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Descended from prominent thinkers and creatives on both sides of her family, including the French painter Jean-Hilaire Belloc and English philosopher Joseph Priestly, Marie Belloc Lowndes was a prolific biographer and journalist who also had some success with her character-driven fiction. The volume Studies in Wives brings together six keenly observed stories about women exploring what it means to be married.
Get up close and personal with some of the heavy hitters of British history in this engaging volume of brief biographical sketches. With an emphasis on extracting moral lessons from the lives and choices of great men, British jurist James Bryce offers glimpses into the legacies of eminent figures ranging from Anthony Trollope to Lord Acton.
Interested in the supernatural, spells, seances, communicating with the Great Beyond? Spend some time with Studies of Occultism, a selection of works penned by Helena P. Blavatsky (also known as Madame Blavatsky), one of the key figures in the Theosophy movement that transfixed millions around the globe in the late-nineteeth and early-twentieth centuries. This fascinating volume explains many of the philosophical and spiritual principles
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