery of fission; events that were shaped largely by others than Lise Meitner. During the Second World War, Lise Meitner was a refugee in neutral Sweden. Since she was part Jewish, she had to flee for her life; flee what became Hitler's extermination machine. The racial laws began in the Third Reich with Hitler's dismissal in 1933 of university faculty with Jewish family tree, and it progressed to what we now know as the Holocaust.
Many of the German scientists in the 1930ties were Jewish, or partly Jewish, and they were dismissed by Hitler in 1933, or in the years up to the war. The year before the outbreak of war in 1939 was the last chance to escape, and the entire physics community dispersed as German scientists had to flee, --- some chose to escape. A small number went to neutral Sweden, and others who had left earlier ended up in the USA, and became leaders in the Manhattan project, the secret Los Alamos team of scientists, led by Oppenheimer, the team which built the first atomic bomb. There were some German scientists, Otto Hahn among them who didn't have to flee. They included Lise Meitner's research collaborators, Hahn, and Strassmann, plus Max von Laue, Werner Heisenberg, and of course others. Lise Meitner never married, but was close to Otto Hahn before and after the War. And at high noon, Hahn helped Meintner to escape to Niels Bohr's Copenhagen, and then to neutral Sweden when Denmark became occupied by the Third Reich.
Those of the German physicists who stayed behind were faced with a Faustian choice, knowing Hitler's evil regime and the diabolic potential of the nuclear bomb, what does a scientist do? Does he stay in Hitler's Germany even if he doesn't have to? The second half of the book is about how Lise Meitner and her colleagues judged the physics community's reaction to the Faustian choice it had faced during the ten years of the Third Reich, and which it still was facing during the Cold War. It includes personal correspondence. One letter from Lise Meitner to Otto Hahn touched me. In it Lise Meitner was addressing those of her colleagues who had stayed behind in Germany and had worked on nuclear physics for Hitler, at least in one form or the other. They were her friends and colleagues from youth, and yet she felt compelled to point out what seems to be striking moral flaws: When the war ended in 1945, few of Lise Meitner's former colleagues express any regrets, and appeared instead to ponder the question of why the USA beat the Germany team of scientists in building a fission bomb. What is especially touching is to observe how it pains Lise Meitner to have to spell out this fact to her friends; friends she remained close to for her entire life. And in this ambivalent relationship lies yet another Faustian choice.
It is perhaps ironic that the theme of the Faustian choice has a prominent place in German literature, from the medieval "Faustus" tale to Goethe, Weber's Freischuetz, to Martin Luther's Protestantism, and to Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (Mann's moral despair over his country's complacent embrace of Nazism).
Palle Jorgnesen, September 2005.
dispelled myths recycled.......2001-10-17
This sounds like a very interesting book and I hope to find time to read it. i read a thoughtful review in German today (from the FAZ, 10 Oct 2001, page N3, by retired Physics Professor Martin Trömel) which I mention here because it is not likely to be read much in the USA. The title is roughly "friends to the death: Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner; there was no lack of respect for the Jewish researcher; answer to a controversial theory."
Trömel finds it unfortunate that long-dispelled myths about Hahn and Meitner are repeated in this book and that selected quotes from German correspondence are used as evidence (and contradictory quotes from the same letters are omitted).
Yes, there were misunderstandings, but these were often the result of distortions in the press and evidently Meitner and Hahn overcame them and remained friends to the end of their days.
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Title: Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics.
Author: Stanley Goldberg
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A Troubled Life in Science.(Review): An article from: Queen's Quarterly
J. W. Grove
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College students with AD/HD are negatively affected by serious difficulties in time and task management. Written in an Issue/Answer format, this book makes it easy to address the needs of students and to design a program for them.
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A MUST for ADD Coaches!.......2001-09-04
This book is an absolute must for EVERY ADD Coach, whether they work with college students or not!
What makes this book so valuable is that it is not just a lot of theory. It is nitty-gritty coaching technique at its best. The various issues that face ADD college students are examined closely, then specific recommendations are made about how the coach can help the student/client. Examples of check-ins are provided along with step-by-step outlines that take the coach through the important points.
Not only is this essential for coaches who work with ADD college students, but it is also extremely valuable for anyone who coaches people with ADD/ADHD. The introductory material makes it clear that this book is not meant to take the place of coach training, but this reviewer believes that this should be an essential text book for all ADD coaches. The authors have done us an invaluable service.
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Part diner, part family-style restaurant, the Famous Dutch Kitchen Restaurant in Frackville, Pennsylvania, north of Lancaster County, serves up some of the best food in this popular tourist area visited by more than five million people each year. Feast on turkey pot pie, ham and cabbage casserole, and delicious vegetables. The cornbread is moist, flavorful, and nearly as sweet as cake. And top it all off with shoofly pie or the Famous Dutch Kitchen's signature Atomic Banana Split.
Pennsylvania Dutch Country is a land of rolling farmlands dotted with one-room schoolhouses where you will encounter horse-drawn buggies, beautiful quilts, and industrious "Plain People."
The Famous Dutch Kitchen Restaurant is the seventh restaurant to be chosen by authors Jane and Michael Stern for their Roadfood cookbook series which celebrates the finest regional restaurants in the United States. It includes an 8-page color insert.
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An Very Good Book if You Like Central Pennsylvania Diners.......2004-04-20
This book appears to be the eighth `Roadfood Cookbook' by Jane and Michael Stern who also write a `Roadfood' column for Gourmet magazine. Aside from the fact that this book has just been published, I got a copy to review because I grew up on the same kind of Pennsylvania Dutch cooking described in this book. Thus, I was sure I was doubly qualified to evaluate this volume.
The value of this book to a reader will be directly proportional to the degree to which they really like diner food of eastern Pennsylvania. Like many other local cookbooks, the food is simply not as interesting as you will find in just about any cookbook by a professional culinary journalist such as Patricia Wells; top rated restaurant chef such as Tom Colicchio or Alfred Portale; or TV program host such as Sara Moulton or Tyler Florence.
All the recipes for non-Pennsylvania Dutch specialities are pale imitations of, for example, Italian or New England specialities. The recipes rely very heavily on canned products and the amount of butter used in many of the recipes would make a French chef blanche. Oddly enough, some recipes occasionally use margarine instead of butter for no apparent reason.
One example of a classic recipe done with an inferior recipe is the offering for creamed chipped beef. This book's recipe adds no spices whatsoever. A very good recipe in Craig Claiborne's New York Times cookbook uses a technique that is much more familiar to cooks who are used to making roux and bechamel sauces. It also suggests adding nutmeg, Worcestershire sauce, and cayenne.
Another classic with an inferior recipe is the cole slaw recipe. It is just one of a long string of vegetable and vegetable / protein salads where mayonnaise is a major ingredient. James Beard gives a far superior recipe for cole slaw with no mayonnaise. I am entirely familiar with the fact that there are hundreds of variations on cole slaw. I am only indicating that the version offered here is not the best.
All recipe instructions are fairly simple because so many of the dishes are fairly simple, relying on rich ingredients such as butter, mayonnaise, half and half, cream, or canned soups for their punch. The instructions for preparing most vegetables is to `chop' them, where most cookbooks would specify a quarter inch dice or smaller. Some recipes call for grating onions by a food processor. Most other writers would suggest a dice, as the food processor can turn onions into slime.
Most of my comments are really not relevant to true Pennsylvania Dutch specialities, as the book is pretty true to my experience of this style of cooking. The recipes for the famous `Dutch' relishes such as chow-chow are pretty close (although my experience is that the green beans are usually cut, while the authors put them in whole). The recipes for breakfast sticky buns are as good or better than I have seen from similar local sources, but not as good as the Julia Child book on baking.
One really surprising exception to the very ordinary type of recipe to be found here is the pancake recipe. This is one of the very few places where I have seen people take the trouble to separate yolks from whites and whip the whites and fold them into the rest of the batter. I am impressed.
If you want an ethnologic picture of central Pennsylvania diner fare, you cannot find any better source than this book. It is also a reasonably good book of Pennsylvania Dutch recipes, but it leaves out several classics such as stuffed pig stomach and apple dumplings. If you are fond of the authors' series of Roadfood books, you do not want to miss this offering. It's picture of coal region life, as someone who lives on the outskirts of this area should know, is excellent.
If you want a good Pennsylvania Dutch cookbook, I recommend you pass on this book and get a book by Betty Groff, Mary Showalter, or Phyllis Pellman Good.
Recommended with qualifications. I give it four stars rather than three because of its relatively low list price.
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A baby's on the way, and you want to give something personal, something truly of yourself. The solution: Sit down and knit a jaunty cap or some fun booties for baby's sweet little feet. New parents will treasure any of the adorable projects in KNIT BABY HEAD & TOES!. This attractive, die-cut, how-to book contains 15 patterns for baby hats and booties.
KNIT BABY HEAD & TOES! is written with the beginning or occasional knitter in mind. All instructions are in plain English - abbreviations are kept to a minimum, and all terms are thoroughly explained. Plus, the unique color-coded column format makes it easy for knitters to follow the instructions for the size of their knitted item.
KNIT BABY HEAD & TOES! features patterns from a wide range of knitting designers in the United States and Canada, and is packed with practical information, including advice on which yarns are most suitable for baby knits - soft cottons, chenilles, and warm, machine-washable wools. The book also includes a felted knitting project; felting is a hot technique that produces soft, cozy, unusual items that knitters everywhere are enjoying. The styles range from traditional to hip, from whimsical to bold, and all are adorable!
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This eminently practical instructional book demystifies perennial gardening for beginners and experienced gardeners alike. Not a glossy coffee-table tome featuring impossibly perfect gardens, Perennials for the Backyard Gardener is packed with old-fashioned advice culled from a lifetime of study and plain old backyard "dirt" gardening. This sensible, hands-on guide includes hundreds of practical tips and answers to commonly asked questions for the enthusiastic backyard gardener. Part One details how to evaluate and work with the soil, light, and moisture conditions in your backyard. Turcotte then introduces the principles of garden design—the use of line and form, light, color, and the placement of drifts and specific plants—to help you create a garden for every situation. A chart of flower colors and bloom times makes it easy to coordinate plant combinations for the most striking effect. Part Two profiles the 108 most popular backyard perennials, grouped by height and each accompanied by a color photograph and a description. Each profile also includes common and botanical names, family, hardiness zones, cultivation tips, bloom times, and interesting historical or mythological information. Now back in print with a beautiful new photographic cover, this book includes a practical and easy-to-use 48-page color insert guide to 108 popular perennials and biennials. Will appeal to both beginning and experienced gardeners. 108 color photographs, 28 black & white photographs, 24 b/w illustrations, 1 map, appendixes, index of plant names.
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Book review for "Perennials for the Backyard Gardener".......2006-03-21
This book was easy to read, but I was disappointed with some of the errors I found. On pages 29 and 30, Turcotte incorrectly discusses botanical nomenclature. The first part of a binomial name is the genus (as she states), but the second part of the scientific name is not the species, it is a specific epithet! The genus and the specific epithet together comprise the species name. In the discussion of colors (on page 50), Turcotte omitted orange in the cheerful warm colors. On page 90, Daylilies are listed and described as Lilium sp., and this is incorrect as daylilies are members of the genus Hemerocallis. There were additional errors, but I won't list them here.
Demystifies perennial gardening for the novice.......2001-07-05
Patricia Turcotte's Perennials For The Backyard Gardener is a "user friendly", hands-on, comprehensive and definitive guide which demystifies perennial gardening for the novice and an indispensable reference for even the most experienced gardener. Part One of this invaluable reference details how to evaluabte and work with the soil, light, and mositure conditions in a backyard. It also introduces principles of garden design to help create a garden for any setting. A full-color chart of perennial flower colors and bloom times makes coordinate plant combinations for the most striking effect easy and reliable. Part Two profiles 104 of the most popular perennials and biennials with each entry being accompanied by a color photograph as well as common and botanical names, family, hardiness zones, description, cultivation tips, bloom times, and historical or mythological information. Perennials For The Backyard Gardener will prove to be a welcome and much appreciated addition to any gardener or horticulturalist book shelf.
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Dr. Daniel J. Wallace is one of the world's leading authorities on lupus, the co-author of the leading textbook, and an eminent clinician who has treated over 2000 lupus patients, the largest such practice in America. His The Lupus Book, published in 1995, was the first book written by a leading authority specifically for patients. It immediately established itself as the most readable and helpful book on the disease. Now Dr. Wallace has completely revised The Lupus Book, incorporating a wealth of new information. This revised and expanded edition discusses the newest breakthroughs in drug treatments as well as the most recent discoveries in cellular, genetic, and immunological research--all laid out in user-friendly language that any patient could understand. Readers will discover 10 new blood tests your doctor can do, over 30 new drugs introduced since 1995, an extensive table of herbs that can be used for the disorder, and a large section on cognitive therapy and biofeedback. There are new sections on topics such as cell signaling, lupus susceptibility genes, selective cox-2 inhibitors, newer immunosuppressive therapies, and osteoporosis. And as in the first edition, the book provides absolutely lucid answers to such questions as: What causes lupus? How and where is the body affected? Can a woman with lupus have a baby? And how can one manage this disease? There is also a glossary of terms and an appendix listing lupus resource materials. Over a million Americans have lupus and some tens of thousands of patients die every year from the disease. The new edition of The Lupus Book offers these patients and their families a wealth of reliable, up-to-date information that will help them manage the disease and live a happier life.
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The Lupus Book.......2007-07-23
I was recently diagnosed with lupus. I found this book to be extremely helpful with alot of the questions I had. I would recommend to anyone who has the disease to read this book.
If only all books about Lupus were as good as this...........2007-03-13
I have Lupus, and have bought each new edition of the book as it has come out. It's the best book on Lupus out there. Now I have also been diagnosed with MS, if only I could find a book about MS that was as concise, organized and well written as this one, I wouldn't feel nearly as "alone" in the land of MS as I do.
Thank you Dr. Wallace for such a great book that helped me navigate the uncertain road of being newly diagnosed with Lupus 15 years ago, and for the continued information you provide to all of us who have or are affected by Lupus.
Valuable Resource from an Expert.......2007-01-09
The Lupus Book provides current information by a noted expert on the illness of lupus. I personally use this book as an "encyclopedia" whenever info is needed in my journey with lupus. It has been a comfort to be able to reach for answers to my most immediate questions. Of course it doesn't replace my physician, but it rests at my bedside ready to offer info at any time of the day or night. An invaluable resource.
A God Send.......2006-08-28
This book is one of the best out there on Lupus. Mr. Wallace disects the disease into many parts because Lupus had many frustrating facets to it. After reading this book, I am going to talk to my doctor who does not think that I have Lupus, because I don't fit neatly into a box. I can't wait to tell this doctor that my last blood test showed the anitphospholipid levels were extremely high. I noticed it, he didn't. Thank you Mr. Wallace for naming the symptoms, and the cause of it. My "gut feeling" was right.
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Behind Glass is the arresting story of Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham's life as written by her grandson, Michael John Burlingham. Born in 1891, Dorothy Tiffany was the last child in the long line of the famous Tiffany dynasty. As was expected of the young heiress, Dorothy Tiffany married a wealthy member of the American plutocracy, Dr. Robert Burlingham. But the lackluster life of wealthy young women in the nineteenth century held little appeal for Dorothy Burlingham and, leaving behind her socially prominent husband, she took her children and moved to Europe, where she underwent psychoanalysis with Sigmund Freud. Dorothy and her children were to become patients of his and Anna Freud's, their houseguests, and intimate friends, developing a unique and storied extended family relationship that remains fascinating for its depth and complexity. Dorothy's quest for fulfillment and a rich inner life ultimately had tragic consequences for those who were dearest to her as she embarked on a path that ultimately led to their downfall.
Michael John Burlingham beautifully incorporates factual detail with family narrative in a manner that highlights the poignant and personal challenges faced by women as the Victorian era gave way to the post-Freudian modern world. This book is a brilliant account of a truly luminous historical figure.
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