HOUSE OF SMITH ELDER

HOUSE OF SMITH ELDER PDF Author: LEONARD. HUXLEY
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ISBN: 9781033890714
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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HOUSE OF SMITH ELDER

HOUSE OF SMITH ELDER PDF Author: LEONARD. HUXLEY
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ISBN: 9781033890714
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Spreading the Word

Spreading the Word PDF Author: Lionel Gossman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1606180975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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"In view of the value placed in Scotland on education, reading, and self-improvement and the enterprise and inventiveness with which the inhabitants of the far poorer northern kingdom responded to the opportunities opened up to them by the Union with England, it is not surprising that Scotsmen were heavily represented in the printing and publishing trades. An altogether disproportionate number of the great publishing houses of the English-speaking world, whose names were to become household words - Blackie, Blackwood, Collins, Constable, Macmillan, Millar, Murray, Nelson, Smith and Elder, Strahan -- were founded by men, often enough of quite humble origin, from "north of the border."--

The House of Smith Elder

The House of Smith Elder PDF Author: Leonard Huxley
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Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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John Herschel's Cape Voyage

John Herschel's Cape Voyage PDF Author: Steven Ruskin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351925156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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In 1833 John Herschel sailed from London to Cape Town, southern Africa, to undertake (at his own expense) an astronomical exploration of the southern heavens, as well as a terrestrial exploration of the area around Cape Town. After his return to England in 1838, and as a result of his voyage, he was highly esteemed and became Britain's most recognized man of science. In 1847 his southern hemisphere astronomical observations were published as the Cape Results. The main argument of Ruskin's book is that Herschel's voyage and the publication of the Cape Results, in addition to their contemporary scientific importance, were also significant for nineteenth-century culture and politics. In this book it is demonstrated that the reason for Herschel's widespread cultural renown was the popular notion that his voyage to the Cape was a project aligned with the imperial ambitions of the British government. By leaving England for one of its colonies, and pursuing there a significant scientific project, Herschel was seen in the same light as other British men of science (like James Cook and Richard Lander) who had also undertaken voyages of exploration and discovery at the behest of their nation. It is then demonstrated that the production of the Cape Results, in part because of Herschel's status as Britain's scientific figurehead, was a significant political event. Herschel's decision to journey to the Cape for the purpose of surveying the southern heavens was of great significance to almost all of Britain and much of the continent. It is the purpose of this book to make a case for the scientific, cultural, and political significance of Herschel's Cape voyage and astronomical observations, as a means of demonstrating the relationship of scientific practice to broader aspects of imperial culture and politics in the nineteenth century.

Literature ...

Literature ... PDF Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 732

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House documents

House documents PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1124

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Victorian Novelists and Publishers

Victorian Novelists and Publishers PDF Author: J. A. Sutherland
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472508955
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Introduction Part One: The Novel Publishing World, 1830-1870 1. Novel Publishing 1830-1870 2. Mass Market and Big Business: Novel Publishing at Midcentury 3. Craft versus Trade: Novelists and Publishers Part Two: Novelists, Novels and their Publishers, 1830-1870 4. Henry Esmond: The Shaping Power of Contract 5. Westward Ho!: 'A Popularly Successful Book' 6. Trollope: Making the First Rank 7. Lever and Ainsworth: Missing the First Rank 8. Dickens as Publisher 9. Marketing Middlemarch 10. Hardy: Breaking into Fiction Notes Index

The Small House at Allington

The Small House at Allington PDF Author: Anthony Trollope
Publisher:
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Category : Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place)
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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The Windsor Magazine

The Windsor Magazine PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 626

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Nana Smith’S House

Nana Smith’S House PDF Author: Davina H. Sanders
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503540820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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Mrs. Jessie Mae Smith, known in Indianapolis as Nana Smith, was tired. It had been a long day, but now the wait began. The old church pew she was seated on held no comfort as she anxiously waited for the visitation to begin . . . if it would. The girls sat quietly beside her, too quietly for nine-year-old twins. As her mind began to drift, she silently wondered if this was the pew she sat on at JPs funeral. Pleasant Hill United Church had remodeled since then, and the old pews were relegated to the Smith Memorial Fellowship Hall, named so for her beloved JP. Deacon John Paul Smith, who had been a lifelong member of Pleasant Hill, died ten years before. One year later the fellowship hall was renamed in his honor.