Queen of Publishers' Row: Mrs. Frank Leslie
Author : Madeleine B. Stern
Publisher : New York : J. Messner
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Women publishers
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Author : Madeleine B. Stern
Publisher : New York : J. Messner
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Women publishers
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Author : Madeleine Stern
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Page : pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 1948
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Page : 970 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Madeline B. Stern
Publisher : Main Street Books
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307874532
Louisa May Alcott once wrote that she had taken her pen for a bridegroom. Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern, friends and business partners for fifty years, have in many ways taken up their pens and passion for literature much in the same way. The "Holmes & Watson" of the rare book business, Rostenberg and Stern are renowned for unlocking the hidden secret of Louisa May Alcott's life when they discovered her pseudonym, A.M. Barnard, along with her anonymously published "blood and thunder" stories on subjects like transvestitism, hashish smoking, and feminism. Old Books, Rare Friends describes their mutual passion for books and literary sleuthing as they take us on their earliest European book buying jaunts. Using what they call Finger-spitzengefühl, the art of evaluating antiquarian books by handling, experience, and instinct, we are treated to some of their greatest discoveries amid the mildewed basements of London's booksellers after the Blitz. We experience the thrill of finding one of the earliest known books printed in America between 1617-1619 by the Pilgrim Press and learn about the influential role of publisher-printers from the fifteenth century. Like a precious gem, Old Books, Rare Friends is a book to treasure about the companionship of two rare friends and their shared passion for old books.
Author : Mrs. Frank Leslie
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 25,29 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Popular literature
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Author : Madeleine B. Stern
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1477305149
An abolitionist and a champion of free love and women’s rights would seem decidedly out of place in nineteenth-century Texas, but such a man was Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812–1886), American reformer, civil rights proponent, pioneer in sociology, advocate of reformed spelling, lawyer, and eccentric philosopher. Since his life mirrored and often anticipated the various reform movements spawned not only in Texas but in the United States in the nineteenth century, this first biography of him sharply reflects and elucidates his times. The extremely important role Andrews played in the abolition movement in this country has not heretofore been accorded him. After having witnessed slavery in Louisiana during the 1830s, Andrews came to Texas and began his career as an abolitionist with an audacious attempt to free the slaves there. His singular career, however, comprised many more activities than abolitionism, and most have long been forgotten by historians. He introduced Pitman shorthand into the United States as a means of teaching the uneducated to read; his role in the community of Modern Times, Long Island, was as important as that of Josiah Warren, the “first American anarchist,” although Andrews’s participation in this communal venture, along with the significance of Modern Times itself, has been underestimated. Other causes which Andrews supported included free love and the rights of women, dramatized by his journalistic debate with Horace Greeley and Henry James, Sr., and by his endorsement of Victoria Woodhull as the first woman candidate for the Presidency of the United States. These interests, together with his consequent involvement in the Beecher-Tilton Scandal, provide insight into some of the more colorful aspects of nineteenth-century American reform movements. Andrews’s attacks upon whatever infringed on individual freedom brought him into diverse arenas—economic, sociological, and philosophical. The philosophical system he developed included among its tenets the sovereignty of the individual, a science of society, a universal language (his Alwato long preceded Esperanto), the unity of the sciences, and a “Pantarchal United States of the World.” His philosophy has never before been epitomized nor have its applications to later thought been considered. “I have made it the business of my life to study social laws,” Andrews wrote. “I see now a new age beginning to appear.” This biography of the dynamic reformer examines those social laws and that still-unembodied new age. It reanimates a heretofore neglected American reformer and casts new light upon previously unexplored bypaths of nineteenth-century American social history. The biography is fully documented, based in part upon a corpus of unpublished material in the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
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Page : 84 pages
File Size : 11,72 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : Dick Weindling
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 35,64 MB
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0752486411
The Marquis de Leuville
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Page : 1314 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 1887
Category : American newspapers
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Author : Roland Edgar Wolseley
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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