Download or read book The Scold s Bridle written by Minette Walters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-10-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman doctor in an English village finds herself the center of some nasty attention from police as well as villagers. The will of a murdered woman names her the sole beneficiary and people assume she killed her. By the author of The Sculptress.
Download or read book The Scold s Bridle written by Minette Walters and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Scold s Bridle written by Minette Walters and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A triumph of brilliant, unnerving story-telling from the internationally acclaimed author ofThe Sculptressthe winner of the Crime Writer's John Creasey Award.
Download or read book Scold s Bridle written by Minette Walters and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minette Walters takes us on a compelling and unpredictable tour of the tensions between generations, and along a trail of grief made obscure by the mysterious loss of Mathilda's detailed, shocking and very personal diaries.
Download or read book The Scold s Bridle written by Minette Walters and published by Pan. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she'd taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold's bridle obscuring the dead woman's face.
Download or read book The Scold s Bridle written by Minette Walters and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scold s Bridle written by Ronna Russell and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scold's Bridle is a backward-in-time series of short stories depicting the violent oppression, complicity, and participation of white women, exposing individual choices that resulted in the abandonment of sisterhood for survival. The past is not what we are told and, at every turn, religion holds the sharp stick, the torch, or the bridle. Scold's Bridle straddles the line between page-turner and deep narrative. Main character Rebecca is villainous and predatory, a narcissistic preacher's wife intent on manipulating her husband's success and keeping her daughter Rae Ann in line. She has an unfortunate attraction to Rae Ann's teenage boyfriend, the son of Delfa the faith healer, whose magical powers become apparent as the story unfolds. Tracking the characters back through time, Rebecca is a young mother desperate to escape poverty in Idaho, the "owner" of enslaved people in Mississippi, a starving colonialist in Massachusetts, and a woman with a terrible choice to make in medieval Scotland. It is not what she will do in the future but rather what she has done in the past that corrupts her. Delfa, always the intuitive crone, becomes the main character in the last chapter when Rebecca's betrayal seals the fate of them all. Chapters are each set in a different time and place, beginning in the twenty-first century and ending in the sixteenth century, visiting the three women as they were in that time and place. All events are based on true stories as seen through the eyes and participation of the main characters.
Download or read book Scold s Bridle 24DP written by St. Martins Mass Mark Staff and published by . This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Punishments of Former Days written by Ernest W. Pettifer and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book written in 1939 and later discovered and rescued by Waterside Press - that gives a detailed account of the often barbaric or shameful punishments used in former times. Since this book was first published in the 1950s the description it contains of the history of crime and punishment in Britain over the previous 200 years or so has attracted interest across a wide spectrum. The work was reprinted in 1992 by Waterside Press having been out of print for decades. The contents cover a wide range of historic punishments from outlawry to the ducking stool, the pillory, stocks and whirligig to the branding iron and scold's bridle. From mutilation and torture to sanctuary and the emergence of private and then public prisons this is an essential addition to any criminal justice collection - imbued as it is by the comments of the author from the perspective of his own era, which provides for fascination in itself. Printed in the original style and format - together with a large number of the original illustrations. Quite absorbing - The book transports the reader to a time when punishments were often brutal, unrestrained and unregulated by standards, fairness or consistency. It also looks at the sometimes strange logic that was applied by judges, justices of the peace and those charged with carrying out the task.
Download or read book Literature and the Touch of the Real written by David Schalkwyk and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It uses the Wittgensteinian notions of "samples" and "criteria" to show that language is involved in the appropriation of aspects of the world through the historically contingent activities of linguistic practice, and it uses Wittgenstein's analysis of aspect perception to forge a new account of the ideological role of the literary and its relation to the real."--Jacket.
Download or read book The Taming of the Shrew written by Dana E. Aspinall and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taming of the Shrew, Critical Essays provides comprehensive and up-to-date critical readings of the play. The editor has selected essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play.
Download or read book The Sculptress written by Minette Walters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Edgar Award and the Macavity Award for Best Novel In prison they call her the sculptress: a grotesquely obese young woman convicted of cutting her mother and sister to pieces and rearranging their bodies on the floor like a jigsaw puzzle. She pleaded guilty to the crime, but no one has noticed that the facts don't add up until Rosalind Leigh comes to visit the prisoner, hoping to get a book deal out of her story. The more fevered Rosalind's pursuit of the truth, the closer she gets to the true source of the evil ascribed to the Sculptress in her cell.
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 The Ice House written by Minette Walters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a decomposed body turns up in the ice house of Streech Grange manor, Chief Inspector Walsh is assigned to investigate the possibility that the corpse is the long-missing husband of owner Phoebe Maybury.
Download or read book Branks and Bridles written by R. S. Mannheim and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated non-fiction work traces the history of the scold's bridle, also known as the brank in Scotland and closely related to the schandmaske as used in Europe. The account opens with a survey of various designs, all of them are daunting but there are some quite horrific ones which could inflict lasting injuries.The author goes on to debunk the myth that these were used to punish nagging wives, and demonstrates, instead, that the power brokers of medieval society used the bridles as a means of public humiliation, to silence opposition from the lower classes, and to stop dominant females gaining power in society.There is also a section on how such artefacts were used with great cruelty as part of the witch craze, especially in Scotland.Covering a historical period from 1560 to 1860, the book is richly illustrated, throughout, with pictures of genuine museum artefacts and simulations of the items in use. Some readers may be surprised to learn that these cruel gadgets were still being used in the Victorian workhouse, the prison and the lunatic asylum, well into the 19th Century, long after their use had been abandoned in the outside world.One telling section investigates the modern trend in replica items and offers advice on how to tell the fake from the real thing.Originally planned as the third in a series on the history of punishment, this is the first to be released and it is no exaggeration to say that it will change, forever, the public perception of these grim instruments of torment.
Download or read book The Dark Room written by Minette Walters and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this acclaimed psychological mystery, Jinx Kingsley, a prominent photographer and millionaire’s daughter, wakes up in an exclusive hospital suffering from amnesia. Not only can she not remember the car accident that caused her memory loss, but she doesn’t remember that her impending wedding has been called off or that her former fiancé and his girlfriend have been brutally murdered in the same way her first husband had been ten years before. Now she must try to piece together her memories in order to determine her innocence. With deft psychological explorations and shocking twists, Walters brings the story to an awe-inspiring conclusion.
Download or read book The Devil s Feather written by Minette Walters and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blistering new thriller about the horrors of war and the struggle to survive in the face of pure evil. Foreign correspondent Connie Burns is hunting a British mercenary that she believes is responsible for the rape and murder of five women in Sierra Leone in 2002. Two years later she finds him training Iraqi police in Baghdad. Connie is determined to expose his crimes, but then she is kidnapped and released after three days of unspeakable torture. Silently, she returns to England and attempts to isolate herself, but it soon becomes apparent that the horrors of the world and her own nightmarish past aren’t so easy to escape from.
