Download or read book Mathilda s Legacy written by Jennifer Ash and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2023-02-13 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David, Earl of Huntingdon, sighed quietly as he watched his teenage son slip out of the woods that surrounded Huntingdon castle. That particular sport, where Robert had emerged, was special. That had been where Mathilda had taken her son for long forest walks, where she’d told him stories, and played games. Sadly, when Robert was eight years old, the stories had ended. David realised, as each day passed, why his offspring behaved in the way he did. After all, Robert of Huntingdon was Mathilda’s son. He was her legacy. The moment couldn’t be put off any longer. It was time to tell his son the story of how the Earl had met Robert’s mother… This story is set pre-Series One, before ‘Robin Hood and the Sorcerer’.
Download or read book Waltzing Matilda written by Dennis O'Keeffe and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expose of two cover-ups: one the death of a swagman by a billabong; the other, a torrid affair between Banjo Paterson and his fiancee's best friend, and how the two events come together in Australia's best-loved national song. Australians know Waltzing Matilda, written by their most popular poet Banjo Paterson, as their most loved song and unofficial national anthem. What Australians don't know is that their song is embroiled in a web of secrecy, violence and a triangular love affair. Written at a pivotal time in Australia's history, Waltzing Matilda is as important to Australian culture as events like the Eureka Stockade and the story of Ned Kelly. One hundred and fifteen years after the writing of Waltzing Matilda, Australians continue to be fascinated with the song and sing it proudly wherever they meet to celebrate. Given the facts outlined in this story, they will be further captivated and embrace the song for decades to come.
Download or read book Lord Avery s Legacy written by Allison Lane and published by Belgrave House. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Avery, Lord Carrington, travels to Devon to rescue his nephew from a misalliance, but he is distracted by Penelope Wingrave, hot-tempered sister of the “unsuitable” girl his nephew is attached to. Penelope, who raises ostriches, may not be his idea of a lady, but she is certainly a very tempting woman. Regency Romance by Allison Lane; originally published by Signet
Download or read book A Priceless Legacy written by Cynthia Joy Hausmann and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Hausmann reminisces with justifiable contentment on the life he's carved out for himself in nineteenth-century Bavaria. By the time he is writing to his children, he has already served honorably in the infantry-surviving the disastrous 1812 march into Russia as part of Napoleon's Grande Armée-obtained a university degree in government, and earned universal respect in his current career as an increasingly important royal counselor. A Priceless Legacy offers a collection of his poignant letters showing how Franz devoted all his spare energy to educating his eleven children-sending them to the best schools he can afford, penning words of advice to be kept as reference, and always encouraging them to become self-reliant, honorable, and devout members of society. Mostly leaving the girls to his wife's care, Franz focuses on the boys. They cause him many headaches and heartaches, but he calmly-and sternly-tries to steer them in the right direction. Franz's great-granddaughter Cynthia Joy Hausmann has translated these letters and provided useful background comments. After Franz's death in 1856, much of Europe went through a period of political and economic upheaval, causing half of Franz's children to seek their fortune in the United States, where their descendants still exemplify Franz's wise legacy. Portrait of Franz Hausmann as a civilian official, ca. 1830. He still proudly displays the red ribbon and white cross of the French Legion of Honor, which Napoleon awarded him in 1812
Download or read book Gothic Feminism written by Diane Long Hoeveler and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As British women writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sought to define how they experienced their era's social and economic upheaval, they helped popularize a new style of bourgeois female sensibility. Building on her earlier work in Romantic Androgyny, Diane Long Hoeveler now examines the Gothic novels of Charlotte Smith, Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Dacre Byrne, Mary Shelley, and the Bront&ës to show how these writers helped define femininity for women of the British middle class. Hoeveler argues that a female-created literary ideology, now known as &"victim feminism,&" arose as the Gothic novel helped create a new social role of professional victim for women adjusting to the new bourgeois order. These novels were thinly disguised efforts at propagandizing a new form of conduct for women, teaching that &"professional femininity&"&—a cultivated pose of wise passiveness and controlled emotions&—best prepared them for social survival. She examines how representations of both men and women in these novels moved from the purely psychosexual into social and political representations, and how these writers constructed a series of ideologies that would allow their female characters&—and readers&—fictitious mastery over an oppressive social and political system. Gothic Feminism takes a neo-feminist approach to these women's writings, treating them not as sacred texts but as thesis-driven works that attempted to instruct women in a series of strategic poses. It offers both a new understanding of the genre and a wholly new interpretation of feminism as a literary ideology.
Download or read book Matilda s Legacy written by Hazel McKeever and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Valperga written by Mary Shelley and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 1998-08-21 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1823, Valperga is probably Mary Shelley’s most neglected novel. Set in 14th-century Italy, it represents a merging of historical romance and the literature of sentiment. Incorporating intriguing feminist elements, this absorbing novel shows Shelley as a complex and intellectually astute thinker.
Download or read book The Black Atlantic Reconsidered written by Winfried Siemerling and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from letters, editorials, sermons, and slave narratives to contemporary novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, black Canadian writing represents a rich body of literary and cultural achievement. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroes" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers including George Elliott Clarke, Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, David Chariandy, Wayde Compton, Esi Edugyan, Marlene NourbeSe Philip, and Lawrence Hill. Arguing that black writing in Canada is deeply imbricated in a historic transnational network, Siemerling explores the powerful presence of black Canadian history, slavery, and the Underground Railroad, and the black diaspora in the work of these authors. Individual chapters examine the literature that has emerged from Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Prairies, and British Columbia, with attention to writing in both English and French. A major survey of black writing and cultural production, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered brings into focus important works that shed light not only on Canada's literature and history, but on the transatlantic black diaspora and modernity.
Download or read book Minette Walters and the Meaning of Justice written by Mary Hadley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar Award-winning crime novelist Minette Walters is known for revitalizing the tradition of the stand-alone psychological thriller in books such as The Ice House, The Dark Room, Acid Row and Fox Evil. This book offers an in-depth analysis of Walters' narrative technique and examines the major themes found throughout her work, including truth and justice, the treatment of children, patterns of victimization, British social issues, body image and body politics, the fashioning of identity, and heroism and evil in society. In addition, it includes a valuable interview with Walters.
Download or read book Wounds and Words written by Christa Schönfelder and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trauma has become a hotly contested topic in literary studies. But interest in trauma is not new; its roots extend to the Romantic period, when novelists and the first psychiatrists influenced each others' investigations of the »wounded mind«. This book looks back to these early attempts to understand trauma, reading a selection of Romantic novels in dialogue with Romantic and contemporary psychiatry. It then carries that dialogue forward to postmodern fiction, examining further how empirical approaches can deepen our theorizations of trauma. Within an interdisciplinary framework, this study reveals fresh insights into the poetics, politics, and ethics of trauma fiction.
Download or read book Legacy written by MJ Opera and published by SuperNovel(HK)Co.,Limited. This book was released on 2022-01-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Themis and I am not supposed to be alive. I survived the hunt which a maiden had not survived for hundreds of years and now I am saddled with a husband. Waves from both the empire and outside the empire are coming. I might be dead at the end but I will try my best to be alive. I will use everything in my arsenal. Including my gift of prophesy. Even if the gift will get me killed. My name is Themis and this is my story.
Download or read book Weltrus New Beginnings written by Xandy Vee and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is written in the period 1939 1949. Harvey leaves his ancestral home in anger! Two years later comes the urgent plea, Come home, there is no one to oversee Weltrus! Unknowingly he has inherited Weltrus by nomination! Remembering his grandmothers dying words, Do not throw it all away! He returns to Weltrus, but not alone! He is now a married man of twenty four hours! On arrival, his wife, Bessie falls in love with Weltruss rambling old house, and takes up the challenge to bring it back to what it was when his grandmother was alive! Her love and compassion brings back his parents to Weltrus in such a unique way. Then working in unity against all the odds, these four people achieve this mammoth task. Their main objective being to place Weltrus back on the map in the wine industry! This takes a decade of uncovering the many hidden mysteries behind the Weltrus Legacy to do just that! Harvey knows that his lovely young wife is a born winner, whose goal is to see that their love is based on her belief of New Beginnings bringing happiness and joy!
Download or read book The South Western Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.
Download or read book The Southwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 2448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cinematic Geopolitics written by Michael J. Shapiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and reflected upon. In this book, one of America's foremost theorists of culture and politics treats those aspects of the "geopolitical aesthetic" that must be addressed in light of both the post cold war and post 9/11 world and contemporary film theory and philosophy. Beginning with an account of his experience as a juror at film festival’s, Michael J. Shapiro’s Cinematic Geopolitics analyzes the ways in which film festival space and both feature and documentary films function as counter-spaces to the contemporary "violent cartography" occasioned by governmental policy, especially the current "war on terror." Influenced by the cinema-philosophy relationship developed by Gilles Deleuze and the politics of aesthetics thinking of Jacques Ranciere, the book’s chapters examines a range of films from established classics like the Deer Hunter and the Battle of Algiers to contemporary films such as Dirty Pretty Things and the Fog of War. Shapiro’s use of philosophical and theoretical works makes this cutting edge examination of film and politics essential reading for all students and scholars with an interest in film and politics.
Download or read book Commemorating Power in Early Medieval Saxony written by Sarah Greer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commemorating Power looks at how the past was evoked for political purposes under a new Saxon dynasty, the Ottonians, who came to dominate post-Carolingian Europe after 888 as the rulers of a new empire in Germany and Italy, focusing on two convents of monastic women who played a significant role in Ottonian politics.
Download or read book Politics Go to the Movies written by Joel R. Campbell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This examination of film genres discusses how various films in five genres reflect or comment on political themes and ideas. The author uses constructivist and feminist political theory to examine the development of the political discourse in these films, and considers new ways to conceptualize the relationship between film or television and politics.
