Download or read book Hilda Wade written by Grant Allen and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Hilda Wade's gift was so unique, so extraordinary, that I must illustrate it, I think, before I attempt to describe it. But first let me say a word of explanation about the Master. I have never met anyone who impressed me so much with a sense of GREATNESS as Professor Sebastian. And this was not due to his scientific eminence alone: the man's strength and keenness struck me quite as forcibly as his vast attain-ments. When he first came to St. Nathaniel's Hospital, an eager, fiery-eyed physiologist, well past the prime of life, and began to preach with all the electric force of his vivid personality that the one thing on earth worth a young man's doing was to work in his laboratory, attend his lectures, study disease, and be a scientific doctor, dozens of us were infected by his contagious enthusiasm. He proclaimed the gospel of germs; and the germ of his own zeal flew abroad in the hospital: it ran through the wards as if it were typhoid fever. Within a few months, half the students were converted from lukewarm observers of medical routine into flaming apostles of the new methods.
Download or read book Hilda Wade a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose written by Grant Allen and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 – October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century.Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.
Download or read book Hilda Wade written by Grant Allen and published by New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 1900 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Hilda Wade a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose written by Grant Allen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fiction by Grant Allen is one of his "mystery books" and is considered one of the first detective stories with a powerful female protagonist. Hilda, works as a nurse for a popular doctor in a London hospital and is nearly murdered by the man who is her chief suspect; she flees to South Africa to reformulate her strategy in safety. The story circles around the events that follow. Hilda Wade: a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose was Grant Allen's last book and its chapters were serialized in The Strand Magazine. Allen could not complete the final chapter before dying, so Arthur Conan Doyle, his neighbor and friend agreed to write it. This work presents valuable insights into human psychology, and morality of humans, and the pleasures provided by fiction. This story is genuinely thrilling, and an exciting mix of adventure, romance, drama, suspense and can be termed a New Woman novel.
Download or read book Hilda Wade written by Grant Allen and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Hilda Wade written by Grant Allen and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilda Wade's gift was so unique so extraordinary that I must illustrate it I think before I attempt to describe it. But first let me say a word of explanation about the Master
Download or read book Hilda Wade written by Grant Allen and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Download or read book Sherlock s Sisters written by Joseph A. Kestner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 examines the fictional female detective in Victorian and Edwardian literature. This character, originating in the 1860s, configures a new representation of women in narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This analysis explores female empowerment through professional unofficial or official detection, especially as this surveillance illuminates legal, moral, gendered, institutional, criminal, punitive, judicial, political, and familial practices. This book considers a range of literary texts by both female and male writers which concentrate on detection by women, particularly those which followed the creation of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. Cultural movements, such as the emergence of the New Woman, property law or suffragism, are stressed in the exploits of these resourceful investigators. These daring women deal with a range of crimes, including murder, blackmail, terrorism, forgery, theft, sexual harassment, embezzlement, fraud, impersonation and domestic violence. Privileging the exercise of reason rather than intuition, these women detectives are proto-feminist in their demonstration of women's independence. Instead of being under the law, these women transform it. Their investigations are given particular edge because many of the perpetrators of these crimes are women. Sherlock's Sisters probes many texts which, because of their rarity, have been under-researched. Writers such as Beatrice Heron-Maxwell, Emmuska Orczy, L.T. Meade, Catherine Pirkis, Fergus Hume, Grant Allen, Leonard Merrick, Marie Belloc Lowndes, George Sims, McDonnell Bodkin and Richard Marsh are here incorporated into the canon of Victorian and Edwardian literature, many for the first time. A writer such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon is reassessed through a neglected novel. The book includes works by Irish and Australian writers to present an inclusive array of British texts. Sherlock's Sisters enlarges the perception of emerging female empowerment during the nineteenth century, filling an important gap in the fields of Gender Studies, Law/Literature and Popular Culture.
Download or read book The Strand Magazine written by Sir George Newnes and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction written by Dr Christopher Pittard and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature Culture and the Arts written by Josephine M. Guy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late nineteenth-century fin de siècle has proved an enduringly fascinating moment in literary and cultural history. It is associated with the emergence of intriguing figures - such as the 'new woman' and 'uranian'; with contradictory impulses - of decadence and decay on the one hand, and of experiment and renewal, on the other; as well as with unprecedented intercultural exchange, especially between Britain and France. The 22 newly-commissioned essays collected here re-examine some of the key concepts taken to define the fin de siècle, while also introducing hitherto overlooked cultural phenomena into the frame, such as the importance of humanitarianism. The impact of recent research in material culture is explored, particularly how the history of the book and the history of performance culture is changing our understanding of this period. A wide range of cultural activities is discussed?from participation in avant-garde theatre to interior decoration and from the writing of poetry to political and religious activism. Together, the essays provide new scholarly insights into British fin de siècle and enrich our understanding of this complex period, while paying particular attention to the importance of regionalism.
Download or read book Hilda Wade written by Grant Allen and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilda Wade's gift was so unique, so extraordinary, that I must illustrate it, I think, before Iattempt to describe it. But first let me say a word of explanation about the Master.I have never met anyone who impressed me so much with a sense of GREATNESS as ProfessorSebastian. And this was not due to his scientific eminence alone: the man's strength and keennessstruck me quite as forcibly as his vast attainments. When he first came to St. Nathaniel's Hospital, aneager, fiery-eyed physiologist, well past the prime of life, and began to preach with all the electricforce of his vivid personality that the one thing on earth worth a young man's doing was to work inhis laboratory, attend his lectures, study disease, and be a scientific doctor, dozens of us wereinfected by his contagious enthusiasm. He proclaimed the gospel of germs; and the germ of his ownzeal flew abroad in the hospital: it ran through the wards as if it were typhoid fever. Within a fewmonths, half the students were converted from lukewarm observers of medical routine into flamingapostles of the new methods.The greatest authority in Europe on comparative anatomy, now that Huxley was taken from us, he had devoted his later days to the pursuit of medicine proper, to which he brought a mind storedwith luminous analogies from the lower animals. His very appearance held one. Tall, thin, erect, withan ascetic profile not unlike Cardinal Manning's, he represented that abstract form of asceticismwhich consists in absolute self-sacrifice to a mental ideas, not that which consists in religiousabnegation. Three years of travel in Africa had tanned his skin for life. His long white hair, straightand silvery as it fell, just curled in one wave-like inward sweep where it turned and rested on thestooping shoulders. His pale face was clean-shaven, save for a thin and wiry grizzled moustache, which cast into stronger relief the deep-set, hawk-like eyes and the acute, intense, intellectualfeatures. In some respects, his countenance reminded me often of Dr. Martineau's: in others itrecalled the knife-like edge, unturnable, of his great predecessor, Professor Owen. Wherever hewent, men turned to stare at him. In Paris, they took him for the head of the English Socialists; inRussia, they declared he was a Nihilist emissary. And they were not far wrong-in essence; forSebastian's stern, sharp face was above all things the face of a man absorbed and engrossed by oneoverpowering pursuit in life-the sacred thirst of knowledge, which had swallowed up his entirenatur
Download or read book The Dusty Bookcase written by Brian Busby and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Largely drawn from his columns for Canadian Notes & Queries and entries in his popular blog by the same name, Brian Busby's The Dusty Bookcase explores the fascinating world of Canada's lesser-known literary efforts: works that suffered censorship, critical neglect, or brilliant yet fleeting notoriety. These rare and quirky totems of Canadiana, collected over the last three decades, form a travel diary of sorts—yet one without maps. Covering more than 250 books, peppered with observations on the writing and publishing scenes, Busby's work explores our cultural past, questioning why certain works are celebrated and others ignored. Brilliantly illustrated with covers and ephemera related to the titles discussed, The Dusty Bookcase draws much needed attention to unknown writing worthy of our attention, and some of our acclaim.
Download or read book Hilda Wade written by Grant Allen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilda Wade's gift was so unique, so extraordinary, that I must illustrate it, I think, before Iattempt to describe it. But first let me say a word of explanation about the Master.I have never met anyone who impressed me so much with a sense of GREATNESS as ProfessorSebastian. And this was not due to his scientific eminence alone: the man's strength and keennessstruck me quite as forcibly as his vast attainments. When he first came to St. Nathaniel's Hospital, aneager, fiery-eyed physiologist, well past the prime of life, and began to preach with all the electricforce of his vivid personality that the one thing on earth worth a young man's doing was to work inhis laboratory, attend his lectures, study disease, and be a scientific doctor, dozens of us wereinfected by his contagious enthusiasm. He proclaimed the gospel of germs; and the germ of his ownzeal flew abroad in the hospital: it ran through the wards as if it were typhoid fever. Within a fewmonths, half the students were converted from lukewarm observers of medical routine into flamingapostles of the new methods.The greatest authority in Europe on comparative anatomy, now that Huxley was taken from us, he had devoted his later days to the pursuit of medicine proper, to which he brought a mind storedwith luminous analogies from the lower animals. His very appearance held one. Tall, thin, erect, withan ascetic profile not unlike Cardinal Manning's, he represented that abstract form of asceticismwhich consists in absolute self-sacrifice to a mental ideas, not that which consists in religiousabnegation. Three years of travel in Africa had tanned his skin for life. His long white hair, straightand silvery as it fell, just curled in one wave-like inward sweep where it turned and rested on thestooping shoulders. His pale face was clean-shaven, save for a thin and wiry grizzled moustache, which cast into stronger relief the deep-set, hawk-like eyes and the acute, intense, intellectualfeatures. In some respects, his countenance reminded me often of Dr. Martineau's: in others itrecalled the knife-like edge, unturnable, of his great predecessor, Professor Owen. Wherever hewent, men turned to stare at him. In Paris, they took him for the head of the English Socialists; inRussia, they declared he was a Nihilist emissary. And they were not far wrong-in essence; forSebastian's stern, sharp face was above all things the face of a man absorbed and engrossed by oneoverpowering pursuit in life-the sacred thirst of knowledge, which had swallowed up his entirenature.He WAS what he looked-the most single-minded person I have ever come across. And when Isay single-minded, I mean just that, and no more. He had an End to attain-the advancement ofscience, and he went straight towards the End, looking neither to the right nor to the left foranyone. An American millionaire once remarked to him of some ingenious appliance he wasdescribing: "Why, if you were to perfect that apparatus, Professor, and take out a patent for it, Ireckon you'd make as much money as I have made." Sebastian withered him with a glance.
