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While looking into her genealogy, particularly the Cumberbatches from Barbados, Helen0Ashton discovered the silversmith Omar Ramsden and his connection to her family. 0Omar Ramsden and fellow Sheffield-born designer Alwyn Carr set up a partnership in 18980moving to London to exploit the fashionable taste for handmade silver of the Arts and Crafts Movement and, with the help of skilled artisans, made articles adapted from Gothic and Renaissance designs with Celtic-style inscriptions, which became their trademark. 0A fascinating story, painstakingly researched following one of the most successful0silversmithing collaborations of the 20th century. Helen's interest became a fascinating0obsession, resulting in three years of research to find out about his family background in0Sheffield and his long partnership.

A fictionalized biography of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, in novel form.

Based on the life of Henry Vaughan.

Story of an old English manor house and its splendors.