Author: Sylvanus CobbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Autobiography of the First Forty-one Years of the Life of Sylvanus Cobb, D.D.
Author: Sylvanus CobbDavid Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Author: Iain Hamish MurrayPublisher: Banner of Truth
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
'The events that transported Martyn Lloyd-Jones from a glamorous Harley Street medical practice to a pastorate in an impoverished Welsh mining town make a magnificent biography.'Christianity Today.
A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography and Natural History. Edited by W. Smith
Author: William SmithFirst-year Text-book of Primary Arithmetic
Author: James Harmon HoosePublisher:
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Category : Arithmetic
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The Standard American Encyclopedia of Arts, Sciences, History, Biography, Geography, Statistics, and General Knowledge
Author: John Clark RidpathDictionary of National Biography
Author: A Political Biography of Jonathan Swift
Author: David OakleafPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317315510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Most famous as the author of "Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was one of the most important propagandists and satirists of his day. This study seeks to contextualize Swift within the political arena of his day.
The Bluestockings: A History of the First Women's Movement
Author: Susannah GibsonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393881393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit. In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era dictated, a clever woman—if there were such a thing—would never make a good wife. But a circle of women called the Bluestockings did something extraordinary: coming together in glittering salons to discuss and debate as intellectual equals with men, they fought for women to be educated and to have a public role in society. In this intimate and revelatory history, Susannah Gibson delves into the lives of these pioneering women. Elizabeth Montagu established one of the most famous salons of the Bluestocking movement, with everyone from royalty to revolutionaries clamoring for an invitation to attend. Her younger sister, Sarah Scott, imagined a female-run society and created a women’s commune. Meanwhile, Hester Thrale, who also had a salon, saved her husband’s brewery from bankruptcy and, after being widowed, married a man she loved—Italian, Catholic, and not of her social class. Other women made a name for themselves through their publications, including Catharine Macaulay, author of an eight-volume history of England, and Frances Burney, author of the audacious novel Evelina. In elegant prose, Gibson reveals the close and complicated relationships between these women, how they supported and admired each other, and how they sometimes judged and exploited one another. Some rebelled quietly, while others defied propriety with adventurous and scandalous lives. With moving stories and keen insight, The Bluestockings uncovers how a group of remarkable women slowly built up an eviscerating critique of their male-dominated world that society was not yet ready to hear.
The American Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge Arts, Sciences, History, Biography, Geography, Statistics, and General Knowledge
Author: William Harrison De PuyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Dictionary of American Biography, Including Men of the Time, Containing Nearly Ten Thousand Notices of Persons of Both Sexes of Native of Foreign Birth who Have Been Remarkable Or Prominently Connected with the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Politics, Or History of the American Continent
Author: Francis Samuel DrakePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description