Author: Francis Whiting Halsey
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Women Authors of Our Day in Their Homes
Author: Francis Whiting Halsey
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Publisher:
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Authors of Our Day in Their Homes
Author: Francis Whiting Halsey
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Homes and Haunts
Author: Alison Booth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191076899
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries " associated with their lives and works. An interdisciplinary study ranging from 1820-1940, Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries unites museum and tourism studies, book history, narrative theory, theories of gender, space, and things, and other approaches to depict and interpret the haunting experiences of exhibited houses and the curious history of topo-biographical writing about famous authors. In illustrated chapters that blend Victorian and recent first-person encounters that range from literary shrines and plaques to guidebooks, memoirs, portraits, and monuments, Alison Booth discusses pilgrims such as William and Mary Howitt, Anna Maria and Samuel Hall, and Elbert Hubbard, and magnetic hosts and guests as Washington Irving, Wordsworth, Martineau, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James, and Dickens. Virginia Woolf's feminist response to homes and haunts shapes a chapter on Mary Russell Mitford, Gaskell, and the Brontës, and another on the Carlyles' house and Monk's House. Booth rediscovers collections of personalities, haunted shrines, and imaginative re-enactments that have been submerged by a century of academic literary criticism.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191076899
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain, and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries " associated with their lives and works. An interdisciplinary study ranging from 1820-1940, Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries unites museum and tourism studies, book history, narrative theory, theories of gender, space, and things, and other approaches to depict and interpret the haunting experiences of exhibited houses and the curious history of topo-biographical writing about famous authors. In illustrated chapters that blend Victorian and recent first-person encounters that range from literary shrines and plaques to guidebooks, memoirs, portraits, and monuments, Alison Booth discusses pilgrims such as William and Mary Howitt, Anna Maria and Samuel Hall, and Elbert Hubbard, and magnetic hosts and guests as Washington Irving, Wordsworth, Martineau, Longfellow, Hawthorne, James, and Dickens. Virginia Woolf's feminist response to homes and haunts shapes a chapter on Mary Russell Mitford, Gaskell, and the Brontës, and another on the Carlyles' house and Monk's House. Booth rediscovers collections of personalities, haunted shrines, and imaginative re-enactments that have been submerged by a century of academic literary criticism.
Co-operative Bulletin
Author: Pratt Institute. Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Co-operative Bulletin
Author: Brooklyn Public Library
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Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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The American Bookseller
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Bulletin ... of Books Added to the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public Library
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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A Law Unto Herself
Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803256701
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly naïve and conventional nineteenth-century protagonist struggling to care for her elderly father with limited financial resources. In order to continue care, Jane seeks to secure her rightful inheritance despite the efforts of her cousin and later her husband, a greedy man who has tricked her father into securing her hand in marriage. Appealing to middle-class literary tastes of the age, A Law Unto Herself elucidated for a broad general audience the need for legal reforms regarding divorce, mental illness, inheritance, and reforms to the Married Women’s Property Laws. Through three fascinating female characters, the novel also invites readers to consider evolving gender roles during a time of cultural change.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803256701
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly naïve and conventional nineteenth-century protagonist struggling to care for her elderly father with limited financial resources. In order to continue care, Jane seeks to secure her rightful inheritance despite the efforts of her cousin and later her husband, a greedy man who has tricked her father into securing her hand in marriage. Appealing to middle-class literary tastes of the age, A Law Unto Herself elucidated for a broad general audience the need for legal reforms regarding divorce, mental illness, inheritance, and reforms to the Married Women’s Property Laws. Through three fascinating female characters, the novel also invites readers to consider evolving gender roles during a time of cultural change.
Bulletin ...
Author: Manchester City Library (Manchester, N.H.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Among Our Books
Author: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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