The Good Englishwoman

The Good Englishwoman PDF Author: Orlo Williams
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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The Good Englishwoman

The Good Englishwoman PDF Author: Orlo Williams
Publisher:
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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The Good Straight Englishwoman

The Good Straight Englishwoman PDF Author: Amanda Davies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780954665319
Category : Midwives
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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No One Could Have Guessed the Weather

No One Could Have Guessed the Weather PDF Author: Anne-Marie Casey
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101621079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

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“If you loved The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, this book is right up your alley.”—Isabel Gillies, New York Times bestselling author of Happens Every Day A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR! From the author of The Real Liddy James comes a novel about how the middle part of your story might just be the beginning… After her husband loses his job, Lucy has to leave behind her posh life in London and settle into a tiny East Village apartment. Now she’s a middle-aged mother in the midst of hipsters, homesick and resentful until she embarks on a new love affair—with New York City and three new friends. Julia has left her family for a mini breakdown and a room of her own. Trophy wife Christy is a bit adrift, as only those who live in penthouses can be. Robyn is constantly compensating for her wunderkind husband who can’t seem to make the transition to adulthood. And all of them are starting to learn that what you want in your twenties isn’t always what you need in your forties… Includes a readers guide

An Englishwoman in New York

An Englishwoman in New York PDF Author: Anne Marie Casey
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ISBN: 9781444818918
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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When Lucy's husband loses his job and is relocated to New York, she is forced to give up her posh London life and move to a tiny Manhattan apartment. Homesick and resentful at first, Lucy soon finds herself embarking on an exhilarating new affair - no, not with her husband (although she is surprised to find they do still love each other), but with the city itself and the three women she meets at the school gates who, against all odds, become her friends...

An Englishwoman in Angora

An Englishwoman in Angora PDF Author: Grace Ellison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108074219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379

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A partisan but fascinating 1923 account of Grace Ellison's visit to Angora (Ankara), the new capital of the Turkish Republic.

Englishwoman in America

Englishwoman in America PDF Author: Isabella Bird
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429003375
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478

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The English traveler explores New England and the Mid-west, commenting on social mores and politics.

The Englishwoman's Year-book for ...

The Englishwoman's Year-book for ... PDF Author: Louisa M. Hubbard
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Category : Women employees
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine

The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine PDF Author:
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Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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Hannah Riddell

Hannah Riddell PDF Author: Julia Boyd
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462903819
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Hannah Riddel is a fascinating biography of the British woman who pioneered the treatment of leprosy in Meiji-era Japan. In the late nineteenth century hundreds of Christian missionaries were dispatched to Japan to convert the "heathen," a task that many felt could be accomplished within a few decades. That expectation proved to be wildly optimistic, since today fewer than one percent of Japanese are Christian. The efforts and even the names of those early missionaries are now largely forgotten, but the work of one woman, Hannah Riddell, proved to be vital and lasting. While visiting the Honmyoji temple in Kumamoto, Hannah encountered a group of lepers--"in every degree of loathsomeness"--and her life suddenly changed. Though she continued her efforts to save the souls of ordinary Japanese, Hannah became determined to improve the wretched lives of lepers. Against great odds, she founded one of the first modern leprosariums in Japan, but Hannah's iron will and splendid lifestyle soon put her at odds with her English colleagues and their small missionary community was torn apart. Undaunted, Hannah continued her work independently and came to know many of the great figures of Meiji Japan.

Emily Hobhouse

Emily Hobhouse PDF Author: Elsabé Brits
Publisher: Robinson
ISBN: 9781472140913
Category : Feminists
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Winner of the Mbokodo Award for Women in the Arts for Literature, the ATKV (Afrikaans Language and Culture Association) Award for non-fiction and the kykNet/Rapport Award for non-fiction. 'Here was Emily . . . in these diaries and scrapbooks. An unprecedented, intimate angle on the real Emily' Elsabé Brits has drawn on a treasure trove of previously private sources, including Emily Hobhouse's diaries, scrap-books and numerous letters that she discovered in Canada, to write a revealing new biography of this remarkable Englishwoman. Hobhouse has been little celebrated in her own country, but she is still revered in South Africa, where she worked so courageously, selflessly and tirelessly to save lives and ameliorate the suffering of thousands of women and children interned in camps set up by British forces during the Anglo-Boer War, in which it is estimated that over 27,000 Boer women and children died; and where her ashes are enshrined in the National Women's Monument in Bloemfontein. During the First World War, Hobhouse was an ardent pacifist. She organised the writing, signing and publishing in January 1915 of the 'Open Christmas Letter' addressed 'To the Women of Germany and Austria'. In an attempt to initiate a peace process, she also secretly metwith the German foreign minister Gottlieb von Jagow in Berlin, for which some branded her a traitor. In the war's immediate aftermath she worked for the Save the Children Fund in Leipzig and Vienna, feeding daily for over a year thousands of children, who would otherwise have starved. She later started her own feeding scheme to alleviate ongoing famine. Despite having been instrumental in saving thousands of lives during two wars, Hobhouse died alone - spurned by her country, her friends and even some of her relatives. Brits brings Emily's inspirational and often astonishing story, spanning three continents, back into the light.