Author: Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie
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Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Author: Anna Cora Ritchie
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9361426761
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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"Fairy Fingers: A Novel" by Anna Cora Ritchie is a fascinating tale set inside the vibrant social scene of nineteenth-century New York City. The novel follows the protagonist, Ethel Stanwood, a skilled younger pianist whose skillful playing earns her the nickname "Fairy Fingers." As Ethel navigates the complexities of society existence, she encounters a various forged of characters, including rich elites, suffering artists, and formidable social climbers. Amidst the glittering ballrooms and elegant salons of excessive society, Ethel need to navigate romantic entanglements, circle of relatives drama, and the pressures of preserving her popularity as a virtuoso musician. Throughout the unconventional, Ritchie masterfully explores themes of love, ambition, and the pursuit of happiness against the backdrop of a swiftly changing society. Ethel's journey toward self-discovery and achievement is each poignant and relatable, as she grapples with the expectations placed upon her by means of others at the same time as striving to carve out her personal path in existence. With its richly drawn characters and evocative descriptions of Gilded Age New York, "Fairy Fingers" is an undying story of ardour, ambition, and the iconic strength of music to transcend social obstacles.

Author: Mem Fox
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152060572
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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As everyone knows, nothing is sweeter than tiny baby fingers and chubby baby toes. . . . And here, from two of the most gifted picture-book creators of our time, is a celebration of baby fingers, baby toes, and the joy they--and the babies they belong to--bring to everyone, everywhere, all over the world This is a gorgeously simple picture book for very young children, and once you finish the rhythmic, rhyming text, all you'll want to do is go back to the beginning . . . and read it again The luminous watercolor illustrations of these roly-poly little ones from a variety of backgrounds are adorable, quirky, and true to life, right down to the wrinkles, dimples, and pudges in their completely squishable arms, legs, and tummies.

Author: Abram Smythe Palmer
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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Author: Kobe Van Herwegen
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ISBN: 9780989231787
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Languages : en
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Suzy Wandas came from the humblest of beginnings.Nothing about her entry into the world was auspicious, nor did it portend to her future as a star on the stages of Europe, England, or America. Instead, Jeanne Van Dyck was born in the back of a fairground wagon in Brussels in 1896.Yet in the male-dominated world of magic, under the stage name Suzy Wandas, her light - her star - shone as one of the brightest in the firmament. An innovative sleight-of-hand artist who developed and refined her own remarkable techniques, Suzy became one of the most revered and sought-after acts of her generation.Her rise to fame sometimes contrasted sharply with hard work and bitter poverty. Amidst the turmoil of two world wars and personal tragedies, her upward trajectory remained nearly uninterrupted. From fairground theater to the largest variety stages, she conquered every venue in which she performed.The Lady with the Fairy Fingers is the incredible true story of Suzy Wandas, a woman who persevered against a backdrop of cultural turmoil, international strife, family tragedy, and a male-dominated profession to achieve worldwide success on her own terms. It is also the history of variety entertainment in the twentieth century, a personal view of women's rights, and a story of true love and pure magic.

Author: Patricia Tilburg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192578065
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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As the twentieth century dawned and France entered an era of extraordinary labor activism and industrial competition, an insistently romantic vision of the Parisian garment worker was deployed by politicians, reformers, and artists to manage anxieties about economic and social change. Nostalgia about a certain kind of France was written onto the bodies of the capital's couture workers throughout French pop culture from the 1880s to the 1930s. And the midinettes-as these women were called- were written onto the geography of Paris itself, by way of festivals, monuments, historic preservation, and guide books. The idealized working Parisienne stood in for, at once, the superiority of French taste and craft, and the political (and sexual) subordination of French women and labour. But she was also the public face of more than 80,000 real working women whose demands for better labour conditions were inflected, distorted, and, in some cases, amplified by this ubiquitous Romantic type in the decades straddling World War I. Working Girls bridges cultural histories of the Parisian imaginary and histories of French labour, and puts them in raucous dialogue with one another: a letter by a nineteen-year-old seamstress, a speech by a government minister; a frothy Parisian guide by a bon vivant, the minutes of a union meeting; a bawdy café-concert song, a policy brief on garment working conditions.

Author: Michael Aislabie Denham
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Languages : en
Pages : 34

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Author: Horace Greeley
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Category : Kindergarten
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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