Author: Sarah SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The doctor's dilemma. By Hesba Stretton
Author: Sarah SmithDoctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton
Author: Hesba StrettonThe Doctor's Dilemma
Author: Hesba StrettonThe Doctor's Dilemma
Author: Hesba StrettonThe Doctor's Dilemma
Author: Hesba StrettonPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
The Doctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton is about the mystery of Olivia's life. Olivia is a runaway and otherwise a stranger to a kind widower and his deaf mother. They must piece together Olivia's past and find out who she is – and what she may have done. Excerpt: "I think I was as nearly mad as I could be; nearer madness, I believe, than I shall ever be again, thank God! Three weeks of it had driven me to the very verge of desperation. I cannot say here what had brought me to this pass, for I do not know into whose hands these pages may fall; but I had made up my mind to persist in a certain line of conduct which I firmly believed to be right, while those who had authority over me and were stronger than I was, were resolutely bent upon making me submit to their will. The conflict had been going on, more or less violently, for months; now I had come very near the end of it. I felt that I must either yield or go mad."
The Writings of Hesba Stretton
Author: Elaine LomaxPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351880217
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Highly respected as a writer by critics and commentators, Hesba Stretton (1832-1911) was a vigorous campaigner for the rights of oppressed minorities and a founding member of the London Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Though she is known today primarily as a writer of evangelical fiction for young people, including Jessica's First Prayer, this characterization fails to acknowledge the extensive range of her writings and social activism. Elaine Lomax re-examines Stretton's writing for children and adults, situating her body of work within the broad social and cultural context of its production to expose the depth and complexity of Stretton's engagement with contemporary ideas, debates, and discourses. Mining nineteenth-century periodicals, archival materials, and the minutes of the Religious Tract Society, as well as Stretton's own revealing log books, Lomax demonstrates Stretton's preoccupation with those at the bottom or on the margins of society. At the same time, she advances our understanding of the intersection of cultural and literary representations of the child and childhood with wider images of the colonized or excluded, and our knowledge of the history and development of juvenile literature and women's writing.
Author: R. S. Mair
Author: R. S. Mair
Author: James Hinton
Author: Alfred DONNÉ