Author: Madeleine SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Murder)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Trial of Madeleine Smith
Author: Madeleine SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Murder)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith
Author: Douglas MacGowanPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857902725
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Discover the true story of Victorian Scotland's trial of the century. It was a case that rocked Victorian society. Emile L'Angelier was a working-class immigrant from the Channel Islands who began a clandestine affair with prominent Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith. Six weeks after Emile threatened to show Madeleine's father their passionate letters, on 23 March 1857, he was found dead from arsenic poisoning. The evidence against Madeleine seemed overwhelming as she went to trial for murdering her lover. Douglas MacGowan's vivid account reads by turns like a thriller, a love story and a courtroom drama. He quotes extensively from contemporary sources, notably the pathology reports, the trial testimony and the infamous correspondence between Madeleine and Emile, whose explicit content so shocked Victorian sensibilities. Ultimately it is up to the reader to judge Madeleine's guilt or innocence.
Women and Power at the French Court, 1483-1563
Author: Susan BroomhallPublisher:
ISBN: 9789462983427
Category : Courts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Women and Power at the French Court, 1483--1563 explores the ways in which a range of women " as consorts, regents, mistresses, factional power players, attendants at court, or as objects of courtly patronage " wielded power in order to advance individual, familial, and factional agendas at the early sixteenth-century French court. Spring-boarding from the burgeoning scholarship of gender, the political, and power in early modern Europe, the collection provides a perspective from the French court, from the reigns of Charles VIII to Henri II, a time when the French court was a renowned center of culture and at which women played important roles. Crossdisciplinary in its perspectives, these essays by historians, art and literary scholars investigate the dynamic operations of gendered power in political acts, recognized status as queens and regents, ritualized behaviors such as gift-giving, educational coteries, and through social networking, literary and artistic patronage, female authorship, and epistolary strategies.
Report of the Trial of Madeleine Smith
Author: Alexander Forbes IrvinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poisoning
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In the Vulgar Tongue
Author: A Surgeon in Arms
Author: R. J. ManionPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
This book is a first-hand account of life in the trenches during World War I, written by Captain R. J. Manion, M.C. of the Canadian Army Medical Corps. The book offers a unique perspective on the war, the daily struggles and dangers faced by soldiers in the trenches, as well as the challenges of providing medical care under such extreme conditions.
Wednesday's Child
Author: Rhea Côté RobbinsPublisher: Orono? Maine : s.n.
ISBN: 9780966853605
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Wednesday's Child is the winner of the Maine Chapbook Award. It is in its fourth printing. It is taught in many university courses. This is a book about a female growing up, living in, trying to leave her cultural self behind, and then returning to the Franco-American cultural group which exists in the Northeast, and more specifically in Waterville, Maine. The book addresses what has been asked of me to be present to this cultural group of people. As a girl/woman who or how have I been asked to be? What has been asked of me? The book is written from the perspective of a contemporary woman who is also a historical person. The book is also as much about the conditions in which the Franco-American group exists as well as the writing about what it means to be Franco-American and female. This is a book about how we are our historical self while we are in the present. I am more of my past--than I am of the present moment--when it is in the present moment that I now exist. What is, or is not, reflected in my reality and the reality of other Franco-Americans? This book is about the female self and her formation through the many individuals and institutions around her. Through story and cultural filters, the book illustrates family, friends, religion, health, alcoholism, superstitions, art & craft, beliefs, values, song, recipe, story, coming-of-age, generations, motherhood, language, bilingualism, denials, sexuality and what constitutes a cultural individual in a society that will not always allow that person full access or realization to who she is. But she does it anyway.
Bibliography of North American Geology
Author: Canuck and Other Stories
Author: Rhea Côté RobbinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Canuck and Other Stories Rhea Côté Robbins, Editor Canuck, by Camille Lessard Bissonnette, (1883-1970), translated by Sylvie Charron and Sue Huseman, is a book which reflects the French Canadian immigration experience from a young woman's point of view. The protagonist, Vic, is a very modern young woman who sets out to accomplish many things in her new country, the U.S. La Jeune Franco-Américaine, The Young Franco-American by Alberte Gastonguay, (1906-1978), translated by Madeleine C. Paré Roy is a study of the life of a young woman who is seeking her way in the world. She meets many suitors and comes to the conclusion of a satisfactory ending in the ways of traditional culture. Françaises d'Amérique, Frenchwomen of North America by Corinne Rocheleau Rouleau, (1881-1963), translated by Jeannine Bacon Roy, is a one act play which features the heroines who helped settle New France. This play proves their presence on the North American continent and is as fresh today as the day it was first presented.
Trial of Madeleine Smith
Author: Madeleine Hamilton SmithPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781377447650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
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