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Book The Scholar and the Serving Maid

Download or read book The Scholar and the Serving Maid written by 方艾 and published by China Books & Periodicals. This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scholar and the Serving Maid

Download or read book The Scholar and the Serving Maid written by 方艾 and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scholar and the Serving Maid

Download or read book The Scholar and the Serving Maid written by 方艾 and published by Cheng & Tsui Company. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Maid Narratives

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  • Author : Katherine Van Wormer
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2012-09-17
  • ISBN : 0807149705
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The Maid Narratives written by Katherine Van Wormer and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Maid Narratives shares the memories of black domestic workers and the white families they served, uncovering the often intimate relationships between maid and mistress. Based on interviews with over fifty people -- both white and black -- these stories deliver a personal and powerful message about resilience and resistance in the face of oppression in the Jim Crow South. The housekeepers, caretakers, sharecroppers, and cooks who share their experiences in The Maid Narratives ultimately moved away during the Great Migration. Their perspectives as servants who left for better opportunities outside of the South offer an original telling of physical and psychological survival in a racially oppressive caste system: Vinella Byrd, for instance, from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, recalls how a farmer she worked for would not allow her to clean her hands in the family's wash pan. These narratives are complemented by the voices of white women, such as Flora Templeton Stuart, from New Orleans, who remembers her maid fondly but realizes that she knew little about her life. Like Stuart, many of the white narrators remain troubled by the racial norms of the time. Viewed as a whole, the book presents varied, rich, and detailed accounts, often tragic, and sometimes humorous. The Maid Narratives reveals, across racial lines, shared hardships, strong emotional ties, and inspiring strength.

Book The Learned Maid

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  • Author : Anna Maria à Schurmann
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1659
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Learned Maid written by Anna Maria à Schurmann and published by . This book was released on 1659 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scholar

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  • Author : Preston Lancs, grammar sch
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1850
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book The Scholar written by Preston Lancs, grammar sch and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Susan Hopley  Or  the Adventures of a Maid Servant   Scholar s Choice Edition

Download or read book Susan Hopley Or the Adventures of a Maid Servant Scholar s Choice Edition written by Catherine Crowe and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Sign of the Gallows

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  • Author : Susanna Calkins
  • Publisher : Severn House Publishers Ltd
  • Release : 2021-01-01
  • ISBN : 1448304695
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book The Sign of the Gallows written by Susanna Calkins and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dead man at a crossroads. A secret message. A ring with a warning about death . . . Printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion is caught up in a strange and puzzling murder case in this twisty historical mystery set in seventeenth-century London. London, 1667. On her way to a new market to peddle her True Accounts and Strange News, printer’s apprentice Lucy Campion quickly regrets her decision to take the northwestern road. Dark and desolate, the path leads her to the crossroads – and to the old hanging tree. She doesn’t believe in ghosts, but she’s not sure ghosts don’t believe in her. But before she even reaches the crossroads, she’s knocked off her feet by two men in a hurry. What were they running from? To her dismay, she soon discovers for herself: there, dangling from the tree, is the body of a man. Did he commit self-murder, or is there something darker afoot? The more Lucy learns, the more determined she is to uncover the truth. But this time, even the help and protection of magistrate’s son Adam, and steadfast Constable Duncan, may not be enough to keep her safe from harm . . .

Book The First and Second Parts of the Fair Maid of the West

Download or read book The First and Second Parts of the Fair Maid of the West written by Thomas Heywood and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Maids

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  • Author : Katie Skelly
  • Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
  • Release : 2020-10-13
  • ISBN : 1683963687
  • Pages : 100 pages

Download or read book Maids written by Katie Skelly and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scandalous true crime story about the Papin Sisters, as told by one of comics' most stylized talents. Christine Papin, an overworked live-in maid, is reunited with her younger sister, Lea, who has also been hired by the wealthy Lancelin family. They make the estate's beds, scrub the floors, and spy on the domestic strife that routinely occurs within its walls. What starts as petty theft by the maids ― who are flashing back to their tumultuous time in a convent ― shortly turns into something more nefarious. Madame Lancelin’s increasingly unhinged abuse ignites the sisters' toxic upbringing and social class exploitation and explodes into a ghastly double murder, an event that shocked and fascinated 1930s France and beyond. Maids has high bravura and high intrigue, all drawn in Skelly’s highly stylized manner, which combines the best of pop art, manga, and Eurocomics.

Book The Learned Maid   Or  Whether a Maid May be a Scholar

Download or read book The Learned Maid Or Whether a Maid May be a Scholar written by Anna Maria van Schurman and published by . This book was released on 1659 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bondmaid

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  • Author : Catherine Lim
  • Publisher : Orion
  • Release : 2011-09-22
  • ISBN : 1409138321
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book The Bondmaid written by Catherine Lim and published by Orion. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl - Han - is sold, aged four, as a bondmaid or slave into the House of Wu, where she grows up and falls in love with the young heir. But the idyll of childhood attachment turns into a nightmare as Han, beautiful, proud and uncompromisingly loyal, struggles against the forces of tradition and tyranny in a large household where patriarchs and matriarchs wield inexorable power, lustful male relatives watch young bondmaids to claim their rightful share of pleasure, visiting monks devise ingenious schemes to combine holy public duty with unbridled private indulgence, and gods and goddesses smile to see the human drama unfold.

Book The Modern Language Review

Download or read book The Modern Language Review written by John George Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each number includes the section "Reviews."

Book The Scholar and the State

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  • Author : Liangyan Ge
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 0295805617
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Scholar and the State written by Liangyan Ge and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred social power and moral legitimacy, but changing social and political circumstances in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods forced many to seek alternative careers. Politically engaged but excluded from their traditional bureaucratic roles, creative writers authored critiques of state power in the form of fiction written in the vernacular language. In this study, Liangyan Ge examines the novels Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Scholars, Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as Story of the Stone), and a number of erotic pieces, showing that as the literati class grappled with its own increasing marginalization, its fiction reassessed the assumption that intellectuals’ proper role was to serve state interests and began to imagine possibilities for a new political order.

Book Mistress and Maid   Scholar s Choice Edition

Download or read book Mistress and Maid Scholar s Choice Edition written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Mistress and Maid  Jiohong ji  by Meng Chengshun

Download or read book Mistress and Maid Jiohong ji by Meng Chengshun written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-16 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Birch presents the bittersweet tale of Bella, daughter of the Wang family, her maid Petal, and the young scholar Shen Chun. After her father reneges on her marital pact, Bella refuses to renounce her love for Shen, with whom she has vowed to share "in life one room, in death one tomb." The subversion of both conventional morality and the arranged marriage through vivid drama and witty comic scenes makes this seventeenth-century play particularly innovative. Chinese critics have hailed it as essentially revolutionary for its depiction of youthful resistance to latter-day Confucian values, but as Birch notes in the introduction, "the glory of Mistress & Maid is the tender delicacy of the lovers' interactions." This depth of feeling also distinguishes the play from others of the "talent-meets-beauty" genre so prevalent during the late-imperial age.