The Maiden Married Life Of Mary Powell Afterwards Mistress Milton

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Genre : Milton
Author : Anne Manning
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Release : 1898
File : 440 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015012358597


The Inevitable Hour

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A frank portrayal of the medical care of dying people past and present, The Inevitable Hour helps to explain why a movement to restore dignity to the dying arose in the early 1970s and why its goals have been so difficult to achieve.

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Genre : History
Author : Emily K. Abel
Publisher : JHU Press
Release : 2013-05
File : 238 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781421409191


Jim S Journal

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Diary written by a young James Newton Matthews about his daily activities when he was fourteen-year-old, living in Mason, Illinois in the late nineteenth century.

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Genre : History
Author : JD Eident
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release : 2019-05-15
File : 300 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780359660551


Rebels At The Bar

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In Rebels at the Bar, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts the life stories of a small group of nineteenth century women who were among the first female attorneys in the United States. Beginning in the late 1860s, these determined rebels pursued the radical ambition of entering the then all-male profession of law. They were motivated by a love of learning. They believed in fair play and equal opportunity. They desired recognition as professionals and the ability to earn a good living. Rebels at the Bar expands our understanding of both women's rights and the history of the legal profession in the nineteenth century. It focuses on the female renegades who trained in law and then, like men, fought considerable odds to create successful professional lives. In this engaging and beautifully written book, Norgren shares her subjects' faith in the art of the possible. In so doing, she ensures their place in history.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Jill Norgren
Publisher : NYU Press
Release : 2016-05
File : 286 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781479835522


American Diaries

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Author : William Matthews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
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File : 404 Pages
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Private Pages

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A rare and valuable glimpse into the lives of American women--through their diaries, published here for the first time By turns delightful, poignant, and heartbreaking, these diary entries explore inner landscapes, telling of love, marriage, and motherhood, of religion and family obligation, of the need to break free, to improve oneself, and to make something of one's life. In Private Pages we meet a devoted student in Minneapolis in the 1920s, grappling with the issues of her a≥ a Midwestern farm wife stuck in a loveless marriage in the 1890s; a Depression-era Berkeley, California, woman writing for her unborn grandchildren; a Southern Jewish woman at the end of the Civil War; a professional writer falling in love; and eight others, all of whom touch us in unique ways as we come to know them intimately through their diaries. Customs and technologies change, but human emotions endure. From a turn-of-the-century thirteen-year-old with a schoolgirl crush on a teacher to an elderly nineteenth-century Quaker at the end of her life, each of these women strikes a chord of sympathy and understanding in us, for their concerns are, after all, very like our own.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Penelope Franklin
Publisher : Ballantine
Release : 1986
File : 536 Pages
ISBN-13 : UVA:X001208908


Memoirs Of Catharine Seely And Deborah S Roberts Late Of Darien Connecticut

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Author : Catharine Seely
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Release : 1844
File : 264 Pages
ISBN-13 : HARVARD:32044087529830


A Happy Holiday

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One of the most revealing things about national character is the way that citizens react to and report on their travels abroad. Oftentimes a tourist's experience with a foreign place says as much about their country of origin as it does about their destination. A Happy Holiday examines the travels of English-speaking Canadian men and women to Britain and Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It describes the experiences of tourists, detailing where they went and their reactions to tourist sites, and draws attention to the centrality of culture and the sensory dimensions of overseas tourism. Among the specific topics explored are travellers' class relationships with people in the tourism industry, impressions of historic landscapes in Britain and Europe, descriptions of imperial spectacles and cultural sights, the use of public spaces, and encounters with fellow tourists and how such encounters either solidified or unsettled national subjectivities. Cecilia Morgan draws our attention to the important ambiguities between empire and nation, and how this relationship was dealt with by tourists in foreign lands. Based on personal letters, diaries, newspapers, and periodicals from across Canada, A Happy Holiday argues that overseas tourism offered people the chance to explore questions of identity during this period, a time in which issues such as gender, nation, and empire were the subject of much public debate and discussion.

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Genre : History
Author : Cecilia Morgan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Release : 2008-06-28
File : 489 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781442692411


Our History Of The 20th Century

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In Travis Elborough's expertly curated collection of diaries, letters and journals, the great and the good rub shoulders with the obscure, the unsung and the everyday to bring us a unique top down and bottom up history of Britain during the twentieth century.

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Genre : Literary Collections
Author : Travis Elborough
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Release : 2017-09-28
File : 388 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781782437369


A History Of The Oratorio

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Written by an eminent scholar in a style that represents American musicological writing at its communicative best, A History of the Oratorio offers a synthesis and critical appraisal so exhaustive and reliable that the serious student of the oratorio will be compelled to look to these volumes as an indispensable source. No work on the history of the oratorio has yet appeared in the English language that is comparable in scope and treatment with Howard Smither's comprehensive four-volume work. The first part of volume 2 examines in depth the antecedents and origins of the oratorio in Protestant Germany in the seventeenth century. It includes discussions of the Lutheran Historia, sacred dramatic dialogues, and the Lubeck Abendmusiken of Buxtehude. The second part treats the oratorio in Protestant Germany in the early eighteenth century and examines Handel, Reinhard Keiser, and J.S. Bach. The third part considers primarily the English oratorios of Handel. In most sections of A History of the Oratorio, the author has selected for special attention a few oratorios that are representative of each geographical area and period. An exception to this procedure is in the section on Handel in this volume, where all of the composer's English oratorios are treated fully with particular reference to recent specialized Handel studies. Volume 1, The Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Italy, Vienna, Paris, and Volume 3, The Oratorio in the classical Era, expand and continue the study of oratorio history. Although this series was originally announced as a three-volume study, Smither will conclude with a fourth volume. Originally published in 1977. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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Genre : Music
Author : Howard E. Smither
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Release : 2012-09-01
File : 420 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780807837764