The Complete Works of Frances Hodgson Burnett (Unabridged)
Burnett, Frances Hodgson;Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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This ebook edition contains the unabridged Complete Works of Frances Hodgson Burnett w...
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The Complete Works of Frances Hodgson Burnett (Unabridged)
2013
This ebook edition contains the unabridged Complete Works of Frances Hodgson Burnett with a detailed and functional table of contents. Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (1849 – 1924 ) was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden (published in 1911), A Little Princess (published in 1905), and Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6). Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, near Manchester, England. After her father died in 1852, the family eventually fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee. There, Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870 her mother died and in 1872 she married Swan Burnett , who became a medical doctor after which they lived in Paris for two years where their two sons were born before returning to the US to live in Washington D.C. There she began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o'Lowries), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. Content: THE SECRET GARDEN A LITTLE PRINCESS LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY THE LOST PRINCE THE WHITE PEOPLE THE DAWN OF A TOMORROW EMILY FOX-SETON (BEING “THE MAKING OF A MARCHIONESS” AND “THE METHODS OF LADY WALDERHURST”) ESMERALDA A FAIR BARBARIAN THE HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF COOMBE HIS GRACE OF OSMONDE (Being The Portions Of That Nobleman's Life Omitted In The Relation Of His Lady's Story Presented To The World Of Fashion Under The Title Of A Lady Of Quality) IN CONNECTION WITH THE DE WILLOUGHBY CLAIM IN THE CLOSED ROOM A LADY OF QUALITY THE LAND OF THE BLUE FLOWER THE LITTLE HUNCHBACK ZIA LITTLE SAINT ELIZABETH THE STORY OF PRINCE FAIRYFOOT THE PROUD LITTLE GRAIN OF WHEAT BEHIND THE WHITE BRICK MÈRE GIRAUDS LITTLE DAUGHTER “LE MONSIEUR DE LA PETITE DAME” LODUSKY MY ROBIN ONE DAY AT ARLE THE PRETTY SISTER OF JOSÉ RACKETTY-PACKETTY HOUSE ROBIN “SETH” THE SHUTTLE “SURLY TIM” THAT LASS O'LOWRIE'S T. TEMBAROM VAGABONDIA THEO: A SPRIGHTLY LOVE STORY
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American fictionContent provider:
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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:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Michael Levy;Farah Mendlesohn;Michael Levy;Farah Mendlesohn
Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundred...
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2016
Fantasy has been an important and much-loved part of children's literature for hundreds of years, yet relatively little has been written about it. Children's Fantasy Literature traces the development of the tradition of the children's fantastic - fictions specifically written for children and fictions appropriated by them - from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the work of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, C. S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, J. K. Rowling and others from across the English-speaking world. The volume considers changing views on both the nature of the child and on the appropriateness of fantasy for the child reader, the role of children's fantasy literature in helping to develop the imagination, and its complex interactions with issues of class, politics and gender. The text analyses hundreds of works of fiction, placing each in its appropriate context within the tradition of fantasy literature.
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Fantasy fiction--History and criticism - Children's literature--History and criticism - Fantastic, The, in literatureContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Moss & Adams’ Heart Disease in Infants, Children , and Adolescents, Including the Fetus and Young Adult
Hugh D. Allen;Hugh D. Allen
The 9th edition of the gold standard in pediatric cardiology offers up-to-date, compre...
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Moss & Adams’ Heart Disease in Infants, Children , and Adolescents, Including the Fetus and Young Adult
2016
The 9th edition of the gold standard in pediatric cardiology offers up -to-date, comprehensive coverage of this challenging and rapidly changing field. New chapters based on reader requests, two new associate editors, new contributing authors, and an enhanced digital version of the text make Moss and Adams'Heart Disease in Infants, Children , and Adolescents the reference you'll turn to when caring for patients. From cover to cover, this award-winning two-volume resource provides the authoritative, state-of-the-art information you need when caring for young patients with heart disease. New, reader-requested chapters cover Development of Myocardial Structure and Function, Global Challenge of Heart Disease, Impact of Congenital Heart Disease on Other Organ Systems, Non-Compaction Cardiomyopathy, Beyond the Cardiac Device, and Transition to Adult Care. All chapters have been updated and revised, including vital new information on genetics and embryo development. Two new associate editors, Drs. Daniel J. Penny and Frank Cetta, offer fresh perspectives in their areas of expertise. Enhanced digital access includes the full text; bonus question and answer sections similar to those on the pediatric cardiology board examination; videos of echoes, angiograms, aortic arch anomalies, open-heart operations, and more; and phonocardiograms with accompanying audio of various heart sounds and murmurs.
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Embryology - Fetus--Diseases - Children - Young adults - Pediatric cardiology - Heart--Diseases - InfantsContent provider:
eBook Medical Collection (EBSCOhost)
Childhood by Design : Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-Present
Megan Brandow-Faller;Megan Brandow-Faller
Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary'material turn'and social...
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Childhood by Design : Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-Present
2018
Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary'material turn'and social historical studies of childhood, Childhood By Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood offers new approaches to the material world of childhood and design culture for children . This volume situates toys and design culture for children within broader narratives on history, art, design and the decorative arts, where toy design has traditionally been viewed as an aberration from more serious pursuits. The essays included treat toys not merely as unproblematic reflections of socio-cultural constructions of childhood but consider how design culture actively shaped, commodified and materialized shifting discursive constellations surrounding childhood and children . Focusing on the new array of material objects designed in response to the modern'invention'of childhood-what we might refer to as objects for a childhood by design-Childhood by Design explores dynamic tensions between theory and practice, discursive constructions and lived experience as embodied in the material culture of childhood. Contributions from and between a variety of disciplinary perspectives (including history, art history, material cultural studies, decorative arts, design history, and childhood studies) are represented – critically linking historical discourses of childhood with close study of material objects and design culture.Chronologically, the volume spans the 18th century, which witnessed the invention of the toy as an educational plaything and a proliferation of new material artifacts designed expressly for children's use; through the 19th-century expansion of factory-based methods of toy production facilitating accuracy in miniaturization and a new vocabulary of design objects coinciding with the recognition of childhood innocence and physical separation within the household; towards the intersection of early 20th-century child -centered pedagogy and modernist approaches to nursery and furniture design; through the changing consumption and sales practices of the postwar period marketing directly to children through television, film and other digital media; and into the present, where the line between the material culture of childhood and adulthood is increasingly blurred.
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Children's paraphernalia--History - Toys--History - Material culture--History - Children--History - Play--HistoryContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
'Order, Order!' : A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives
Stephen Wilks;Stephen Wilks
'Order, Order!': A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of ...
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'Order, Order!' : A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives
2023
'Order, Order!': A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representativesshines a first-ever historical light on the remarkable men and women who have served in these national offices since Federation.The Speakers include Frederick Holder, whose campaign to embed a Westminster-style Speakership died with him when he collapsed dramatically in the parliament; the much-loved Joan Child , Australia's first female Speaker, whose struggles as a widow with five children fostered her commitment to social justice and made her, in the words of another Speaker, Anna Burke, ‘pretty fierce'; and Ian Sinclair, a warhorse of a parliamentarian who seemed to prove the poacher-turned-gamekeeper principle. The Deputy Speakers, a particularly eclectic assortment, include the strange and bleakly serious James Fowler, who once hopefully mailed a film synopsis to the American director Cecil B. DeMille and who ended his days warning of the perils of democracy. Amongst the Clerks are Frank Green, who, at the height of the Cold War, indiscreetly befriended members of the Communist Party, and the popular Jack Pettifer—a true child of parliament—who grew up in an apartment in the building.This book includes analysis of what sorts of individuals typically filled these vital parliamentary positions, and the appearance of an Australian model of the Speakership based on pragmatic compromise. All three offices are typically more than just creatures of political parties—something that Australians should be prepared to defend against the remorseless encroachment of political partisanship.
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Great Authors of Children's Books
Nagle, Jeanne;Garvey, Brian;Nagle, Jeanne;Garvey, Brian
Few stories have the power to stay with us the way the tales we hear in childhood do. ...
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Great Authors of Children's Books
2014
Few stories have the power to stay with us the way the tales we hear in childhood do. Great children's book authors have at their disposal countless techniques to channel young imaginations and appeal directly to their audience's tender sensibilities. They craft colorful characters whose circumstances and actions resonate with readers in a way that carries through well into adulthood. The creators of some of the most whimsical, witty, thought-provoking, and powerful children's books of all time—including Lewis Carroll, Dr. Seuss, Beatrix Potter, Maurice Sendak, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, among many others—are presented in this exciting volume.
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Young adult literature--Authorship--Juvenile literature - Children's literature--Authorship--Juvenile literature - Authors--Biography--Juvenile literature - Children--Books and reading--Juvenile literatureContent provider:
eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost)
Janice Bland;Janice Bland
Children's literature can be a powerful way to encourage and empower EFL students but ...
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2013
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Children--Books and reading - Children's literature--Study and teaching - English language--Study and teaching - Teenagers--Books and readingContent provider:
eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost)
Lost Wonderland : The Brief and Brilliant Life of Boston's Million Dollar Amusement Park
Stephen R. Wilk;Stephen R. Wilk
If you take Boston's Blue Line to its northern end, you'll reach the Wonderland stop. ...
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Lost Wonderland : The Brief and Brilliant Life of Boston's Million Dollar Amusement Park
2020
If you take Boston's Blue Line to its northern end, you'll reach the Wonderland stop. Few realize that a twenty-three -acre amusement park once sat nearby—the largest in New England, and grander than any of the Coney Island parks that inspired it. Opened in Revere on Memorial Day in 1906 to great fanfare, Wonderland offered hundreds of thousands of visitors recreation by the sea, just a short distance from downtown Boston. The story of the park's creation and wild, but brief, success is full of larger-than-life characters who hoped to thrill attendees and rake in profits. Stephen R. Wilk describes the planning and history of the park, which featured early roller coasters, a scenic railway, a central lagoon in which a Shoot-the-Chutes boat plunged, an aerial swing, a funhouse, and more. Performances ran throughout the day, including a daring Fires and Flames show; a Wild West show; a children's theater; and numerous circus acts . While nothing remains of what was once called'Boston's Regal Home of Pleasure'and the park would close in 1910, this book resurrects Wonderland by transporting readers through its magical gates.
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Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
Emer O'Sullivan;Emer O'Sullivan
Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fai...
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Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature
Children's literature comes from a number of different sources-folklore (folk- and fairy tales), books originally for adults and subsequently adapted for children , and material authored specifically for them-and its audience ranges from infants through middle graders to young adults (readers from about 12 to 18 years old). Its forms include picturebooks, pop-up books, anthologies, novels, merchandising tie-ins, novelizations, and multimedia texts, and its genres include adventure stories, drama, science fiction, poetry, and information books. The Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature relates the history of children's literature through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, books, and genres. Some of the most legendary names in all of literature are covered in this important reference, including Hans Christian Anderson, L. Frank Baum, Lewis Carroll, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Beatrix Potter, J.K. Rowling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, and E.B. White.
2010; Vol. 00046
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Children's literature--Bio-bibliography--Dictionaries - Children's literature--History and criticism--DictionariesContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Fairy Tales and True Stories : The History of Russian Literature for Children and Young People (1574 - 2010)
Ben Hellman;Ben Hellman
Russian literature for children and young people has a history that goes back over 400...
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Fairy Tales and True Stories : The History of Russian Literature for Children and Young People (1574 - 2010)
2013; Vol. 00013
Russian literature for children and young people has a history that goes back over 400 years, starting in the late sixteenth century with the earliest alphabet primers and passing through many different phases over the centuries that followed. It has its own success stories and tragedies, talented writers and mediocrities, bestsellers and long-forgotten prize winners. After their seizure of power in 1917, the Bolsheviks set about creating a new culture for a new man and a starting point was children's literature. 70 years of Soviet control and censorship were succeeded in the 1990s by a re-birth of Russian children's literature. This book charts the whole of this story, setting Russian authors and their books in the context of translated literature, critical debates and official cultural policy.
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Children's literature, Russian--History and criticismContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Life of Mark Twain : The Final Years, 1891–1910
Gary Scharnhorst;Gary Scharnhorst
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023 In the final volume of his three-volume bio...
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The Life of Mark Twain : The Final Years, 1891–1910
2022
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2023 In the final volume of his three -volume biography, Gary Scharnhorst chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from his family's extended trip to Europe in 1891 to his death in 1910 at age 74. During these years Clemens grapples with bankruptcy, returns to the lecture circuit, and endures the loss of two daughters and his wife. It is also during this time that he writes some of his darkest, most critical works; among these include Pudd'nhead Wilson; Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc; Tom Sawyer Abroad; Tom Sawyer, Detective; Following the Equator; No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger; and portions of his Autobiography.
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Authors, American--19th century--Biography - Humorists, American--19th century--BiographyContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Steel City Readers : Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955
Mary Grover;Mary Grover
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press web...
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Steel City Readers : Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955
2023; Vol. 00099
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Steel City Readers• makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading. Its distinctive method is to listen to readers'own voices, rather than theorising about them as an undifferentiated group. Its cogent and engaging structure traces reading journeys from childhood into education and adulthood, and attends to settings from home to school to library. It has a distinctive focus on reading for pleasure and its framework of argument situates that type of reading in relation to dimensions of gender and class. It is grounded in place, and particularly in the context of a specific industrial city: Sheffield. The men and women featured in the book, coming to adulthood in the 1930s and 1940s, rarely regarded reading as a means of self-improvement. It was more usually a compulsive and intensely pleasurable private activity.
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Books and reading--England--Sheffield--History--20th centuryContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
Photographic Presidents : Making History From Daguerreotype to Digital
Cara A. Finnegan;Cara A. Finnegan
Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks Lincoln's somber portr...
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Photographic Presidents : Making History From Daguerreotype to Digital
2021
Defining the Chief Executive via flash powder and selfie sticks Lincoln's somber portraits. Lyndon Johnson's swearing in. George W. Bush's reaction to learning about the 9/11 attacks. Photography plays an indelible role in how we remember and define American presidents. Throughout history, presidents have actively participated in all aspects of photography, not only by sitting for photos but by taking and consuming them. Cara A. Finnegan ventures from a newly-discovered daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams to Barack Obama's selfies to tell the stories of how presidents have participated in the medium's transformative moments. As she shows, technological developments not only changed photography, but introduced new visual values that influence how we judge an image. At the same time, presidential photographs—as representations of leaders who symbolized the nation—sparked public debate on these values and their implications. An original journey through political history, Photographic Presidents reveals the intertwined evolution of an American institution and a medium that continues to define it.
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Presidents--United States--Portraits - Portrait photography--United States--History - Portraits, AmericanContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Islam and New Directions in World Literature
Einboden, Jeffrey;Einboden, Jeffrey
Since its advent, Islam has been a representational force to be reckoned with, cross-p...
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Islam and New Directions in World Literature
2022
Since its advent, Islam has been a representational force to be reckoned with, cross-pollinating world literatures in Africa, Europe, Asia, the Pacific Ocean and the Americas. Yet, scholarship on Islam in world literatures has been sparse despite its significant presence. This book understands Islamic literary and cultural heritages as dynamic forces, constantly enriched and enlivened by various humanistic traditions in multiple languages, spanning the lives of individuals and societies throughout history. It is also designed to incorporate a variety of themes, influences, ramifications and representations of Islam in world literatures in classical and contemporary contexts. Exploring Islam's presence in world literatures in two strands: on the one hand, examining the orientalist versions and usages of Islam; and on the other hand, analysing the presence of Islam as Islamicate, this book advances a consideration of Islam as an agent in the history of World Literature.
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Islam in literature - Islamic literature--History and criticismContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else
William Hartston;William Hartston
A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of ...
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The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else
2022
A delightful and witty treasure trove of utterly useless information by the author of The Things That Nobody Knows.Most encyclopaedias are boring. They are so packed with worthy but dull facts that a great deal of weird and wonderful material is squeezed out. The Encyclopaedia of Everything Else takes the opposite approach and leaves out all the dreary stuff you can find elsewhere.The result is the most fascinating, astonishing, varied and utterly useless collection of information ever assembled and organized between two covers. From aardvark tooth bracelets to the genus of tropical weevils known as Zyzzyva, via Mark Twain's views about cabbages, this is a quarter of a million words of sublime pointlessness.
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Curiosities and wonders - Encyclopedias and dictionariesContent provider:
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 1 : 1865–1887
Andrew Hobbs;Andrew Hobbs
Anthony Hewitson (1836-1912) was a typical Victorian journalist, working in one of the...
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The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 1 : 1865–1887
2022; Vol. 00001
Anthony Hewitson (1836-1912) was a typical Victorian journalist, working in one of the largest sectors of the periodical press, provincial newspapers. His diaries, written between 1862 and 1912, lift the veil of anonymity hiding the people, processes and networks involved in the creation of Victorian newspapers. They also tell us about Victorian fatherhood, family life, and the culture of a Victorian town. Diaries of nineteenth-century provincial journalists are extremely rare. Anthony Hewitson went from printer's apprentice to newspaper reporter and eventually editor of his own paper. Every night he jotted down the day's doings, his thoughts and feelings. The diaries are a lively account of the reporter's daily round, covering meetings and court cases, hunting for gossip or attending public executions and variety shows, in and around Preston, Lancashire. Andrew Hobbs's introduction and footnotes provide background and analysis of these valuable documents. This full scholarly edition offers a wealth of new information about reporting, freelancing, sub-editing, newspaper ownership and publishing, and illuminates aspects of Victorian periodicals and culture extending far beyond provincial newspapers. The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist are an indispensable research tool for local and regional historians, as well as social and political historians with an interest in Victorian studies and the media. They are also illuminating for anyone interested in nineteenth-century social and cultural history. Open Book Publishers gratefully acknowledge funding for this book from the Marc Fitch Fund, the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, and the University of Central Lancashire.
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Journalists--Great Britain--DiariesContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West
Michał Mrugalski;Schamma Schahadat;Irina Wutsdorff;Michał Mrugalski;Schamma...
Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth cent...
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Central and Eastern European Literary Theory and the West
2022
Literary theory flourished in Central and Eastern Europe throughout the twentieth century, but its relation to Western literary scholarship is complex. This book sheds light on the entangled histories of exchange and influence both within the region known as Central and Eastern Europe, and between the region and the West. The exchange of ideas between scholars in the East and West was facilitated by both personal and institutional relations, both official and informal encounters. For the longest time, however, intellectual exchange was thwarted by political tensions that led to large parts of Central and Eastern Europe being isolated from the West. A few literary theories nevertheless made it into Western scholarly discourses via exiled scholars. Some of these scholars, such as Mikhail Bakhtin, become widely known in the West and their thought was transposed onto new, Western cultural contexts; others, such as Ol'ga Freidenberg, were barely noticed outside of Russian and Poland. This volume draws attention to the schools, circles, and concepts that shaped the development of theory in Central and Eastern Europe as well as the histoire croisée – the history of translations, transformations, and migrations – that conditioned its relationship with the West.
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Literature--Philosophy - Criticism--Europe, Eastern - Criticism--Europe, CentralContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
What Would Mrs. Astor Do? : The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age
Cecelia Tichi;Cecelia Tichi
A richly illustrated romp with America's Gilded Age leisure class—and those angling to...
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What Would Mrs. Astor Do? : The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age
2018
A richly illustrated romp with America's Gilded Age leisure class—and those angling to join it Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States'population doubled, accompanied by an unparalleled industrial expansion, and an explosion of wealth unlike any the world had ever seen. America was the foremost nation of the world, and New York City was its beating heart. There, the richest and most influential—Thomas Edison, J. P. Morgan, Edith Wharton, the Vanderbilts, Andrew Carnegie, and more—became icons, whose comings and goings were breathlessly reported in the papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. It was a time of abundance, but also bitter rivalries, in work and play . The Old Money titans found themselves besieged by a vanguard of New Money interlopers eager to gain entrée into their world of formal balls, debutante parties, opera boxes, sailing regattas, and summer gatherings at Newport. Into this morass of money and desire stepped Caroline Astor. Mrs. Astor, an Old Money heiress of the first order, became convinced that she was uniquely qualified to uphold the manners and mores of Gilded Age America. Wherever she went, Mrs. Astor made her judgments, dictating proper behavior and demeanor, men's and women's codes of dress, acceptable patterns of speech and movements of the body, and what and when to eat and drink. The ladies and gentlemen of high society took note. “What would Mrs. Astor do?” became the question every social climber sought to answer. And an invitation to her annual ball was a golden ticket into the ranks of New York's upper crust. This work serves as a guide to manners as well as an insight to Mrs. Astor's personal diary and address book, showing everything from the perfect table setting to the array of outfits the elite wore at the time. Channeling the queen of the Gilded Age herself, Cecelia Tichi paints a portrait of New York's social elite, from the schools to which they sent their children , to their lavish mansions and even their reactions to the political and personal scandals of the day. Ceceilia Tichi invites us on a beautifully illustrated tour of the Gilded Age, transporting readers to New York at its most fashionable. A colorful tapestry of fun facts and true tales, What Would Mrs. Astor Do? presents a vivid portrait of this remarkable time of social metamorphosis, starring Caroline Astor, the ultimate gatekeeper.
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Wealth--Social aspects--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century - Etiquette--New York (State)--New York--History - Rich people--New York (State)--New York--BiographyContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Looking Forward, Looking Back : Images of Eastern European Jewish Migration to America in Contemporary American Children ’s Literature
Jana Pohl;Jana Pohl
How is the life-altering event of migration narrated for children, especially if it wa...
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Looking Forward, Looking Back : Images of Eastern European Jewish Migration to America in Contemporary American Children ’s Literature
2011; Vol. 00019
How is the life-altering event of migration narrated for children , especially if it was caused by Anti-Semitism and poverty? What of the country of origin is remembered and what is forgotten, and what of the target country when the migration is imagined there a century later? Looking Forward, Looking Back examines today's representation of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe to America around the turn of the last century. It explores the collective story that emerges when American authors look back at this exodus from an Eastern European home to a new one to be established in America. Focusing on children's literature, it investigates a wide range of texts including young adult literature as well as picture books and hence sheds light on the dynamics of the verbal and the visual in generating images of the self and other, the familiar and the strange.This book is of interest to scholars in the field of imagology, children's literature, cultural studies, American studies, Slavic studies, and Jewish studies.
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Children's stories, American--History and criticism - Jewish diaspora in literatureContent provider:
eBook High School Collection (EBSCOhost)
Drugs and Thugs : The History and Future of America's War on Drugs
Russell Crandall;Russell Crandall
A sweeping and highly readable work on the evolution of America's domestic and global ...
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Drugs and Thugs : The History and Future of America's War on Drugs
2020
A sweeping and highly readable work on the evolution of America's domestic and global drug war How can the United States chart a path forward in the war on drugs? In Drugs and Thugs, Russell Crandall uncovers the full history of this war that has lasted more than a century. As a scholar and a high-level national security advisor to both the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, he provides an essential view of the economic, political, and human impacts of U.S. drug policies. Backed by extensive research, lucid and unbiased analysis of policy, and his own personal experiences, Crandall takes readers from Afghanistan to Colombia, to Peru and Mexico, to Miami International Airport and the border crossing between El Paso and Juarez to trace the complex social networks that make up the drug trade and drug consumption. Through historically driven stories, Crandall reveals how the war on drugs has evolved to address mass incarceration, the opioid epidemic, the legalization and medical use of marijuana, and America's shifting foreign policy.
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Drug traffic--United States - Drug control--United StatesContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959
Graham Webb;Graham Webb
Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere f...
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Encyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959
2020
Short subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes long and were used as a'filler'in a picture show that would include a cartoon, a newsreel, possibly a serial and a short before launching into the feature film. Shorts could tackle any topic of interest: an unusual travelogue, a comedy, musical revues, sports, nature or popular vaudeville acts . With the advent of sound-on-film in the mid-to-late 1920s, makers of earlier silent short subjects began experimenting with the short films, using them as a testing ground for the use of sound in feature movies. After the Second World War, and the rising popularity of television, short subject films became far too expensive to produce and they had mostly disappeared from the screens by the late 1950s. This encyclopedia offers comprehensive listings of American short subject films from the 1920s through the 1950s.
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Short films--United States--EncyclopediasContent provider:
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The Perfume Companion : The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent
Sarah McCartney;Samantha Scriven;Sarah McCartney;Samantha Scriven
'An authoritative guide from two experts who really know their way around scent'– FUNM...
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The Perfume Companion : The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent
2021
'An authoritative guide from two experts who really know their way around scent'– FUNMI FETTOThe Perfume Companion is a beautifully illustrated compendium of almost 500 recommended scents, designed to help you pick out your next favourite fragrance. Perfumes have the power to evoke treasured memories, make us feel fabulous and help us express our best self. But with so many out there, how do you choose something new? When the scents in the perfume shop are merging into one aromatic haze, how do you remain focused? And if your favourite scent goes out of stock, how do you replace it? The Perfume Companion is here to help. Sarah McCartney and Samantha Scriven deliver a host of scents for you to try – including bargain finds and luxury treasures, iconic stalwarts and indie newcomers, the lightest florals and the deepest leathers. With insider information about how perfumes are really made, discover hundreds of new fragrances and find the scents to share your own memories with. This is the perfect companion for your scented adventures.
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Records of Girlhood : Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Childhoods
Valerie Sanders;Valerie Sanders
In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Valerie Sanders again brings together an influen...
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Records of Girlhood : Volume Two: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Childhoods
2012
In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Valerie Sanders again brings together an influential group of women whose autobiographical accounts of their childhoods show them making sense of the children they were and the women they have become. The fourteen women included juxtapose recollections of the bizarre with the quotidian and accounts of external events with the development of a complex inner life. Reading and acting are important themes, as is the precariousness of childhood, whether occasioned by a father's financial pressures or the early death of a parent. Significantly, most grew up expecting to earn their own living. The collection includes children's authors (Frances Hodgson Burnett and E. Nesbit), political figures (Emmeline Pankhurst and Louisa Twining), and well-known writers (Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Sarah Grand). Of relevance to scholars working in the fields of women's autobiography, the history of childhood, and Victorian literature, this anthology includes a scholarly introduction and brief biographical sketches of each woman.
