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Description of "this uniquely witty Australian novel."
Review of Miss Peabody's Inheritance
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Description of "this uniquely witty Australian novel."
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Description of "this uniquely witty Australian novel."
Miss Peabody's Inheritance
Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702217920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Story within a story. Dorothy Peabody is bored with her clerical work, and her role as her mother's carer. She begins to correspond with novelist Diana Hopewell, who sends extracts from her novel in progress. The novel concerns a headmistress travelling around Europe with several companions. As Miss Peabody becomes more involved with the tale, her life becomes inextricably tied with the fictitious events.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702217920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Story within a story. Dorothy Peabody is bored with her clerical work, and her role as her mother's carer. She begins to correspond with novelist Diana Hopewell, who sends extracts from her novel in progress. The novel concerns a headmistress travelling around Europe with several companions. As Miss Peabody becomes more involved with the tale, her life becomes inextricably tied with the fictitious events.
Miss Peabody's Inheritance
Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0892553707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A dazzling comic novel—a delightful romp and a blistering satire. “Reading Jolley makes one feel alive.”—Lemony Snicket. Miss Peabody, a lonely spinster in London, writes a fan letter to Diana Hopewell, an Australian novelist. In reply, Hopewell sends installments of her novel-in-progress, the zany adventures of a trio of gently lesbian ladies, a headmistress and two companions, touring Europe with a hapless student. With each mail delivery, Miss Peabody's involvement with the novelist and her characters intensifies until fantasy and reality poignantly merge. "Wonderful . . . gives great pleasure" (New York Times Book Review).
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0892553707
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A dazzling comic novel—a delightful romp and a blistering satire. “Reading Jolley makes one feel alive.”—Lemony Snicket. Miss Peabody, a lonely spinster in London, writes a fan letter to Diana Hopewell, an Australian novelist. In reply, Hopewell sends installments of her novel-in-progress, the zany adventures of a trio of gently lesbian ladies, a headmistress and two companions, touring Europe with a hapless student. With each mail delivery, Miss Peabody's involvement with the novelist and her characters intensifies until fantasy and reality poignantly merge. "Wonderful . . . gives great pleasure" (New York Times Book Review).
Review of A Descant for Gossips, by Thea Astley, and Miss Peabody's Inheritance, by Elizabeth Jolley
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Descriptive, noting that Miss Peabody's Inheritance is a woman's book in which the male characters are "rather nice props needed for the women to get on with their lives."
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Descriptive, noting that Miss Peabody's Inheritance is a woman's book in which the male characters are "rather nice props needed for the women to get on with their lives."
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publisher: C & R Crime
ISBN: 178033446X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!
Publisher: C & R Crime
ISBN: 178033446X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Amelia Peabody is Elizabeth Peters' most brilliant and best-loved creation, a thoroughly Victorian feminist who takes the stuffy world of archaeology by storm with her shocking men's pants and no-nonsense attitude! In this first adventure, our headstrong heroine decides to use her substantial inheritance to see the world. On her travels, she rescues a gentlewoman in distress - Evelyn Barton-Forbes - and the two become friends. The two companions continue to Egypt where they face mysteries, mummies and the redoubtable Radcliffe Emerson, an outspoken archaeologist, who doesn't need women to help him solve mysteries -- at least that's what he thinks!
Miss Peabody's Inheritance
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An interpretive essay, precising the characters, plot, themes and meanings and critical context of Miss Peabody's Inheritance - appropriate for upper secondary, lower tertiary use.
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An interpretive essay, precising the characters, plot, themes and meanings and critical context of Miss Peabody's Inheritance - appropriate for upper secondary, lower tertiary use.
From Miss Peabody's Inheritance
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One passage from this extract also appears in the 1988 story "Miss Peabody's Inheritance."
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One passage from this extract also appears in the 1988 story "Miss Peabody's Inheritance."
American Bloomsbury
Author: Susan Cheever
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743264622
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743264622
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.
Lion in the Valley
Author: Elizabeth Peters
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061798371
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplace of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses—and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death—have alerted Amelia to the likly presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal, notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivates the evil genius this time around. For now the most valuable and elusive prized of all is nearly in his grasp: the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice . . . Amelia Peabody!
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061798371
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The 1895-96 season promises to be an exceptional one for Amelia Peabody, her dashing Egyptologist husband Emerson, and their wild and precocious eight-year-old son Ramses. The much-coveted burial chamber of the Black Pyramid in Dahshoor is theirs for the digging. But there is a great evil in the wind that roils the hot sands sweeping through the bustling streets and marketplace of Cairo. The brazen moonlight abduction of Ramses—and an expedition subsequently cursed by misfortune and death—have alerted Amelia to the likly presence of her arch nemesis the Master Criminal, notorious looter of the living and the dead. But it is far more than ill-gotten riches that motivates the evil genius this time around. For now the most valuable and elusive prized of all is nearly in his grasp: the meddling lady archaeologist who has sworn to deliver him to justice . . . Amelia Peabody!
Radio Broadcast Details for Elizabeth Jolley's Miss Peabody's Inheritance
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