Author : Anna Dean
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312626843
The third installment in Dean's charming mystery series is a captivating continuation of the Dido Kent series: rich in suspense, historical detail, and most of all, characters.
Author : Xavière Gauthier
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9782080300911
An inspiring illustrated history of a century of great women and their impact on the world. Many of the world s greatest pioneers, record-breakers, and achievers over the last century were women. This anthology highlights some of the most accomplished women in the fields of sports, the arts, politics, social justice, and the sciences, in five accessible chapters. The work encompasses familiar names and unsung heroines alike, from Nobel prize-winning biologist Barbara McClintock to social activists Jane Addams and Aung San Suu Kyi, to the world s first female president, Virdis Finnbogadottir, to modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan. Complete with color illustrations, this volume recounts the trials and triumphs these women faced in achieving their goals, and evaluates the impact they had on their respective fields."
Author : Anna Dean
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 22,38 MB
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429942568
“A clever Regency sleuth” investigates a supposedly haunted abbey—and a decidedly suspicious death—in this “excellent mystery” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). England, 1806. With a downturn in family finances, Miss Dido Kent is compelled to reside at her brother’s country vicarage. But the rural environs offer plenty of stimulation, especially when her friend Penelope suffers a fall at a historic abbey. Before she slips into unconsciousness, Penelope proclaims, ‘I saw her—It was her.’ Soon people are certain that she saw the Grey Nun, a ghost reputed to walk the abbey’s ruins. Dido, however, does not approve of ghosts. Disregarding the chatter, she resolves to investigate the mystery. But the case turns sinister when a human skeleton is found in the abbey lake. Could the discovery be connected to Penelope’s accident? Everyone is relying on Dido to find out.
Author : Kim Fridkin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231103039
The Political Consequences of Being a Woman explores how women's perceived liabilities and capabilities make or, more often, break their campaigns.
Author : Diana Greene Foster
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 16,15 MB
Release : 2021-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1982141573
"Now with a new afterword by the author"--Back cover.
Author : Maureen Kerr
Publisher :
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 2014-01-29
Category :
ISBN : 9780956193278
If you are interested in 19th century fiction, and cannot find a story of a woman who is lowly born, and not rich or famous, then this tale may interest you. So much of 19th century fiction depicts large houses, lovely clothes, plenty to eat, and idleness born of not having to work. Rosie Randall has to work if she is to avoid the workhouse when her husband dies and she is left with a baby to bring up. She works as a seamstress, sewing garments, and household drapery for those of the middle classes who do not have as many servants as the wealthy. This tale is of her life, from 1817, when she is born to her death 100years later, during the 1st world war An ordinary woman, a woman of no consequence This is 19th century fiction unlike most others. The story is a woman born during the Regency, and tells the tale of her life through from her childhood, to employment as a Dairymaid age ten, and her disastrous marriage. When her husband dies, she is left with a baby to support and no home, until her stepmother offers her a job as a seamstress, and a home. She does find love, but he is killed at Crimea. It appears she is to have a very lonely old age as members of her family die. Will she die without finding happiness?
Author : Martha Moffitt Peacock
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004432159
A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.
Author : Gregory Wolos
Publisher : Regal House Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,12 MB
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 9781947548497
A collection of stories featuring women of strength and consequence that have won awards sponsored by Solstice, Gulf Stream, New South, and the Rubery Book Awards, and have earned six Pushcart Prize nominations.
Author : Raquel Annette St. Clair
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451416474
* A womanist reading of the Gospel of Mark * Addresses questions of the necessity of suffering
Author : Terri Evert Karsten
Publisher : Abbott Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1458218260
It is 1754 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Callie Beaton is nearly twenty, single, and determined not to marry anyone her grandfather deems worthy. But after her impulsive flight from yet another unwanted suitor leads her to the pier one rainy evening, Callie is mistaken for someone else and dragged aboard a ship. Trapped in a dark hold and at the mercy of strangers, Callie has no idea the ship is headed for a bustling port city across the ocean in America. Wracked with seasickness, unable to convince the ships captain she is not who he thinks she is, and with only one tattered dress to her name, Callie somehow survives the horrid journey. She arrives in colonial Philadelphia penniless, nameless, and alone in a strange place. Two men offer her help: Ethan Asher, a handsome gentleman with a hidden past, and Davy McRae, a charming ship captain with a dangerous secret. Neither seems trustworthy, but when tragedy strikes, Callie is caught in the middle and must choose one of them to help her if she is to save herself and her newfound friends from disaster. In this historical romantic adventure, a Scottish lass who finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time unwittingly embarks on a journey across the ocean to a new beginning where she searches for love, belonging, and ultimately her true destiny.
