Author: William Edward Winks
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465547835
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
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Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers
Author: William Edward Winks
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465547835
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465547835
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers
Author: William Edward Winks
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Category : Shoemakers
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Category : Shoemakers
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers
Author: William Edward Winks
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385323193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385323193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
The Month
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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The Siblys of London
Author: Susan Sommers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190687347
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked to execute his will, which urged the continued manufacture of Solar Tincture, and left legacies for multiple and concurrent wives as well as an illegitimate son whose name the deceased could not recall, Manoah found his brother's record of financial and moral indiscretions so upsetting that he immediately resigned his executorship. Ebenezer's death brought a premature conclusion to a colorfully chaotic life, lived on the fringes of various interwoven esoteric subcultures. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Siblys of London provides fascinating insight into the lives of a family who lived just outside our usual historical range of vision.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190687347
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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Ebenezer Sibly was a quack doctor, plagiarist, and masonic ritualist in late eighteenth-century London; his brother Manoah was a respectable accountant and a pastor who ministered to his congregation without pay for fifty years. The inventor of Dr. Sibly's Reanimating Solar Tincture, which claimed to restore the newly dead to life, Ebenezer himself died before he turned fifty and stayed that way despite being surrounded by bottles of the stuff. Asked to execute his will, which urged the continued manufacture of Solar Tincture, and left legacies for multiple and concurrent wives as well as an illegitimate son whose name the deceased could not recall, Manoah found his brother's record of financial and moral indiscretions so upsetting that he immediately resigned his executorship. Ebenezer's death brought a premature conclusion to a colorfully chaotic life, lived on the fringes of various interwoven esoteric subcultures. Drawing on such sources as ratebooks and pollbooks, personal letters and published sermons, burial registers and horoscopes, Susan Mitchell Sommers has woven together an engaging microhistory that offers useful revisions to scholarly accounts of Ebenezer and Manoah, while placing the entire Sibly family firmly in the esoteric byways of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Siblys of London provides fascinating insight into the lives of a family who lived just outside our usual historical range of vision.
Finding Lists of the Chicago Public Library, 1889-1895
Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category : Book catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Category : Book catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 832
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Robert Bloomfield, Romanticism and the Poetry of Community
Author: Simon J. White
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135190289X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained popular until the beginning of the twentieth century. Yet until now, no modern critic has undertaken a full-length study of his poetry and its contexts. Simon J. White considers the relationship between Bloomfield's poetry and that of other Romantic poets. For example, her argues that Wordsworth's poetics of rural life was in some respects a response to Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy. White considers Bloomfield's emphasis on the importance of local tradition and community in the lives of labouring people. In challenging the idea that the formal and rhetorical innovation of Wordsworth and Coleridge was principally responsible for the emergence of a new kind of poetry at the turn of the eighteenth century, he also shows that it is impossible to understand how the lyric and the literary ballad evolved during the Romantic period without considering Bloomfield's poetry. White's authoritative study demonstrates that, on the contrary, Bloomfield's poetry was pivotal in the development of Romanticism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135190289X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Robert Bloomfield, whom John Clare described as 'the most original poet of the age,' was a widely read and critically acclaimed poet throughout the first decade of the nineteenth century, and remained popular until the beginning of the twentieth century. Yet until now, no modern critic has undertaken a full-length study of his poetry and its contexts. Simon J. White considers the relationship between Bloomfield's poetry and that of other Romantic poets. For example, her argues that Wordsworth's poetics of rural life was in some respects a response to Bloomfield's The Farmer's Boy. White considers Bloomfield's emphasis on the importance of local tradition and community in the lives of labouring people. In challenging the idea that the formal and rhetorical innovation of Wordsworth and Coleridge was principally responsible for the emergence of a new kind of poetry at the turn of the eighteenth century, he also shows that it is impossible to understand how the lyric and the literary ballad evolved during the Romantic period without considering Bloomfield's poetry. White's authoritative study demonstrates that, on the contrary, Bloomfield's poetry was pivotal in the development of Romanticism.
The British Quarterly Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Good Literature
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Languages : en
Pages : 844
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