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-- Husband-hunting in the Raj.2012., Weidenfeld & Nicolson Call No: 954.03 D278f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When the British went to India to trade and work, the men who left the country knew they would probably not return and married Indian wives or took Indian mistresses. As the East India Company was replaced by government, men were curtailed from doing this by various means. The Company then began to pay passage to India of a number of willing women who were maintained for a year and expected to marry within that time. For young women, unable to make a 'good match' at home, it was a chance to find a husband with prospects, women flocked to India, willing to try to make a go of it. De Courcy brings this forgotten era vividly to life.
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c2012., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Call No: MYS Fic Wil Edition: 1st Canadian ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Spitalfields, 1840. Catherine Sorgeiul is nineteen and lives with her uncle in a rambling house in London's East End. Sheltered and nervous, she has few companions and little to occupy the days beyond her own colourful imagination. But then a murderer strikes the city, ripping open the chests of young girls and stuffing hair into their mouths to resemble a beak, leading the press to christen him the Man of Crows. Catherine becomes obsessed with the grim crimes, and as she devours the news, she discovers she can channel the voices of the dead . . . and comes to believe she will eventually channel the Man of Crows himself. The murders continue to incite panic in the city, and Catherine gradually realizes she has put herself in the centre of a deadly trap of sexual obsession, deceit and betrayal. Elegant, mysterious and thrilling, The Pleasures of Men reveals the dark, beating heart of 19th-century London, where corruption and desperate desires lurked under a serene surface."--Publisher.
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2020., General, PBS distributed by PBS Distribution Call No: NEW DVD Fic SandIton 1 Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sanditon's a place that's changing fast. Visionary entrepreneur Tom Parker ... is transforming the once-sleepy fishing village into a fashionable spa resort. Changing alongside it is the impulsive and unconventional Charlotte Heywood ... who swaps her quiet rural home for the intrigues and dalliances of a seaside town on the rise. But soon to be exposed are the hidden agendas of characters whose fortunes depend on Sanditon's commercial success, including the mixed-race heiress Miss Lambe ... and the charismatic but complicated Sidney Parker...
![Sanditon, season 1 [DVD] (2020)](/Library/images/~imageCT103454.JPG "Sanditon, season 1 [DVD] (2020)")
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-- Sanditon.2023., PBS Distribution Call No: NEW DVD Fic Sanditon 3 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The final season continues the story of high-spirited heroine, Charlotte Heywood, and her friend, Georgiana Lambe. What adventures, scandals, intrigue and above all else - romance - await them?
![Sanditon, season 3 [DVD] (2023). Season three /](/Library/images/~imageCT103799.JPG "Sanditon, season 3 [DVD] (2023). Season three /")
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c2012., Adult, Delacorte Press Call No: MYS Fic She Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Summoned to the offices of Victorian London's most powerful and dangerous solicitors, disgraced police officer turned independent detective Charles Maddox turns to his famous but aging investigator uncle to identify who has been sending threatening letters to a client.
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-- Victorian lady's guide to sex, marriage, and manners.2016., Little, Brown and company Call No: NEW 305.42 O58u Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Therese Oneill opens the doors to everything we secretly wanted to know about the Victorian era, but didn't think to ask. Knickers with no crotches? Check. Arsenic as a facial scrub? Check. The infrequency of bathing and the stench of the Victorian human body? Check mate.
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-- Tales of the flesh in the age of decorum.2018., Adult, 4th Estate Call No: 942.08 H893v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians ... brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives"--Publisher's description.
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[1957], Heinemann Call No: 942 W5874f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Kingswood books on social history
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2012., Adult, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: MYS Fic Gre Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Walter Day Volume: 1Summary Note: 1889. Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives--known as "The Murder Squad"--to investigate countless murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police's spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant public contempt. They have failed their citizens. But no one can anticipate the brutal murder of one of their own . . . one of the twelve . . . When Walter Day, the squad's newest hire, is assigned the case of the murdered detective, he finds a strange ally in the Yard's first forensic pathologist, Dr. Bernard Kingsley. Together they track the killer, who clearly is not finished with The Murder Squad . . . but why? Filled with fascinating period detail, and real historical figures, this spectacular debut in a new series showcases the depravity of late Victorian London, the advent of criminology.
