Miss Cayley's Adventures

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Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726612798
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Miss Cayley's Adventures written by Grant Allen and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lois Cayley is an intelligent, young, attractive and independent woman who is forced to face the world on her own after the death of her stepfather. Since there is nothing left to stop her, she decides to set off in search of adventures. She visits different places, cities and countries. She meets colorful people and falls in love with one of them. Unfortunately, Harold Tillington is in prison. Can Cayley’s save and free her true love? Will she be able to solve his case on her own? Find out in Grant Allen’s "Miss Cayley's Adventures". Grant Allen was a Canadian writer who lived in the period 1848 – 1899. His writing career began around 1876 when he published a series of essays on science. His first books, "Physiological Aesthetics" and "Flowers and Their Pedigrees" took up this subject as well. Grant Allen was also a pioneer in science fiction. He wrote about thirty science fiction novels in the period 1884-1899. In his later works, Allen also took up some revolutionary theories for the time regarding marriage. "The Woman Who Did" which depicts the life of an independent woman who takes care of her child on her own became a bestseller.

Miss Cayley's Adventures

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Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040481225
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Miss Cayley's Adventures written by Grant Allen and published by Litres. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 : 9781318929580
Total Pages : 298 pages
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Miss Cayley's Adventures (Illustrated)

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ISBN 13 : 9781980447962
Total Pages : 309 pages
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Download or read book Miss Cayley's Adventures (Illustrated) written by Grant Allen and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-02 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day when I found myself with twopence in my pocket, I naturally made up my mind to go round the world

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Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book Miss Cayley's Adventures written by Grant Allen and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the day when I found myself with twopence in my pocket, I naturally made up my mind to goround the world.It was my stepfather's death that drove me to it. I had never seen my stepfather. Indeed, I nevereven thought of him as anything more than Colonel Watts-Morgan. I owed him nothing, except mypoverty. He married my dear mother when I was a girl at school in Switzerland; and he proceeded tospend her little fortune, left at her sole disposal by my father's will, in paying his gambling debts.After that, he carried my dear mother off to Burma; and when he and the climate between them hadsucceeded in killing her, he made up for his appropriations at the cheapest rate by allowing me justenough to send me to Girton. So, when the Colonel died, in the year I was leaving college, I did notthink it necessary to go into mourning for him. Especially as he chose the precise moment when myallowance was due, and bequeathed me nothing but his consolidated liabilities.'Of course you will teach, ' said Elsie Petheridge, when I explained my affairs to her. 'There is a gooddemand just now for high-school teachers.'I looked at her, aghast. 'Teach! Elsie, ' I cried. (I had come up to town to settle her in at herunfurnished lodgings.) 'Did you say teach? That's just like you dear good schoolmistresses! You go toCambridge, and get examined till the heart and life have been examined out of you; then you say toyourselves at the end of it all, "Let me see; what am I good for now? I'm just about fit to go awayand examine other people!" That's what our Principal would call "a vicious circle"-if one couldever admit there was anything vicious at all about you, dear. No, Elsie, I do not propose to teach.Nature did not cut me out for a high-school teacher. I couldn't swallow a poker if I tried for weeks.Pokers don't agree with me. Between ourselves, I am a bit of a rebel.''You are, Brownie, ' she answered, pausing in her papering, with her sleeves rolled up-they calledme 'Brownie, ' partly because of my dark complexion, but partly because they could neverunderstand me. 'We all knew that long ago.'I laid down the paste-brush and mu

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ISBN 13 : 9783337548797
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Book Synopsis Miss Cayley's Adventures by : Gordon Browne

Download or read book Miss Cayley's Adventures written by Gordon Browne and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction

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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409478823
Total Pages : 272 pages
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Book Synopsis Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction by : Dr Christopher Pittard

Download or read book Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction written by Dr Christopher Pittard and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary discourse of degeneration in which criminality was equated with dirt and disease and where national boundaries were guarded against the threat of the criminal foreigner. Situating his discussion within the ideologies underpinning George Newnes's Strand Magazine as well as a wide range of nonfiction texts, Pittard demonstrates that the genre was a response to the seductive and impure delights associated with sensation and gothic novels. Further, Pittard suggests that criticism of detective fiction has in turn become obsessed with the idea of purity, thus illustrating how a genre concerned with policing the impure itself became subject to the same fear of contamination. Contributing to the richness of Pittard's project are his discussions of the convergence of medical discourse and detective fiction in the 1890s, including the way social protest movements like the antivivisectionist campaigns and medical explorations of criminality raised questions related to moral purity.

Miss Cayley's Adventures (Esprios Classics)

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ISBN 13 : 9781006745003
Total Pages : 264 pages
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Download or read book Miss Cayley's Adventures (Esprios Classics) written by Grant Allen and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen (February 24, 1848 - October 25, 1899) was a Canadian science writer and novelist, educated in England. He was a public promoter of evolution in the second half of the nineteenth century. After leaving his professorship, in 1876 he returned to England, where he turned his talents to writing, gaining a reputation for his essays on science and for literary works. A 2007 book by Oliver Sacks cites with approval one of Allen's early articles, "Note-Deafness" (a description of what became known as amusia, published in 1878 in the learned journal Mind). Allen's first books dealt with scientific subjects, and include Physiological Æsthetics (1877) and Flowers and Their Pedigrees (1886).

Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004313370
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Middlebrow and Gender, 1890-1945 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume demonstrates the significance middlebrow writing had for the dissemination of new concepts of gender to wider audiences. By exploring the media culture between 1890 and 1930 it gives evidence of the relative proximity between middlebrow writers and the avant-garde in their concern for gender issues.

The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400841526
Total Pages : 342 pages
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Download or read book The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity written by Robert K. Merton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the names of cruise lines and bookstores to an Australian ranch and a nudist camp outside of Atlanta, the word serendipity--that happy blend of wisdom and luck by which something is discovered not quite by accident--is today ubiquitous. This book traces the word's eventful history from its 1754 coinage into the twentieth century--chronicling along the way much of what we now call the natural and social sciences. The book charts where the term went, with whom it resided, and how it fared. We cross oceans and academic specialties and meet those people, both famous and now obscure, who have used and abused serendipity. We encounter a linguistic sage, walk down the illustrious halls of the Harvard Medical School, attend the (serendipitous) birth of penicillin, and meet someone who "manages serendipity" for the U.S. Navy. The story of serendipity is fascinating; that of The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity, equally so. Written in the 1950s by already-eminent sociologist Robert Merton and Elinor Barber, the book--though occasionally and most tantalizingly cited--was intentionally never published. This is all the more curious because it so remarkably anticipated subsequent battles over research and funding--many of which centered on the role of serendipity in science. Finally, shortly after his ninety-first birthday, following Barber's death and preceding his own by but a little, Merton agreed to expand and publish this major work. Beautifully written, the book is permeated by the prodigious intellectual curiosity and generosity that characterized Merton's influential On the Shoulders of Giants. Absolutely entertaining as the history of a word, the book is also tremendously important to all who value the miracle of intellectual discovery. It represents Merton's lifelong protest against that rhetoric of science that defines discovery as anything other than a messy blend of inspiration, perspiration, error, and happy chance--anything other than serendipity.

Sherlock's Sisters

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135190034X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Sherlock's Sisters written by Joseph A. Kestner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherlock's Sisters: The British Female Detective, 1864-1913 examines the fictional female detective in Victorian and Edwardian literature. This character, originating in the 1860s, configures a new representation of women in narratives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This analysis explores female empowerment through professional unofficial or official detection, especially as this surveillance illuminates legal, moral, gendered, institutional, criminal, punitive, judicial, political, and familial practices. This book considers a range of literary texts by both female and male writers which concentrate on detection by women, particularly those which followed the creation of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887. Cultural movements, such as the emergence of the New Woman, property law or suffragism, are stressed in the exploits of these resourceful investigators. These daring women deal with a range of crimes, including murder, blackmail, terrorism, forgery, theft, sexual harassment, embezzlement, fraud, impersonation and domestic violence. Privileging the exercise of reason rather than intuition, these women detectives are proto-feminist in their demonstration of women's independence. Instead of being under the law, these women transform it. Their investigations are given particular edge because many of the perpetrators of these crimes are women. Sherlock's Sisters probes many texts which, because of their rarity, have been under-researched. Writers such as Beatrice Heron-Maxwell, Emmuska Orczy, L.T. Meade, Catherine Pirkis, Fergus Hume, Grant Allen, Leonard Merrick, Marie Belloc Lowndes, George Sims, McDonnell Bodkin and Richard Marsh are here incorporated into the canon of Victorian and Edwardian literature, many for the first time. A writer such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon is reassessed through a neglected novel. The book includes works by Irish and Australian writers to present an inclusive array of British texts. Sherlock's Sisters enlarges the perception of emerging female empowerment during the nineteenth century, filling an important gap in the fields of Gender Studies, Law/Literature and Popular Culture.

Redefining the Modern

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Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640135
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Redefining the Modern written by Joseph Wiesenfarth and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefining the Modern spans nearly a century and a half in a series of essays that capture the crucial shifts and transformations marking the change from the Victorian to the Modern period. At the center of the collection is the understanding that literature responds to, as well as initiates, social, intellectual, and sometimes political change. It also recognizes that historical categories, like genres, need to be realigned. The diverse material ranges from Jane Austen's laughter to female detectives and black fiction. It coheres, however, through its focus on the interaction of language and society and the way language and culture maintain a persistent and dynamic exchange. Rather than deny links between one period and another, this collection argues for continuity and development, emphasizing revision and renewal rather than rejection and refusal. No longer do critics accept fierce divides or unbridgeable paths between the work of the Victorians and moderns. Recent approaches to the period, reflecting gender, cultural studies, and new historicism, provide fresh means of assessment. Central to this reconception is the recognition that if the Victorians invented us, we, in turn, h

Gender, Technology and the New Woman

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474416284
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Technology and the New Woman written by Lena WA¥nggren and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de siecle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the 'crisis in gender' or 'sexual anarchy' of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine. As this monograph demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in this technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation.

Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476633592
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Companion to Victorian Popular Fiction written by Kevin A. Morrison and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:  This companion to Victorian popular fiction includes more than 300 cross-referenced entries on works written for the British mass market. Biographical sketches cover the writers and their publishers, the topics that concerned them and the genres they helped to establish or refine. Entries introduce readers to long-overlooked authors who were widely read in their time, with suggestions for further reading and emerging resources for the study of popular fiction.

A Companion to Crime Fiction

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119675774
Total Pages : 648 pages
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Book Synopsis A Companion to Crime Fiction by : Charles J. Rzepka

Download or read book A Companion to Crime Fiction written by Charles J. Rzepka and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Crime Fiction presents the definitive guide to this popular genre from its origins in the eighteenth century to the present day A collection of forty-seven newly commissioned essays from a team of leading scholars across the globe make this Companion the definitive guide to crime fiction Follows the development of the genre from its origins in the eighteenth century through to its phenomenal present day popularity Features full-length critical essays on the most significant authors and film-makers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Dashiell Hammett to Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese exploring the ways in which they have shaped and influenced the field Includes extensive references to the most up-to-date scholarship, and a comprehensive bibliography

Mystery Women

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459612329
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)

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The Strand Magazine

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Total Pages : 736 pages
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Book Synopsis The Strand Magazine by : Sir George Newnes

Download or read book The Strand Magazine written by Sir George Newnes and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: