Download or read book Englishwoman in America written by Isabella Bird and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English traveler explores New England and the Mid-west, commenting on social mores and politics.
Download or read book An Englishwoman in America written by Sarah Mytton Maury and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Englishwoman in Angora written by Grace Ellison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A partisan but fascinating 1923 account of Grace Ellison's visit to Angora (Ankara), the new capital of the Turkish Republic.
Download or read book First Generations written by Carol Berkin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian, European, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth-century America were defenders of their native land, pioneers on the frontier, willing immigrants, and courageous slaves. They were also - as traditional scholarship tends to omit - as important as men in shaping American culture and history. This remarkable work is a gripping portrait that gives early-American women their proper place in history.
Download or read book A Lady s Life in the Rocky Mountains written by Isabella Lucy Bird and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters to her sister about the author's travel in Colorado, autumn and early winter 1873.
Download or read book The American Woman s Garden written by Rosemary Verey and published by New York Graphic Society. This book was released on 1984 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty women describe their flower and vegetable gardens and discuss the special problems they had to solve to make the gardens successful
Download or read book An Englishwoman s Experience in America written by Marianne Finch and published by London : R. Bentley. This book was released on 1853 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English American written by Alison Larkin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Pippa Dunn,adopted as an infant and raised terribly British, discovers that her birth parents are from the American South, she finds that "culture clash" has layers of meaning she'd never imagined. Meet The English American, a fabulously funny, deeply poignant debut novel that sprang from Larkin's autobiographical one-woman show of the same name. In many ways, Pippa Dunn is very English: she eats Marmite on toast, knows how to make a proper cup of tea, has attended a posh English boarding school, and finds it entirely familiar to discuss the crossword rather than exchange any cross words over dinner with her proper English family. Yet Pippa -- creative, disheveled, and impulsive to the core -- has always felt different from her perfectly poised, smartly coiffed sister and steady, practical parents, whose pastimes include Scottish dancing, gardening, and watching cricket. When Pippa learns at age twenty-eight that her birth parents are from the American South, she feels that lifelong questions have been answered. She meets her birth mother, an untidy, artistic, free-spirited redhead, and her birth father, a charismatic (and politically involved) businessman in Washington, D.C.; and she moves to America to be near them. At the same time, she relies on the guidance of a young man with whom she feels a mysterious connection; a man who discovered his own estranged father and who, like her birth parents, seems to understand her in a way that no one in her life has done before. Pippa feels she has found her "self" and everything she thought she wanted. But has she? Caught between two opposing cultures, two sets of parents, and two completely different men, Pippa is plunged into hilarious, heart-wrenching chaos. The birth father she adores turns out to be involved in neoconservative activities she hates; the mesmerizing mother who once abandoned her now refuses to let her go. And the man of her fantasies may be just that... With an authentic adopted heroine at its center, Larkin's compulsively readable first novel unearths universal truths about love, identity, and family with wit, warmth, and heart.
Download or read book Three Visits to America written by Emily Faithfull and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman from Scotland recounts her travels in the U.S., focusing particularly issues relating to women (education, employment, etc.), also discussing more general cultural matters.
Download or read book Domestic Manners of the Americans written by Frances Trollope and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic Manners of the Americans is an entertaining, witty, and often scathing account of Trollope's travels in America between 1827 and 1832 and her criticisms of American manners, from vulgarity to the treatment of slaves. One of the most influential travel books of the century, it also speaks to political debates on equality in England.
Download or read book Midnight in Peking written by Paul French and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger from the author of City of Devils Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base of the Fox Tower, which, according to local superstition, is home to the maliciously seductive fox spirits. As British detective Dennis and Chinese detective Han investigate, the mystery only deepens and, in a city on the verge of invasion, rumor and superstition run rampant. Based on seven years of research by historian and China expert Paul French, this true-crime thriller presents readers with a rare and unique portrait of the last days of colonial Peking.
Download or read book A Woman of No Importance written by Oscar Wilde and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Woman of No Importance" is a play by Oscar Wilde, which became a phenomenon of its time. Like Wilde's other society plays, "A Woman of No Importance" satirizes the English upper-class society. The plot centers around the revelation of Mrs. Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. As the events develop, the author casts light on the perversions in Victorian upper-class society's morals, hypocritical conventions, and general views and conduct.
Download or read book A Woman in Berlin written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With shocking and vivid detail, the journal of a woman living through the Russian occupation of Berlin in 1945 tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject and describes the common experience of millions.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Women in American History written by Joyce Appleby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated encyclopedia examines the unique influence and contributions of women in every era of American history, from the colonial period to the present. It not only covers the issues that have had an impact on women, but also traces the influence of women's achievements on society as a whole. Divided into three chronologically arranged volumes, the set includes historical surveys and thematic essays on central issues and political changes affecting women's lives during each period. These are followed by A-Z entries on significant events and social movements, laws, court cases and more, as well as profiles of notable American women from all walks of life and all fields of endeavor. Primary sources and original documents are included throughout.
Download or read book The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek written by Kim Michele Richardson and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RECOMMENDED BY DOLLY PARTON IN PEOPLE MAGAZINE! A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling historical fiction novel from Kim Michele Richardson, this is a novel following Cussy Mary, a packhorse librarian and her quest to bring books to the Appalachian community she loves, perfect for readers of William Kent Kreuger and Lisa Wingate. The perfect addition to your next book club! The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome's got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter. Cussy's not only a book woman, however, she's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she's going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler. Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman's belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home. Look for The Book Woman's Daughter, the new novel from Kim Michele Richardson, out now! Other Bestselling Historical Fiction from Sourcebooks Landmark: The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict The Engineer's Wife by Tracey Enerson Wood Sold on a Monday by Kristina McMorris
Download or read book The Englishwoman in America written by Isabella Bird and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1856, Isabella Bird published The Englishwoman in America, the first of what would be many books of her travels around the world. Adopting a tone of aloof bemusement, she describes in detail the hardships and annoyances of her travels by sea from England to Halifax, and on the road to Boston, Cincinnati, and Chicago. The book's 20 chapters are full of keenly observed and entertainingly told stories.
Download or read book Anglo Saxon Attitudes written by Angus Wilson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Angus Wilson is one of the most enjoyable novelists of the 20th century... Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) analyses a wide range of British society in a complicated plot that offers all the pleasures of detective fiction combined with a steady and humane insight.' Margaret Drabble First published in 1956, Anglo-Saxon Attitudes draws upon perhaps the most famous archaeological hoax in history: the 'Piltdown Man', finally exposed in 1953. The novel's protagonist is Gerald Middleton, professor of early medieval history and taciturn creature of habit. Separated from his Swedish wife, Gerald is increasingly conscious of his failings. Moreover, some years ago he was involved in an excavation that led to the discovery of a grotesque idol in the tomb of Bishop Eorpwald. The sole survivor of the original excavation party, Gerald harbours a potentially ruinous secret...
