Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, and television, feature film, music and sport, this fascinating book assesses the attitudes and portrayal of the North of England within the national culture and how this has impacted upon attitudes to the region and its place within notions of 'Englishness'.
Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, and television, feature film, music and sport, this fascinati...
Elise Cummings has waited sixty years for this moment. Ever since the girl was killed by two fellow students on the steps of the Raritan Female Institute, Elise has been waiting in her watery grave for the old school for troubled and wayward girls to be rebuilt.
Linda Smith is one of the fortunate students selected to attend the spanking new all-girl prep school on the banks of the Raritan River in New Jersey. The overweight and no-esteem girl sees it as an escape from high-school and three years of disinterested male faces. Linds soon finds, however, that nothing has changed: she is just...
Elise Cummings has waited sixty years for this moment. Ever since the girl was killed by two fellow students on the steps of the Raritan Female Instit...