Download or read book The Seven Lives of Lady Barker written by Betty Gilderdale and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Barker was born in Jamaica in 1831. By the time she died in London in 1911, she had survived two husbands and two wars, lived in seven countries, and written eighteen books. She bore six children, wrote for the Times, and became principal of the first National School of Cookery in London.
Download or read book Station life in New Zealand by lady Barker written by lady Mary Anne Broome and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writers in Residence written by Jenny Robin Jones and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writers in residence shows writing as a way in which a new place is explored and understood. Travellers recorded their adventures, and soldiers, judges, civil servants published writings, including poetry. The writers include Joel Polack, William Colenso, Edward Jerningham Wakefield, Frederick Maning, John Logan Campbell, Samuel Butler, Lady Barker, Blanche Baughan and Jessie Mackay.
Download or read book The Lives and Legacies of a Carceral Island written by Ann Curthoys and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biographical history of Rottnest Island, a small carceral island offshore from Western Australia. Rottnest is also known as Wadjemup, or "the place across the water where the spirits are", by Noongar, the Indigenous people of south-western Australia. Through a series of biographical case studies of the diverse individuals connected to the island, the book argues that their particular histories lend Rottnest Island a unique heritage in which Indigenous, maritime, imperial, colonial, penal, and military histories intersect with histories of leisure and recreation. Tracing the way in which Wadjemup/Rottnest Island has been continually re-imagined and re-purposed throughout its history, the text explores the island’s carceral history, which has left behind it a painful community memory. Today it is best known as a beach holiday destination, a reputation bolstered by the "quokka selfie" trend, the online posting of photographs taken with the island’s cute native marsupial. This book will appeal to academic readers with an interest in Australian history, Aboriginal history, and the history of the British Empire, especially those interested in the burgeoning scholarship on the concept of "carceral archipelagos" and island prisons.
Download or read book Station Life in New Zealand written by Lady Barker (Mary Anne) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Victorian Settler Narratives written by Tamara S Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection from a distinguished group of contributors explores a range of topics including literature as imperialist propaganda, the representation of the colonies in British literature, the emergence of literary culture in the colonies and the creation of new gender roles such as ‘girl Crusoes’ in works of fiction.
Download or read book The seven lamps of architecture written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magical Margaret Mahy written by Betty Gilderdale and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout her childhood she was making up stories. Before she could write she drew them. By the time she was seven she knew she wanted to write books. Margaret Mahy was a wizard of words and a spinner of magical stories. She was New Zealand's best known author for children, wrote more than 200 books and often appeared in a purple wig or a penguin suit while she delighted audiences with vivacious readings of her stories. But who was Margaret Mahy? What was she like as a child? How did she become a writer? Where did her weird and wonderful ideas come from? Turn these pages and step into a world of the magical Margaret Mahy.
Download or read book Lady Barker 1831 1911 written by W. M. Watson and published by . This book was released on 194? with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life Class written by Pat Barker and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1914, a group of students at the Slade School of Art have gathered for a life-drawing class. Paul Tarrant is easily distracted by an intriguing fellow student, Elinor Brooke, but watches from afar when a well-known painter catches her eye. After World War I begins, Paul tends to the dying soldiers from the front line as a Belgian Red Cross volunteer, but the longer he remains, the greater the distance between him and home becomes. By the time he returns, Paul must confront not only the overwhelming, perhaps impossible challenge of how to express all that he has seen and experienced, but also the fact that life, and love, will never be the same for him again.
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of New Zealand written by Janine Hayward and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse elements have created New Zealand’s distinctive political and social culture. First is New Zealand’s journey as a colony, and the various impacts this had on settler and Maori society. The second theme is the quest for what one prominent historian has labelled ‘national obsessions’ – equality and security, both individual and collective. The third, and more recent, theme is New Zealand’s emergence as a nation with a unique identity. New Zealand’s small geographic size and relative isolation from other societies, the dominant influence of British culture, the resurgence of Maori language and culture, the endemic instability of an economy based on a narrow range of pastoral products, and the dominance of the state in the lives of its people, all help to explain much of the present-day New Zealand psyche. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of New Zealand contains a chronology, an introduction, appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about New Zealand.
Download or read book Quiet strength a memorial sketch of the life and works of T P Boultbee written by Gordon Calthrop and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Wings of the Morning written by Deirdre Helmore and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Wings of the Morning is both a family history and an autobiography of the award-winning artist Deirdre Helmore (nee Philips). Deirdre takes pride in her early Cantabrian heritage and the fact that two sets of her great-grandparents arrived on the First Four Ships that established the fledgling settlement of Canterbury in 1850. She recounts her childhood holidays on the Philips family's back-country station at The Point; and of being a free-spirited little girl roaming the property on horseback. Deirdre also shares her recollections of formative experiences with her firm but loving grandmother, and with her own mother whose encouragement set her on the path to her beloved dancing, drama and art. Travel to Europe and a brief stage-dancing career among the London sophisticates of the 1930s opened Deirdre's eyes to the world. Later, back in New Zealand she had a whirlwind romance and marriage followed by the intervention of war. Deirdre's life as wife, mother, and artist evolves against the backdrop of farming life in rural Hawke's Bay, during which she raises four children.Then we read of time in Taupo, the loss of her much-loved husband John, followed by a move to Havelock North where Deirdre still continues to live a full and active life. Central themes in her story are respect for the values of her forbears, pride in her heritage, a love of creativity, of people, and of life, even in times of sadness. Deirdre has known joy, sadness, courage, and happiness. Her enjoyment of life, creativity and people are vividly demonstrated throughout.
Download or read book The Trouble With Fire written by Fiona Kidman and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautiful collection of stories by a pre-eminent writer, shortlisted for major awards. Fiona Kidman has a genius for peeling back the lives of ordinary people to reveal their hidden passions and complexities. In this brilliant new collection, she explores - with her customary subtlety and insight - how we are all touched and sometimes scarred by the flames of emotion - whether it be the impossible love of a pregnant woman for a married man, grief for a dead baby or loss of a young woman in mysterious circumstances. Ranging in time from the colonial period to the present day, these stories by one of New Zealand's foremost writers are beautifully crafted, intriguing and evocative. '[Her] stories remind me of those of Alice Munro. Though they are very much of a time and place they have a universal dimension.' - Booksellers News Shortlisted for the NZ Post Awards and the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award.
Download or read book The Silence of the Girls written by Pat Barker and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Economist, Financial Times Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Finalist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction Here is the story of the Iliad as we’ve never heard it before: in the words of Briseis, Trojan queen and captive of Achilles. Given only a few words in Homer’s epic and largely erased by history, she is nonetheless a pivotal figure in the Trojan War. In these pages she comes fully to life: wry, watchful, forging connections among her fellow female prisoners even as she is caught between Greece’s two most powerful warriors. Her story pulls back the veil on the thousands of women who lived behind the scenes of the Greek army camp—concubines, nurses, prostitutes, the women who lay out the dead—as gods and mortals spar, and as a legendary war hurtles toward its inevitable conclusion. Brilliantly written, filled with moments of terror and beauty, The Silence of the Girls gives voice to an extraordinary woman—and makes an ancient story new again.
Download or read book A Position to Command Respect written by Gillian Thomas and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1910-1911 Encyclopedia Britannica was advertised as the high water mark of human knowledge. That 34 of the 1,500 contributors were women was widely perceived as signaling a significant breakthrough into the world of learning. The book examines public and private aspects of the women contributors' lives and includes short biographies. ...delightful...a marvelous encapsulation of a turning point in society and scholarship. Well-written and engaging from start to finish, this work would be a fine addition to already strong women's studies collections. --CHOICE
Download or read book Life in South Africa written by Mary Anne Barker and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
