Author: Sally Mitchell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231102476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In 1880 the concept of girlhood as a separate stage of existence was barely present. But in the decades that followed, due in part to changes in the legal definition of childhood, a new cultural category was inscribed in a flood of popular books and magazines. Indeed, by the turn of the century working-class and middle-class girls were beginning to control enough of their own time and pocket money that publishing for them was a lucrative business.
The New Girl
Author: Sally Mitchell
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231102476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In 1880 the concept of girlhood as a separate stage of existence was barely present. But in the decades that followed, due in part to changes in the legal definition of childhood, a new cultural category was inscribed in a flood of popular books and magazines. Indeed, by the turn of the century working-class and middle-class girls were beginning to control enough of their own time and pocket money that publishing for them was a lucrative business.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231102476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In 1880 the concept of girlhood as a separate stage of existence was barely present. But in the decades that followed, due in part to changes in the legal definition of childhood, a new cultural category was inscribed in a flood of popular books and magazines. Indeed, by the turn of the century working-class and middle-class girls were beginning to control enough of their own time and pocket money that publishing for them was a lucrative business.
The Seven Wise Scholars
Author: Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff
Publisher:
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Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Children's stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Our General
Author: Elizabeth J. Lysaght
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
For Life and Liberty
Author: Gordon Stables
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
The Selected Works of George Alfred Henty
Author: George Alfred Henty
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465527354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37344
Book Description
You may be told perhaps that there is no good to be obtained from tales of fighting and bloodshed—that there is no moral to be drawn from such histories. Believe it not. War has its lessons as well as Peace. You will learn from tales like this that determination and enthusiasm can accomplish marvels, that true courage is generally accompanied by magnanimity and gentleness, and that if not in itself the very highest of virtues, it is the parent of almost all the others, since but few of them can be practiced without it. The courage of our forefathers has created the greatest empire in the world around a small and in itself insignificant island; if this empire is ever lost, it will be by the cowardice of their descendants. At no period of her history did England stand so high in the eyes of Europe as in the time whose events are recorded in this volume. A chivalrous king and an even more chivalrous prince had infected the whole people with their martial spirit, and the result was that their armies were for a time invincible, and the most astonishing successes were gained against numbers which would appear overwhelming. The victories of Cressy and Poitiers may be to some extent accounted for by superior generalship and discipline on the part of the conquerors; but this will not account for the great naval victory over the Spanish fleet off the coast of Sussex, a victory even more surprising and won against greater odds than was that gained in the same waters centuries later over the Spanish Armada. The historical facts of the story are all drawn from Froissart and other contemporary historians, as collated and compared by Mr. James in his carefully written history. They may therefore be relied upon as accurate in every important particular.
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465527354
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37344
Book Description
You may be told perhaps that there is no good to be obtained from tales of fighting and bloodshed—that there is no moral to be drawn from such histories. Believe it not. War has its lessons as well as Peace. You will learn from tales like this that determination and enthusiasm can accomplish marvels, that true courage is generally accompanied by magnanimity and gentleness, and that if not in itself the very highest of virtues, it is the parent of almost all the others, since but few of them can be practiced without it. The courage of our forefathers has created the greatest empire in the world around a small and in itself insignificant island; if this empire is ever lost, it will be by the cowardice of their descendants. At no period of her history did England stand so high in the eyes of Europe as in the time whose events are recorded in this volume. A chivalrous king and an even more chivalrous prince had infected the whole people with their martial spirit, and the result was that their armies were for a time invincible, and the most astonishing successes were gained against numbers which would appear overwhelming. The victories of Cressy and Poitiers may be to some extent accounted for by superior generalship and discipline on the part of the conquerors; but this will not account for the great naval victory over the Spanish fleet off the coast of Sussex, a victory even more surprising and won against greater odds than was that gained in the same waters centuries later over the Spanish Armada. The historical facts of the story are all drawn from Froissart and other contemporary historians, as collated and compared by Mr. James in his carefully written history. They may therefore be relied upon as accurate in every important particular.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Aunt Hesba's Charge
Author: Elizabeth J. Lysaght
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Educational Times
Author:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Girls Can Do Anything!
Author: Caryl Hart
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407191217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Do you want to climb a mountain? Drive a fire engine? Become prime minister? Join the girls in the pages of this book to see the incredible things they do every day and find out what you might like to do, too! A picture book for every girl with a dream.
Publisher: Scholastic UK
ISBN: 1407191217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Do you want to climb a mountain? Drive a fire engine? Become prime minister? Join the girls in the pages of this book to see the incredible things they do every day and find out what you might like to do, too! A picture book for every girl with a dream.