Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393322859
Luisa de la Cueva and her family leave their home on a small Caribbean island and try to start a new life in the barrios of New York.
Author : Paula Fox
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393342093
"A rare and wondrous thing....[Fox] knows how to create a character."—Vogue Luisa de la Cueva was born on the Caribbean island of Malagita, of a plantation owner's son and a native woman, a servant in the kitchen. Her years on Malagita were sweet with the beauty of bamboo, banana, and mango trees with flocks of silver-feathered guinea hens underneath, the magic of a victrola, and the caramel flan that Mama sneaked home from the plantation kitchen. Luisa's father, fearing revolution, takes his family to New York. In the barrio his once-powerful name means nothing, and the family establishes itself in a basement tenement. For Luisa, Malagita becomes a dream. Luisa does not dream of going to college, as her friend Ellen does, or of winning the lottery, as her father does. She takes a job as a servant and, paradoxically, grows more independent. She marries and later raises a son alone. She works as a servant all her life. A Servant's Tale is the story of a life that is simple on the surface but full of depth and richness as we come to know it, a story told with consummate grace and compassion by Paula Fox.
Author : Paul Jackson
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2011-08
Category :
ISBN : 1770676562
In April of 1860, on her 17th birthday, Anne's father gave her Wexford, a 15,000-acre cotton and tobacco plantation. He also gave her a new body servant, whom Anne named Moragan. Moragan is not a conventional slave. She is about 10, Irish, and has a habit of speaking her mind - a trait that annoys Anne profoundly! Moragan, does not know the rules and conventions of being a slave - much less being a body servant, so Anne trains her. It is not an easy task for either one of them, and Moragan is certain her behind will be completely worn away before she learns to behave! As America begins to fall apart at the seams, Anne and Moragan begin to forge a completely different relationship. Moragan runs Wexford House for Anne, and she learns what it means to be a slave from both perspectives: owner and owned. Anne always reminds Moragan that she and all the other servants are only stock, and not 'people'. Both of them are products of their time: and as Anne learns how to govern the society under her, she and Moragan discover who they truly are.
Author : Margaret Frazer
Publisher : Jove
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Catholics
ISBN : 9780515111637
From the author of The Novice's Tale, a new Sister Frevisse medieval mystery. It's not a very merry Christmas for the sisters of St. Frideswide when they welcome a troupe of actors in from the cold . . . and open the nunnery door to murder. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Melanie Dickerson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0718026764
New York Times bestselling author Melanie Dickerson beautifully re-imagines “The Goose Girl” by the Brothers Grimm into a medieval tale of adventure, loss, and love. “When it comes to happily-ever-afters, Melanie Dickerson is the undisputed queen of fairy-tale romance, and all I can say is—long live the queen!” —JULIE LESSMAN, award-winning author of The Daughters of Boston, Winds of Change, and Heart of San Francisco series She lost everything to the scheme of an evil servant. But she might just gain what she’s always wanted . . . if she makes it in time. The impossible was happening. She, Magdalen of Mallin, was to marry the Duke of Wolfberg. Magdalen had dreamed about receiving a proposal ever since she met the duke two years ago. Such a marriage was the only way she could save her people from starvation. But why would a handsome, wealthy duke want to marry her, a poor baron’s daughter? It seemed too good to be true. On the journey to Wolfberg Castle, Magdalen’s servant forces her to trade places and become her servant, threatening not only Magdalen’s life, but the lives of those she holds dear. Stripped of her identity and title in Wolfberg, where no one knows her, Magdalen is sentenced to tend geese while she watches her former handmaiden gain all Magdalen had ever dreamed of. When a handsome shepherd befriends her, Magdalen begins to suspect he carries secrets of his own. Together, Magdalen and the shepherd uncover a sinister plot against Wolfberg and the duke. But with no resources, will they be able to find the answers, the hiding places, and the forces they need in time to save both Mallin and Wolfberg?
Author : Elizabeth Fumero Muren
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 2017-11
Category :
ISBN : 9780692946237
Author : Suzanne Barchers
Publisher : Red Chair Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1936163896
The Lord of Luchow was a kind man, but his people are threatened with war. A loyal servant finds a way to protect his master and bring peace to the lands. Themes: bravery, intelligence, devotion.
Author : Kathleen Hudson
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1786833409
This volume provides readers with a comprehensive literary and historical basis for understanding servant characters and servant narratives in the early Gothic mode. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, servants were ‘othered’ figures whose voices had the potential to undermine socio-political and personal identity. This study recasts servant characters within the early Gothic mode as ‘narrators’ who verbally or non-verbally perform dialogue, moral insights and folkloric or gossip-based stories. Examining the development of servant narrative within the early Gothic mode, Servants and the Gothic outlines the socio-historical and literary influences which defined the servant voice during the eighteenth century, as well as identifying and expanding upon the ways in which servant narratives contributed to each author’s unique goals. It redefines servant narratives as a Gothic ‘performance’, a self-conscious self-examination of the ways in which a Gothic narrative impacts literary, social and personal identity.
Author : Servants
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 26,23 MB
Release : 1855
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Henrietta O'Brien BOAS
Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 1919
Category :
ISBN :
