Author: Marianne North
Publisher: London : Macmillan
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Category : Botanical artists
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Some Further Recollections of a Happy Life
Author: Marianne North
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Botanical artists
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher: London : Macmillan
ISBN:
Category : Botanical artists
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Recollections of a Happy Life
Author: Marianne North
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813914695
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Marianne North was a Victorian figure of some consequence. An amateur botanist and painter, she journeyed to the world's farthest reaches, to its ancient and new civilizations. She also wrote one of the major travel accounts of the Victorian period. Written after she retired from travel because of ill health, Recollections of a Happy Life incorporates journals and letters from throughout her travelling years. The huge manuscript left at her death was reduced and edited by her sister and published in 1892 in three volumes. Volume 1 is reprinted here. In a new Introduction, Susan Morgan raises issues of gender, imperialism, and the Victorian approach to science.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813914695
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Marianne North was a Victorian figure of some consequence. An amateur botanist and painter, she journeyed to the world's farthest reaches, to its ancient and new civilizations. She also wrote one of the major travel accounts of the Victorian period. Written after she retired from travel because of ill health, Recollections of a Happy Life incorporates journals and letters from throughout her travelling years. The huge manuscript left at her death was reduced and edited by her sister and published in 1892 in three volumes. Volume 1 is reprinted here. In a new Introduction, Susan Morgan raises issues of gender, imperialism, and the Victorian approach to science.
The Literary Digest
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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In Science's Shadow
Author: Patricia Murphy
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082626557X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
"Through close analysis of noncanonical Victorian-era literature by Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, Constance Naden, and Marianne North, Murphy reveals how women were often marginalized, constricted, and defined as intellectually inferior as a result of the interplay of sociohistorical trends driven by scientific curiosity and the 'Woman Question'"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 082626557X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
"Through close analysis of noncanonical Victorian-era literature by Thomas Hardy, Wilkie Collins, Charles Reade, Constance Naden, and Marianne North, Murphy reveals how women were often marginalized, constricted, and defined as intellectually inferior as a result of the interplay of sociohistorical trends driven by scientific curiosity and the 'Woman Question'"--Provided by publisher.
Myths and Memories
Author: Cindy Lane
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443875791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This book examines the perceptions of European travelling writers about southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Theirs was a narrow vision of space and people in the region, shaped by their individual personalities, their position in society, and the prevailing discourses and ideologies of the age. Christian, Enlightenment, and Romantic philosophies had a major influence on their responses to the land – its cultivation and conservation, and its aesthetic qualities – and on their views of both indigenous and settler colonial society – their class and assumptions of race and ethnicity. The travelling men and women perpetuated an idealised view of a colonised landscape, and a “pioneer” community that eliminated class struggle and inequality, even though an analysis of their observations suggests otherwise. Nevertheless, although limited, their narratives are invaluable as a reflection of opinions, attitudes and knowledge prevalent during an age of imperialism. Their perspectives reveal unique viewpoints that differ from those of immigrants who wrote about their hopes and fears in making a new life for themselves. These travellers were economically secure, literate and educated; foundations which provide an insight into the way power and privilege, implicit in their writings, governed the way they imagined Western Australia in the colonial and immediate post-federation period. The tinted lenses through which European travelling writers narrowly observed space and people, presented a mythical, imagined sense of southern Western Australia.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443875791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This book examines the perceptions of European travelling writers about southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Theirs was a narrow vision of space and people in the region, shaped by their individual personalities, their position in society, and the prevailing discourses and ideologies of the age. Christian, Enlightenment, and Romantic philosophies had a major influence on their responses to the land – its cultivation and conservation, and its aesthetic qualities – and on their views of both indigenous and settler colonial society – their class and assumptions of race and ethnicity. The travelling men and women perpetuated an idealised view of a colonised landscape, and a “pioneer” community that eliminated class struggle and inequality, even though an analysis of their observations suggests otherwise. Nevertheless, although limited, their narratives are invaluable as a reflection of opinions, attitudes and knowledge prevalent during an age of imperialism. Their perspectives reveal unique viewpoints that differ from those of immigrants who wrote about their hopes and fears in making a new life for themselves. These travellers were economically secure, literate and educated; foundations which provide an insight into the way power and privilege, implicit in their writings, governed the way they imagined Western Australia in the colonial and immediate post-federation period. The tinted lenses through which European travelling writers narrowly observed space and people, presented a mythical, imagined sense of southern Western Australia.
Digest
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Publisher:
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Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Athenaeum
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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The Westminster Review
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Languages : en
Pages : 720
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Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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The Athenæum
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 948
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