Lynn Knight Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

Set in 1925 South-east London, the story follows Rose Burnham, a skilled designer-dressmaker who uncovers secrets within her profession. When a major client reveals she has been deceived by a fraudulent suitor, Rose takes it upon herself to seek justice. What begins as an exciting detective adventure quickly escalates as Rose faces mounting pressures, including troubling poison-pen letters targeting an old friend. As she delves deeper into the investigation, Rose realizes the complexities and dangers of uncovering the truth.

The captivating biography of one of the most important designers of the twentieth century - adapted for Sky Cinema starring Phoebe Dynevor, Matthew Goode and David Morrissey Clarice Cliff was one of the most prominent ceramic designers of the twentieth century. Born in 1899 in the Staffordshire Potteries, she started work as just another factory girl, but by 1928 had launched her own range of pottery, 'Bizarre'. A 'gargantuan feast of colour', it blazed a trail through the homes of inter-war Britain. But if Clarice Cliff's rise from apprentice gilder to art director was remarkable - and all the more so for her being a woman - it was not without its tensions; for years she conducted a secret relationship with her married boss. Fusing art, design and industry and vividly conveying the texture of women's lives between the wars, this is a compelling study of the complex, talented woman whose work is for many the epitome of art deco.

I used to love the rattle and whoosh of my grandma’s buttons as they scattered from their Quality Street tin. An inlaid wooden chest the size of a shoe box holds Lynn Knight’s button collection. A collection that has been passed down through three generations of women: a chunky sixties-era toggle from a favourite coat, three tiny pearl buttons from her mother’s first dress after she was adopted as a baby, a jet button from a time of Victorian mourning. Each button tells a story. ‘They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us’ said Virginia Woolf of clothes. The Button Box traces the story of women at home and in work from pre-First World War domesticity, through the first clerical girls in silk blouses, to the delights of beading and glamour in the thirties to short skirts and sexual liberation in the sixties.

* Classic Short Stories from writers for whom the Virago Modern Classics is esteemed and loved such as Djuna Barnes, Willa Cather, Rosamond Lehmann, Grace Paley, Elizabeth Taylor, Antonia White and Edith Wharton (formerly published as INFINITE RICHES).