Thomas Hood: His Life and Times
Author : Walter Jerrold
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Poets, English
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Author : Walter Jerrold
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 16,79 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Poets, English
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Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
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Author : Beth Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351937065
Like the figure of the governess, the seamstress occupied a unique place in the history of the nineteenth century, appearing frequently in debates about women's work and education, and the condition of the working classes generally in the rapidly changing capitalist marketplace. Like the governess, the figure of the needlewoman is ubiquitous in art, fiction and journalism in the nineteenth century. The fifteen articles in this book address the seamstress's appearance as a 'real' figure in the changing economies of nineteenth-century Britain, America, and France, and as an important cultural icon in the art and literature of the period. They treat the many different types of needlewomen in the nineteenth century-from skilled milliners and dressmakers, some of whom owned their own businesses selling merchandise to other women (forming a unique 'female economy') to women who, through reduced circumstances, were forced into the lowest end of paid needlework, sewing clothing at home for starvation wages-like the impoverished shirt-maker in the famous Victorian poem by Thomas Hood, 'The Song of the Shirt.' This volume assembles the work of leading American, British and Canadian scholars from many different fields, including art history, literary criticism, gender studies, labor history, business history, and economic history to draw together recent scholarship on needlewomen from a variety of different disciplines and methodologies. Famine and Fashion will therefore appeal to anyone studying images of work in the nineteenth century, popular and canonical nineteenth-century literature, the history of women's work, the history of sweated labor, the origins of the ready-made clothing industry and early feminism.
Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher :
Page : 1354 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher :
Page : 1368 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Michael Hughes
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,77 MB
Release : 2014-02-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1783740124
This biography examines the long life of the traveller and author Stephen Graham. Graham walked across large parts of the Tsarist Empire in the years before 1917, describing his adventures in a series of books and articles that helped to shape attitudes towards Russia in Britain and the United States. In later years he travelled widely across Europe and North America, meeting some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, including H.G.Wells and Ernest Hemingway. Graham also wrote numerous novels and biographies that won him a wide readership on both sides of the Atlantic. This book traces Graham’s career as a world traveller, and provides a rich portrait of English, Russian and American literary life in the first half of the twentieth century. It also examines how many aspects of his life and writing coincide with contemporary concerns, including the development of New Age spirituality and the rise of environmental awareness. Beyond Holy Russia is based on extensive research in archives of private papers in Britain and the USA and on the many works of Graham himself. The author describes with admirable tact and clarity Graham’s heterodox and convoluted spiritual quest. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who was for many years a significant literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic.
Author : George Somes Layard
Publisher : London : Sir Isaac Pitman
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Editors
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Author : Bruce Taylor
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2008-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1783469803
“A wonderfully illustrated biography” of one of history’s greatest warships whose sinking “signaled the end of the surety that Britannia ruled the waves” (War History Online). Unmatched for beauty, unequalled for size, for twenty years the HMS Hood was the glory ship of the Royal Navy, flying the flag across the world in the twilight years of the British Empire. Here, in words, photos and color illustrations, is the story of her life, her work and her people from keel-laying on the Clyde in 1916 to destruction at the hands of the Bismarck in 1941. Among the eyecatching strengths of the book is a unique gallery of photos, including stills from a recently discovered piece of color footage of the ship, plus a spectacular set of computer-generated images of both the exterior and interior by the world’s leading exponent of the art—a man who worked with the film director James Cameron (of Titanic fame). A wealth of new information on Hood’s structure and operation make it essential reading for the enthusiast, modeler and historian alike. Hugely successful from its first publication, this is the third printing of the ultimate book on the ultimate ship of the pre-war era. “The most comprehensive study of a modern warship ever undertaken.”—Warship World
Author : Marjorie Bowen
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 1908
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Author : Walter Jerrold
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 1907
Category : English poetry
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