The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu Scientist and Feminist (Hardback) by JoWillett Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2021 by Pen & Sword Books Ltd, Barnsley ISBN-13: 978-1-5267-7938-0, ISBN: 1-5267-7938-2
"Introduction: changing the course of science -- Childhood -- Courtship -- Early married life -- Smallpox -- Traversing Europe -- Turkey -- Campaigning against smallpox -- Friendship and more-than-friends -- The South Sea Bubble Crisis -- ..."
"... with the courtier John (later Lord) Hervey, 'amphibious thing' as Pope called
him.21 Good-looking, aristocratic, eloquent, charming and witty, Hervey was
superbly placed to shine both at court and in political life. Hervey's mother, Lady
Bristol ..."
"James Wilby (Gosford Park) and Juliet Aubrey (Middlemarch) portray the reluctant royals who became king and queen of England when Edward VIII gave up the throne for the woman he loved, on Bertie & Elizabeth. Albert, Duke of York, called Bertie, married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 after a storybook courtship. Expecting a life of genteel obscurity, they were thrust into the limelight in 1936 when Bertie's older brother, Edward ..."
"The best part of ex-Royal Air Force squadron leader Reggie Cunningham-Jarvis's life was obviously World War II (just ask anyone at his local pub), when he and his comrades won the Battle of Britain from the cockpits of Spitfire fighter planes. After that, Reggie (Albert Finney) married into money and didn't do much else for the next 40 or so years, except turn into his own, blustering idea of a pillar of English resoluteness. Meanwh ..."
The Weimar Years(Updated) A Culture Cut Short by John Willett Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2011 by Thames & Hudson ISBN-13: 978-0-500-27311-1, ISBN: 0-500-27311-1