Download or read book Strumpets of the Worst Kind written by Lynne Hume and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1836. Street-smart Maggie Burnett from the back alleys of Cheapside, is imprisoned in filthy, rat-infested Newgate Gaol. There she meets the gentle Sarah Hamilton, and the rough Scottish woman, Agnes MacDonald. Along with a hundred other women, they have been sentenced to transportation to start a new life on the other side of the world. Once on board the ship to Van Diemen’s Land, they realize that Newgate was comfortable compared with the perilous journey on the high seas with a crew of lustful sailors. In a land where men outnumber women seven to one, it will take all of their courage and wits just to survive. What choices do each of them make when faced with the dangers inside the Female Factory, and the loneliness, violence and fear of the unknown outside? Will the taint of the ‘convict stain’ follow them for the rest of their lives? Inspired by true events of the lives of convict women in early colonial Australia, this is a tale of resilience, rebellion and compromise. Lynne Hume’s deft weaving of well-researched historical facts with carefully crafted characters brings authenticity to this fictional tale. Readers will be swept along, wanting to know more, and pondering what they might do in the same situation.
Download or read book Stews and Strumpets written by Fernando Henriques and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stews and Strumpets Primitive classical and oriental written by Fernando Henriques and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tribulations of Tobias written by L.E. Thomas and published by JMS Books LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the depths of the sleepy countryside in the South West of England in the summer of 1775, a young curate, the Reverend Tobias Whitmore, finds himself unwittingly seduced by the comely ladies of Lesser Witteringly. Such a delicious experience seems to haunt him as he moves to Stratton-over-Wye to become vicar of St. Margaret’s. This canny career move, engineered by his redoubtable mother, only encourages her attempts to find him a wealthy and socially ambitious bride of her choice. However, Tobias, while coming to terms with his ministry as best he can, finds to his surprise and delight that a number of less than respectable ladies seem to take a shine to him. Will Tobias resist his mother’s iron will to marry him off to a terrifying highest bidder? Will the naughty ladies in his life continue to deliver sensory recompense? And will he, amongst all the clerical and family pressures and lubricious temptations, manage to find true love?
Download or read book Vampirates Immortal War written by Justin Somper and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-01-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bloody war is raging across the oceans, with the Pirate Federation and Nocturnals in alliance against the renegade Vampirates, led by Sidorio and Lola. Nothing will stop either one from making their presence dangerously known in battle. Connor and Grace Tempest each have important roles to play in the war - he as a pirate warrior at the heart of the fight; she as a powerful healer working with the war-wounded. As the twins face their greatest challenges to date, old allies and foes return to play their part in the ultimate battle of Pirate versus Vampirate. In this - the conclusion of this sequence of VAMPIRATES novels, the stakes are higher than ever. Relationships will change. An army of the dead will return to fight. There will be new threats and new alliances and characters will die before the ending which will see Grace and Connor poised to start momentous new journeys. In the words of Obsidian Darke, "So it ends, so it begins."
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Download or read book The Plays written by W. Wycherley and published by Oxford [Eng.] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979-09-13 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly edition of The Plays of William Wycherley by Arthur Friedman. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Download or read book Evidence given by the Rev T Chalmers and the Right Rev J Doyle before a select Committee of the House of Commons on the State of Ireland written by Thomas CHALMERS (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Renaissance Drama 39 written by Jeffrey Masten and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renaissance Drama, an annual and interdisciplinary publication, is devoted to drama and performance as a central feature of Renaissance culture. The essays in each volume explore traditional canons of drama, the significance of performance (broadly construed) to early modern culture, and the impact of new forms of interpretation on the study of Renaissance plays, theater, and performance.
Download or read book Strumpets and Ninnycocks written by Todd Gray and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Satires of Juvenal Translated and Illustrated by F Hodgson written by Decimus Junius JUVENALIS and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Satires of Juvenal written by Juvenal and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Salem Witchcraft With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects Complete written by Charles Wentworth Upham and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1959-01-01 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT is one of the distinguishing characteristics of the human being, that he loves to contemplate the scenes of the past, and desires to have his own history borne down to the future. This, like all the other propensities of our nature, is accompanied by faculties to secure its gratification. The gift of speech, by which the parent can convey information to the child—the old transmit intelligence to the young—is an indication that it is the design of the Author of our being that we should receive from those passing away the narrative of their experience, and communicate the results of our own to the generations that succeed us. All nations have, to a greater or less degree, been faithful to their trust in using the gift to fulfil the design of the Giver. It is impossible to name a people who do not possess cherished traditions that have descended from their early ancestors. Although it is generally considered that the invention of a system of arbitrary and external signs to communicate thought is one of the greatest and most arduous achievements of human ingenuity, yet so universal is the disposition to make future generations acquainted with our condition and history,—a disposition the efficient cause of which can only be found in a sense of the value of such knowledge,—that you can scarcely find a people on the face of the globe, who have not contrived, by some means or other, from the rude monument of shapeless rock to the most perfect alphabetical language, to communicate with posterity; thus declaring, as with the voice of Nature herself, that it is desirable and proper that all men should know as much as possible of the character, actions, and fortunes of their predecessors on the stage of life.
Download or read book The Absence of America written by Gavin Hollis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Absence of America: the London Stage 1576â1642 examines why early modern drama's response to English settlement in the New World was muted, even though the so-called golden age of Shakespeare coincided with the so-called golden age of exploration: no play is set in the Americas; few plays treat colonization as central to the plot; a handful features Native American characters (most of whom are Europeans in disguise). However, advocates of colonialism in the seventeenth century denounced playing companies as enemies on a par with the Pope and the Devil. Instead of writing off these accusers as paranoid cranks, this book takes as its starting point the possibility that they were astute playgoers. By so doing we can begin to see the emergence of a "picture of America," and of the Virginia colony in particular, across a number of plays performed for London audiences: Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, The Staple of News, and his collaboration with Marston and Chapman, Eastward Ho!; Robert Greene's Orlando Furioso; Massinger's The City Madam; Massinger and Fletcher's The Sea Voyage; Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl; Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Fletcher and Shakespeare's Henry VIII. We can glean the significance of this picture, not only for the troubled Virginia Company, but also for London theater audiences. And we can see that the picture that was beginning to form was, as the anti-theatricalists surmised, often slanderous, condemnatory, and, as it were, anti-American.
Download or read book Lectures on Witchcraft written by Charles Wentworth Upham and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by R. G. Latham and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
