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Book Jane and Dorothy

Download or read book Jane and Dorothy written by Marian Veevers and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, but their lives have never been examined together before. They both lived in Georgian England, navigated strict social conventions and new ideals, and they were both influenced by Dorothy’s brother, the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and his coterie. They were both supremely talented writers yet often lacked the necessary peace of mind in their search for self-expression. Neither ever married. Jane and Dorothy uses each life to illuminate the other. For both women, financial security was paramount and whereas Jane Austen hoped to achieve this through her writing, rather than being dependent on her family, Dorothy made the opposite choice and put her creative powers to the use of her brilliant brother, with whom she lived all her adult life. In this probing book, Marian Veevers discovers a crucial missing piece to the puzzle of Dorothy and William’s relationship and addresses enduring myths surrounding the one man who seems to have stolen Jane’s heart, only to break it . . .

Book Jane   Dorothy

Download or read book Jane Dorothy written by Marian Veevers and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth never met, but they had much in common. Born in the 1770s in Georgian England, to a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, they were both influenced by the Romantic ideals of Dorothy's brother, William Wordswsorth, and his friends. They were supremely gifted writers yet suffered the frustrations of talented women of their age who had no independent income. Neither ever married. Jane and Dorothy uses each life to reflect light on the other, examining their emotional and creative worlds. In placing them in their historical and social context, Marian Veevers highlights the plight of single women of that era, who had little control over their lives. It also includes new insights: there has been much speculation about the true nature of Dorothy and William's relationship and Marian Veevers has discovered a missing piece of the puzzle; she also debunks enduring myths surrounding the one man who seems to have stolen Jane's heat--only to break it. -- Inside jacket flap.

Book Mary Jane

Download or read book Mary Jane written by Dorothy Sterling and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Jane, an African American high school student in the Deep South, is chosen as one of two non-white students for a newly integrated school ... At first she bitterly resents the role of ambassador, but slowly becomes less defensive and forms a sound relationship with her classmates based on genuine compatability.

Book Me  God and Prozac

Download or read book Me God and Prozac written by Dorothy Jane Neilson and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an ancient and unending love in the universe that is willing to see us through the toughest of times and bring us to a wholeness that is unimaginable when we are immersed in the struggle of living. That is the ultimate message of this book.It is the story of one woman's struggle to find normality and happiness while fighting the demons of the past. It is the story of God's work in Dorothy, allowing her both the sadness and privilege of wading through the marshlands of depression in order to find a way not just to keep from sinking, but to live on the higher ground where she can feel secure and happy.

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  • ISBN : 1782405275
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Book Jane and Dorothy  A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility The Lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth

Download or read book Jane and Dorothy A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility The Lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth written by Marian Veevers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of Jane Austen, Dorothy Wordsworth, and their world—two women torn between revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, artistic creativity and emotional upheavals. Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, but their lives have never been examined together before. They both lived in Georgian England, navigated strict social conventions and new ideals, and they were both influenced by Dorothy’s brother, the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and his coterie. They were both supremely talented writers yet often lacked the necessary peace of mind in their search for self-expression. Neither ever married. Jane and Dorothy uses each life to illuminate the other. For both women, financial security was paramount and whereas Jane Austen hoped to achieve this through her writing, rather than being dependent on her family, Dorothy made the opposite choice and put her creative powers to the use of her brilliant brother, with whom she lived all her adult life. Though neither path would bring lasting fulfillment and independence, both women’s mark on literary culture is undeniable. In this probing book, Marian Veevers discovers a crucial missing piece to the puzzle of Dorothy and William’s relationship and addresses enduring myths surrounding the one man who seems to have stolen Jane’s heart, only to break it . . .

Book William and Dorothy Wordsworth

Download or read book William and Dorothy Wordsworth written by Lucy Newlyn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William and Dorothy Wordsworth is the first literary biography of the Wordsworths' creative collaboration. Using poems, letters, journals, memoirs, and biographies, it plots the intertwined lives of the Wordsworth siblings and their writing.

Book Jane s Father

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  • Author : Dorothy Aldis
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  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Jane s Father written by Dorothy Aldis and published by . This book was released on with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book High Wages

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  • Author : Dorothy Whipple
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  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 9781903155752
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book High Wages written by Dorothy Whipple and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1930 novel by Persephone Books' most popular writer about a girl who sets up a dress shop.

Book A Woman s Work

Download or read book A Woman s Work written by Dorothy Jane Mills and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1949 until 1990, Dorothy Jane Mills quietly contributed her research and writing to the first baseball histories ever written by a historian. The wife of historian Harold Seymour, she found herself increasingly involved with his books, as the couple presided over mountains of records on the game and worked to prepare his imposing manuscripts for press. But she received no official credit. It was after Dr. Seymour's passing that other researchers learned she was the unattributed co-author of much of his work. This important memoir reveals details of the author's partnership with baseball's most revered historian. Many new facts regarding Mills' role come to light. Mills, now recognized as the game's first woman historian, also explains how her work as a teacher, editor, novelist, children's author, and public speaker fit into her baseball work. The book contains numerous photographs from the author's personal collection, most of them in print for the first time as well as a foreword by Steve Gietschier of The Sporting News.

Book Dorothy and Jack

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  • Author : Gina Dalfonzo
  • Publisher : Baker Books
  • Release : 2020-08-18
  • ISBN : 1493424386
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Dorothy and Jack written by Gina Dalfonzo and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when we push past the surface and allow real, grounded, mutually challenging, and edifying friendships to develop? We need only look at the little-known friendship between eminent Christian thinkers Dorothy L. Sayers and C. S. Lewis to find out. Born out of a fan letter that celebrated mystery novelist Sayers wrote to Lewis as his star was just beginning to rise, this friendship between a married woman and a longtime bachelor developed over years of correspondence as the two discovered their mutual admiration of each other's writing, thinking, and faith. In a time when many Christians now aren't even sure that a man and a woman can be "just friends" and remain faithful, Gina Dalfonzo's engaging treatment of the relationship between two of Christianity's most important modern thinkers and writers will resonate deeply with anyone who longs for authentic, soul-stirring friendships that challenge them to grow intellectually and spiritually. Fans of Lewis and Sayers will find here a fascinating addition to their collections.

Book Winter of Discontent

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  • Author : Jeanne M. Dams
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2004-12
  • ISBN : 9780765308054
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Winter of Discontent written by Jeanne M. Dams and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the weeks before Christmas, Dorothy Martin sleuths the killer of her best friend's gentleman caller.

Book Dangerous Jane

Download or read book Dangerous Jane written by Suzanne Slade and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring picture book biography of Jane Addams, the groundbreaking social activist who went from the FBI's "Most Dangerous Woman in America" to Nobel Peace Prize winner. From the time she was a child, Jane Addams's heart ached for others—for those who were sad, hungry, and hopeless. When she grew up, Jane created Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago where she worked eighteen hours a day, providing whatever her immigrant neighbors needed: English lessons, childcare, steady work—as well as friendship, dignity, and hope. Then World War I broke out. Jane had helped people from different countries live in peace at Hull House, but what could she do to stop a war? Suzanne Slade's powerful free verse and Alice Ratterree's stunning, period-perfect illustrations bring a remarkable woman to life.

Book Ravenscroft

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  • Author : Dorothy Eden
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2013-07-09
  • ISBN : 1480429740
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book Ravenscroft written by Dorothy Eden and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVDIVIn this acclaimed, classic Gothic romance by bestselling author Dorothy Eden, a woman falls in love with the nobleman who rescues her from a life on the streets . . . only to find herself in deadly danger at his haunted country estate /divDIV Orphaned and cast adrift in the world, young sisters Bella and Lally McBride travel to London—only to fall victim to criminals who traffic in human flesh. Rescued by an aristocratic stranger, Bella soon finds herself mistress of a sprawling country estate plagued by the ghost of her new husband’s dead first wife. With his first wife gone, Guy Raven needs an heir. And when scandal threatens to destroy his political ambitions, he finds the perfect solution. But marriage to the bold, outspoken Bella is not what he imagined. She arouses a passion that the grieving widower is determined to resist. But danger has followed Bella and Lally to Ravenscroft. As a cloud of revenge and murder descends upon his wife, Guy will risk everything to once again save the woman he swore never to love./div/div

Book Ann Likes Red

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  • Author : Dorothy Z. Seymour
  • Publisher : Purple House Press
  • Release : 2021-03
  • ISBN : 9781948959285
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Ann Likes Red written by Dorothy Z. Seymour and published by Purple House Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Ann, an independent little girl who knows what she likes. Everyone tries to persuade her to buy a blue dress, brown hat and tan sandals, but Ann likes red instead. Red! Red! Red!

Book Angel Dorothy

Download or read book Angel Dorothy written by Jane Brown and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angel Dorothy is the inspiring biography of a formidable woman: wealthy American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst, who poured her considerable resources into founding Dartington Hall in 1925. What started as a progressive school rapidly transformed into a magnet for artists, architects, writers, philosophers and musicians, creating an exceptional centre for British cultural life. It was at Dartington in Devon that the Labour Party’s post-war manifesto was written and the Arts Council was conceived. Born in Washington, DC, into the influential Whitney family, Dorothy was a national darling: bells rang, flags flew and the American Navy’s new fast tugboat was named Dorothy. Orphaned at seventeen, she started giving away her inheritance at eighteen and buried herself in social and political work. She maintained her status as an unmarried woman until she fell in love with and married her first husband, Willard Straight, in 1911. Following Willard’s untimely death, Dorothy worked herself into a breakdown trying to fulfil his wishes. She recovered with the help of Leonard Elmhirst, an Englishman who shared her liberal beliefs; they married and moved to England in 1925 to start what would become Dartington Hall. In this vividly told biography, Jane Brown follows Dorothy from one side of the Atlantic to the other, a journey Dorothy made one hundred times to spread her political beliefs, her passion for education and her support of the arts for all. She traces the evolution of Dartington, from its restoration to its farming and forestry projects, and to its time as a home for the period’s greatest artists and intellectuals.

Book How to Not Be Afraid of Everything

Download or read book How to Not Be Afraid of Everything written by Jane Wong and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this fear?"--