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Languages : en
Pages : 726
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The American Foundations of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
Author: Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the Province of Quebec for the Year ...
Author: Québec (Province). Department of Public InstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the Province of Québec
Author: Québec (Province). Department of Public InstructionPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Charles Dickens in Love
Author: Robert GarnettPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453271570
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In celebration of the bicentennial of Charles Dickens’s birth, here is Dickens as you have never seen him before: an intimate and engaging portrait of the great author and the women he loved. “To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips whereI have opened my heart.” —Charles Dickens When Charles Dickens died in 1870 he was the best-known man in the English-speaking world—the preeminent Victorian celebrity, universally mourned as both a noble spirit and the greatest of novelists. Yet when the first person named in his will turned out to be an unknown woman named Ellen Ternan, only a handful of people had any idea who she was. Of his romance with Ellen, Dickens had written, “it belongs to my life and probably will only die out of the same with the proprietor,” and so it was—until his death she remained the most important person in his life. She was not the first woman who had fired his imagination. As a young man he had fallen deeply in love with a woman who “pervaded every chink and crevice” of his mind for three years, Maria Beadnell, and when she eventually jilted him he vowed that “I never can love any human creature but yourself.” A few years later he was stunned by the sudden death of his young sister-in-law, Mary Scott Hogarth, and worshiped her memory for the rest of his life. “I solemnly believe that so perfect a creature never breathed,” he declared, and when he died over thirty years later he was still wearing her ring. Charles Dickens has no rival as the most fertile creative imagination since William Shakespeare, and no one influenced his imagination more powerfully than these three women, his muses and teachers in the school of love. Using hundreds of primary sources, Charles Dickens in Love narrates the story of the most intense romances of Dickens’s life and shows how his novels both testify to his own strongest affections and serve as memorials to the young women he loved all too well, if not always wisely.
The Life and Letters of William Sharp and "Fiona Macleod". Volume 1: 1855-1894
Author: William F. HalloranPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783745037
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and for more than a decade "Fiona Macleod" duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as William Butler Yeats and, in America, E. C. Stedman. Sharp wrote "I feel another self within me now more than ever; it is as if I were possessed by a spirit who must speak out". This three-volume collection brings together Sharp’s own correspondence – a fascinating trove in its own right, by a Victorian man of letters who was on intimate terms with writers including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Walter Pater, and George Meredith – and the Fiona Macleod letters, which bring to life Sharp’s intriguing "second self". With an introduction and detailed notes by William F. Halloran, this richly rewarding collection offers a wonderful insight into the literary landscape of the time, while also investigating a strange and underappreciated phenomenon of late-nineteenth-century English literature. It is essential for scholars of the period, and it is an illuminating read for anyone interested in authorship and identity.
Florence Nightingale
Author: Florence NightingalePublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889204691
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Emissions data (2006) from the Energy Information Administration, population (2007) from the Population Reference Bureau. Chart prepared by Lynn McDonald and Patricia Warwick. --
The Catholic Church in the United States: Pages of its History
Author: Henry de CourcyPublisher: New York : E. Dunigan
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Languages : en
Pages : 612
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The Catholic Church in the United States
Author: Henri de CourcyVenerable John Neumann, C.SS.R.
Author: Michael Joseph CurleyPublisher:
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Category : Bishops
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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