Author: William Bayley (of Yorkshire.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The bagman's bioscope
Author: William Bayley (of Yorkshire.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
More of a Man
Author: Andrew McIlwraithPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442611642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed financially and emotionally amidst challenging circumstances. The diaries trace his transformations, from an immigrant newcomer to a respected townsman, a wage worker to an entrepreneur, and a bachelor to a married man. Carefully edited and fully annotated by historians Andrew C. Holman and Robert B. Kristofferson, More of a Man features an introduction providing historical context for McIlwraith's life and an epilogue detailing what happened to him after the diaries end. Historians of labour, gender, and migration in the North Atlantic world will find More of a Man a valuable primary document of considerable insight and depth. All readers will find it a lively story of life in the nineteenth century.
Kings of Georgian Britain
Author: Catherine CurzonPublisher: Grub Street Publishers
ISBN: 1473871247
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This royal historian’s “lively study of the four Georges who sat on the English throne for over a century is a joy” (Jane Austen’s Regency World). For over one hundred years of turmoil, upheaval, and scandal, Great Britain was a Georgian land. From the day the German-speaking George I stepped off the boat from Hanover to the night that George IV, bloated and diseased, breathed his last at Windsor, the four kings had presided over a changing nation. Kings of Georgian Britain offers a fresh perspective on the lives of the four Georges and the events that shaped their characters and reigns. From love affairs to family feuds, political wrangling, and beyond, it is a chance to peer behind the pomp and follow these iconic figures from cradle to grave. After all, being a king isn’t always about grand parties and jaw-dropping jewels, and sometimes following in a father’s footsteps can be the hardest job around. Take a step back in time and meet the wives, mistresses, friends, and foes of these remarkable kings who shaped the nation, and find out what really went on behind closed palace doors. Whether dodging assassins, marrying for money, digging up their ancestors, or sparking domestic disputes that echoed down the generations, the kings of Georgian Britain were never short on drama. “[A] chronological series of amusing anecdotes. [Curzon is] often whimsical, has a good sense of pace and you can imagine her stifling a smirk while writing this unusual biography.” —History of Royals
Catalogue of a Valuable Library of Anglo-American Books
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375122357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, 1840-1870
Author: Bibliotheca Somersetensis
Author: Emanuel GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana. A Catalogue of Books Relating to the History and Literature of America
Author: Henry Stevens (F.S.A., of Vermont.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Auction catalogues of books
Author: Puttick and Simpson (messrs.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Late Alfred Henry Lewis of New York...books and Autographs Consigned by Mrs. Albert Tucker, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Levy, a Private Collector, a Gentleman of New York, and William V. Farrell of Brooklyn...Sold on [December 1st and 2nd, 1915]...at Unrestricted Public Sale by Mr. Thomas E. Kirby...of the American Art Association ...
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Author: American Art AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Author: Puttick and Simpson