Varieties of Vice-regal Life
Author : Sir William Denison
Publisher : London : Longmans, Green
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Australia
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Author : Sir William Denison
Publisher : London : Longmans, Green
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 10,57 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Australia
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Author : Sir William Thomas Denison
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 34,50 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Governors
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Author : Kelly Donahue-Wallace
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0826334598
A chronological overview of important art, sculpture, and architectural monuments of colonial Latin America within the economic and religious contexts of the era.
Author : Lillian Estelle Fisher
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 1926
Category : California
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Author : Dr. Frances Carruthers with Martin Duffy
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 38,13 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 178901400X
By the start of the 20th century many Irish people were living in squalor: the country's infant mortality rate was the highest in Europe and tuberculosis was rampant. The daunting and tireless Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, wife of the British Viceroy to Ireland, devoted herself to social changes that could save lives. But she often faced ridicule because of the contrast between her own high status and her concern for the common man. Arthur Griffith, future president of Ireland, publicly nicknamed her The Viceregal Microbe. This book tells the story of the friction between the struggle for Irish independence and the 'good works' of the Anglo-Irish elite. The mainly Protestant and upper-class women who gathered around Lady Aberdeen through the Women's National Health Association she founded were all fine people with good hearts. But Irish Nationalists treated them with suspicion, and progress in the war against tuberculosis was the casualty. Lady Abderdeen became ever more radical in her campaign for better living conditions for Ireland's poor. The Chief Medical Officer of the Guinness Brewery, John Lumsden, was one of her close allies. By the end of her decades of work (most intensely 1906-1915) in Ireland, Ishbel Aberdeen became as out-spoken as the trade union rebel 'Big Jim' Larkin. She was a strong woman and often alienated people by her relentlessness. She drove herself to exhaustion and her family almost to bankruptcy in her campaign for a better life for Ireland's poor. But in the end she was doomed to be viewed as part of the system of British rule over Ireland. And history belongs to the victor. The contribution of Lady Aberdeen and her volunteers to the welfare of Ireland's poor and sick was largely forgotten in the wake of the country's independence and its nationalist fervour.
Author : George William Frederick HOWARD (7th Earl of Carlisle.)
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Page : 66 pages
File Size : 23,31 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Margaret Mary Feudge
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Mexico
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Author : Anna Cowen
Publisher : Miegunyah Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780522871272
Sunday, 8 January 1978 I have decided to keep a diary during Zelman's term of office as Governor-General. I am pleased, because I forget so much and the re-reading of a sentence brings whole occasions, scenes, and otherwise forgotten things, vividly back to mind... And so begins an extraordinary record of the life of a Governor-General's wife. Lady Anna Cowen's edited diaries capture the day-to-day life--the wardrobe fittings, the running of an enormous household--as well as the pomp and circumstance of vice-regal duties during the term Sir Zelman Cowen, the 'healing Governor-General', served after the dismissal by Sir John Kerr of the Whitlam government.
Author : Harriot Georgina Blackwood Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 1890
Category : India
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Author : Harriot of Dufferin & Ava
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 1889
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