Robert Falcon Scott

EJH met Peter Scott , son of the explorer Captain Scott , when she was in her teens and he was thirty-one, and she and her brother were invited to visit as company for his...

He had taken it for granted that they would marry. She could not imagine rejecting such unbelievable luck. She assured her mother she did not need informing about the difficult side of marriage. She...

The image was inspired in part by stories of Arctic and Antarctic explorers like Scott and Shackleton . The plot was inspired in part by curiosity about a society with gender subtracted from it: what...

Scholar Nicola Humble argues that the book in large part created the new cult of domesticity that was to play such a major role in mid-Victorian life. She sees it as the feminised counterpart...

This novel presents a fictionalized account of Robert Falcon Scott 's doomed expedition to the South Pole. With Scott's actual, poignant surviving diaries in mind, Bainbridge uses imagined diaries by other expedition members to...

BB began her married life in a top-floor flat at 34 Catherine Street in Liverpool. Not long afterwards they moved round the corner to Huskisson Street. In 1963, however, she returned to London...

Of the uncollected pieces in Collected Stories, Eric on the Agenda features a woman imagined by her friends to be desperate for a man, her inappropriately flirtatious elderly mother, and her unappetizing suitor. Poles...

BB in a historical novel, The Birthday Boys, retold the story of Antarctic explorer Captain Scott . The following year this book was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award.