Author: Mary Jane Holmes
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530864263
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Mary Jane Holmes (April 5, 1825 - October 6, 1907)[1] was a bestselling and prolific American author who published 39 popular novels, as well as short stories. Her first novel sold 250,000 copies; and she had total sales of 2 million books in her lifetime, second only to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Portraying domestic life in small-town and rural settings, she examined gender relationships, as well as those of class and race. She also dealt with slavery and the American Civil War with a strong sense of moral justice. Since the late 20th century she has received fresh recognition and reappraisal, although her popular work was excluded from most 19th-century literary histories.
Lena Rivers (1856) by Mary J. Holmes (Classics)
Author: Mary Jane Holmes
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530864263
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Mary Jane Holmes (April 5, 1825 - October 6, 1907)[1] was a bestselling and prolific American author who published 39 popular novels, as well as short stories. Her first novel sold 250,000 copies; and she had total sales of 2 million books in her lifetime, second only to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Portraying domestic life in small-town and rural settings, she examined gender relationships, as well as those of class and race. She also dealt with slavery and the American Civil War with a strong sense of moral justice. Since the late 20th century she has received fresh recognition and reappraisal, although her popular work was excluded from most 19th-century literary histories.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530864263
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Mary Jane Holmes (April 5, 1825 - October 6, 1907)[1] was a bestselling and prolific American author who published 39 popular novels, as well as short stories. Her first novel sold 250,000 copies; and she had total sales of 2 million books in her lifetime, second only to Harriet Beecher Stowe. Portraying domestic life in small-town and rural settings, she examined gender relationships, as well as those of class and race. She also dealt with slavery and the American Civil War with a strong sense of moral justice. Since the late 20th century she has received fresh recognition and reappraisal, although her popular work was excluded from most 19th-century literary histories.
'Lena Rivers
Author: Mary Jane Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
From Fireplace to Cookstove
Author: Priscilla J. Brewer
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815606505
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Priscilla J. Brewer examines the development and history of the first American appliance—the cast iron stove—that created a quiet, but culturally contested transformation of domestic life and sparked many important debates about the role of women, industrialization, the definition of social class, and the development of a consumer economy. Brewer explores the shift from fireplaces to stoves for cooking and heating in American homes, and sheds new light on the supposedly "separate spheres" of home and world of nineteenth- century America. She also considers the changing responses to technological development, the emergence of a consumption ethic, and the attempt to define and preserve distinct Anglo-American middle class culture. There are few works that treat this significant subject, and Brewer covers impressive new ground. Extensively documented—based on letters, diaries, probate inventories, census records, sales figures, advertisements, fiction, and advice literature-this book will be valuable to scholars of American history and women's studies.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815606505
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Priscilla J. Brewer examines the development and history of the first American appliance—the cast iron stove—that created a quiet, but culturally contested transformation of domestic life and sparked many important debates about the role of women, industrialization, the definition of social class, and the development of a consumer economy. Brewer explores the shift from fireplaces to stoves for cooking and heating in American homes, and sheds new light on the supposedly "separate spheres" of home and world of nineteenth- century America. She also considers the changing responses to technological development, the emergence of a consumption ethic, and the attempt to define and preserve distinct Anglo-American middle class culture. There are few works that treat this significant subject, and Brewer covers impressive new ground. Extensively documented—based on letters, diaries, probate inventories, census records, sales figures, advertisements, fiction, and advice literature-this book will be valuable to scholars of American history and women's studies.
“The” Athenaeum
Catalog of the Public School Library of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Author: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Complete Dictionary Catalogue of the Public School Library of Grand Rapids, Michigan
Author: Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Tempest and Sunshine
Author: Mary J. Holmes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752310170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Tempest and Sunshine by Mary J. Holmes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752310170
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Tempest and Sunshine by Mary J. Holmes
American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949: Fiction. Juvenile fiction
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1776
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1776
Book Description
The Homestead on the Hillside
The James Adams Floating Theatre
Author: C. Richard Gillespie
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The boat on which Edna Ferber based her famous novel brought excitement and entertainment to isolated small towns up and down the East Coast in early twentieth-century America. The builder of the boat, James E. Adams, was a farmer from Michigan who taught himself to be a circus aerialist, started and prospered with his own carnival company, and, when retirement proved boring, decided to build a showboat. The book traces the history of the James Adams from its inception until its demise twenty-seven years later, a tale that includes fires, sinkings, a shooting, arrests, and several deaths.
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The boat on which Edna Ferber based her famous novel brought excitement and entertainment to isolated small towns up and down the East Coast in early twentieth-century America. The builder of the boat, James E. Adams, was a farmer from Michigan who taught himself to be a circus aerialist, started and prospered with his own carnival company, and, when retirement proved boring, decided to build a showboat. The book traces the history of the James Adams from its inception until its demise twenty-seven years later, a tale that includes fires, sinkings, a shooting, arrests, and several deaths.