Author: John MILLS (Banker.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
From Tinder-Box to the "Larger" Light. Threads from the Life of John Mills, Banker ... Interwoven with Some Early Century Recollections by His Wife
Author: John MILLS (Banker.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
From Tinder-box to the "larger" Light
Author: John MillsFrom Tinder-box to the Larger Light
Author: Isabel Petrie MillsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bankers
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
The Women's Suffrage Movement
Author: Elizabeth CrawfordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135434026
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
This widely acclaimed book has been described by History Today as a 'landmark in the study of the women's movement'. It is the only comprehensive reference work to bring together in one volume the wealth of information available on the women's movement. Drawing on national and local archival sources, the book contains over 400 biographical entries and more than 800 entries on societies in England, Scotland and Wales. Easily accessible and rigorously cross-referenced, this invaluable resource covers not only the political developments of the campaign but provides insight into its cultural context, listing novels, plays and films.
Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
Author: Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Includes the Society's proceedings and list of members.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Divided Hearts
Author: Richard J. M. BlackettPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807126455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Divided Hearts explores the passionate political strife that raged in Britain as a result of the American Civil War. Moving beyond Mary Ellison's 1972 landmark regional study of Lancashire cotton workers' reactions, R. J. M. Blackett opens the subject to a new, wider transatlantic context of influence and undertakes a deftly researched and written sociological, intellectual, and political examination of who in Britain supported the Union, who the Confederacy, and why. The American Civil War had a profound effect on Britain's political culture; no other event during that period -- not in Poland, Hungary, Italy, or British colonies -- compared. Blackett argues that the traditional historiographical assessments of British partisanship along class and economic lines must be reevaluated in light of the nature and changing contours of transatlantic abolitionist connections, the ways in which nationalism framed the debate, and the effect that race -- among other issues -- exerted over the British public's perception of conditions in America. Divided Hearts presents a compelling and innovative thesis, one sure to engage scholars in many fields of history.
Building Their Own Waldos
Author: Robert D. HabichPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1587299631
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
By the end of the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson was well on his way to becoming the “Wisest American” and the “Sage of Concord,” a literary celebrity and a national icon. With that fame came what Robert Habich describes as a blandly sanctified version of Emerson held widely by the reading public. Building Their Own Waldos sets out to understand the dilemma faced by Emerson’s early biographers: how to represent a figure whose subversive individualism had been eclipsed by his celebrity, making him less a representative of his age than a caricature of it. Drawing on never-before-published letters, diaries, drafts, business records, and private documents, Habich explores the making of a cultural hero through the stories of Emerson’s first biographers— George Willis Cooke, a minister most recently from Indianapolis who considered himself a disciple; the English reformer and newspaper mogul Alexander Ireland, a friend for half a century; Moncure D. Conway, a Southern abolitionist then residing in London, who called Emerson his “spiritual father and intellectual teacher”; the poet and medical professor Oliver Wendell Holmes, with Emerson a member of Boston’s gathering of literary elite, the Saturday Club; James Elliot Cabot, the family’s authorized biographer, an architect and amateur philosopher with unlimited access to Emerson’s unpublished papers; and Emerson’s son Edward, a physician and painter whose father had passed over him as literary executor in favor of Cabot. Just as their biographies reveal a complex, socially engaged Emerson, so too do the biographers’ own stories illustrate the real-world perils, challenges, and motives of life-writing in the late nineteenth century, when biographers were routinely vilified as ghoulish and disreputable and biography as a genre underwent a profound redefinition. Building Their Own Waldos is at once a revealing look at Emerson’s constructed reputation, a case study in the rewards and dangers of Victorian life-writing, and the story of six authors struggling amidst personal misfortunes and shifting expectations to capture the elusive character of America’s “representative man,” as they knew him and as they needed him to be.
The Literary World
Author: The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.