ISBN: 9781406551143

It was an artist's studio, a poor, shabby little place, with a latticed window facing the north. There was nothing in the furnishing or arrangement of the room to suggest successful work,… More...

It was an artist's studio, a poor, shabby little place, with a latticed window facing the north. There was nothing in the furnishing or arrangement of the room to suggest successful work, or even artistic taste. A few tarnished gold frames leaned against the gaudily-papered wall, and the only picture stood on the dilapidated easel in the middle of the floor, a small canvas of a woman's head, a gentle Madonna face, with large supplicating eyes, and a sensitive, sad mouth, which seemed to mourn It was an artist's studio, a poor, shabby little place, with a latticed window facing the north. There was nothing in the furnishing or arrangement of the room to suggest successful work, or even artistic taste. A few tarnished gold frames leaned against the gaudily-papered wall, and the only picture stood on the dilapidated easel in the middle of the floor, a small canvas of a woman's head, a gentle Madonna face, with large supplicating eyes, and a sensitive, sad mouth, which seemed to mourn over the desolation of the place. The palette and a few worn brushes were scattered on the floor, where the artist had laid them down for ever. There was one living creature in the room, a young girl, not more than sixteen, sitting on a stool by the open window, looking out listlessly on the stretch of dreary fenland, shrouded in the cold and heavy mist. It was a day on which the scenery of the fen country looked desolate, cheerless, and chill. These green meadows and flat stretches have need of the sunshine to warm them always. Sitting there in the soft grey light, Gladys Graham looked more of a woman than a child, though her gown did not reach her ankles, and her hair hung in a thick golden plait down her back. Her face was very careworn and very sad, her eyes red and dim with long weeping. There was not on the face of the earth a more desolate creature than the gentle, slender girl, the orphan of a day. At an age when life should be a joyous and lovely thing to the maiden child, Gladys Graham found herself face to face with its grimmest reality, certain of only one thing, that somewhere and somehow she must earn her bread. She was thinking of it at that moment, with her white brows perplexedly knitted, her mouth made stern by doubt and apprehension and despair; conning in her mind her few meagre accomplishments, asking herself how much they were likely to bring in the world's great mart. She could read and write and add a simple sum, finger the keys of the piano and the Books, Fiction~~Classics, Guinea-Stamp~~Annie-S-Swan, 999999999, The Guinea Stamp, Annie S. Swan, 1406551147, Dodo Press, , , , , Dodo Press<

ISBN: 9781406551143

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Dodo Press], Annie Shepherd Swan, Mrs Burnett-Smith (1859-1943) was a British author who wrote under the pen name David Lyall. She wrote Into the Haven (1882), A D… More...

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Dodo Press], Annie Shepherd Swan, Mrs Burnett-Smith (1859-1943) was a British author who wrote under the pen name David Lyall. She wrote Into the Haven (1882), A Divided House: A Study from Life (1889), The Ayres of Studleigh (1891), Thankful Rest (1892), The Guinea Stamp: A Tale of Modern Glasgow (1892), Wrongs Righted (1893), A Bitter Debt: A Tale of the Black Country (1893), Courtship and Marriage and the Gentle Art of Home-Making (1894), A Foolish Marriage: An Edinburgh Story of Student Life (1894), Across Her Path (1895), Carlowrie or, Among Lothian Folk (1895), Elizabeth Glen, MB: The Experiences of a Lady Doctor (1895), A Victory Won (1895), Doris Cheyne: The Story of a Noble Life (1896), Memories of Margaret Grainger, Schoolmistress (1896), Heather From the Brae (1896), The Curse of Cowden (1897), Maitland of Laurieston (1898), At the Eleventh Hour (1899), The Two Miss Jeffreys (1899), The Burden Bearers (1900), The Flowers O' the Forest (1900), The Gold that Perisheth (1901), The Redemption of Neil Maclean (1901), The Bells of Portknockie (1902) and Another Man's Money (1902).Versandfertig in 3-5 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<

2008, ISBN: 9781406551143

Dodo Pr, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Illustrated, 340 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-02-29T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.1 kg, Klassiker, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Historische Roma… More...

Dodo Pr, Taschenbuch, Auflage: Illustrated, 340 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-02-29T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.1 kg, Klassiker, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Historische Romane, Literatur & Belletristik, Christentum & Theologie, Religion & Glaube, Liebesromane, Taschenbücher, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Englische Bücher, Format: Illustriert, Dodo Pr, 2008<

2008, ISBN: 9781406551143

Dodo Press, Paperback, 340 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-02-08T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.5 kg, Specialty Stores, Books, Romance, Literature & Fiction, Christian Books & Bibles, Subject… More...

Dodo Press, Paperback, 340 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-02-08T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.5 kg, Specialty Stores, Books, Romance, Literature & Fiction, Christian Books & Bibles, Subjects, Historical, Classics, Book Recommendations, Special Features Stores, Format: Illustrated, Dodo Press, 2008<

2008, ISBN: 9781406551143

A Tale of Modern Glasgow (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press), Softcover, Buch, [PU: Dodo Press]