Download or read book Spinning Jenny written by Sylvia McLain and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -I guess I'll name you Jenny, something I can say easy. That was my mammy's name anyway. Jenny. You be Jenny from now on...- Cornelius Carson's mother cautioned him never to own slaves, but in 1830s Louisiana, land and slaves are the measure of a man's worth. At 23, Cornelius is ambitious, and in love. He owns one elderly slave, Malachi, and a small cotton farm along the Bayou Cocodrie in Louisiana. And he plans to marry Stephanie Coqterre, daughter of a wealthy Natchez planter. He needs another field-hand, but prices are high. So when a trader brings a coffle of smuggled slaves to Natchez, Cornelius buys a 10-year-old girl. She is mute and nameless, but she's all he can afford. He names her Jenny. It quickly becomes apparent that Jenny will change life on the Cocodrie as much as it changes her. The winds of ambition are blowing everywhere, both among the whites, who strive for wealth and status, and among the slaves, who yearn for freedom. But dangers are everywhere, too. As madness and treachery reach from Natchez to the Cocodrie to blast all their dreams, Cornelius struggles to find a way to salvage his life and the lives of Jenny and Malachi as well.
Download or read book Spinning Jenny written by Ruth Hamilton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping and heart-warming saga set in Lancashire from The Sunday Times bestseller Ruth Hamilton, perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson. Guaranteed to keep you turning the page... "These are echoes of Cookson with its story of great homes where dark secrets lurk in the shadows." -- PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH "A thoroughly enjoyable book, rich in gossip and events." -- LIVERPOOL DAILY POST "Another compelling family saga lets you take Bolton with you to the beach!" -- BOLTON EVENING NEWS "[My mother is] loving every minute of reading this enchanting and spellbinding story..." -- ***** Reader review. "BRILLIANT BOOK AS ALWAYS READ ALL THE BOOK IN ONE GO" -- ***** Reader review. ************************** ALL SHE EVER WANTED WAS THE CHANCE TO MAKE A BETTER LIFE FOR HERSELF... Jennifer Crawley, eighteen, leads a strange and lonely life - her days in the spinning room of the cotton mill, her nights with possessive - and slightly mad - Aunt Mavis. When she's offered the chance to work as a servant at Skipton Hall, she sees this as a chance to better herself. Yet the household is as dangerous and weird as the one she left behind. Mrs Sloane, the terrifying housekeeper, takes pleasure in bullying and frightening the young maids; Henry Skipton is an embittered, solitary man who never takes the time to see his invalid wife, Eloise Skipton, who lays bed-ridden, feeding on hatred and plotting vengeance on the man she married. When she first sets eyes on young Jenny, she realizes she has found the perfect weapon for revenge... But Jenny and her friend, Maria Hesketh - her character as fiery as her hair - are determined that they will make something of their lives and succeed in spite of everything...
Download or read book Spinning Jenny written by Ruth Hamilton and published by Corgi. This book was released on 2010-12-31 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At eighteen Jennifer Crawley led a strange and lonely life - her days in the spinning room of the cotton mill, her nights with possessive - and slightly mad - Aunt Mavis. Jenny didn't even know who her parents were. Aunt Mavis never spoke of them. Then came the chance to better herself - to work as a servant at Skipton Hall. And there Jenny found a household as dangerous and weird as the one she had left behind. Mrs Sloane, the terrifying housekeeper, was as cruel as she was ugly, taking pleasure in bullying and frightening the young maids. Henry Skipton was an embittered, solitary man who took care never to see his invalid wife. And Eloise Skipton lay bed-ridden, a beautiful woman in a beautiful room, feeding on hatred and plotting vengeance on the man she had married. When she first set eyes on young Jenny, she realised she had found the perfect weapon for revenge. But Jenny, for the first time in her life, had a friend. Maria Hesketh, a gutsy, talented Liverpudlian, her character as fiery as her hair, was determined that she and Jenny would make something of their lives, would succeed in spite of everything.
Download or read book Spinning Jenny written by C. E. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Jenny Is Free written by Sylvia McLain and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the highly praised novel "Spinning Jenny" returns with a sequel to continue the story of Jenny, Malachi, Cornelius, Esther, and the other vivid characters brought to life in "Spinning Jenny." January 1841. When Jenny Cornelius, seventeen years old, is freed from slavery by her master and put on a steamboat to go to free soil in Ohio, she can't foresee that it's a journey she will not complete. She encounters Walker Jackson, a free man from Natchez, and together they make decisions that will alter the course of their lives. Jenny's decisions ultimately take her to New Orleans, where she finds friendships and motherhood in the midst of loss. Cornelius Carson, her former master, unexpectedly inherits the Natchez estate called Carefree as well as a sugar cane plantation on Bayou Boeuf in Louisiana. The inheritance alters his destiny and that of his family, and ultimately the shadows of deceit and treachery hang over the estate, threatening Jenny's very freedom.
Download or read book History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain written by Edward Baines and published by London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher & F. Jackson, [pref.1835]. This book was released on 1835 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Full Velvet written by Jenny Johnson and published by Sarabande Books. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These poems, likened to Elizabeth Bishop's, are about desire, love, seeing, gender, difference, ecology, queerness in the "natural" world, loss, LGBTQ lineage, and its community. They contain a sinuous, shape-shifting quality that makes her explorations of sex and selfhood all the more resonant. Jenny Johnson won a 2015 Whiting Fellowship. She lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Download or read book The Biography of Wool written by Carrie Gleason and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing new book tells the story of one of the world's first fibers, shorn from sheep, carded into wool, and spun into cloth since as early as 1500 B.C. Young readers will also learn about the introduction of mass manufactured clothing during the Industrial Revolution and how wool and textile are produced today.
Download or read book Social Change in the Industrial Revolution written by Neil J. Smelser and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufacturers written by J. Bischoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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