{"title":"Audrey Duggan","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"sense-of-occasion-book-audrey-duggan-9781858584492","title":"A Sense of Occasion","description":"This is the story of a love affair between Mendelssohn and the citizens of Birmingham. Mendelssohn's oratorio, \"Elijah\", was first performed at the Birmingham Town Hall in 1846 and was an outstanding success, matched only by the attraction of the man, himself. Glimpses behind the scenes, eye-witness accounts by those involved, testify to deafening applause and encore after encore. They tell of things long forgotten; an averted strike, brimming crowds and traffic near 'chaos' as spectator and concert goer vied to stake his claim along the route. But, sadly, fervour can dim and when Mendelssohn returned with his revised score the following year, his welcome was less than he deserved...","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49537733755153,"sku":"GOR007860641","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51478696067345,"sku":"GOR009286282","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1858584493.jpg?v=1751250195"},{"product_id":"chequered-chances-book-audrey-duggan-9781858582900","title":"Chequered Chances","description":"Born in 1699, into an aristocratic family, Henrietta St John as she then was, had the world at her feet. But an unsatisfactory marriage to Robert Knight, later Lord Luxborough, alleged misconduct and subsequent banishment; first to an upstairs suite of attic rooms where she was allowed no contact with the outside world - then to a dilapidated farmhouse, Barrells Green, in Ullenhall near Henley-in-Arden, could have destroyed a woman of lesser character.That she was able, in the face of such adversity, to maintain her health, reputation and dignity, was a minor miracle. But she did. She became a literary hostess and corresponded with men of letters; and she revealed her turbulent inner life in poetry which still speaks of her heartbreak today.It all happened and here is recorded the tale of her courage and persistence.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49574018810129,"sku":"GOR000901500","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49656734023953,"sku":"GOR011653534","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1858582903.jpg?v=1751154871"},{"product_id":"world-of-william-shenstone-book-audrey-duggan-9781858582511","title":"The World of William Shenstone","description":"William Shenstone is remembered as a poet and innovative landscape gardener, but his letters and pensees which offer a unique insight into eighteenth century life are mostly forgotten. So is the considerable work he undertook as both editor and playwright. In this readable biography, the first since the Second World War, Shenstone's life and achievements are re-examined. So are his Midland roots; the Leasowes where he lived in Halesowen, now a country park, and the friends who with him were to form the Warwickshire Coterie, a unique and tightly knit group of writers who met at Lady Luxborough's Warwickshire home, Barrels, near Henley-in-Arden. At the time of his death, Shenstone was about to be awarded a pension for his services to literature and from this study he reemerges, not only as the multi talented gentleman of letters known to his contemporaries, but as a writer with special relevance for today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49613102940433,"sku":"GOR013763846","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1858582512.jpg?v=1750834054"},{"product_id":"lady-of-letters-book-audrey-duggan-9781858581699","title":"A Lady of Letters","description":"A popular writer of the 19th century, Catherine was the daughter of William Hutton, Birmingham's first historian, Audrey Duggan considers Catherine as a person and as a writer of significance.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49736872296721,"sku":"NGR9781858581699","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51254175629585,"sku":"GOR004211950","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1858581699.jpg?v=1751314400"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/collections\/autor-buecher-von-audrey-duggan.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}