Cradock, H. C., Mrs.;Appleton, Honor C., illustrator.
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Factory Girls : The Working Lives of Women & Children
Paul Chrystal;Paul Chrystal
Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, wor...
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Factory Girls : The Working Lives of Women & Children
2022
Ever since there have been factories women and children have, more often than not, worked in those factories. What is perhaps less well known is that women also worked underground in coal mines and overground scaling the inside of chimneys. Young children were also put to work in factories and coalmines; they were deployed inside chimneys, often half-starved so that they could shin up ever narrower flues. This book charts the unhappy but aspirational story of women and children at work through the Industrial Revolution to the beginning of the 20th century. Without women there would have been no pre-industrial cottage industries, without women the Industrial Revolution would not have been nearly as industrial and nowhere near as revolutionary. Many women, and children, were obliged to take up work in the mills and factories – long hours, dangerous, often toxic conditions, monotony, bullying, abuse and miserly pay were the usual hallmarks of a day's work - before they headed homeward to their other job: keeping home and family together. This long overdue and much needed book also covers the social reformers, the role of feminism and activism and the various Factory Acts and trade unionism. We examine how women and children suffered chronic occupational diseases and disabling industrial injuries - life changing and life shortening – and often a one way ticket to the workhouse. The book concludes with a survey of the art, literature and the music which formed the soundtrack for the factory girl and the climbing boys.
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Children--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century - Women--Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century - Children--Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century - Women--Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century - Industrial revolution--Great Britain - Child labor--Great Britain--History--19th century - Women--Employment--Great Britain--History--19th century - Child labor--Great Britain--History--20th century - Women--Employment--Great Britain--History--20th centuryContent provider:
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Perspectives: Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Literature
Jalal Uddin Khan, Author;Jalal Uddin Khan, Author
Perspectives: Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Literature is an up-to-date explication ...
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Perspectives: Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Literature
2015
Perspectives: Romantic, Victorian, and Modern Literature is an up-to-date explication of various popular and classic subjects and authors arranged chronologically. The book, composed of thirteen essays, examines Blake; Coleridge; Byron; Shelley; Keats; Victorian medievalism; the Victorian reaction to British India; (Ben) Jonsonian elements in Yeats; Yeats and Maud Gonne; the treatment of the Irish civil war and Irish nationalism in Yeats; and the treatment of the Spanish civil war in the selected works of modern fiction and nonfiction. Marked by an originality of approach and a freshness and simplicity, the book takes note of contemporary theoretical, interdisciplinary and cultural discourse drawn from literature, history, politics and religion as necessary. However, it is far from being unnecessarily outweighed by the loaded clichés, oft-repeated jargon and overused euphemisms of modern literary or critical theory. The result is, regardless of its specialized treatment of otherwise commonplace or well-known texts or topics, that the overall discussion is as lucid, introductory and expository as it is deep and scholarly, making the book easily accessible and understandable to non-specialist readers, in addition to specialist researchers and academics.
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Romanticism--Great Britain - English fiction--19th century--History and criticism - English poetry--19th century--History and criticism - Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain - English fiction--20th century--History and criticismContent provider:
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A Naval Biographical Dictionary
O'Byrne, William R.;O'Byrne, William R.
Volume 3 of 3. Originally published in 1849, this work gives details of “the life and ...
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A Naval Biographical Dictionary
2012
Volume 3 of 3. Originally published in 1849, this work gives details of “the life and services of every living officer in ‘Her Majesty's Navy” who was serving or had retired by 1845 – nearly 5,000 officers in all. Generally acknowledged as the most comprehensive work of its kind, it was a considerable undertaking for one man to piece together such detailed biographies. This information was compiled from official records and from details supplied by the officers themselves. The service details found on every page reflect the centuries-old naval traditions of devotion to duty and great bravery in the face of danger. They also provide information on the many naval actions that were fought at the end of the eighteenth and first half of nineteenth centuries. Coincidentally, the original publication took place during the year of issue of what is now referred to as the Naval General Service Medal. In 1847 Queen Victoria authorised this award to be struck to record the services of naval officers and men who took part in various actions between 1793 and 1815, later extended to 1840. The award was limited to those who were alive at the time of the announcement. Over 200 Naval actions were commemorated on clasps to this medal; details of these and a considerable number of other engagements are to be found throughout this volume. Over the century and a half since its publication, this work has established itself as an essential reference work for naval historians and for a wider section of the public who are in search of their naval ancestry.
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Lives of the Novelists : A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
Sutherland, John;Sutherland, John
No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels wri...
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Lives of the Novelists : A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
2012
No previous author has attempted a book such as this: a complete history of novels written in the English language, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day. In the spirit of Dr. Johnson's Lives of the Poets, acclaimed critic and scholar John Sutherland selects 294 writers whose works illustrate the best of every kind of fiction—from gothic, penny dreadful, and pornography to fantasy, romance, and high literature. Each author was chosen, Professor Sutherland explains, because his or her books are well worth reading and are likely to remain so for at least another century. Sutherland presents these authors in chronological order, in each case deftly combining a lively and informative biographical sketch with an opinionated assessment of the writer's work. Taken together, these novelists provide both a history of the novel and a guide to its rich variety. Always entertaining, and sometimes shocking, Sutherland considers writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe, Henry James, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Michael Crichton, Jeffrey Archer, and Jacqueline Susann. Written for all lovers of fiction, Lives of the Novelists succeeds both as introduction and re-introduction, as Sutherland presents favorite and familiar novelists in new ways and transforms the less favored and less familiar through his relentlessly fascinating readings.
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Novelists--Biography - Fiction--History and criticism - English fiction--History and criticism - Novelists, English--Biography - American fiction--History and criticismContent provider:
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A People Passing Rude : British Responses to Russian Culture
Anthony Cross;Anthony Cross
Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as'a people passing ...
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A People Passing Rude : British Responses to Russian Culture
2012
Described by the sixteenth-century English poet George Turbervile as'a people passing rude, to vices vile inclin'd', the Russians waited some three centuries before their subsequent cultural achievements—in music, art and particularly literature—achieved widespread recognition in Britain. The essays in this stimulating collection attest to the scope and variety of Russia's influence on British culture. They move from the early nineteenth century—when Byron sent his hero Don Juan to meet Catherine the Great, and an English critic sought to come to terms with the challenge of Pushkin—to a series of Russian-themed exhibitions at venues including the Crystal Palace and Earls Court. The collection looks at British encounters with Russian music, the absorption with Dostoevskii and Chekhov, and finishes by shedding light on Britain's engagement with Soviet film. Edited by Anthony Cross, one of the world's foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, A People Passing Rude is essential reading for anyone with an interest in British and Russian cultures and their complex relationship.
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Art and literature--Great Britain--Russian influencesContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers : [2 Volumes]
Helen Rappaport;Helen Rappaport
The first comprehensive guide to women activists from every part of the world, illumin...
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Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers : [2 Volumes]
2001
The first comprehensive guide to women activists from every part of the world, illuminating the broad range of women's struggles to reform society from the 18th century to the present.Despite being marginalized, disenfranchised, impoverished, and oppressed, women have always stepped forward in disproportionate numbers to lead movements for social change. This two-volume encyclopedia documents the visions, struggles, and lives of women who have changed the world.This encyclopedia celebrates the lives and achievements of nearly 300 women from around the globe—women who have bravely insisted that the way things are is not the way they have to be. Nadeshda Krupskaya, the wife of Lenin, spearheaded the drive against illiteracy in post-revolutionary Russia. American Dorothy Day founded the Catholic worker movement. Begum Rokeya Hossain organized a girls'school in Calcutta in 1911. Rachel Carson launched the modern environmental movement with her book Silent Spring. The stories of these women and the hundreds of others collected here will restore missing pages to our history and inspire a new generation of women to change the world.
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Women social reformers--Encyclopedias - Women political activists--Encyclopedias - Women's rights--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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The Hutchinson Chronology of World History
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The Hutchinson Chronology of World History
2004; Vol. Volume III
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A Bibliography of White Southern African Women Writers 1800-1940.
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English in Africa. Oct2004, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p121-171. 51p.
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Letcher, Valerie
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Biographical Companion to Literature in English
Kamm, Antony;Kamm, Antony
Rev. and updated ed. of: Collins biographical dictionary of English literature. c1993.
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Biographical Companion to Literature in English
1997
Rev. and updated ed. of: Collins biographical dictionary of English literature. c1993.
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Authors, English--Biography--Dictionaries - Authors--Biography--Dictionaries - English literature--DictionariesContent provider:
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Gaskell as Orpheus: The Tyrant Custom and the Trope of the Sulphured Beehive in North and South (1855).
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Gaskell Society Journal; 2020, Vol. 34, p63-79, 17p
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HARRINGTON, CHRISTOPHER
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Gaskell Society Journal; 2020, Vol. 34, p63-79, 17p
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America's War for Humanity.
Russell, Thomas Herbert
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America's War for Humanity.
America's War for Humanity. 3/1/2006, p1. 1p.
Presents the complete text of "America's War for Humanity" by Russell, Thomas Herbert, 1862-1947.
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War Toys: Breaking and Remaking in Great War Narratives.
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Lion Apr2007, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p116-131, 16p, 5 Black and White Photographs
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Higonnet, Margaret R.
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Lion Apr2007, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p116-131, 16p, 5 Black and White Photographs
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War Toys: Breaking and Remaking in Great War Narratives.
Lion Apr2007, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p116-131, 16p, 5 Black and White Photographs
The article underlines the functions of toys in great war narratives. Lois Kuznets in his book "When Toys Come Alive" focused on psychological theories to lay out the importance of toys that express internal fears and conflicts for small children during war. It is emphasized that in the years framing World War I, children were initiated into the culture of war through visual culture, narratives, and toys.
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Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography and First-line Index of English Verse, 1559-1603.
May, Steven W.;Ringler Jr., William A.
Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography and First-line Index of English Verse, 1559-1603.
Elizabethan Poetry: A Bibliography 2004, pix-2027, 2067p
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COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY.
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Princeton University Library Chronicle; Spring 2011, Vol. 72 Issue 3, p761-781, 21p
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IMMEL, ANDREA
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Princeton University Library Chronicle; Spring 2011, Vol. 72 Issue 3, p761-781, 21p
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COTSEN CHILDREN'S LIBRARY.
Princeton University Library Chronicle; Spring 2011, Vol. 72 Issue 3, p761-781, 21p
The article discusses artwork acquired by the Cotsen Children's Library at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, as of March 1, 2011. These acquisitions are connected to such library collections as the Hans Christian Andersen Collection, which features art related to the work of children's author Hans Christian Andersen, the Honor C . Appleton Archive, which features the work of artist Honor C . Appleton, and the Gerlach Jugendbücherei children's book archive. Acquisitions include a watercolor and pencil drawing by artist Heinrich Lefler for Andersen's story "Princessen paa Aerten," Appleton's pen and ink drawing "Golly himself," and the book "Märchen-Sammlung," written by Ludwig Bechstein and illustrated by Karl Fahringer.
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Autorinnen und Autoren A–Z.
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Metzler Lexikon Englischsprachiger Autorinnen und Autoren; 2006, p1-647, 647p
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Kreutzer, Eberhard;Nünning, Ansgar
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What Is the Relationship between Outdoor Time and Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Physical Fitness in Children? A Systematic Review.
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International Journal of Environmental Research 2015, Vol. 12 Issue 6, p6455-S4448, 4468p
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Gray, Casey;Gibbons, Rebecca;Larouche, Richard;Beate Hansen Sandseter, Elle...
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The Dictionary.
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Macmillan Dictionary of Irish Literature; 1979, p75-728, 654p
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Hogan, Robert
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Moby Word Lists.
Ward, Grady
Presents the complete text of "Moby Word Lists" by Ward, Grady.
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Moby Word Lists.
Moby Word Lists; 3/1/2006, p1, 999p
Presents the complete text of "Moby Word Lists" by Ward, Grady.
