Author: Laura Matilda Stephenson Parsons
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Category : One-act plays, American
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Aunt Jerusha's Quilting Party
Author: Laura Matilda Stephenson Parsons
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Category : One-act plays, American
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Publisher:
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Category : One-act plays, American
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Quilt Stories
Author: Bobbie Ann Mason
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813143667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Literary works honoring the role of women and quilting in history—from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, and others. This collection of stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts—written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women—documents women’s literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, and many others, Quilt Stories is a colorful literary album of stories, poems, and plays that celebrate quilting as a pattern in women’s history. These stories—grouped under the themes of memory, courtship, struggle, mystery, and wisdom—reflect the importance of quilting in the lives of American women, not only as a practical craft and a creative outlet, but also as an integral part of the social community. “The 28 works included in Quilt Stories restore to women a part of their history and their sense of community, an important service in a present time in which quilting has perhaps become a more private and individual art, though it still serves widely as a medium for social exchange and cooperative endeavor.” —Appalachian Quarterly “Macheski has pieced together a variety of literary fabrics into a unique design which represents women’s struggle for identity in a masculine world.” —Benton, Arkansas Courier “Each writing shares a glimpse of what quilting means to those people who practice the art and how it helps us to see, remember, learn, know and express our feelings.” —Quilt World “An innovative approach to writing the history of women.” —Northwest Ohio Quarterly
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813143667
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Literary works honoring the role of women and quilting in history—from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, and others. This collection of stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts—written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women—documents women’s literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, and many others, Quilt Stories is a colorful literary album of stories, poems, and plays that celebrate quilting as a pattern in women’s history. These stories—grouped under the themes of memory, courtship, struggle, mystery, and wisdom—reflect the importance of quilting in the lives of American women, not only as a practical craft and a creative outlet, but also as an integral part of the social community. “The 28 works included in Quilt Stories restore to women a part of their history and their sense of community, an important service in a present time in which quilting has perhaps become a more private and individual art, though it still serves widely as a medium for social exchange and cooperative endeavor.” —Appalachian Quarterly “Macheski has pieced together a variety of literary fabrics into a unique design which represents women’s struggle for identity in a masculine world.” —Benton, Arkansas Courier “Each writing shares a glimpse of what quilting means to those people who practice the art and how it helps us to see, remember, learn, know and express our feelings.” —Quilt World “An innovative approach to writing the history of women.” —Northwest Ohio Quarterly
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1472
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1472
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The Black Cat
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Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 860
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Dramatic Compositions Copyrighted in the United States, 1870 to 1916 ...
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1898
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Publisher:
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Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1898
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Being Neighbours
Author: Catharine Anne Wilson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 022801588X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Throughout history, farm families have shared work and equipment with their neighbours to complete labour-intensive, time-sensitive, and time-consuming tasks. They benefitted materially and socially from these voluntary, flexible, loosely structured networks of reciprocal assistance, making neighbourliness a vital but overlooked aspect of agricultural change. Being Neighbours takes us into the heart of neighbourhood – the set of people near and surrounding the family – through an examination of work bees in southern Ontario from 1830 to 1960. The bee was a special event where people gathered to work on a neighbour’s farm like bees in a hive for a wide variety of purposes, including barn raising, logging, threshing, quilting, turkey plucking, and apple paring. Drawing on the diaries of over one hundred men and women, Catharine Wilson takes readers into families’ daily lives, the intricacies of their labour exchange, and their workways, feasts, and hospitality. Through the prism of the bee and a close reading of the diaries, she uncovers the subtle social politics of mutual dependency, the expectations neighbours had of each other, and their ways of managing conflict and crisis. This book adds to the literature on cooperative work that focuses on evaluating its economic efficiency and complicates histories of capitalism that place communal values at odds with market orientation. Beautifully written, engaging, and richly detailed and illustrated, Being Neighbours reveals the visceral textures of rural life.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 022801588X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Throughout history, farm families have shared work and equipment with their neighbours to complete labour-intensive, time-sensitive, and time-consuming tasks. They benefitted materially and socially from these voluntary, flexible, loosely structured networks of reciprocal assistance, making neighbourliness a vital but overlooked aspect of agricultural change. Being Neighbours takes us into the heart of neighbourhood – the set of people near and surrounding the family – through an examination of work bees in southern Ontario from 1830 to 1960. The bee was a special event where people gathered to work on a neighbour’s farm like bees in a hive for a wide variety of purposes, including barn raising, logging, threshing, quilting, turkey plucking, and apple paring. Drawing on the diaries of over one hundred men and women, Catharine Wilson takes readers into families’ daily lives, the intricacies of their labour exchange, and their workways, feasts, and hospitality. Through the prism of the bee and a close reading of the diaries, she uncovers the subtle social politics of mutual dependency, the expectations neighbours had of each other, and their ways of managing conflict and crisis. This book adds to the literature on cooperative work that focuses on evaluating its economic efficiency and complicates histories of capitalism that place communal values at odds with market orientation. Beautifully written, engaging, and richly detailed and illustrated, Being Neighbours reveals the visceral textures of rural life.
Plays by Early American Women, 1775-1850
Author: Amelia Howe Kritzer
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065981
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Highlights the achievements and significance of women playwrights in early American drama.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472065981
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Highlights the achievements and significance of women playwrights in early American drama.
Swimmin' Pools
Author: Belford Forrest
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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I Grant You Three Wishes
Author: Gladys Ruth Bridgham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Kid Curlers
Author: Dorothy Waldo
Publisher:
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Category : Farce
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Publisher:
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Category : Farce
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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