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Book Writing Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emma Alderson
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-16
  • ISBN : 1684481988
  • Pages : 549 pages

Download or read book Writing Home written by Emma Alderson and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Home offers readers a firsthand account of the life of Emma Alderson, an otherwise unexceptional English immigrant on the Ohio frontier in mid-nineteenth-century America, who documented the five years preceding her death with astonishing detail and insight. Her convictions as a Quaker offer unique perspectives on racism, slavery, and abolition; the impending war with Mexico; presidential elections; various religious and utopian movements; and the practices of everyday life in a young country. Introductions and notes situate the letters in relation to their critical, biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Editor Donald Ulin discusses the relationship between Alderson’s letters and her sister Mary Howitt’s Our Cousins in Ohio (1849), a remarkable instance of transatlantic literary collaboration. Writing Home offers an unparalleled opportunity for studying immigrant correspondence due to Alderson’s unusually well-documented literary and religious affiliations. The notes and introductions provide background on nearly all the places, individuals, and events mentioned in the letters. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Book Quaker Women  1800   1920

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robynne Rogers Healey
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2023-08-31
  • ISBN : 0271096233
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book Quaker Women 1800 1920 written by Robynne Rogers Healey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection investigates the world of nineteenth-century Quaker women, bringing to light the issues and challenges Quaker women experienced and the dynamic ways in which they were active agents of social change, cultural contestation, and gender transgression in the nineteenth century. New research illuminates the complexities of Quaker testimonies of equality, slavery, and peace and how they were informed by questions of gender, race, ethnicity, and culture. The essays in this volume challenge the view that Quaker women were always treated equally with men and that people of color were welcomed into white Quaker activities. The contributors explore how diverse groups of Quaker women navigated the intersection of their theological positions and social conventions, asking how they challenged and supported traditional ideals of gender, race, and class. In doing so, this volume highlights the complexity of nineteenth-century Quakerism and the ways Quaker women put their faith to both expansive and limiting ends. Reaching beyond existing national studies focused solely on white American or British Quaker women, this interdisciplinary volume presents the most current research, providing a necessary and foundational resource for scholars, libraries, and universities. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Joan Allen, Richard C. Allen, Stephen W. Angell, Jennifer M. Buck, Nancy Jiwon Cho, Isabelle Cosgrave, Thomas D. Hamm, Julie L. Holcomb, Anna Vaughan Kett, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Linda Palfreeman, Hannah Rumball, and Janet Scott.

Book The Annual Monitor for 1883  Or  Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland  for the Year 1882

Download or read book The Annual Monitor for 1883 Or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1882 written by Joseph Joshua Green and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Book Perdurabo  Revised and Expanded Edition

Download or read book Perdurabo Revised and Expanded Edition written by Richard Kaczynski and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2012-04-10 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rigorously researched biography of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences—and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be the last to challenge such a view, he was also much more than “the Beast,” as this authoritative biography shows. Perdurabo—entitled after the magical name Crowley chose when inducted into the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn—traces Crowley’s remarkable journey from his birth as the only son of a wealthy lay preacher to his death in a boarding house as the world’s foremost authority on magick. Along the way, he rebels against his conservative religious upbringing; befriends famous artists, writers, and philosophers (and becomes a poet himself); is attacked for his practice of “the black arts”; and teaches that science and magick can work together. While seeking to spread his infamous philosophy of, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law,” Crowley becomes one of the most notorious figures of his day. Based on Richard Kaczynski’s twenty years of research, and including previously unpublished biographical details, Perdurabo paints a memorable portrait of the man who inspired the counterculture and influenced generations of artists, punks, wiccans, and other denizens of the demimonde.

Book The Annual Monitor for 1882  or  Obituary of the Members of the Society of the Members of the Society of Friends  In Great Britain and Ireland  for the Year 1881

Download or read book The Annual Monitor for 1882 or Obituary of the Members of the Society of the Members of the Society of Friends In Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1881 written by Joseph Joshua Green and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Book The Annual Monitor for 1877  or  Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1876

Download or read book The Annual Monitor for 1877 or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1876 written by Joseph Joshua Green and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-23 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Book The Annual Monitor for 1884  or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1883

Download or read book The Annual Monitor for 1884 or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland for the Year 1883 written by Joseph Joshua Green and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Book The Annual monitor and memorandum book  or  Obituary of the members of the Society of friends   1813 19  all of the 2nd ed  as vol  1 with a general title leaf and index 1813 32   22  33 37  39  43   1919 20

Download or read book The Annual monitor and memorandum book or Obituary of the members of the Society of friends 1813 19 all of the 2nd ed as vol 1 with a general title leaf and index 1813 32 22 33 37 39 43 1919 20 written by Society of friends and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends  Books

Download or read book A Descriptive Catalogue of Friends Books written by Joseph Smith and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 1052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Quaker Renaissance and Liberal Quakerism in Britain  1895 1930

Download or read book The Quaker Renaissance and Liberal Quakerism in Britain 1895 1930 written by Joanna Dales and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-07-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Quakers who reached maturity towards the end of the nineteenth century found that their parents’ religion had lost its connection with reality. New discoveries in science and biblical research called for new approaches to Christian faith. Evangelical beliefs dominant among nineteenth-century Quakers were now found wanting, especially those emphasising the supreme authority of the Bible and doctrines of atonement, whereby the wrath of God is appeased through the blood of Christ. Liberal Quakers sought a renewed sense of reality in their faith through recovering the vision of the first Quakers with their sense of the Light of God within each person. They also borrowed from mainstream liberal theology new attitudes to God, nature and service to society. The ensuing Quaker Renaissance found its voice at the Manchester Conference of 1895, and the educational initiatives which followed gave to British Quakerism an active faith fit for the testing reality of the twentieth century.

Book Publishers  circular and booksellers  record

Download or read book Publishers circular and booksellers record written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Charlotte Mason

Download or read book Charlotte Mason written by Margaret Coombs and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the acknowledged founder and philosopher of the Parents' National Educational Union (PNEU), Charlotte Mason was revered by her followers as a saintly Madonna figure. She died in 1923 at the peak of her fame, having achieved mythic status as the Principal of her House of Education and wide recognition after the introduction of her liberal educational programmes into state schools. Yet her early life and heritage remained shrouded in mystery. Drawing upon insubstantiated sources, the official biography released in 1960 confused rather than illuminated Charlotte's background, contributing to several enduring misapprehensions. In her new and definitive biography, Margaret Coombs draws on years of research to reveal for the first time thehidden backdrop to Charlotte Mason's life, tracing the lives of her previously undiscovered Quaker ancestors to offer a better understanding of the roots of her personality and ideas. Coombs charts her rise from humble beginnings as an orphaned pupil-teacher to great heights as a lady of culture venerated within prestigious PNEU circles, illustrating how with determination she surmounted the Victorian age's rigid class divisions to achieve her educational vision. A thorough analysis of Charlotte Mason's educational influences and key friendships challenges longstanding notions about the roots of her philosophy, offering a more realistic picture of her life and work than ever accomplished before. With a growing following in the USA and Australia, Charlotte Mason's ideas have a clear relevance to the continuing educational debate today. Admirers of her philosophy and scholars of the history of education will fi nd much to enthral and instruct them in these pages.

Book Union List of Victorian Serials

Download or read book Union List of Victorian Serials written by Richard D. Fulton and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1985 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the Irish Famine

Download or read book The History of the Irish Famine written by Christine Kinealy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 1480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland – socially, politically, demographically and culturally. In the space of only four years, Ireland lost twenty-five per cent of its population as a consequence of starvation, disease and large-scale emigration. Certain aspects of the Famine remain contested and controversial, for example the issue of the British government’s culpability, proselytism, and the reception of emigrants. However, recent historiographical focus on this famine has overshadowed the impact of other periods of subsistence crisis, both before 1845 and after 1852. The narratives of those who perished, those who survived and those who emigrated form an integral part of this history and these volumes will make available, for the first time, some of the original documentation relating to an event that changed not only Irish history, but the history of the countries to which the emigrants fled – Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia. By bringing together letters, government reports, diaries, official documents, pamphlets, newspaper articles, sermons, eye-witness testimonies, poems and novels, these volumes will provide a fresh way of understanding Irish history in general, and famine and migration in particular. Comprehensive editorial apparatus and annotation of the original texts are included along with bibliographies, appendices, chronologies and indexes that point the way for further study.