Download or read book The Foundling Bride written by Helen Dickson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From orphan to blushing bride! Lowena Trevanion has never known her family. Abandoned as a baby, she was eventually taken in by the wealthy Carberrys as a servant. But she has always wanted to truly belong somewhere… When Marcus Carberry returns from the army, he can't believe the innocent girl he left behind has blossomed into a stunning woman. The difference in their stations means their love can never be… Yet the closer Marcus gets, the more he wants to give this orphan the happy-ever-after she deserves!

Download or read book Sita s Daughters written by Leigh Minturn and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sita's Daughters vividly recounts the dramatic changes in role and status experienced by Rajput caste women in the Indian village Khalapur between 1955 and 1975. In the 20 years between her now-classic original field study and her follow-up with the same families, Leigh Minturn witnessed a significant decline in the women's observance of a complex system of customs collectively called purdah, which includes the wearing of veils, silence in the presence of senior men and women, the adoption of subservient postures when speaking to men, and the separation of husbands and wives. Her interviews with mothers- and daughters-in-law reveal how changes in purdah customs and religious traditions have allowed them increased access to education and health facilities, control of finances, and autonomy inside and mobility outside of their husbands' households. This work is unprecedented in its depth, scope, and exposition of the intimate details of the lives of Indian women. Minturn's return to her original subjects allowed her to observe firsthand the changes that had transpired during the interim, resulting in the only Indian village field study to span two generations. Having won the trust and confidence of her subjects, the author poignantly conveys their individuality, along with their stories of heroism, loyalty, infidelity, rape, incest, theft, and even murder. With even-handedness and detailed scholarship, Minturn makes use of methods such as systematic sampling and structured interviewing that are effective in capturing the richness of Indian village life, though they are uncommon in anthropological studies. The wide range of issues addressed here will be of interest to students and researchers in women's studies, South Asian studies, anthropology, and cross-cultural psychology, as well as to interested laypersons.

Download or read book A Bride Unveiled written by Jillian Hunter and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violet Knowlton is betrothed to the sensible, if tedious, Sir Godfrey Maitland. When Godfrey escorts her to a fencing demonstration, she looks forward to the adventurous diversion, but everything changes when she realizes the swordsman displaying his skill-and dashing good looks- is none other than her childhood friend Kit. Soon the flames of their forbidden past ignite into a passion neither can refuse. Although Violet has been promised to another, Kit remains her first and only love. He vows he will possess her, no matter what stands in his way...

Download or read book The Virgin and the Bride written by Kate Cooper and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rejecting Roman feminine virtue in its pure form, Christianity claimed a moral superiority in its ideals of romance, and portrayed women seeking more spiritual goals. Cooper studies how this connected with social and religious change.

Download or read book To Catch a Runaway Bride written by Helen Dickson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Will you take this man?” “No, I will not.” Moments away from becoming a viscountess, Marietta Harrington realizes that she cannot marry the man her father has chosen for her. Wedding guest Edmund Fitzroy whisks her away from the church…and as she gets to know this virtual stranger, she’s drawn into a delicious courtship. When Edmund mysteriously disappears, Marietta faces a terrible choice. Should she trust the man she loves or submit to another arranged marriage? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

Download or read book Claiming the Forbidden Bride written by Gayle Wilson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battle scarred and jaded from the Peninsular War, soldier Rhys Morgan is in the market for a bride. But the simpering debutantes on the Marriage Mart don't rouse his interest—let alone fire his blood…. Whereas dark-haired, dark-eyed Romany beauty Nadya Argentari has a strength and passion to match his own. If he took her as his mistress, no one would blink an eye. But if Major the Honorable Rhys Morgan were to marry her…it would be the scandal of the year!

Download or read book Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy written by DianaBullen Presciutti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social problem of infant abandonment captured the public?s imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical period of innovation and development in charitable discourses. As charity toward foundlings became a political priority, the patrons and supporters of foundling hospitals turned to visual culture to help them make their charitable work understandable to a wide audience. Focusing on four institutions in central Italy that possess significant surviving visual and archival material, Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy examines the discursive processes through which foundling care was identified, conceptualized, and promoted. The first book to consider the visual culture of foundling hospitals in Renaissance Italy, this study looks beyond the textual evidence to demonstrate that the institutional identities of foundling hospitals were articulated by means of a wide variety of visual forms, including book illumination, altarpieces, fresco cycles, institutional insignia, processional standards, prints, and reliquaries. The author draws on fields as diverse as art history, childhood studies, the history of charity, Renaissance studies, gender studies, sociology, and the history of religion to elucidate the pivotal role played by visual culture in framing and promoting the charitable succor of foundlings.

Download or read book Conveniently Wed to a Spy written by Helen Dickson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A satisfying love story set at the time of the French Revolution… A daredevil rescue… An unexpected reunion Imprisoned during the French Revolution, English spy Lord Laurence Beaumont is finally rescued—by the courageous, beautiful Delphine St. Clair. Back home in Cornwall, Laurence has no interest in the convenient marriage offered by a local landowner—until he discovers the bride is Delphine! With intense memories of their liaison dangereuse in Paris, Laurence knows theirs will be an unconventional union…but can he keep his promise never to be a spy again? From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

Download or read book Mr Darcy s Ruined Bride written by Violet King and published by Pemberley Playground Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compromised. Married. Whole? After Mr. Darcy rescues Elizabeth, to spare her reputation, they marry in haste and make plans to return to Longbourn. But when new evidence comes to light, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy’s bridal tour is diverted as she, her new husband, and Col. Fitzwilliam hunt down Elizabeth’s captors. Worse, Elizabeth’s memories haunt her, threatening to drive Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy apart even as they long to consummate their vows. Will love and a foundling child give Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy the courage to save their marriage from enemies within and without? Find out in Mr. Darcy’s Ruined Bride, Book 2 of 4 of the Power of Darcy’s Love series. Mr. Darcy’s Ruined Bride is a sweet, suspenseful romance of 30,000 words where love truly does conquer all. If you love Pride and Prejudice Variations, grab Mr. Darcy's Ruined Bride today!

Download or read book The Governess s Scandalous Marriage written by Helen Dickson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ruined governess And a marriage born of scandal! When penniless Linnet Osborne takes a job as a governess, she’s shocked to discover her new employer is none other than Christian, Lord Blakely! They’d once shared a passionate embrace that almost forced them to marry. Christian is no less compelling now—so much so that Linnet is tempted to explore beyond those fleeting kisses… But that would mean they’d have to wed! “Helen did an excellent job with this ... Just the right mix of mystery and intrigue” — Goodreads on A Vow for an Heiress

Download or read book The Rejected Bride written by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Summer Bride written by Anne Gracie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of The Spring Bride comes the conclusion to the quartet about four sisters, four weddings, and a bride for every season... Fiercely independent Daisy Chance has a dream—and it doesn’t involve marriage or babies (or being under any man’s thumb). Raised in poverty, she has a passion—and a talent—for making beautiful clothes. Daisy aims to become the finest dressmaker in London. Dashing Irishman Patrick Flynn is wealthy and ambitious, and has entered society to find an aristocratic bride. Instead, he finds himself growing increasingly attracted to the headstrong, clever and outspoken Daisy. She’s wrong in every way—except the way she sets his heart racing. However, when Flynn proposes marriage, Daisy refuses. She won't give up her hard-won independence. Besides, she doesn't want to join the fine ladies of society—she wants to dress them. She might, however, consider becoming Flynn's secret mistress... But Flynn wants a wife, and when he sets his heart on something, nothing can stand in his way...

Download or read book Marriage After Modernity written by Adrian Thatcher and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers nothing less than a new vision for Christian marriage at a time of unprecedented social and theological change. It breaks new ground in drawing on earlier traditions of betrothal and informal marriage in welcoming some forms of pre-marital cohabitation, and provides a new defence of the link between marriage and procreation by sketching a theology of liberation for children. Christian principles for the use of contraception by married and not-yet-married couples are restated, and a comprehensive theology of marriage is worked out, based on re-worked biblical models. Marriage as a Christian sacrament, mutually administered in a lifelong partnership of equals is affirmed. A chapter on divorce brings new light to bear on legitimate theological grounds for 'the parting of the ways'. The question of whether marriage is a heterosexual institution is addressed, and particular attention is paid throughout the book to overcoming the distorting effect of the overwhelming androcentric bias of much Christian thought on marriage, to the experience of wives, and to all those women and men for whom marriage is not their vocation.

Download or read book The Gentleman s Magazine Or Monthly Intelligencer written by Edward Cave and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Enthralled by Her Enemy s Kiss written by Helen Dickson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From feuding families …To an unlikely alliance? Jane Deighton’s sister has eloped with the son of her family’s sworn enemy! Determined to retrieve her at all costs, Jane is even willing to ask the man’s formidable older brother, Lord Francis Randolph, for help. On their journey to find the runaways, Jane and Francis reluctantly start gravitating toward one another—culminating in one sinful kiss! Their families have been feuding for years, yet Jane can’t help herself from being drawn to Francis’s forbidden touch… From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

Download or read book Wedded for His Secret Child written by Helen Dickson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baby secret A love brought into the open… After a night of passion, Melissa Frobisher returns home in disgrace. She never expects to meet the father of her baby again. Then Lord Laurence Maxwell turns up suddenly. He’s as dangerously attractive as ever and determined they wed for their baby’s sake! Is Melissa foolish to want Laurence to marry her for herself? But with her child’s reputation and future at stake, what other option does she have? “Just the right mix of mystery and intrigue” —Goodreads on A Vow for an Heiress “An intriguing and uncommon opening will have readers wondering what could possibly happen next” —RT Book Reviews on Carrying the Gentleman’s Secret From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.

Download or read book Harlequin Historical May 2021 Box Set 1 of 2 written by Sarah Mallory and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: RESCUED BY HER HIGHLAND SOLDIER Lairds of Ardvarrick By Sarah Mallory (Georgian) After Madeleine d’Evremont is rescued by a rugged Highlander on her perilous escape to France, she dares believe she might have a future with the rough soldier. Then his secret identity is revealed… A VISCOUNT TO SAVE HER REPUTATION By Helen Dickson (Regency) Escaping an unwanted marriage proposal, heiress Lucy falls straight into the arms of Viscount Rockley, causing a scandal! Now time is running out to save her reputation—and her heart! THE KNIGHT’S RUNAWAY MAIDEN Lovers and Legends By Nicole Locke (Medieval) Balthus of Warstone secretly loved Séverine, his brother’s widow. She fled six years ago, and now Balthus must find her and her sons—and prove he’s worthy of her love… Look for Harlequin® Historical’s May 2021 Box Set 2 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories!