Author: Eliza LesliePublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Pencil Sketches; Or Outlines of Character and Manners: The Wilson House. The album. The reading parties. The set of china. Laura Lovel. John W. Robertson. The ladies' ball
Author: Eliza LesliePublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Wilson House. The album. The reading parties. The set of china. Laura Lovel. John W. Robertson. The ladies' ball
Author: Eliza LeslieSelections from Eliza Leslie
Author: Eliza LesliePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803238096
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Best known for her culinary and domestic guides and the award-winning short story “Mrs. Washington Potts,” Eliza Leslie deserves a much more prominent place in contemporary literary discussions of the nineteenth century. Her writing, known for its overtly moralistic and didactic tones—though often presented with wit and humor—also provides contemporary readers with a nuanced perspective for understanding the diversity among American women in Leslie’s time. Leslie’s writing serves as a commentary on gender ideals and consumerism; presents complicated constructions of racial, national, and class-based identities; and critiques literary genres such as the Gothic romance and the love letter. These criticisms are exposed through the juxtaposition of her fiction and nonfiction instructive texts, which range from lessons on literary conduct to needlework; from recipes for American and French culinary dishes to travel sketches; from songs to educational games. Demonstrating the complexity of choices available to women at the time, this volume enables readers to see how Leslie’s rhetoric and audience awareness facilitated her ability to appeal to a broad swath of the nineteenth-century reading public.
The Crayon Miscellany: Legends of the conquest of Spain
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
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Category : Spain
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Hawks of Hawk-hollow
Author: Robert Montgomery BirdPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Legends of the conquest of Spain
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
American Fiction, 1774-1850
Author: Lyle Henry WrightPublisher:
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The New Sabin
Author: Lawrence Sidney ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Short Fiction by Women to 1900
Author: Gwenn DavisPublisher: Burns & Oates
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A bibliography of 6200 entries of short fiction by women writers in English, defined to include both traditional forms such as the novella, short story, prose character and the sketch, and other forms such as moral tales, collections of legends and folklore, prose allegories and proverb stories.
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