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Book The History of Bryn Mawr  1683 1900

Download or read book The History of Bryn Mawr 1683 1900 written by Barbara Alyce Farrow and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Bryn Mawr  1683 1900  Foreword by Catherine Drinker Bowen

Download or read book The History of Bryn Mawr 1683 1900 Foreword by Catherine Drinker Bowen written by Barbara Alyce Farrow and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Houses of Philadelphia

Download or read book Historic Houses of Philadelphia written by Roger W. Moss and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998-05-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historic Houses of Philadelphia" brings the region's most impressive museum homes to life with maps, touring information, and historical notes on 50 distinctive homes. 160 photos, 150 in color.

Book The Collins Family  Ancestors of the distaff side of the first five generations of the Collins family in America

Download or read book The Collins Family Ancestors of the distaff side of the first five generations of the Collins family in America written by Margaret Hill Collins and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Addison Hutton  Quaker Architect  1834 1916

Download or read book Addison Hutton Quaker Architect 1834 1916 written by Elizabeth Biddle Yarnall and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1974 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Romney

    Book Details:
  • Author : James A. Butler
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2001-09-01
  • ISBN : 0271030909
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Romney written by James A. Butler and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen Wister is known to most Americans as the creator of the heroic cowboy in The Virginian (1902). Despite his success as a Western novelist, Wister's failure to write about his native city of Philadelphia has been lamented by many for the loss of a literary "might-have-been." If only, sighed Wister's contemporary Elizabeth Robins Pennell in 1914, the novelist could understand that Philadelphia was as good a subject as the Wild West. Hence the surprise when James Butler uncovered a substantial fragment of a Philadelphia novel, which Wister intended to call Romney. Here, published for the first time, is the complete fragment of Romney together with two of his other unpublished Philadelphia works. Even in its incomplete state—nearly fifty thousand words—Romney is Wister's longest piece of fiction after The Virginian and Lady Baltimore. Writing at the express command of his friend Theodore Roosevelt, Wister set Romney in Philadelphia (called Monopolis in the novel) during the 1880s, when, as he saw it, the city was passing from the old to a new order. The hero of the story, Romney, is a man of "no social position" who nonetheless rises to the top because he has superior ability. It is thus a novel about the possibilities for meaningful social change in a democracy. Although, alas, the story breaks off before the birth of Romney, Wister gives us much to savor in the existing thirteen chapters. We are treated to delightful scenes at the Bryn Mawr train station, the Bellevue Hotel, and Independence Square, which yield brilliant insights into life on the Main Line, the power of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the insidious effects of political corruption. Wister's acute analysis in Romney of what differentiates Philadelphia and Boston upper classes is remarkably similar to, but anticipates by more than half a century, the classic study by E. Digby Baltzell in Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia (1979). Like Baltzell, Wister analyzes the urban aristocracy of Boston and Philadelphia, finding in Boston a Puritan drive for achievement and civic service but in Philadelphia a Quaker preference for toleration and moderation, all too often leading to acquiescence and stagnation. Romney is undoubtedly the best fictional portrayal of "Gilded Age" Philadelphia, brilliantly capturing Wister's vision of old-money, aristocratic society gasping its last before the onrushing vulgarity of the nouveaux riches. It is a novel of manners that does for Philadelphia what Edith Wharton and John Marquand have done for New York and Boston.

Book A Book of Bryn Mawr Stories  1901

Download or read book A Book of Bryn Mawr Stories 1901 written by Margaretta Morris and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Book Quaker History

Download or read book Quaker History written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1963 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)

Book Tiller

Download or read book Tiller written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Index to Genealogical Periodicals   Family Histories

Download or read book Annual Index to Genealogical Periodicals Family Histories written by Inez Raney Waldenmaier and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Catalogs

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Library of Congress Catalog

Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Book An Education in Psychology

Download or read book An Education in Psychology written by James McKeen Cattell and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1981 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porträts / Mediziner

Book Books and Pamphlets  Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals

Download or read book Books and Pamphlets Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Patterns of Workers  Education

Download or read book Patterns of Workers Education written by Florence Hemley Schneider and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: