Showing results for "Love Life" in History

Cinderella stories captured the imagination of girls in the 1950s, when dreams of meeting the right man could seem like a happy ending, a solution to life's problems. But over the next 50 years women's lives were transformed, not by the magic wand of a fairy godmother, nor by marrying princes, but by education, work, birth control - and feminism.

Hello, how are you all? Come on, everyone, I'm fine too. I want to share my first love story with you. I have some words about the feeling of love in my life. Stay with me everyone thanks.

This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward. Larissa was born in northern Russia, the daughter of a Soviet army officer from...

Bloomsbury presents Take Six Girls by Laura Thompson, read by Jilly Bond. 'Wonderfully readable... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF DYMOCKS BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF 2021 A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK WINNER OF THE INWORDS LITERARY AWARD ‘Sheer joy' Graham Norton ‘Utterly beautiful … filled with hope’ Joanna Cannon, author of Three Things About...

Love and Louis XIV centres around the Sun King and his relationships with numerous fascinating women: his mother, Anne of Austria, to whom he was devoted; his first important mistress, Louise de la Valliere, who bore him several illegitimate children; Athenais Marquise de Montespan, who acted as unofficial Queen of Versailles; Madame de Maintenon, governess to the illegitimate royal children; and of course, Marie Therese, his wife.

THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is a captivating collection of stories divided into seven days, each featuring ten tales, plus an eighth day with two additional stories. Richly exploring themes of love, infidelity, and the complexities of human emotion, these narratives sparked accusations of looseness from contemporary critics. Authored by Margaret of Navarre (also known as Margaret of Angoulême), a pivotal figure in the French Renaissances intellectual and cultural spheres, this work stands out for its unique blend of passionate desire and spiritual reflection. As ...

Tashiena and Natalie are a queer american couple. They love one another through every obstacle and struggle the modern prison throws in the way. Tashiena is serving a life without parole sentence in Michigan's one women's prison, where she works at bringing restoration and hope to all of the people she interacts with. Tashiena uses the pen to build towards liberation from the penitentiary. Natalie is a prison abolition and transformative justice activist and artist. This show is about humanizing love and life through the pen.

Kay Ashton, is a fun loving 30 year old living in Salford. She is single, working full time and wants to be a mum. Oh, she lives with a disability also which is genetic. Kay, is embarking on her mission to be a mum by using PGD to ensure her child does not inherit her disability. We follow her through the laugher, the tears, dating and general emotional rollercoaster this will bring. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Story & script by Tessa Coleman. Produced & directed by Andrea Earl. Soundstage & audio production by JP Le Blond. Theme music arranged & performed by Damien Cayro. A Pink Granite Studio production recorded on location in Jersey.

In How to Think Like a Woman, Penaluna blends memoir, biography, and criticism to tell the stories of four women, weaving throughout an alternative history of philosophy. Funny, honest, and wickedly intelligent, this is a moving meditation on what philosophy could look like if women were treated equally.

Lynsey Addario is just finding her way as a photographer when September 11th changes the world. One of the few photojournalists with experience in Afghanistan, when she is asked to return and cover the American invasion, she makes a decision - not to stay home, not to lead a quiet or predictable life, but to set out across the world, face the chaos of crisis, and make a name for herself.

Join Billabong Retreat and Church of Kindness Founder Paul von Bergen in this radically honest and wild exploration of love, life, pleasure, sexuality, God, spirituality, science and death. What does it mean to be alive? Who Am I? How can I reduce suffering and dis-ease? What should I do to live a life of no regrets? Am I scared of dying? How can I manifest more abundance and more pleasure? What is God? Presented by Paul von Bergen and his friends, therapists, teachers and facilitators. www.paulvonbergen.com www.billabongretreat.com.au

The dramatic and heartrending true story of one remarkable young man's account of love in the time of war, by a celebrated historian of untold Black stories On the eve of World War II, a handsome young scholar arrived in Paris. The queer, Black son of a housecleaner, who had nevertheless been...

Nat Love, the son of enslaved parents, was born in 1854 on a plantation in Davidson County, Tennessee. In February 1869, Love left Tennessee and found work as a cowboy, first in the Texas panhandle, then in Arizona. Love's story, The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, was published in 1907, and it is considered the only full-length autobiography by an African-American cowhand.

Read by the authors, Lotte Jeffs and Stu Oakley. What is a black cat lesbian? Is ‘aromantic’ a sexuality or a preference? How are bisexual and pansexual different? What’s it like to be queer and religious? Does Gen Z do darkrooms? How do you navigate life as a OAQ (Old Age Queer)? What...

Touching true stories from the heyday of the Butlin’s holiday camps. ‘When I got to the camp I felt as if I’d suddenly walked into Utopia – it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were lights across the roads, there were banners fluttering in the breeze… There seemed to be...

Dive into the life of Nat Love, an individual who lived through extraordinary circumstances. Born into slavery, raised as a cowboy, and later working as a Pullman Porter, his life story is nothing short of fascinating. Despite experiencing ownership akin to a farm animal due to his skin color and later sharing an equal footing with his white coworkers, Love shockingly harbored strong prejudices of his own. He held deep-seated racist views towards Indians and Mexicans, often expressing these beliefs through violent actions. His life was a paradox, even falling in love with a Mexican girl whom ...

This revelatory memoir by the mother of Michael Brown, the African American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history. Tell the Truth & Shame the Devil is a portrait of our time, an urgent call to action, and a moving testament to the undying bond between mothers and sons.

Taking us behind drawing room doors and into high society ballrooms, The Game of Hearts follows six leading ladies and their family, friends, and contemporaries as they move from matchmaking to matrimony and beyond. Candid insights into the competitive world of the marriage mart; real stories of rakish husbands and rich heiresses; and true tales of lost and long-lasting love, reveal not just Regency courtship customs, but truly captivating lives. Author Felicity Day pieces together a rich and intimate view of this most beloved period of British history.