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Book Bowery Girl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kim Taylor
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780670059669
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Bowery Girl written by Kim Taylor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In New York's tenements in 1883, two orphaned teenage girls realize that their dream of saving enough money to move to Brooklyn across the newly-built bridge may be achieved if they learn new trades at a nearby settlement house, rather than continuing their lives of prostitution and stealing.

Book Strenuous Mame  the Bowery Girl

Download or read book Strenuous Mame the Bowery Girl written by Harry Lee Newton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bowery Women

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bob Holman
  • Publisher : YBK Publishers
  • Release : 2006-10
  • ISBN : 9780976435983
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bowery Women written by Bob Holman and published by YBK Publishers. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So here you go, seventy-six women poets who've all read at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. One poet, one poem, one photo, that's the recipe for this book. Poets were asked to send their Greatest Hit. (One poet wrote a wonderful Letter of Opposition about how you cannot reduce an oeuvre to a unit: I wish we had room to print it ) We look on this book as an introduction--a go-to starting point for the women who helped open the gates to the Academy of the Future of 21st Century Poetry. This is book so revolutionary and patterned by today's time, the editors decided to alphabetize the poets by first names because computers do it that way and who says that patronyms win all the time anyway? So who's your fave? Just remember to look for her by first name-- Alana Ruben Free Amy Ouzoonian Ana Castillo Ange Mlinko Ann Enzminger Anne Waldman Brenda Coultas Carla Harryman Celena Glenn Cheryl Boyce Taylor Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Cynthia Kraman Daphne Gottlieb Dawn Saylor Deanna Zandt Diane Burns Donna Masini Elaine Equi Elinor Nauen Elizabeth-Jane Burnett Emily XYZ Fay Chiang Gabriella Santoro Hettie Jones Honor Moore Ishle Yi Park Jackie Sheeler Jan Heller Levi Janet Hamill Janice Erlbaum Janine Pommy Vega Jen Benka Jennifer Blowdryer Jessica Hagedorn Joy Harjo Kathryn M. Fazio Kim Rosenfield Kristin Prevallet Lee Ann Brown Leslie Scalapino Leticia Viloria liz maher Lynne N. Procope Maggie Balistreri Maggie Dubris Marie Howe Marie Ponsot Marjorie Tesser Martha Rhodes Marty McConnell Mary Reilly Maureen Owen May Joseph Melissa Goodrum Nancy Mercado Naomi Shihab Nye The O'Debra Twins Patricia Smith Patricia Spears Jones Rachel Levitsky Radhiyah Ayobami Regina Cabico Sapphire Sarah Herrington Sarah Quinter Seren Divine Shanna Compton Simone Gorrindo Suheir Hammad Tara Betts Tish Benson Tsaurah Litzky Vicki Hudspith Wanda Coleman Zhang Er "Bowery Women" is the third book in the Bowery Books Poetry series following Taylor Mead's "A Simple Country Girl" and "The Bowery Bartenders Big Book of Poems."

Book Rowdy Carousals

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Chris Westgate
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Release : 2024
  • ISBN : 1609389476
  • Pages : 297 pages

Download or read book Rowdy Carousals written by J. Chris Westgate and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowdy Carousals makes important interventions in nineteenth-century theatre history with regard to the Bowery Boy, a raucous, white, urban character most famously exemplified by Mose from A Glance at New York in 1848. The book's examination of working-class whiteness on stage, in the theatre, and in print culture invites theatre historians and critics to check the impulse to downplay or ignore questions about race and ethnicity in discussion of the Bowery Boy and further explores links between the Bowery Boy's rowdyism in the nineteenth century and the resurgence of white supremacy in the early twenty-first century.

Book Bowery Girl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kim Taylor Blakemore
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780990584308
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Bowery Girl written by Kim Taylor Blakemore and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From WILLA Award winning author Kim Taylor Blakemore... ..".inspiring and poignant historical fiction novel that will engage readers that are looking for an insightful, yet entertaining read. " 5/5 stars, Luxury Reader "lends credence to the millions of historical and contemporary girls who dare to dream in the face of extraordinary challenges." - Starred Review, Kirkus "compelling, gritty, and sometimes brutal view of life on the streets." - Barnes and Noble "Gang violence, raucous carousing, sex, accidental pregnancy, and crime-not what most will expect from Victorian-era historical fiction. But that's exactly what they'll find in this tightly plotted novel..." - Booklist NEW YORK, 1883: Gamblers and thieves, immigrants and street urchins, Do-Gooders and charity houses, impossible goals and impossible odds. The Bowery is a place where you own nothing but your dreams. And dreams are the only things that come cheap for pickpocket Mollie Flynn and prostitute Annabelle Lee. Pleasure is fleeting - and often stolen. Nights at Lefty Malone's saloon, sneaking into the Thalia Theatre. Then it's back to their airless, windowless tenement room and the ongoing struggle to keep a roof over their heads and bread in their stomachs. The Brooklyn Bridge is nearing completion, and things are changing in New York City. The two women fantasize of starting a new life across the East River. Nothing but a flight of fancy, perhaps, until wealthy Do-Gooder Emmeline DuPre, who has opened the Cherry Street Settlement House, steps into their lives with her books, typewriters, and promises of a way to earn a respectable living. Despite Mollie and Annabelle's fascination with the woman and what she offers, is Emmeline helping or meddling? Is it really possible to be anything other than a Bowery Girl? Mollie and Annabelle will have to decide exactly who they are, and what sort of women they want to be. Originally published by Viking, 2006.

Book Staging the Slums  Slumming the Stage

Download or read book Staging the Slums Slumming the Stage written by J. Westgate and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.

Book Bowery Girl

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kim Taylor
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 2007-09-01
  • ISBN : 9781417787500
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Bowery Girl written by Kim Taylor and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bowery, 1883: a place of impossible dreams and impossible odds. This is the story of two Bowery girlsthe pickpocket Mollie Flynn and the prostitute Annabelle Lee, young women without family or education whose survival depends on each other. After meeting Emmeline DuPre, a Do-Gooder who has recently opened a settlement house, Mollie and Annabelle are given the opportunity to better themselves. But the city offers many temptations, and on the Bowery, you do whatever it takes to survive.

Book Types from City Streets

Download or read book Types from City Streets written by Hutchins Hapgood and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recorded Music in American Life

Download or read book Recorded Music in American Life written by William Howland Kenney and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now comes an in-depth cultural history of the phonograph in the United States from 1890 to 1945. William Howland Kenney offers a full account of what he calls "the 78 r.p.m. era"--The formative early decades in which the giants of the record industry reigned supreme in the absence of radio, to the postwar proliferation of independent labels, disk jockeys, and changes in popular taste and opinion.

Book The Urologic and Cutaneous Review

Download or read book The Urologic and Cutaneous Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Theatre Culture in America  1825 1860

Download or read book Theatre Culture in America 1825 1860 written by Rosemarie K. Bank and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of pre-Civil War American theatre.

Book The Story of Irving Berlin

Download or read book The Story of Irving Berlin written by Alexander Woollcott and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book David McCullough Library E book Box Set

Download or read book David McCullough Library E book Box Set written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 4656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for David McCullough fans and history lovers alike, this eBook boxed set features all of his bestselling titles, from 1776 to Mornings on Horseback. This e-book box set includes all of David McCullough’s bestselling backlist titles: · 1776: The riveting story of George Washington, the men who marched with him, and their British foes in the momentous year of American independence. · Brave Companions: Profiles of exceptional men and women who shaped history, among them Alexander von Humboldt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Charles and Anne Lindbergh. · The Great Bridge: The remarkable, enthralling story of the planning and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which linked two great cities and epitomized American optimism, skill, and determination. · John Adams: The magisterial, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the independent, irascible Yankee patriot, one of our nation’s founders and most important figures, who became our second president. · The Johnstown Flood: The classic history of an American tragedy that became a scandal in the age of the Robber Barons, the preventable flood that destroyed a town and killed 2,000 people. · Mornings on Horseback: The brilliant National Book Award-winning biography of young Theodore Roosevelt’s metamorphosis from sickly child to a vigorous, intense man poised to become a national hero and then president. · Path Between the Seas: The epic National Book Award-winning history of the heroic successes, tragic failures, and astonishing engineering and medical feats that made the Panama Canal possible. · Truman: The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry Truman, the complex and courageous man who rose from modest origins to make momentous decisions as president, from dropping the atomic bomb to going to war in Korea. · Special Bonus: The Course of Human Events: In this Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, David McCullough draws on his personal experience as a historian to acknowledge the crucial importance of writing in history’s enduring impact and influence, and he affirms the significance of history in teaching us about human nature through the ages.

Book David McCullough Great Moments in History E book Box Set

Download or read book David McCullough Great Moments in History E book Box Set written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 2048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author David McCullough, a special eBook boxed set features books that study key points of American history. The David McCullough Great Moments in History e-book box set includes the following McCullough classics: · 1776: The riveting story of George Washington, the men who marched with him, and their British foes in the momentous year of American independence. · The Johnstown Flood: The classic history of an American tragedy that became a scandal in the age of the Robber Barons, the preventable flood that destroyed a town and killed 2,000 people. · Path Between the Seas: The epic National Book Award-winning history of the heroic successes, tragic failures, and astonishing engineering and medical feats that made the Panama Canal possible. · The Great Bridge: The remarkable, enthralling story of the planning and construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, which linked two great cities and epitomized American optimism, skill, and determination. · Special Bonus: The Course of Human Events: In this Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, David McCullough draws on his personal experience as a historian to acknowledge the crucial importance of writing in history’s enduring impact and influence, and he affirms the significance of history in teaching us about human nature through the ages.

Book Low Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lucy Sante
  • Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
  • Release : 2016-03-08
  • ISBN : 1466895632
  • Pages : 541 pages

Download or read book Low Life written by Lucy Sante and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic social history of corruption and vice in nineteenth-century NYC: “A cacophonous poem of democracy and greed, like the streets of New York themselves” (John Vernon, Los Angeles Times Book Review). Lucy Sante’s Low Life is a portrait of America’s greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city’s slums; the teeming streets—scene of innumerable cons and crimes whose cramped and overcrowded housing is still a prominent feature of the cityscape. Low Life voyages through Manhattan from four different directions. Part One examines the actual topography of Manhattan from 1840 to 1919; Part Two, the era’s opportunities for vice and entertainment—theaters and saloons, opium and cocaine dens, gambling and prostitution; Part Three investigates the forces of law and order which did and didn’t work to contain the illegalities; Part Four counterposes the city’s tides of revolt and idealism against the city as it actually was. Low Life is one of the most provocative books about urban life ever written—an evocation of the mythology of the quintessential modern metropolis, which has much to say not only about New York’s past but about the present and future of all cities.

Book Poems

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alvin Curtis Shaw
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book Poems written by Alvin Curtis Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Whiting Up

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marvin Edward McAllister
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0807835080
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Whiting Up written by Marvin Edward McAllister and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1890s, black performer Bob Cole turned blackface minstrelsy on its head with his nationally recognized whiteface creation, a character he called Willie Wayside. Just over a century later, hiphop star Busta Rhymes performed a whiteface superco