Download or read book Mary Jeffrey s Letters from America written by Lorraine Nevin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Woman's True Story. Mary Jeffrey's Letters from America 1890-1893 tells the tale of a young Englishwoman who embarks upon a journey as the governess to a member of the Hawaiian royal family. Her harrowing accounts of illness and disease, epic train rides and bank robberies punctuate an accurate record the day-to-day life of a young, homesick mother, separated from her beloved family and two young chldren. These letters have been faithfully transcribed from faded, folded correspondence unearthed in South Africa in 2010 by an award winning short-story writer.
Download or read book Letters to Mary written by Catherine Hayes Brown and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book News Letter written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Redeeming the Southern Family written by Scott Stephan and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years leading up to the Civil War, southern evangelical denominations moved from the fringes to the mainstream of the American South. Scott Stephan argues that female Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians played a crucial role in this transformation. While other scholars have pursued studies of southern evangelicalism in the context of churches, meetinghouses, and revivals, Stephan looks at the domestic rituals over which southern women had increasing authority-from consecrating newborns to God's care to ushering dying kin through life's final stages. Laymen and clergymen alike celebrated the contributions of these pious women to the experience and expansion of evangelicalism across the South. This acknowledged domestic authority allowed some women to take on more public roles in the conversion and education of southern youth within churches and academies, although always in the name of family and always cloaked in the language of Christian self-abnegation. At the same time, however, women's work in the name of domestic devotion often put them at odds with slaves, children, or husbands in their households who failed to meet their religious expectations and thereby jeopardized evangelical hopes of heavenly reunification of the family. Stephan uses the journals and correspondence of evangelical women from across the South to understand the interconnectedness of women's personal, family, and public piety. Rather than seeing evangelical women as entirely oppressed or resigned to the limits of their position in a patriarchal slave society, Stephan seeks to capture a sense of what agency was available to women through their moral authority.
Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors written by S. Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book God s Almost Chosen Peoples written by George C. Rable and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the Civil War, soldiers and civilians on both sides of the conflict saw the hand of God in the terrible events of the day, but the standard narratives of the period pay scant attention to religion. Now, in God's Almost Chosen Peoples, Lincoln Prize-winning historian George C. Rable offers a groundbreaking account of how Americans of all political and religious persuasions used faith to interpret the course of the war. Examining a wide range of published and unpublished documents--including sermons, official statements from various churches, denominational papers and periodicals, and letters, diaries, and newspaper articles--Rable illuminates the broad role of religion during the Civil War, giving attention to often-neglected groups such as Mormons, Catholics, blacks, and people from the Trans-Mississippi region. The book underscores religion's presence in the everyday lives of Americans north and south struggling to understand the meaning of the conflict, from the tragedy of individual death to victory and defeat in battle and even the ultimate outcome of the war. Rable shows that themes of providence, sin, and judgment pervaded both public and private writings about the conflict. Perhaps most important, this volume--the only comprehensive religious history of the war--highlights the resilience of religious faith in the face of political and military storms the likes of which Americans had never before endured.
Download or read book University of California Chronicle written by University of California, Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book University Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The University Chronicle written by University of California Berkeley and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
