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Defiant Brides

Author : Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080703326X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Defiant Brides written by Nancy Rubin Stuart and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating true story of two Revolutionary-era teenagers who defied their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold—“an effortless read and a fresh perspective on the American Revolution” (Shelf Awareness). When Peggy Shippen, the celebrated blonde belle of Philadelphia, married American military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779, she anticipated a life of fame and fortune, but financial debts and political intrigues prompted her to conspire with her treasonous husband against George Washington and the American Revolution. In spite of her commendable efforts to rehabilitate her husband’s name, Peggy Shippen continues to be remembered as a traitor bride. Peggy’s patriotic counterpart was Lucy Flucker, the spirited and voluptuous brunette, who in 1774 defied her wealthy Tory parents by marrying a poor Boston bookbinder simply for love. When her husband, Henry Knox, later became a famous general in the American Revolutionary War, Lucy faithfully followed him through Washington’s army camps where she birthed and lost babies, befriended Martha Washington, was praised for her social skills, and secured her legacy as an admired patriot wife. And yet, as esteemed biographer Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals, a closer look at the lives of both spirited women reveals that neither was simply a “traitor” or “patriot.” In Defiant Brides, the first dual biography of both Peggy Shippen Arnold and Lucy Flucker Knox, Stuart has crafted a rich portrait of two rebellious women who defied expectations and struggled—publicly and privately—in a volatile political moment in early America. Drawing from never-before-published correspondence, Stuart traces the evolution of these women from passionate teenage brides to mature matrons, bringing both women from the sidelines of history to its vital center. Readers will be enthralled by Stuart’s dramatic account of the epic lives of these defiant brides, which begin with romance, are complicated by politics, and involve spies, disappointments, heroic deeds, tragedies, and personal triumphs.

Defiant Brides

Author : Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080700118X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Defiant Brides written by Nancy Rubin Stuart and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of two Revolutionary–era teenagers who defy their Loyalist families to marry radical patriots, Henry Knox and Benedict Arnold, and are forever changed When Peggy Shippen, the celebrated blonde belle of Philadelphia, married American military hero Benedict Arnold in 1779, she anticipated a life of fame and fortune, but financial debts and political intrigues prompted her to conspire with her treasonous husband against George Washington and the American Revolution. In spite of her commendable efforts to rehabilitate her husband’s name, Peggy Shippen continues to be remembered as a traitor bride. Peggy’s patriotic counterpart was Lucy Flucker, the spirited and voluptuous brunette, who in 1774 defied her wealthy Tory parents by marrying a poor Boston bookbinder simply for love. When her husband, Henry Knox, later became a famous general in the American Revolutionary War, Lucy faithfully followed him through Washington’s army camps where she birthed and lost babies, befriended Martha Washington, was praised for her social skills, and secured her legacy as an admired patriot wife. And yet, as esteemed biographer Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals, a closer look at the lives of both spirited women reveals that neither was simply a “traitor” or “patriot.” In Defiant Brides, the first dual biography of both Peggy Shippen Arnold and Lucy Flucker Knox, Stuart has crafted a rich portrait of two rebellious women who defied expectations and struggled—publicly and privately—in a volatile political moment in early America. Drawing from never-before-published correspondence, Stuart traces the evolution of these women from passionate teenage brides to mature matrons, bringing both women from the sidelines of history to its vital center. Readers will be enthralled by Stuart’s dramatic account of the epic lives of these defiant brides, which begin with romance, are complicated by politics, and involve spies, disappointments, heroic deeds, tragedies, and personal triumphs.

Defiant Brides

Author : Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080703326X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Poor Richard's Women

Author : Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807011401
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Poor Richard's Women written by Nancy Rubin Stuart and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An engrossing look at the human side of Benjamin Franklin . . . Using a post-feminist lens that’s critical of gender essentialism, Stuart rescues these women from obscurity . . . This is a terrific read: poignant, provocative, and probing.” —Library Journal, Starred Review A vivid portrait of the women who loved, nurtured, and defended America’s famous scientist and founding father. Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin—the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era—but not about his love life. Poor Richard’s Women reveals the long-neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion and prudence. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. Long dismissed by historians, she was an independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife who raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Weaving detailed historical research with emotional intensity and personal testimony, Nancy Rubin Stuart traces Deborah’s life and those of Ben’s other romantic attachments through their personal correspondence. We are introduced to Margaret Stevenson, the widowed landlady who managed Ben’s life in London; Catherine Ray, the 23-year-old New Englander with whom he traveled overnight and later exchanged passionate letters; Madame Brillon, the beautiful French musician who flirted shamelessly with him, and the witty Madame Helvetius, who befriended the philosophes of pre-Revolutionary France and brought Ben to his knees. What emerges from Stuart’s pen is a colorful and poignant portrait of women in the age of revolution. Set two centuries before the rise of feminism, Poor Richard’s Women depicts the feisty, often-forgotten women dear to Ben’s heart who, despite obstacles, achieved an independence rarely enjoyed by their peers in that era.

The Greek Tycoon's Defiant Bride

Author : Lynne Graham
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596894825
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Greek Tycoon's Defiant Bride written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maribel has a crush on her cousin’s boyfriend, Leonidas, the Greek billionaire who constantly makes the tabloid headlines. She has a passionate one night stand with him, the day her cousin dies in a car crash! Maribel is convinced that she is nothing but a poor replacement for her cousin, yet she can’t help feeling hopelessly destroyed by Leonidas’s cold goodbye the morning after their tryst. Two years later, she is unexpectedly reunited with Leonidas, but she has a secret that she can never reveal to him. She had given birth to his child. Now, the truth has leaked to the paparazzi and tabloids alike!

Duke of Thorns

Author : Jennifer Monroe
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781793868435
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Duke of Thorns written by Jennifer Monroe and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Cecilia Birks has always lived a comfortable and sheltered life and eagerly waits the day she can find true love, but is shocked to learn that her home and dreams will soon come to a end. The fortune her father had accumulated since before Cecilia was born is now gone, and her family will soon lose their home, sending them to the streets and an uncertain future. When Cecilia's father announces she is to be wed to none other than a man commonly known as the Duke of Thorns, Cecilia reluctantly agrees to this marriage of convenience, if only to help her family.Benjamin Young, 5th Duke of Thornbrook, has a taste for the finer things in life and will use his tongue and power to destroy any who oppose him. He relishes in the way men and women tremble in his presence. That is until he meets Miss Birks, a woman--to his dismay--who has no fear for him. Not only is Benjamin angered with how defiant the beautiful woman is, he vows to marry her, with the sole purpose of breaking her spirit.Finding herself now wed to the loathsome Duke, Cecilia seeks to understand the hatred that burns deep within him. She knows the only course of action is to find a way to convince the man that happiness in life can be found in kindness while at the same time attempting to clear the brambles that threaten to choke out their relationship.

The Muse of the Revolution

Author : Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807055175
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book The Muse of the Revolution written by Nancy Rubin Stuart and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.

Buying His Bride

Author : Mae Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book Buying His Bride written by Mae Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-28 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone pays their debts to my family. Even if the payment is their daughter. When Amber was promised to me, I was too young to know what that really meant. But I'm older now, and so is she. She has curves that I want to hold. Her mouth is mine and mine alone. There's nothing that I won't do to her. No matter what happens, she's mine. She's bought and paid for. I'll protect her as long as she remembers one thing. She belongs to me. This is a standalone arranged marriage novel with a HEA!

The Baron's Brother

Author : Jennifer Monroe
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book The Baron's Brother written by Jennifer Monroe and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having grown up in a broken family, Miss Elizabeth Crawford dreams of living a life of solitude, hiding the scars no one sees. Although her destiny lies in a marriage of convenience, all she wants is a husband who will love her, for her father certainly does not. His desire to see her out of the house is further reinforced in the fact that he has agreed to give her hand not to a baron, but rather his brother! Worse still, the man is arrogant and harsh with his words, but oh, so devilishly handsome. After seven years in hiding to escape a tortuous past, Caleb Beaumont has emerged with the scars on his body as a reminder of what he has done. Returning to his ancestral home to claim the doting bride his brother has found for him, Caleb finds a far different woman in her place. Elizabeth is a striking woman, but her expectations of marriage are much more than Caleb had ever considered possible. Has he made a mistake? As the date of their wedding draws near, Elizabeth questions everything Caleb has told her about his life. And Caleb soon learns that there is no escaping the past, while the future sometimes leads to the same ending he attempted to avoid. The Baron's Brother is a clean and sweet Regency that will keep the candle burning late into the night.

RAVELLI'S DEFIANT BRIDE

Author : Lynne Graham
Publisher : Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN 13 : 4596254389
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book RAVELLI'S DEFIANT BRIDE written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 【A story by USA Today bestselling author becomes a comic!】When her mother, the mistress of a multimillionaire, passes away, Belle worries about how she’ll raise her little half siblings. Then the multimillionaire’s oldest son, Cristo Ravelli, appears. Belle feels bashful when faced with his fine features and sinfully beautiful eyes, but her heart freezes the instant she hears his proposal. He coldly commands her to put the children up for adoption and end all ties with the Ravelli family. Belle was desperately trying to protect her young family, but Cristo hid ulterior motives behind his beautiful eyes. He will only look after the children, he says, if Belle becomes his wife…

I Was Thinking

Author : Diana Waugh
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1435710517
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book I Was Thinking written by Diana Waugh and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I WAS THINKING is a workbook that helps people better communicate with their loved ones suffering with cognitive loss. It is a guide that can lead to happy, calm conversations. The information discussed in this book may be new and different from what you have heard before. However, it truly has the potential of reconnecting you with a loved one you may have felt was lost to you because of cognitive loss.

And the Bride Closed the Door

Author : Ronit Matalon
Publisher : New Vessel Press
ISBN 13 : 1939931789
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book And the Bride Closed the Door written by Ronit Matalon and published by New Vessel Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young bride shuts herself up in a bedroom on her wedding day, refusing to get married. In this moving and humorous look at contemporary Israel and the chaotic ups and downs of love everywhere, her family gathers outside the locked door, not knowing what to do. The bride's mother has lost a younger daughter in unclear circumstances. Her grandmother is hard of hearing, yet seems to understand her better than anyone. A male cousin who likes to wear women’s clothes and jewelry clings to his grandmother like a little boy. The family tries an array of unusual tactics to ensure the wedding goes ahead, including calling in a psychologist specializing in brides who change their mind and a ladder truck from the Palestinian Authority electrical company. The only communication they receive from behind the door are scribbled notes, one of them a cryptic poem about a prodigal daughter returning home. The harder they try to reach the defiant woman, the more the despairing groom is convinced that her refusal should be respected. But what, exactly, ought to be respected? Is this merely a case of cold feet? A feminist statement? Or a mourning ritual for a lost sister? This provocative and highly entertaining novel lingers long after its final page.

Villains of All Nations

Author : Marcus Rediker
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789601967
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Villains of All Nations written by Marcus Rediker and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirates have long been stock figures in popular culture, from Treasure Island to the more recent antics of Jack Sparrow. Villains of all Nations unearths the thrilling historical truth behind such fictional characters and rediscovers their radical democratic challenge to the established powers of the day.

Women Who Fly

Author : Serinity Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019065970X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Women Who Fly written by Serinity Young and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who Fly, Serinity Young examines the motif of the flying woman as it appears in a wide variety of cultures and historical periods, in legends, myths, rituals, sacred narratives, and artistic productions. She considers supernatural women like the Valkyries of Norse legend, who transport men to immortality; winged deities like the Greek goddesses Iris and Nike; figures of terror like the Furies, witches, and succubi; airborne Christian mystics; and wayward, dangerous women like Lilith and Morgan le Fay. Looking beyond the supernatural, Young examines the modern mythology surrounding twentieth-century female aviators like Amelia Earhart and Hanna Reitsch. Throughout, Young demonstrates that female power has always been inextricably linked with female sexuality and that the desire to control it is a pervasive theme in these stories. This is vividly depicted, for example, in the twelfth-century Niebelungenlied, in which the proud warrior-queen Brünnhilde loses her great physical strength when she is tricked into surrendering her virginity. Even in the twentieth-century the same idea is reflected in the exploits of the comic book and film character Wonder Woman who, Young suggests, retains her physical strength only because her love for fellow aviator Steve Trevor goes unrequited. The first book to systematically chronicle the figure of the flying woman in myth, literature, art, and pop culture, Women Who Fly offers a fresh look at the ways in which women have both influenced and been understood by society and religious traditions throughout the ages and around the world.

The School for German Brides

Author : Aimie K. Runyan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063094215
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The School for German Brides written by Aimie K. Runyan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this intriguing historical novel, a young woman who is sent to a horrific “bride school” to be molded into the perfect Nazi wife finds her life forever intertwined with a young Jewish woman about to give birth. Germany, 1939 As the war begins, Hanna Rombauer, a young German woman, is sent to live with her aunt and uncle after her mother’s death. Thrown into a life of luxury she never expected, Hanna soon finds herself unwillingly matched with an SS officer twenty years her senior. The independence that her mother lovingly fostered in her is considered highly inappropriate as the future wife of an up-and-coming officer and she is sent to a “bride school.” There, in a posh villa on the outskirts of town, Hanna is taught how to be a “proper” German wife. The lessons of hatred, prejudice, and misogyny disturb her and she finds herself desperate to escape. For Mathilde Altman, a German Jewish woman, the war has brought more devastation than she ever thought possible. Torn from her work, her family, and her new husband, she fights to keep her unborn baby safe. But when the unthinkable happens, Tilde realizes she must hide. The risk of discovery grows greater with each passing day, but she has no other options. When Hanna discovers Tilde hiding near the school, she knows she must help her however she can. For Tilde, fear wars with desperation when Hanna proposes a risky plan. Will they both be able to escape with their lives and if they do, what kind of future can they possibly hope for?

The Earl's Defiant Wallflower

Author : Erica Ridley
Publisher : Intrepid Reads
ISBN 13 : 9781088148273
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book The Earl's Defiant Wallflower written by Erica Ridley and published by Intrepid Reads. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rags-to-riches, forbidden love, opposites attract romance from a New York Times bestselling author: Oliver York returns from war to find his father dead, his finances in arrears, and himself the new Earl of Carlisle. If he doesn't marry an heiress-and fast!-he and his tenants are going to be pitching tents down by the Thames. He definitely shouldn't be trading kisses with a penniless debutante... no matter how captivating she is! Miss Grace Halton is in England just long enough to satisfy the terms of her dowry. But a marriage of convenience isn't as easy as she'd hoped. Back in America, her ailing mother needs medicine only Grace's dowry can afford. Which means the dashing earl she can't get out of her mind is the one man she can't let into her heart. The fan-favorite Dukes of War series features roguish peers and dashing war heroes who return from battle only to be thrust into the splendor and madness of Regency England.

Wedded to the Warriors

Author : Sara Fields
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781542986915
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book Wedded to the Warriors written by Sara Fields and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an unauthorized third child, nineteen-year-old Aimee Harrington has spent her life avoiding discovery by government authorities, but her world comes crashing down around her after she is caught stealing a vehicle in an act of petulant rebellion. Within hours of her arrest, she is escorted onto a ship bound for a detention center in the far reaches of the solar system. This facility is no ordinary prison, however. It is a training center for future brides, and once Aimee has been properly prepared, she will be intimately, shamefully examined and then sold to an alien male in need of a mate. Worse still, Aimee's defiant attitude quickly earns her the wrath of the strict warden, and to make an example of her, Aimee is offered as a wife not to a sophisticated gentleman but to three huge, fiercely dominant warriors of the planet Ollorin. Though Ollorin males are considered savages on Earth, Aimee soon realizes that while her new mates will demand her obedience and will not hesitate to spank her soundly if her behavior warrants it, they will also cherish and protect her in a way she has never experienced before. But when the time comes for her men to master her completely, will she find herself begging for more as her beautiful body is claimed hard and thoroughly by all three of them at once? Publisher's Note: Wedded to the Warriors includes spankings and sexual scenes. If such material offends you, please don't buy this book. Also note that this book was previously published under the title Claimed by the Savages.