The Old Manor House
Author : Charlotte Smith
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 1822
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Author : Charlotte Smith
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Page : 276 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 1822
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Author : Charlotte Turner Smith
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Page : 810 pages
File Size : 41,26 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : Charlotte Smith
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 1820
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Author : Charlotte Smith
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 2002-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770482113
In The Old Manor House (1794), Charlotte Smith combines elements of the romance, the Gothic, recent history, and culture to produce both a social document and a compelling novel. A "property romance," the love story of Orlando and Monimia revolves around the Manor House as inheritable property. In situating their romance as dependent on the whims of property owners, Smith critiques a society in love with money at the expense of its most vulnerable members, the dispossessed. Appendices in this edition include: contemporary responses; writings on the genre debate by Anna Letitia Barbauld, John Moore, and Walter Scott; and historical documents focusing on property laws as well as the American and French revolutions.
Author : George Etell Sargent
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Armada, 1588
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Author : G. C. Skipper
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780516034720
While doing research for their term paper, two youngsters find it difficult to ignore rumors about the ghosts haunting the site of a colonial ironworks.
Author : Duncan Wu
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 1999-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780631218777
The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.
Author : Angela Brazil
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 17,46 MB
Release : 2010-08-06
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ISBN : 0557437946
Angela Brazil was one of the first British writers of "modern" schoolgirl's stories, with over 50 books written in the first half of the 20th century. Her books were widely read in both Great Britain and America. Even though interest in the genre decreased after World War II, her books remained popular until the 1960s.
Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Vendome Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780865651562
Most still privately owned, these manor houses are scattered all over England, & range from simple Norman halls to picturesque Tudor homes, many dating from the reign of the Stuarts.
Author : Mac Griswold
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1466837012
Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago. In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large—twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide—had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, New York, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, The Manor is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering. It is a monumental achievement.