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Book Synopsis The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson by : Jessica Malay
Download or read book The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson written by Jessica Malay and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage. Composed at a time when marital disharmony was in vogue with readers and publishers, it stands out from comparable works, usually single broadsheets. In her own words, Mary recounts various dramatic and stressful episodes from her decades-long marriage to Robert Hampson and her strategies for dealing with it. The harrowing tale contains scenes of physical abuse, mob violence, abandonment, flight, and destitution. It also shows moments of personal courage and interventions on the author's behalf by friends and strangers, some of whom are subject to severe reprisals. Mary wrote her story to come to terms with her situation, to justify her actions, and to cast herself in a virtuous light. The accompanying discussion of her life, drawn from other sources, provides chilling evidence of the vulnerability of seventeenth-century women and the flawed legal mechanisms that were supposed to protect them. Readers are also invited to consider in what ways the self-portrait is accurate and what elements of it may be considered fabrication. Malay's archival efforts have thus rescued a compelling and complicated voice from the past.
Book Synopsis A Very Private Woman by : Nina Burleigh
Download or read book A Very Private Woman written by Nina Burleigh and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil meets Camelot.”—Washington Post Book World In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home. Mary Meyer was a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, whom she had known since private school days, and after her death, reports that she had kept a diary set off a tense search by her brother-in-law, newsman Ben Bradlee, and CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton. But the only suspect in her murder was acquitted, and today her life and death are still a source of intense speculation, as Nina Burleigh reveals in her widely praised book, the first to examine this haunting story. Praise for A Very Private Woman “Power is so utterly fascinating. Sometimes it’s used for evil purposes, like the kind of power that has silenced the telling of Mary Pinchot Meyer’s mysterious murder for over three decades. In A Very Private Woman, Nina Burleigh has finally told this tragic tale of a privileged beauty with friends in high places.”—Dominick Dunne “A superbly crafted, evocative glimpse of an adventurous spirit whose grisly murder remains a mystery.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review “Proves that every Washington sex scandal is juicy in its own way.”—Glamour “Nina Burleigh has dissected Washington’s most intriguing murder mystery and produced a captivating biography, a thriller, and an insightful portrait of Georgetown in its golden presidential age.”—Christopher Ogden, bestselling author of Life of the Party: The Life of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman “Provocative, erudite . . . pure Georgetown noir.”—New York Observer “A rich array of real-life characters.”—New York Times Book Review
Book Synopsis More than a Mistress by : Mary Balogh
Download or read book More than a Mistress written by Mary Balogh and published by Dell. This book was released on 2001-06-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating novel, Mary Balogh, the premier writer of Regency romance, invites you into a world of scandal and seduction, of glittering high society and intrigue, as an arrogant duke does the unthinkable—he falls in love with his mistress. She races onto the green, desperate to stop a duel. In the melée, Jocelyn Dudley, Duke of Tresham, is shot. To his astonishment, Tresham finds himself hiring the servant as his nurse. Jane Ingleby is far too bold for her own good. Her blue eyes are the sort a man could drown in—were it not for her impudence. She questions his every move, breaches his secrets, touches his soul. When he offers to set her up in his London town house, love is the last thing on his mind. Jane tries to pretend it’s strictly business, an arrangement she’s been forced to accept in order to conceal a dangerous secret. Surely there is nothing more perilous than being the lover of such a man. Yet as she gets past his devilish façade and sees the noble heart within, she knows the greatest jeopardy of all, a passion that drives her to risk everything on one perfect month with the improper gentleman who thinks that love is for fools.
Download or read book Quite Contrary written by Mary Whitehouse and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mistress Mary by : Frances Roe Kestler
Download or read book Mistress Mary written by Frances Roe Kestler and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being kidnapped by Wampanoag Indians, Mary Rowlandson- a faithful Puritan wife and recent arrival to the New World- meets Metacom, the handsome Wampanoag chief. Drawn together by a strong and mutual attraction, Mary and Metacom soon discover a deep love against all odds. Based on actual events of the pre-Revolutionary War period, Mistress Mary heralds the return of the romance novel, and the Indian Captivity Narrative- a uniquely American literary genre.
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Book Synopsis Mrs. Dred Scott by : Lea VanderVelde
Download or read book Mrs. Dred Scott written by Lea VanderVelde and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-17 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have focused on the case's judges and lawyers. In telling the life of Harriet, Dred's wife and co-litigant in the case, this book provides a compensatory history to the generations of work that missed key sources only recently brought to light. Moreover, it gives insight into the reasons and ways that slaves used the courts to establish their freedom. A remarkable piece of historical detective work, Mrs. Dred Scott chronicles Harriet's life from her adolescence on the 1830s Minnesota-Wisconsin frontier, to slavery-era St. Louis, through the eleven years of legal wrangling that ended with the high court's notorious decision. The book not only recovers her story, but also reveals that Harriet may well have been the lynchpin in this pivotal episode in American legal history. Reconstructing Harriet Scott's life through innovative readings of journals, military records, court dockets, and even frontier store ledgers, VanderVelde offers a stunningly detailed account that is at once a rich portrait of slave life, an engrossing legal drama, and a provocative reassessment of a central event in U.S. constitutional history. More than a biography, the book is a deep social history that freshly illuminates some of the major issues confronting antebellum America, including the status of women, slaves, Free Blacks, and Native Americans.
Book Synopsis Worrall's Directory of Warrington, Wigan, St. Helens, Etc by : Directories. - Warrington
Download or read book Worrall's Directory of Warrington, Wigan, St. Helens, Etc written by Directories. - Warrington and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Worrall's Directory of North Wales, Etc by : Directories. - Wales, North
Download or read book Worrall's Directory of North Wales, Etc written by Directories. - Wales, North and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railroad Trainmen's Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland by :
Download or read book Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 1994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Jesuits in Great Britain by : Walter Walsh
Download or read book The Jesuits in Great Britain written by Walter Walsh and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Herdbook Containing the Pedigree of Improved Short-horn Cattle by :
Download or read book Herdbook Containing the Pedigree of Improved Short-horn Cattle written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. - include the Shorthorn Society's Grading register for beef Shorthorn cattle; v. - include the society's Herd book of poll shorthorns.
Book Synopsis The Secret Garden by : Frances Hodgson Burnett
Download or read book The Secret Garden written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendship, belief in oneself, and the power of nature come together to make magic in the secret garden.
