Laura Knight Av Helen Valentine, Annette Wickham

Pioneering history painter, innovative portraitist and one of two women among the founders of the Royal Academy.

<p>Born in Gyffin, near Conway, Wales, John Gibson (1790-1866) moved with his family to Liverpool, where he trained as a cabinet-maker and mason. The historian and banker William Roscoe whetted Gibson''s appetite for classical statuary,...

The full story for the first time of the legendary pop icon written with the full cooperation of family and friends.

<b><i>Down to the Potter''s House</i> is a 1921-1942 historic novel that takes the tenacious Gracie Maxwell from the quicksand of mediocrity to higher ground as she climbs and never stops. </b><p>Across the way,...