Royal Navy

Her obituary described this book as the fruit of loving research into the decomposing records of the Vice-Admiralty Court which sat to condemn as prizes ships captured by the Royal Navy and by its auxiliary...

The book describes the effects of bombing: effects on the cities of London and Liverpool, the Army , Navy , and Air Force , the Women's Auxiliary Services , and the lives of ordinary...

A prologue complains that true comedy is being driven from the stage by farce and slapstick. The plot turns on the manoevres by which the despicable Fancourt seeks to swindle a provincial worthy, Sir Robert...

The title-page quotes Le Sage , in French, avowing that he intended to depict people as they are, but not real individuals (a quotation that might work in reverse, encouraging readers to expect recognisable portraits)...

Anne Elliot, heroine of Persuasion, gets a second chance to marry the man she had rejected nine years before under pressure from her elders. His prospects of a self-made career did not at that...

Her protagonist has, like her husband, recently left the navy. In this case, however, the man is thirty-six, engaged in a love-affair with a television star, and involuntarily dismissed from the British Royal Navy ...

Though most of the pieces take up the same themes as Immanence, the end of the volume contains several poems about the First World War. In The Naval Reserve (dated 4 August 1914 and...

The play takes as its subject Admiral Horatio Nelson , who is the victim of a murderous attack in the port of Dover by a Royal Navy captain (who has been suborned into the employ...

EMM dedicated this book to her daughter, Edris. It has no paratext; and makes no mention of the fact that its protagonist, one of our civilian soldier boys, is modelled on the author's son Edward Lovell Moore

Having fled from Paris, VT very reluctantly returned with her mother to safety in England from now Nazi -occupied France on a Royal Navy troop ship.

They spent most of the rest of their lives at English Harbour, Antigua, which had been recently a mere village but was now the centre of operations for the British Navy in the Caribbean...

In June 1795 (the year after reading Godwin 's Political Justice) MR became involved in a case in which Irish tinkers, threatened with being pressed as vagrants into the British Navy , had resisted...

This was the first-ever appointment as a women's columnist. Next year, at a Royal Navy Exhibition, she became one of the first women to dive underwater while equipped with heavy diving equipment: one of her...

With Adrian Stephen, Duncan Grant , Guy Ridley , and Anthony Buxton , she toured the premier battleship HMS Dreadnought impersonating the Emperor of Abyssinia and his entourage. Virginia was disguised as Prince Mendax (Latin...

As defensiveness on behalf of the British commanders in the Crimea increased, this book acquired a scandalous reputation. Its shape and scope, FID 's editor remarks, helped form the popular view of the Crimean or...