11213 Non-Fiction Beachcroft

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Basic principles of early naval warfare are still valid today

Walpole's essay is "perhaps the most influential piece of writing on the English landscape garden

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Argues that novels and nonfiction wrtten by and for women in 18th and 19th c England paved the way for the rise of the modern English middle class

11213 Non-Fiction BeachcroftTranslated from the French and provided with Prologue and Epilogue. "This memoir was written by a god daughter of Queen Charlotte of England, who married the Grand Duke Nicholas Pavlovitch, known to English people as Nicholas I, the Czar who fought the Crimean War." Princess Charlotte [1798 1860], after a childhood marred by the Napoleonic Wars and the death of her mother when she was 12, left her home in Berlin at age 19 for the Russian court. She