SIXTY MILES FROM ENGLAND THE ENGLISH AT DIEPPE 1814-1914
Written by Simona Pakenham
Published by MacMillan
in 1967
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SIXTY MILES FROM ENGLAND THE ENGLISH AT DIEPPE 1814-1914
Written by Simona Pakenham.
Stock no. 2113252
1967.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Blue boards, silver title to spine. B/w illustrations and photos. Bumping and wear to spine, corners and cover edges. Some browning/foxing. Foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased with chips and nicks.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1 A Daring Adventure
- 2 'Convenient, Cheap and Comfortable'
- 3 Royalty, Railways and Revolution
- 4 Singing, Dancing and Shooting off Cannon
- 5 A Very Troublesome Man
- 6 Les Barbares du Nord
- 7 Miss Slee and Miss Shackleton
- 8 'Upstart Landladies and Questionable Newcomers'
- 9 The Villa of Mystery
- 10 'Un Vrai Dieppois'
- 11 The Girls from the Finishing Schools
- 12 Sebastian Melmoth and Friends
- 13 'Some rather unpleasant people come here'
- 14 'No shortage of minor nobility'
- 15 The Incomparable Max and the two Mr Churchills
- 16 'When will we play together again'?
- Notes
- Index