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Rina Ramsay

Autor de The Straw

4+ Obras 5 Miembros 1 Reseña

Obras de Rina Ramsay

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Strange Tales from the Strand (1991) — Contribuidor — 109 copias

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Conocimiento común

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Her seven novels 1897–1926 are romances with frequent hunting interludes. In The Key of the Door (1908), General Rankin, the popular hero of African campaigns, returns home to be confronted by a woman claiming to be his wife. The Straw (1909) is about a marriage which has turned sour, and features by way of comic relief two ingenuous experimental farmers known as ‘the Babes’.
- from the Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction

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Entirely obscure; I'm the only owner of it on LT. It came out of husband's grandmother's house. It's a romance with a bit of mystery to it. The mystery is never explained, but that's alright. I enjoyed the characters enough to spend the time with them. I've never met the likes of some of the minor characters. For instance, a woman called The Duchess has rooms above a shop. She invites her fox hunt crowd to dine with her before a ball, and then insists some of the ladies stay the night afterwards in her attic and on the floor. She yells out her windows to people she knows on the street. All these landed gentry go along as if this isn't odd. I love that.… (más)
 
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