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Book The Gypsy Quaker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Adams
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2017-11-30
  • ISBN : 1543464637
  • Pages : 38 pages

Download or read book The Gypsy Quaker written by Nancy Adams and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am the guardian of the graveyard the keeper of the gate. I winnow souls and spirits in a job I love and hate. I list your joys and blessings, your terrors and your fears. I gather up the hours and stitch together days and years. I am the watcher of the sleeper come rest, abide with me. Ill rock and hold and love you for all eternity.

Book The Quaker

Download or read book The Quaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Quaker

Download or read book The Quaker written by Amelia Mott Gummere and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Records of a Quaker Family  the Richardsons of Cleveland

Download or read book Records of a Quaker Family the Richardsons of Cleveland written by Anne Ogden Boyce and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quaker Life

Download or read book Quaker Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memories of the Quaker Past  Stories of Thirty Seven Senior Quakers

Download or read book Memories of the Quaker Past Stories of Thirty Seven Senior Quakers written by Christine Ayoub and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book consists of excerpts from interviews of senior members of State College Friends Meeting. The narrators who lived through the Great Depression tell of their difficult childhood--and yet in most cases one they regarded as happy. Some of the conscientious objectors during WWII tell of life in CPS camps; others speak of using nonviolent methods with mental patients, while still others relate the story of the human guinea experiments some of them participated in. Of those who did relief work after the war overseas, probably the most exciting tales are told by the four who worked with the Friends Ambulance Unit in China. They happened to be located close to where the Nationalists and the Communists were fighting.

Book The Romany Rye

Download or read book The Romany Rye written by George Henry Borrow and published by Digital Antiquaria. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog

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  • Author : Everybody's Talking Machine Company
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Catalog written by Everybody's Talking Machine Company and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lavengro  The Scholar  the Gypsy  the Priest

Download or read book Lavengro The Scholar the Gypsy the Priest written by George Borrow and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a captivating journey with "Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest." Penned by George Borrow, this novel intertwines the worlds of scholars, Romanies, and the clergy, offering readers a rich tapestry of English life and culture. Set against the backdrop of England, this work is a testament to Borrow's literary prowess and his keen insights into society's diverse facets.

Book Gypsies

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  • Author : David Cressy
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2018-06-13
  • ISBN : 0191080527
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Gypsies written by David Cressy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all? Gypsies have frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries. Social historian David Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from the reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical study of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, he draws on original archival research, and a wide range of reading, to trace the many moments when Gypsy lives became entangled with those of villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and social and moral reformers. Crucially, it is a story not just of the Gypsy community and its peculiarities, but also of England's treatment of that community, from draconian Elizabethan statutes, through various degrees of toleration and fascination, right up to the tabloid newspaper campaigns against Gypsy and Traveller encampments of more recent years.

Book In Search of the True Gypsy

Download or read book In Search of the True Gypsy written by Wim Willems and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has only been recognised tardily and with reluctance that during the Second World War hundreds of thousands of itinerants met the same horrendous fate as Jews and other victims of Nazism. Gypsies appear to appeal to the imagination simply as social outcasts and scapegoats or, in a flattering but no more illuminating light, as romantic outsiders. In this study, contemporary notions about Gypsies are traced back as far as possible to their roots, in an attempt to lay bare why stigmatisation of gypsies, or rather groups labelled as such, has continuned from the distant past even to today.

Book The Wind on the Heath   A Gypsy Anthology  Romany History Series

Download or read book The Wind on the Heath A Gypsy Anthology Romany History Series written by John Sampson and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent Gypsy anthology was first published in London 1930. It contains over 300 items of prose and verse gleaned from classical literature, folklore, history and true Gypsy life. It has long been considered unique in its field and is very hard to find in its first edition. We have now re-published this scarce book incorporating the original text and illustrations. The book's 380 pages are divided into 12 sections designed to bring to light the chief facets of Gypsy life. They have been chosen for their historical and anthropological interest and are supported with illustrations of the real Gypsy way of life, and yet the same wind blows over all on this Gypsy heath. Contents include: The Dark Race. - The Roaming Life. - Field and Sky. - Gypsies and Gentiles. - The Romany Chye. - Gypsy Children. - Sturt and Strife. - Black Arts. - A Gypsy Bestiary. - Egipte Speche. - Scholar Gypsies. - Envoy. Also included is a glossary of Romani words. This important book is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all with an interest in Gypsy ways.

Book The Romany Rye

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  • Author : George Borrow
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2022-10-20
  • ISBN : 3368286854
  • Pages : 658 pages

Download or read book The Romany Rye written by George Borrow and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Book Gypsies and the British Imagination  1807 1930

Download or read book Gypsies and the British Imagination 1807 1930 written by Deborah Epstein Nord and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, is the first book to explore fully the British obsession with Gypsies throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Deborah Epstein Nord traces various representations of Gypsies in the works of such well-known British authors John Clare, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, Arthur Conan Doyle, and D. H. Lawrence. Nord also exhumes lesser-known literary, ethnographic, and historical texts, exploring the fascinating histories of nomadic writer George Borrow, the Gypsy Lore Society, Dora Yates, and other rarely examined figures and institutions. Gypsies were both idealized and reviled by Victorian and early-twentieth-century Britons. Associated with primitive desires, lawlessness, cunning, and sexual excess, Gypsies were also objects of antiquarian, literary, and anthropological interest. As Nord demonstrates, British writers and artists drew on Gypsy characters and plots to redefine and reconstruct cultural and racial difference, national and personal identity, and the individual's relationship to social and sexual orthodoxies. Gypsies were long associated with pastoral conventions and, in the nineteenth century, came to stand in for the ancient British past. Using myths of switched babies, Gypsy kidnappings, and the Gypsies' murky origins, authors projected onto Gypsies their own desires to escape convention and their anxieties about the ambiguities of identity. The literary representations that Nord examines have their roots in the interplay between the notion of Gypsies as a separate, often despised race and the psychic or aesthetic desire to dissolve the boundary between English and Gypsy worlds. By the beginning of the twentieth century, she argues, romantic identification with Gypsies had hardened into caricature-a phenomenon reflected in D. H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy-and thoroughly obscured the reality of Gypsy life and history.

Book The Traveller Gypsies

Download or read book The Traveller Gypsies written by Judith Okely and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-02-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first monograph to be published on Gypsies in Britain using the perspective of social anthropology.

Book The Quiet Rebels

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Hope Bacon
  • Publisher : Library Company of Philadelphia
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Quiet Rebels written by Margaret Hope Bacon and published by Library Company of Philadelphia. This book was released on 1985 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the quakers in America.

Book Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution

Download or read book Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution written by Pierpaolo Polzonetti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polzonetti reveals how revolutionary America inspired eighteenth-century European audiences, and how it can still inspire and entertain us.