Download or read book Victoria Bess and Others written by Gillian Avery and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These three stories, by famous Victorian authors, are about dolls. Victoria-Bess is the autobiography of a doll belonging to a wealthy London child, a perfectly horrid little girl, and gives a fascinating glimpse of nursery life in 1879, its amusements, treats and toys. Aunt Sally's Life, originally published in 1865, relates the history of a wooden doll cherished by generations of children ... Racketty-Packetty House (1907) is the story of a doll's house, and the people that live in it."--Jacket.

Download or read book Victoria Bess by Brenda written by mrs. G Castle Smith and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Between Women written by Sharon Marcus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law. Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality--not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.

Download or read book Herd Register written by American Jersey Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Parson Through written by Rev.R.G.PENNY, TH.Dip and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Lives are interwoven and families are formed from so many diverse situations and happenings that most of us merely take for granted. But when you stop to think and take time to wonder who you are and why you are, you are afforded the unique opportunity to take stock and wonder at God’s purpose for us all.” This statement from author Richard Penny holds true in Parson Through. In this book, Penny details the story of his family, which goes way back in history, and rediscovers the wisdom, prosperity, and even the mystery of them all.

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Download or read book Made to Play House written by Miriam Formanek-Brunell and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998-11-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Made to Play House, Miriam Formanek-Brunell traces the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century dolls and explores the origins of the American toy industry's remarkably successful efforts to promote self fulfillment through maternity and materialism. She tells the fascinating story of how inventors, producers, entrepreneurs—many of whom were women—and little girls themselves created dolls which expressed various notions of female identity.

Download or read book Dickens Sexuality and Gender written by Lillian Nayder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays examines Dickens's complex representations of sexuality and gender as well as his use of gender ideologies and sexual and gender differences over the course of his literary career, from his first sketches and early novels to his late works of fiction. The essays approach gender issues in Dickens's writing by focusing on a number of topics: his treatment of gender ideals and transgressions; the intersections and displacements among gender, class and race; the ties between gender and the body, and among gender, voice and language; his depiction of the homosocial and the homoerotic; and the relation between gender and the law. The essays provide an introduction to the most recent approaches to Dickens's fiction in addition to those now considered classic, draw on queer theory and also feature a variety of methodologies, ranging across feminist, historicist and psychoanalytic methods of interpretation. The collection represents the best of previously published research by Dickens's scholars and illuminates for students and scholars alike the meaning of gender in such novels as The Pickwick Papers, Dombey and Son, and Our Mutual Friend.

Download or read book The Fantasy of Family written by Elizabeth Thiel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The myth of the Victorian family remains a pervasive influence within a contemporary Britain that perceives itself to be in social crisis. Nostalgic for a golden age of "Victorian values" in which visions of supportive, united families predominate, the common consciousness, exhorted by social and political discourse, continues to vaunt the "traditional, natural" family as the template by which all other family forms are gauged. Yet this fantasy of family, nurtured and augmented throughout the Victorian era, was essentially a construct that belied the realities of a nineteenth-century world in which orphanhood, fostering, and stepfamilies were endemic. Focusing primarily on British children's texts written by women and drawing extensively on socio-historic material, The Fantasy of Family considers the paradoxes implicit to the perpetuation of the domestic ideal within the Victorian era and offers new perspectives on both nineteenth-century and contemporary society.

Download or read book Descriptive Catalogue of Books Contained in the Lending Library written by Bishopsgate Institute, London and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dog Fancier written by Eugene Glass and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book When Toys Come Alive written by Lois R. Kuznets and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work the author studies the role of toy characters in works ranging from older classics such as Pinocchio and Winnie the Pooh to modern texts such as The Mouse and his Child and the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes science fiction with robots and cyborgs.

Download or read book Mother Meg or The Story of Dickie s Attic written by Catharine Shaw and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mother-Meg; or, The Story of Dickie's Attic" penned by Catharine Shaw is a heartwarming tale of family bonds and resilience. Shaw's storytelling prowess shines as she weaves a touching narrative about the joys and challenges of childhood. With endearing characters and poignant moments, the book captivates readers of all ages, offering a delightful and emotionally engaging reading experience.