Ruth the Betrayer, Or, The Female Spy ... With Fifty-one Illustrations
Author : Edward Ellis (novelist.)
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Page : 411 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 1863
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Author : Edward Ellis (novelist.)
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Page : 411 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 1863
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Author : Edward ELLIS (Novelist.)
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Page : 411 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 1863
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Author : Edward Ellis
Publisher : Valancourt Books
Page : 1138 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781948405225
One of the most thrilling of Victorian penny dreadfuls and possibly the first novel to feature a female detective, Ruth the Betrayer returns to print for the first time in over 150 years Ruth Trail leads a double life, working as a spy or informant for the London police while secretly executing her own black deeds of theft and murder. Over the course of the unflagging, action-packed 1100-page plot, we follow Ruth's criminal career as she uses her wits and beauty to gain wealth and power. Along the way, as we pass through the horrors of prisons, convents, and the criminal underworld, we meet a cast of memorable characters, including the murderous ruffian Death's Head, escaped convict Jack Rafferty, the sinister schemer Eneas Earthworm and his victim Alice Trevellyan, wrongly accused as a murderess, the bumbling but charming Captain Charley Crockford, and the unlucky Cadbury Kid. Originally published in weekly installments in 1862-63, Ruth the Betrayer; or, The Female Spy returns to print at last in this new edition, which includes an introduction and annotations by Dagni A. Bredesen, all 51 illustrations from the original edition, and an appendix featuring additional contextual material.
Author : Henry Vaughan PALMER
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 16,33 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : Anne-Julia Zwierlein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136669027
This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book places leading researchers of old age in nineteenth-century literature in dialogue with experts from the fields of cultural, legal and social history. It revisits the origins of many modern debates about aging in the nineteenth century – a period that saw the emergence of cultural and scientific frameworks for the understanding of old age that continue to be influential today. The contributors provide fresh readings of canonical texts by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, Henry James and others. The volume builds momentum in the burgeoning field of aging studies. It argues that the study of old age in the nineteenth century has entered a new and distinctly interdisciplinary phase that is characterized by a set of research interests that are currently shared across a range of disciplines and that explore conceptions of old age in the nineteenth century by privileging, respectively, questions of agency, of place, of gender and sexuality, and of narrative and aesthetic form.
Author : Edward Moore (of Abingdon.)
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Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,56 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : George Colman
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 12,42 MB
Release : 1877
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Author : Lord Byron
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Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,30 MB
Release : 1869
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Author : George Gordon Noël Byron
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Page : 488 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : John Thomas Dicks
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Page : 798 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 1883
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