Download or read book Widow s Weeds and Weeping Veils written by Bernadette Loeffel-Atkins and published by Gettysburg Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 19th century, death shadowed daily life. A high infant mortality rate, poor sanitation, risk during childbirth, poisons, ignorance, and war kept 19th-century Americans busy practicing the ritual of mourning. The Victorian era in both Europe and America saw these rituals elevated to an art form expressing not only grief, but also religious feeling, social obligation, and even mourning fashion. Complete with period illustrations, Widow's Weeds and Weeping Veils explores how Victorians viewed death and dying as a result of the profound historical events of their time. This concise, informative work is ideal for students of Victorian-era culture and Civil War enthusiasts.
Download or read book Loveda Brown Widow s Weeds The Idyllwild Mystery Series Book Six written by Jolie Tunnell and published by Jolie Tunnell. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three women conceal secrets beneath their widow’s weeds, but Loveda’s might be the biggest of them all. Loveda Brown discovers a dead man on the banks of Logan Creek, near the tiny mountainside town of Idyllwild, California, as yet the Wild West of 1912. Then it disappears without a trace. Unexpected guests sweep in with devastating secrets in their wake, forcing Loveda to confront a secret of two of her own. Will she find the killer before becoming a pawn in a sinister game of death and resurrection?
Download or read book Widow s Weeds written by Sara Keefe and published by Sara Keefe. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edo, the capital of Japan, 1907. Helen Motosu is in deep mourning after the death of her husband, private investigator Shigeru Motosu. Restricted to caring for her young children and keeping her brother-in-law from his self-destructive habits, Helen feels stagnated and unchallenged. Until the charismatic Mitsuo Okabe, one of Edo's mayors, requests the Motosus' help in solving the murder of his brother, an energy scientist working on a solar-powered bullet train. The main suspect is a Russian prostitute who was with Dr. Okabe the night he died. Mayor Okabe knows that his brother had enemies in the city, rivals in the development of new energy technologies. The Russian girl refuses to cooperate with the Japanese police, but Mayor Okabe hopes that a foreign woman can convince her to reveal what she witnessed that night. Helen has never actively investigated anything on her own. To solve this crime, she must navigate Japan's scientific circles while maintaining her own precarious social position. Without her, an innocent young woman could lose her life, and a violent murderer will be free to kill again. WIDOW'S WEEDS is the first in an alternate history mystery series set in Japan. Set in a "steampunk-lite" timeline, the world of the Motosu Mysteries is slightly different from our own. Steam-power and clockwork are giving way to new technologies such as solar-power and electro-power. Imagine the world of Sherlock Holmes combined with a Ghibli movie, and you're quite close to the setting and tone of the Motosu Mysteries series.
Download or read book Widow s Weeds written by Eric Griffin and published by White Wolf Publishing. This book was released on 2001-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Camarilla, after losing ground along the East Coast in its recent war with the Sabbat, has claimed control of New York City at last. Now the story of their covert activities and greatest victories is finally told.
Download or read book Tremere written by Eric Griffin and published by White Wolf Games Studio. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Million Words of Terror It began with Clan Novel: Toreador .... This book, Clan Novel: Tremere, is the twelvth in a 13-novel series concerning the Kindred -- the hugest event ever in the World of Darkness. From small details to grand spectacles, this epic series of one million words reveals the secrets of this hidden world through the eyes of individuals on both sides of a great conflict. The continued existence of all Kindred, from the youngest to the eldest Methuselah, hangs in the The Last of His Kind Further examination of the sketch that sent the Toreador Victoria Ash to Atlanta now reveals deeper secrets to Aisling Sturbridge, the leader of the Tremere chantry in New York City. A traitor in the ranks of the hierarchical Tremere, who was thought is discovered -- and he might be the very cause of the Camarilla/Sabbat war!
Download or read book Whodunnit written by Anthony Shaffer and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Broadway success by the author of Sleuth takes audiences to Agatha Christie's England. Six strangers and a butler have gathered for a black tie dinner in a wealthy lawyer's mansion during a thunderstorm. The guests include an aged rear admiral, a bitchy aristocrat, a doddering old archeologist, a dashing young cad and other Christie types. One of the guests is an oily Levantine who tells the others (each in private) that he has the goods to blackmail them. He is ripe for murder and so it happens. Whodunnit? -- Publisher's description.
Download or read book A Lady Awakened written by Cecilia Grant and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cecilia Grant’s emotionally rich and deeply passionate Regency romance debut, a deal with a rumored rogue turns a proper young woman into . . . A Lady Awakened. Newly widowed and desperate to protect her estate and beloved servants from her malevolent brother-in-law, Martha Russell conceives a daring plan. Or rather, a daring plan to conceive. After all, if she has an heir on the way, her future will be secured. Forsaking all she knows of propriety, Martha approaches her neighbor, a London exile with a wicked reputation, and offers a strictly business proposition: a month of illicit interludes . . . for a fee. Theophilus Mirkwood ought to be insulted. Should be appalled. But how can he resist this siren in widow’s weeds, whose offer is simply too outrageously tempting to decline? Determined she’ll get her money’s worth, Theo endeavors to awaken this shamefully neglected beauty to the pleasures of the flesh—only to find her dead set against taking any enjoyment in the scandalous bargain. Surely she can’t resist him forever. But could a lady’s sweet surrender open their hearts to the most unexpected arrival of all . . . love?
Download or read book The Vicar s Widow written by Julia London and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Julia London presents a “love story that warms the heart” (Fresh Fiction). When the vicar’s beautiful widow attracts the attention of Lord Montgomery, one of the ton’s most eligible bachelors, a jealous young debutante spreads rumors to bring the flirtation to a crashing end. But Montgomery isn’t going to let a little bit of scandal keep him from winning the lovely widow’s well-guarded heart. Don’t miss Julia London’s Lucky Charm. The Vicar’s Widow previously appeared in Talk of the Ton.
Download or read book The Hoarder s Widow written by Allie Cresswell and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suddenly-widowed Maisie sets out to clear her late husband's collection; wonky furniture and balding rugs, bolts of material for upholstery projects he never got round to, gloomy pictures and outmoded electronics, other people's trash brought home from car boot sales and rescued from the tip. The hoard is endless, stacked into every room in the house, teetering in piles along the landing and forming a scree up the stairs. It is all part of Clifford's waste-not way of thinking in which everything, no matter how broken or obscure, can be re-cycled or re-purposed into something useful or, if kept long enough, will one day be valuable. He had believed in his vision as ardently as any mystic in his holy revelation but now, without the clear projection of his vision to light it up for her as what it would be, it appears to Maisie more grimly than ever as what it is: junk. As Maisie disassembles his stash she is forced to confront the issues which drove her husband to squirrel away other people's rubbish; after all, she knows virtually nothing about his life before they met. Finally, in the last bastion of his accumulation, she discovers the key to his hoarding and understands - much too late - the man she married. Then, with empty rooms in a house which is too big for her, she must ask herself: what next?
Download or read book Widow s Weeds written by Lisa Courtney and published by Trafford on Demand Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's candid approach to the material and her unique sense of humor present a new way of looking at the process of death and the loss of a partner.
Download or read book Restless in Carolina written by Tamara Leigh and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridget Pickwick-Buchanan is on a mission. First she has to come to terms with being a widow at 33. Second, she needs to find an eco-friendly buyer for her family's estate--a Biltmore-inspired mansion surrounded by hundreds of acres of unspoiled forestland.
Download or read book Love and Loss written by Robin Jaffee Frank and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most often, portrait miniatures were painted in watercolor on thin disks of ivory. They were sometimes worn as jewelry, sometimes framed to be viewed privately. Many were painted by specialists, although renowned easel artists - including Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, and Charles Willson Peale - also created them to commemorate births, engagements, marriages, deaths, and other joinings or separations. The book traces the development of this exquisite art form, revealing the close ties between the history of the miniature and the history of American private life."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book The Widow Clicquot written by Tilar J. Mazzeo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a major motion picture starring Haley Bennett, Tom Sturridge, and Sam Riley! "Narrative history that fizzes with life and feeling.” — Benjamin Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire's Vinegar The New York Times bestselling biography of the visionary young woman who built a champagne empire, became a legend, and showed the world how to live with style Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour, style, and luxury. In The Widow Clicquot, Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life—for the first time—the fascinating woman behind the iconic yellow label: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, who, after her husband's death, defied convention by assuming the reins of the fledgling wine business they had nurtured together. Steering the company through dizzying political and financial reversals, she became one of the world's first great businesswomen and one of the richest women of her time. As much a fascinating journey through the process of making this temperamental wine as a biography of a uniquely tempered woman, The Widow Clicquot is the captivating true story of a legend and a visionary.
Download or read book Fashionable Mourning Jewelry Clothing Customs written by Mary Brett and published by Schiffer Book for Collectors w. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating text explains the many popular nineteenth century traditions associated with death and mourning. Over 300 color photographs display jewelry, photography, clothing, customs, and symbolism. Over 70 pages of a Victorian hair jewelry catalog are included.
Download or read book Aarbert written by William Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Widows Grave and Otherwise written by Cora D. Willmarth and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mourner s Dance written by Katherine Ashenburg and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no doubt that the death of a loved one has a profound - and unpredictable - effect on the lives of those left behind. Mourning is the price we pay for love. But how does anyone survive those first weeks, months, and even years after a death, and then eventually return to normal life? When her daughter's fiancé died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg found herself drawn into the world of mourning customs. Finding little comfort in the stripped-down North American approach, she sought solace, and shaped the core of this much-praised book, by exploring the rich traditions that have sustained mourners in cultures around the world and across centuries. Intertwining anecdotes from past and present with her own story, Ashenburg uncovers the wisdom and creativity embedded in mourning rituals and their value in rebuilding those unravelled by loss. Somehow, as Ashenburg so deftly reveals, we find strength and go on living. With a new afterword by the author.
