Helen Batten
Author
Publisher
Ebury Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When Helen Batten's marriage breaks down, she starts on a journey of discovery into her family's past and the mysteries surrounding her enigmatic nanna's early life. What she unearths is a tale of five feisty red heads struggling to climb out of poverty and find love through two world wars. It's a story full of surprises and scandal - a death in a workhouse, a son kept in a box, a shameful war record, a clandestine marriage and young, tragic deaths....
Author
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2021
Description
'I rode on the stage in such style, that the men in front forgot I was a girl, and also forgot to laugh.' Emily Soldene's life spanned the entire Victorian era. As both leading lady and a formidable impresario with her own opera company, she was a darling of London's music halls and theatre land, later reinventing herself as a journalist and writer in her fifties. From humble working-class beginnings with the taint of bigamy, a star was born. Charting...