Author: Alex McVeigh MillerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752413654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Dainty’s Cruel Rivals by Alex McVeigh Miller
Dainty’s Cruel Rivals
Author: Alex McVeigh MillerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752413654
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Dainty’s Cruel Rivals by Alex McVeigh Miller
Dainty's Cruel Rivals; Or, The Fatal Birthday
Author: Alex. McVeigh Mrs. MillerPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
This is a mystery story written in the late nineteenth century by an author who was very popular in her day. It begins as two young school teachers receive an invitation to stay with their rich aunt in her country house. They are hopeful of 'trapping' a possible husband there during their stay as they learn that she has also invited her step-son Lovelace Ellsworth. There is but one problem; their young cousin Dainty.....
Nineteenth-Century American Women's Serial Novels
Author: Dale M. BauerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108486541
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
Recovers the careers of four US women serial writers, and establishes a new archive for American literary studies.
Hear My Sad Story
Author: Richard PolenbergPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501701487
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In 2015, Bob Dylan said, "I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs. And I played them, and I met other people that played them, back when nobody was doing it. Sang nothing but these folk songs, and they gave me the code for everything that's fair game, that everything belongs to everyone." In Hear My Sad Story, Richard Polenberg describes the historical events that led to the writing of many famous American folk songs that served as touchstones for generations of American musicians, lyricists, and folklorists. Those events, which took place from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, often involved tragic occurrences: murders, sometimes resulting from love affairs gone wrong; desperate acts borne out of poverty and unbearable working conditions; and calamities such as railroad crashes, shipwrecks, and natural disasters. All of Polenberg’s account of the songs in the book are grounded in historical fact and illuminate the social history of the times. Reading these tales of sorrow, misfortune, and regret puts us in touch with the dark but terribly familiar side of American history. On Christmas 1895 in St. Louis, an African American man named Lee Shelton, whose nickname was "Stack Lee," shot and killed William Lyons in a dispute over seventy-five cents and a hat. Shelton was sent to prison until 1911, committed another murder upon his release, and died in a prison hospital in 1912. Even during his lifetime, songs were being written about Shelton, and eventually 450 versions of his story would be recorded. As the song—you may know Shelton as Stagolee or Stagger Lee—was shared and adapted, the emotions of the time were preserved, but the fact that the songs described real people, real lives, often fell by the wayside. Polenberg returns us to the men and women who, in song, became legends. The lyrics serve as valuable historical sources, providing important information about what had happened, why, and what it all meant. More important, they reflect the character of American life and the pathos elicited by the musical memory of these common and troubled lives.
The Woman who Came Between, by Miss Caroline Hart ...
Author: Caroline HartMountain Fiction from Abernethy to Zugsmith ... from 1832 to 1975
Author: Hutchins Library. Weatherford-Hammond Mountain CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Illustrated Catalogue of Books, Standard and Holiday
Author: McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Illustrated Catalogue of Books
Author: A.C. McClurg & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Publishers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
AB Bookman's Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
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