In this captivating story of growing up and moving on, Margaret Drabble explores what it means to leave a disregarded childhood and family behind.
This collection brings together new work by an international cast of distinguished scholars, who explore areas as diverse as the military and ecclesiastical aspects of the First Crusade; its representation in contemporary sculpture; and the ...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Brought up in a suffocating, emotionless home in the north of England, Clara finds freedom when she wins a scholarship and moves to London.
And can such halting and balancing end in Jerusalem the Golden ? Should we not rather most thankfully pursue our holy course in God's own appointed way ? And now we stand once more before the Vail of the Most Holy Place .
Jerusalem The Golden is a history of the city of Jerusalem, but it also describes how that city became the cradle of the three monotheist religions -- Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Clara has broken away from the stifling respectability of her northern home to live her own life in London.
Jerusalem the Golden
The text, given a few lines per page in large handsome letters and surrounded with Gothic tracery, is accompanied by angels adapted from Fra Angelico.