Author: Elizabeth Hatfield GloverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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A Glover Family History
Author: Elizabeth Hatfield GloverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-century Scotland
Author: Katharine GloverPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843836815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Women are shown to have played an important and very visible role in society at the time. Fashionable "polite" society of this period emphasised mixed-gender sociability and encouraged the visible participation of elite women in a series of urban, often public settings. Using a variety of sources (both men's and women's correspondence, accounts, bills, memoirs and other family papers), this book investigates the ways in which polite social practices and expectations influenced the experience of elite femininity in Scotland in the eighteenth century. It explores women's education and upbringing; their reading practices; the meanings of the social spaces and activities in which they engaged and how this fed over into the realm of politics; and the fashion for tourism at home and abroad. It also asks how elite women used polite social spaces and practices to extend their mental horizons and to form a sense of belonging to a public at a time when Scotland was among the most intellectually vibrant societies in Europe.
Bulletin: The Life and Entomological Work of the Late Townend Glover, First Estomologist of the U. S. Departement Agriculture
Author: Charles Richards DodgePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385324270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1888.
Maternal Bodies
Author: Nora DoylePublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469637200
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In the second half of the eighteenth century, motherhood came to be viewed as women's most important social role, and the figure of the good mother was celebrated as a moral force in American society. Nora Doyle shows that depictions of motherhood in American culture began to define the ideal mother by her emotional and spiritual roles rather than by her physical work as a mother. As a result of this new vision, lower-class women and non-white women came to be excluded from the identity of the good mother because American culture defined them in terms of their physical labor. However, Doyle also shows that childbearing women contradicted the ideal of the disembodied mother in their personal accounts and instead perceived motherhood as fundamentally defined by the work of their bodies. Enslaved women were keenly aware that their reproductive bodies carried a literal price, while middle-class and elite white women dwelled on the physical sensations of childbearing and childrearing. Thus motherhood in this period was marked by tension between the lived experience of the maternal body and the increasingly ethereal vision of the ideal mother that permeated American print culture.
A Guide to Records of Ante-bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution Through the Civil War
Author: Kenneth Milton StamppPublisher:
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Category : Plantation life
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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College of Charleston Voices
Author: Katherine E. ChaddockPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614235600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
In 1770, the founders of the College of Charleston realized their dream of establishing an institution built upon the goal of instructing young minds with a traditional liberal arts education. As the oldest institution of higher learning in South Carolina, the College of Charleston has played an integral role in the development of a variety of young men and women from the Palmetto State and beyond. Numbering in the hundreds of thousands, this group of studentscurrent and formerhas enjoyed a unique college experience that they have chronicled and shared in letters to family and friends, diaries, student newspapers, journals and, more recently, e-mails. These personal accounts reveal the effect that the College of Charleston has had on its students for generations, and the ways in which those students have shaped the colleges long history. This engaging book features a collection of correspondences written by College of Charleston students, from the schools earliest years to the present day. Individually, these writings offer a candid glimpse into students daily lives during several periods throughout the colleges history. Considered together, the thoughts, concerns and opinions found within paint a fascinating picture of the past at the College of Charleston.
Bulletin
Author: Flesh Wounds
Author: Richard GloverPublisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1460705025
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
A deluded mother who invented her past, an alcoholic father who couldn't deal with the present, a son who wondered if this could really be his family. Richard Glover's favourite dinner party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed-toy collector. There was his father, a distant alcoholic, who ran through a gamut of wives, yachts and failed dreams. And there was Richard himself, a confused teenager, vulnerable to strange men, trying to find a family he could belong to. As he eventually accepted, the only way to make sense of the present was to go back to the past - but beware of what you might find there. Truth can leave wounds - even if they are only flesh wounds. Part poignant family memoir, part hopeful search for the truth, this is a book for anyone who's wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet. The answer: 'No'. There is always something stranger out there. PRAISE FOR FLESH WOUNDS 'Both poignant and wildly entertaining' - Sydney Morning Herald 'A new classic ... a breathtaking accomplishment in style and empathy' - The Australian 'Heartbreaking and hilarious ... I couldn't put it down' - Sun Herald 'Engrossing and extremely funny'- The Saturday Paper 'Not since Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James has there been a funnier, more poignant portrait of an Australian childhood.' - Australian Financial Review 'Sad, funny, revealing, optimistic and hopeful' - Jeanette Winterson
The Riggs War, 1913 to 1916
Author: Paul RyscavagePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1683930770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson opened the nation’s door to an era of reform. To help him, he brought to Washington men imbued with a progressive spirit—and in some, grudges as well! Before work on reforms got underway, two high ranking officials of the Treasury Department attacked a local bank over its banking practices. The bank officers had close ties to Wall Street; the Treasury officials were no friends of Wall Street (with scars to prove it). Aggressive bank examinations, hostile interviews, and accusatory letters ensued, eventually resulting in the bank filing an injunction against the government. But after an acrimonious court hearing, the injunction appeared to have failed. Indeed, a grand jury indicted the bank officers of perjury. In 1916, a three-week criminal trial of the bankers took place in which former Presidents Taft and Roosevelt appeared on behalf of the bankers. It was a cause celebre in the nation’s capital and much of the country. When the verdict was reached it was clear “bad blood” had been spilled everywhere—and this nasty, little war had been more than just about reform.
Papers and Proceedings of the Bergen County Historical Society
Author: Bergen County Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bergen County (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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