Download or read book The English Family 1450 1700 written by Ralph A. Houlebrooke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the family has become the source of lively controversy and Ralph Houlbrooke's study has made a major contribution to the debate. Thorough investigations reveal the attitudes and aspirations of all levels of society set within economic, political and religious contexts and developments within the period.
Download or read book An English Family written by Julio Dinis and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr Richard Whitestone is English and a successful businessman based for many years in Oporto. Despite his many years’ residence in Portugal, he remains resolutely English in his tastes and in his accent. His favourite reading is Tristram Shandy, which he reads and re-reads constantly. A widower for many years, he lives with his children Jenny and Carlos. Jenny is the angel of the house and wise beyond her 21 years. Carlos is 18 and much given to carousing with his friends and to falling – very briefly – in love with whichever pretty girl he sees. He is the despair of his father, but his sister believes in him despite all, because she knows he has a good heart. One day, during Carnival, Carlos meets a young woman at a masked ball and falls in love. As ever, the path of true love runs very erratically indeed. Júlio Dinis is sometimes referred to as the Portuguese Trollope, and this, the first novel he wrote is a keen-eyed evocation of the narrow world of nineteenth-century bourgeois Oporto, but also, and more importantly, it is a brilliant account of family life, in all its flawed beauty.
Download or read book Common People written by Alison Light and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 2014 by the Penguin Group"--Title page verso.
Download or read book The Family of Love in English Society 1550 1630 written by Christopher W. Marsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history and analysis of a mysterious dissenting fellowship in early modern England.
Download or read book Family Ties written by Mary Abbott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: r s1mily Ties provides a vivid and accessible introduction to the dynamics of life in English families of all ranks from the mid-sixteenth century to the end of World War I. Sections on methods, approaches and sources allow readers new to the study of the past to explore some of the historian's fundamental concerns: cause and effect; continuity and change and the nature and reliability of evidence. The chronological and thematic organization of the book enables readers to examine a number of sub-themes such as the history of childhood or of marriage. Combining extensive contemporary quotations and an unusual variety of illustrations with a wide range of written and material sources, the book provides a fascinating insight into the history of the family and encourages the reader to become a sceptical and imaginative investigator, prepared to venture beyond the historian's traditional documentary sources.
Download or read book The English Royal Family of America from Jamestown to the American Revolution written by Michael A. Beatty and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For about a century and a half after they arrived from England, America's first permanent colonists considered themselves to be English. They were proud of their heritage and loyal to their country. England's royal family truly was the royal family of America--until the era of the American Revolution, when the colonies fought for their independence from England and its rulers. Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II, Anne, George I, George II, and George III--the English royals who were also the royals of early America--are all covered in this work. It begins with Queen Elizabeth I, as it was during her rule that Sir Walter Ralegh established his settlements in America, and ends with King George III, as it was during his rule that the American Revolution began. A biographical sketch is provided for each royal and his or her spouse and legitimate children. Brief mention is made of mistresses and illegitimate children.
Download or read book Shades of Greene written by Jeremy Lewis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early years of the last century, two brothers, Charles and Edward Greene, settled in Berkhamsted, a small country town thirty miles from London. There they were to found a remarkable dynasty - fathering twelve children between then - each of whom were to lead varied, well-documented and extraordinary lives. This book explores for the first time this generation of the Greene family in colourful detail - their relationships and shared history, and their lives - as explorers, writers, doctors, spies, politicians and much more. There is Graham, one of the greatest English writers of the twentieth century; Hugh, the Daily Telegraph's Berlin corespondent in the years leading up to WW2, and later Director-General of the BBC; Raymond, a brilliant mountaineer and medical man who took part in the 1933 Everest expedition; their sister Elisabeth, MI6 agent, enlisting family and friends into the secret service; cousin Ben, a pacifist and Labour Party activist who was interned in 1940 at the same time as Oswald Mosley; his sister, Barbara, who spent the war in Germany; and their younger brother Felix, a pioneer of radio journalism and apologist for Communist China, who moved to a commune in California with his cousin Christopher Isherwood and Aldous Huxley; and Herbert, the black sheep of the family, fantasist and amateur spy. Interlacing biography, history, high adventure and scenes from literary life, Shades of Greene provides a riveting insight into the self-confident, enterprising, upper middle-class English world that flourished between the 1920s and the 1970s: and into a truly remarkable tribe.
Download or read book English Family Life 1576 1716 written by Ralph Anthony Houlbrooke and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1989 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses excerpts from private diaries to depict seventeenth century life in England, and covers infancy, adolescence, courtship, marriage, old age, and death
Download or read book The Family in English Children s Literature written by Ann Alston and published by Children's Literature and Culture. This book was released on 2011 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Alston focuses on the ideological construction of the family in children's literature. She suggests that despite the tales of family woe portrayed in children's literature, the desire for the happy, contended nuclear family remains inherent within the ideological subtexts of children's literature.
Download or read book My Family and Other Animals written by Gerald Durrell and published by Penguin Books Limited. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine . . . a country where we can grow.' 'Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening. 'I had a letter from George this morning - he says Corfu's wonderful. Why don't we pack up and go to Greece?' 'Very well, dear, if you like,' said Mother unguardedly. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist Gerry, along with their long-suffering mother and Roger the dog - take off for the island of Corfu. But the Durrells find that, reluctantly, they must share their various villas with a menagerie of local fauna - among them scorpions, geckos, toads, bats and butterflies. Recounted with immense humour and charm My Family and Other Animals is a wonderful account of a rare, magical childhood. 'Durrell has an uncanny knack of discovering human as well as animal eccentricities' Sunday Telegraph
Download or read book Italy as it is or Narrative of an English family s residence for three years in that country by the author of Four years in France written by Henry Digby Beste and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Family 1450 1700 written by Ralph A. Houlebrooke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the family has become the source of lively controversy and Ralph Houlbrooke's study has made a major contribution to the debate. Thorough investigations reveal the attitudes and aspirations of all levels of society set within economic, political and religious contexts and developments within the period.
Download or read book The Family from One End Street written by Eve Garnett and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are seven children in the Ruggles family - three girls and four boys - and though they are poor, they manage to have a lot of fun. All the Ruggles are lovable, interesting and very individual - from capable Lily Rose down to baby William.
Download or read book Who s in a Family written by Robert Skutch and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the different combinations of people that may make up a human family, and compares them to family types in the animal kingdom
Download or read book A Narrative of the Sufferings of an English Family Many Years Resident in France During the Revolution written by mrs. Whitmore and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doings of the Bodley Family in Town and Country and The Bodleys Telling Stories written by Horace Elisha Scudder and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reunion of the Dickinson Family at Amherst Mass written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
