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Augusta's Daughter

Author : Judit Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932043815
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Augusta's Daughter written by Judit Martin and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt: "Presently the evenness of his breathing told her he was asleep. For a long time she lay on her back just as he had left her, mulling over her situation. In those brief minutes everything had supposedly righted itself. She had officially left her girlhood behind forever and become a woman. The days of wearing her hair down her back in a long braid were gone, although she was not yet entitled to wear a married woman's kerchief. Nor did she any longer belong to the group of young housemaids who had been her friends, nor to a group of married women whom she hardly knew. All at once she felt very alone, not knowing what was expected of her. The only thing she knew for sure was that her life had taken a false turn, and she didn't know how to set it right again." ========================= Nineteenth century Swedish peasant life was not always the dance around the Midsummer pole portrayed by the artists of the time. Those same peasants lived daily lives in the shadow of the all-powerful village church, controlled by the countless rules, customs, and traditions that governed every aspect of their existence, leaving no room for individual deviations. When it became known that Augusta Torsdotter's daughter Elsa-Carolina was illegitimate, the course of both of their lives irrevokably changed. As an adult, Elsa-Carolina immigrated to America, turning her back on the past. It wasn't until three-quarters of a century later, at the age of 94, that she returned to Sweden, to come to terms with her girlhood. "The harshness of Swedish peasant life and landscape is beautifully chronicled in Judit Martin's novel. Her knowledge of the culture, customs, work, superstitions, and attitudes of the day opens up that world for those of us seeking to know our Swedish ancestors." -Joan Morrison Granddaughter of Swedish immigrants Charleston, Maine ===================== "Wonderful and evocative! A captivating and enlightening read!" -Mr. Jan Smedh Bookseller The English Bookshop Upsala & Stockholm, Sweden This book is intended for mature audiences.

Augusta, Gone

Author : Martha Tod Dudman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060014156
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Augusta, Gone written by Martha Tod Dudman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-04-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to try to save her. True, she had stopped coming down for breakfast. Stayed up in her room, ran out the door late for school, missed the bus and had to have a ride. But you think, well, that's how they are, aren't they, teenagers? And you try to remember how you were, but you were different and the times were different and it was so long ago. And she's suddenly so angry at you, but then, another time, she's just the same. She's just your little girl. You sit with her and you talk about something, or you go shopping for school clothes and everything seems all right. And you forget how you stood in her room and how the center of your stomach felt so cold. When you found the cigarette. When you found the blue pipe. When you found the little bag she said was aspirin.

Lady Rose's Daughter

Author : Mrs. Humphry Ward
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Lady Rose's Daughter written by Mrs. Humphry Ward and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1903 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Daughters of Palatine Hill

Author : Phyllis T. Smith
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781503952478
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Daughters of Palatine Hill written by Phyllis T. Smith and published by Lake Union Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two years after Emperor Augustus's bloody defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, he triumphantly returns to Rome. To his only child, Julia, he brings an unlikely companion--Selene, the daughter of the conquered Egyptian queen and her lover. Under the watchful eye of Augustus's wife, Livia, Selene struggles to accept her new home among her parents' enemies. Bound together by kinship and spilled blood, these three women--Livia, Selene, and Julia--navigate the dangerous world of Rome's ruling elite, their every move a political strategy, their most intimate decisions in the emperor's hands. Always suppressing their own desires for the good of Rome, each must fulfill her role. For astute Livia, this means unwavering fidelity to her all-powerful husband; for sensual Julia, surrender to an arranged marriage and denial of her craving for love and the pleasures of the flesh; for orphaned Selene, choosing between loyalty to her family's killers and her wish for revenge. Can they survive Rome's deadly intrigues, or will they be swept away by the perilous currents of the world's most powerful empire?

Families of the Heart

Author : Ann Campbell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1684484251
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Families of the Heart written by Ann Campbell and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative analysis of canonical British novels, Campbell identifies a new literary device—the surrogate family—as a signal of cultural anxieties about young women’s changing relationship to matrimony across the long eighteenth century. By assembling chosen families rather than families of origin, Campbell convincingly argues, female protagonists in these works compensate for weak family ties, explore the world and themselves, prepare for idealized marriages, or sidestep marriage altogether. Tracing the evolution of this rich convention from the female characters in Defoe’s and Richardson’s fiction who are allowed some autonomy in choosing spouses, to the more explicitly feminist work of Haywood and Burney, in which connections between protagonists and their surrogate sisters and mothers can substitute for marriage itself, this book makes an ambitious intervention by upending a traditional trope—the model of the hierarchal family—ultimately offering a new lens through which to regard these familiar works.

A Royal Experiment

Author : Janice Hadlow
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805096566
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book A Royal Experiment written by Janice Hadlow and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published as The strangest family in the U.K. in 2014 by William Collins"--Title page verso.

Conversations with Augusta

Author : Alice Marie Thorp Duxbury
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 149177245X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Augusta written by Alice Marie Thorp Duxbury and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-09-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a pleasant May weekend in 1978, Augusta Pflug Thorp celebrated her eighty-ninth birthday with her family at her home on Black Creek in Clay County, Florida, where she had lived since the spring of 1911. Shortly after that, author Alice Marie Thorp Duxbury interviewed Augusta about her life in Florida and her family history. In Conversations with Augusta, Duxbury shares the history of a German family who adapted to a new lifestyle in rural northeast Florida in the 1900s while dealing with the effects of two world wars and the Great Depression. This memoir shares some of the lessons the family learned while setting down new roots: If your passenger boat from Jacksonville turns over in the St. Johns River, swim ashore and take the midnight train, keeping your hat properly on your head. If you are pregnant and a neighbor says, in your hearing, Miss [Gussie] sure looks good. Shes fattenin up like an old sow hog, smile and accept the compliment. If your neighbors cut your fence to permit their stock to graze in your cornfield, replace the fencingagain and again. If the neighbor boy plowing your field picks up a snake, twirls it like a whip and snaps off its head, look the other way. Conversations with Augusta narrates one familys story while providing insight into life as immigrants in the 1900s.

Lady Byron and Her Daughters

Author : Julia Markus
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248755
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Lady Byron and Her Daughters written by Julia Markus and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron’s marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force. The center of public attention after her tumultuous marriage to Lord Byron, Annabella Milbanke transformed herself from a neglected wife into a figure of incredible resilience and social vision. After she and her infant child were cast out of their home, she was left to navigate the stifling and unsupportive social environment of Regency England. Far from a victim or an obstacle to Byron’s work, however, Lady Byron was a rebel against the fashionable snobbery of her class, founding the first Infants School and Co-Operative School in England. A poet and talented mathematician, Lady Byron supported the education of her precocious daughter, Ada Lovelace, now recognized and lauded as a pioneer of computer science, and saved from death her “adoptive daughter” Medora Leigh, the child of Lord Byron’s incest with his sister. Lady Byron was adored by the younger abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe and by many notable friends. Yet her complex relationships with her family, including the sister Byron loved, runs like a live wire through this skillfully told and groundbreaking biography of a remarkable woman who made a life for herself and became a leading light in her century.

Comrades, Clients and Cousins

Author : Gerhard Seibert
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047408438
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Comrades, Clients and Cousins written by Gerhard Seibert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides comprehensive information on the 500-year long colonial history, post-colonial politics, and local political culture and practice of the island republic of São Tomé and Príncipe, one of the smallest and least known African countries.

Ungentlemanly Acts

Author : Louise Barnett
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809073986
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Ungentlemanly Acts written by Louise Barnett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-04-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the 1879 trial over the actions of two officers at Fort Stockton in west Texas.

In the Midnight Room

Author : Laura McBride
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501157809
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book In the Midnight Room written by Laura McBride and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If McBride is trying to prove—that if you change one life, you change the world—she succeeds magnificently.”—Booklist From the author of the acclaimed novel We Are Called to Rise comes a “jewel of a novel” (BookPage) about four vivid and complicated women in Las Vegas whose lives become connected by secrets, courage, tragedies, and small acts of kindness. Fun-loving and rebellious, twenty-one-year-old June Stein abandons the safe world of her New Jersey childhood for edgy 1950s Las Vegas. For the next 60 years, June will dare to live boldly. She will upend conventions, risk her heart and her life, rear a child, lose a child, love more than one man, and stand up for more than one woman. June’s story will intertwine with those of three unlikely strangers: a one-time mail order bride from the Philippines, a high school music teacher, and a young mother from Mexico working as a hotel maid. Knit together around June’s explosive secret, they forge a future that none of them foresee. This jubilant, compassionate novel explores the unexpected ways that life connects us, changes us, and even perfects us. A powerful story of lust and of hope, of redemption and of compassion, In the Midnight Room is a smart, sagacious novel about womanhood, family bonds, and how we live in America now.

The Slum

Author : Aluísio Azevedo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199880727
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Slum written by Aluísio Azevedo and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo's masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most widely read and critically acclaimed novels ever written about Brazil. Indeed, its great popularity, realistic descriptions, archetypal situations, detailed local coloring, and overall race-consciousness may well evoke Huckleberry Finn as the novel's North American equivalent. Yet Azevedo also exhibits the naturalism of Zola and the ironic distance of Balzac; while tragic, beautiful, and imaginative as a work of fiction, The Slum is universally regarded as one of the best, or truest, portraits of Brazilian society ever rendered. This is a vivid and complex tale of passion and greed, a story with many different strands touching on the different economic tiers of society. Mainly, however, The Slum thrives on two intersecting story lines. In one narrative, a penny-pinching immigrant landlord strives to become a rich investor and then discards his black lover for a wealthy white woman. In the other, we witness the innocent yet dangerous love affair between a strong, pragmatic, "gentle giant" sort of immigrant and a vivacious mulatto woman who both live in a tenement owned by said landlord. The two immigrant heroes are originally Portuguese, and thus personify two alternate outsider responses to Brazil. As translator David H. Rosenthal points out in his useful Introduction: one is the capitalist drawn to new markets, quick prestige, and untapped resources; the other, the prudent European drawn moth-like to "the light and sexual heat of the tropics." A deftly told, deeply moving, and hardscrabble novel that features several stirring passages about life in the streets, the melting-pot realities of the modern city, and the oft-unstable mind of the crowd, The Slum will captivate anyone who might appreciate a more poetic, less political take on the nineteenth-century naturalism of Crane or Dreiser.

Marcus Aurelius in the Historia Augusta and Beyond

Author : Geoffrey William Adams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0739176382
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Marcus Aurelius in the Historia Augusta and Beyond written by Geoffrey William Adams and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the biography of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius. It seeks to further understand the author of the Historia Augusta alongside the reminiscences of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Geoff W. Adams arrives at this understanding through a study of a wide range of literary texts. Marcus Aurelius was a very important ruler of the Roman Empire, who has had an impact symbolically, philosophically, and historically upon how the Roman Empire has been envisioned. Adams achieves this end to bring a clearer understanding to his representation and to modern interpretations of his highly interpreted and romanticized representations in the ancient texts.

The Family, Poverty, and Welfare Programs: Household patterns and government policies (December 3, 1973)

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Family, Poverty, and Welfare Programs: Household patterns and government policies (December 3, 1973) written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Round Midnight

Author : Laura McBride
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501157787
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Round Midnight written by Laura McBride and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Previously published in hardcover as 'Round midnight"---title page.

The Goose Lady

Author : Barbara A Walsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book The Goose Lady written by Barbara A Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 23 years, Marjorie Bean Scott dressed a cement goose on her front lawn in Augusta, Maine. She made over 100 outfits for the friend she affectionately called, 'Goosey.' Thousands of tourists, children, and grownups photographed the goose and gave it gifts. People wrote letters thanking "The Goose Lady" for putting a smile on their faces and stirring joy in their hearts. TV reporters and local papers wrote stories about the goose and Down East Magazine listed "The Augusta Goose" as one of Maine's treasured monuments in its June 1999 edition. Marjorie helped pick out the goose's outfits until her death in December, 2014 just a few weeks before her 96th birthday. Goose now resides at Farrington Elementary School, a mile from Marjorie's home. Each day, school children choose outfits to dress Goose.

Antonia Augusta

Author : Nikos Kokkinos
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415080293
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Antonia Augusta written by Nikos Kokkinos and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nikos Kokkinos presents a portrait of the most influential Roman matron of her time - the daughter of Mark Antony and the great-grandmother of Nero. In addition to being pivotal to the political shifts of the Empire, Antonia was strongly involved in many aspects of business life, and thus her career has an important bearing on contemporary perceptions of the position of Roman women. Marshalling many diverse archaeological source materials, the author has produced a book which places Antonia firmly in the social context of her day.