Author: Lady Florence DixiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Isola, Or The Disinherited
Author: Lady Florence DixieThe Humane Review
Author: The Persecution and the Appreciation
Author: The American Stationer
Author: Isola, Or, The Disinherited
Author: Lady Florence DixieThe Woman Question
Author: Adeline ChampneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
American Co-operator
Author: The American Cooperator [devoted to the Ideals of a Cooperative Commonwealth].
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Author: In Nature's Name
Author: Barbara T. GatesPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226284446
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
From the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, hundreds of British women wrote about and drew from nature. Some—like the beloved children's author Beatrix Potter, who produced natural history about hedgehogs as well as fiction about rabbits—are still familiar today. But others have all but disappeared from view. Barbara Gates recovers these lost works and prints them alongside little-known pieces by more famous authors, like Potter's field notes on hedgehogs, reminding us of better known stories that help set the others in context. The works contained in this volume are as varied as the women who produced them. They include passionate essays on the protection of animals, vivid accounts of travel and adventure from the English seashore to the Indian Alps, poetry and fiction, and marvelous tales of nature for children. Special features of the book include a detailed chronology placing each selection in its historical and literary context; biographical sketches of each author's life and works; a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary literature; and over sixty illustrations. An ideal introduction to women's powerful and diverse responses to the natural world, In Nature's Name will be treasured by anyone interested in natural history, women, or Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
The Marquess of Queensberry
Author: Linda StratmannPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300194838
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
DIVThe Marquess of Queensberry is as famous for his role in the downfall of one of our greatest literary geniuses as he was for helping establish the rules for modern-day boxing. The trial and two-year imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, lover of Queensberry’s son, Lord Alfred Douglas, remains one of literary history’s great tragedies. However, Linda Stratmann's riveting biography of the Marquess paints a far more complex picture by drawing on new sources and unpublished letters. Throughout his life, Queensberry was emotionally damaged by a series of tragedies, and the events of the Wilde affair—told for the first time from the Marquess’s perspective—were directly linked to Queensberry’s personal crises. Through the retelling of pivotal events from Queensberry’s life—the death of his brother on the Matterhorn and his fruitless search for the body; the suicides of his father, brother, and eldest son—the book reveals a well-meaning man often stricken with a grief he found hard to express, who deserves our compassion./div