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Book Synopsis Mistress of the House by : Tim Dolin
Download or read book Mistress of the House written by Tim Dolin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of gender and property ownership in eight important novels argues that property is a decisive undercurrent in narrative structures and modes, as well as an important gender signature in society and culture. Tim Dolin suggests that the formal development of nineteenth-century domestic fiction can only be understood in the context of changes in the theory and laws of property: indeed femininity and its representation cannot be considered separately from property relations and their reform. He presents original readings of novels in which a woman owns, acquires or loses property, focusing on exchanges between patriarchal cultural authority, the 'woman question' and narrative form, and on the place of domestic fiction in a culture in which property relations and gender relations are subject to radical review. Each chapter revolves around a representative text, but refers substantially to other material, both other novels and contemporary social, legal, political and feminist commentary.
Book Synopsis Mistress of the House by : Rosemary Baird
Download or read book Mistress of the House written by Rosemary Baird and published by Phoenix House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 18th and 19th centuries, to become Mistress of the House was the natural prospect of women born into Britain’s wealthy aristocratic families. An advantageous marriage would bring with it an important ancestral home—a visible expression of power, prestige, and good taste. Rosemary Baird introduces us to ten of these remarkable women, detailing their accomplishments in the creation and running of Britain’s great houses. We also learn about their education and training, the marriage market, and their obligations as leaders of fashion, interior design, and society. Based on diaries, letters, and family archives, Mistress of the House is a fascinating work of social history. Rosemary Baird was educated at Cambridge and Oxford; a former consultant at Sotheby’s, she is now Curator of the Goodwood Collection.
Book Synopsis Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven by : Anne K. Capel
Download or read book Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven written by Anne K. Capel and published by Hudson Hills. This book was released on 1996 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-of-its-kind exhibit cataloged here focuses on the women of Egypt from all levels of society in works compiled strictly from American collections by American curators. Because the quantity of written records is limited (though enormous in comparison to most early societies), there is still much guesswork involved in determining the place women held in Egyptian society. It is clear that, unlike most ancient and not-so-ancient societies, Egypt conferred on women the legal right to own property and to barter their own goods, which means a larger record for current study. The essays here are both erudite and fascinating to read; the illustrations are clear and well presented in conjunction with the text. 117 colour & 112 b/w illustrations
Book Synopsis Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House by : Carolyn Morrow Long
Download or read book Madame Lalaurie, Mistress of the Haunted House written by Carolyn Morrow Long and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2012-03-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the "Most Haunted" House in New Orleans The legend of Madame Delphine Lalaurie, a wealthy society matron, has haunted the city of New Orleans for nearly two hundred years. When fire destroyed part of her home in 1834, the public was outraged to learn that behind closed doors Lalaurie routinely bound, starved, and tortured her slaves. Forced to flee the city, her guilt was unquestioned, and tales of her actions have become increasingly fanciful and grotesque over the decades. Even today, the Laulaurie house is described as the city 's "most haunted" during ghost tours. Carolyn Long, a meticulous researcher of New Orleans history, disentangles the threads of fact and legend that have intertwined over the decades. Was Madame Lalaurie a sadistic abuser? Mentally ill? Or merely the victim of an unfair and sensationalist press? Using carefully documented eyewitness testimony, archival documents, and family letters, Long recounts Lalaurie's life from legal troubles before the fire and scandal through her exile to France and death in Paris in 1849. Themes of mental illness, wealth, power, and questions of morality in a society that condoned the purchase and ownership of other human beings pervade the book, lending it an appeal to anyone interested in antebellum history. Long's ability to tease the truth from the knots of sensationalism is uncanny as she draws the facts from the legend of Madame Lalaurie's haunted house.
Book Synopsis Live Alone and Like It by : Marjorie Hillis
Download or read book Live Alone and Like It written by Marjorie Hillis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-11-29 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this witty, engaging guide, a renowned Vogue editor takes readers through the fundamentals of living alone by showing them how to create a welcoming environment and cultivate home-friendly hobbies, "for no woman can accept an invitation every night without coming to grief." "Whether you view your one-woman ménage as Doom or Adventure, you need a plan, if you are going to make the best of it." Thus begins Marjorie Hillis' archly funny, gently prescriptive manifesto for single women. Though it was 1936 when the Vogue editor first shared her wisdom with her fellow singletons, the tome has been passed lovingly through the generations, and is even more apt today than when it was first published. Hillis, a true bon vivant, was sick and tired of hearing single women carping about their living arrangements and lonely lives; this book is her invaluable wake-up call for single women to take control and enjoy their circumstances. With engaging chapter titles like "A Lady and Her Liquor" and "The Pleasures of a Single Bed," along with a new preface by author Laurie Graff (You Have to Kiss A Lot of Frogs), Live Alone and Like It is sure to appeal to live-aloners—and those considering taking the plunge.
Book Synopsis Is This the House of Mistress Mouse? by : Richard Scarry
Download or read book Is This the House of Mistress Mouse? written by Richard Scarry and published by Golden Books. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lonely Mister Mouse receives a letter from Mistress Mouse inviting him to visit. But she forgets to tell him where she lives. As Mister Mouse searches for her house, readers can help by guessing what is behind each door in this touch-and-feel board book. Illustrations.
Book Synopsis The New House Mistress by : Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer
Download or read book The New House Mistress written by Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The New House Mistress" by Elinor Mary Brent-Dyer. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Mistress of the House by : Scarlet Darkwood
Download or read book Mistress of the House written by Scarlet Darkwood and published by The Edge. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry's bedroom escapades are dead in the water. Thelma decides it's time to take some initiative and add some spice to his life. While the order of the day for women is subservience and modesty, she's having none of that nonsense. She decides it's time to put her newly acquired amorous skills to use and show Harry the time of his life. Where did Thelma learn her skills? Hidden deep in the countryside, on the outskirts of town, The House isn't a run-of-the mill asylum. It harbors one secret so hot and tempting, that only the worthy few are invited to the special side, a world filled with wily activities and wicked debauchery that makes the prudish blanche. Upon discharge from The House, Thelma discovers that using her knowledge is the easy part. But the task of winning Harry's heart and enduring devotion proves a daunting task that leaves her questioning all she's learned. **Some scenes are graphic in nature, focusing on the physical aspects of human relationships.**
Book Synopsis Mistress of the Art of Death by : Ariana Franklin
Download or read book Mistress of the Art of Death written by Ariana Franklin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-02-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The national bestselling hit hailed by the New York Times as a "vibrant medieval mystery...[it] outdoes the competition." In medieval Cambridge, England, Adelia, a female forensics expert, is summoned by King Henry II to investigate a series of gruesome murders that has wrongly implicated the Jewish population, yielding even more tragic results. As Adelia's investigation takes her behind the closed doors of the country's churches, the killer prepares to strike again.
Book Synopsis Mistress of the House by : ROSEMARY. BAIRD
Download or read book Mistress of the House written by ROSEMARY. BAIRD and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GREAT LADIES AND GRAND HOUSES OF BRITAIN.
Book Synopsis House of Shadows by : Christopher Rollier
Download or read book House of Shadows written by Christopher Rollier and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the restoration of a 1926 house, I was seeing many hauntings, and that motivated me to write this book. At first, I thought I might have just been seeing and hearing things. After researching and bringing in a paranormal team, I found out that Al Capone had gotten the house for his mistress and their two daughters, Mary and Ann. I haven't found any proof that he ever bought the house, but all the evidence I have gotten has been through the old-timers that have lived in this neighborhood since childhood. The house is haunted by the mistress, Mary Ann Brown, a.k.a. Vera. I have encountered many hauntings in my life, and this house has given me many special gifts.
Book Synopsis The Mistress of Nothing by : Kate Pullinger
Download or read book The Mistress of Nothing written by Kate Pullinger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When her mistress departs from Victorian London society to seek relief from tuberculosis symptoms in Egypt, maid Sally throws herself into their new culture and comes to know freedoms she has never experienced before she is harshly reminded of her humble station in life.
Book Synopsis Mistress Masham's Repose by : T.H. White
Download or read book Mistress Masham's Repose written by T.H. White and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-03-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “She saw: first, a square opening, about eight inches wide, in the lowest step…finally she saw that there was a walnut shell, or half one, outside the nearest door…she went to look at the shell—but looked with the greatest astonishment. There was a baby in it.” So ten-year-old Maria, orphaned mistress of Malplaquet, discovers the secret of her deteriorating estate: on a deserted island at its far corner, in the temple long ago nicknamed Mistress Masham’s Repose, live an entire community of people—”The People,” as they call themselves—all only inches tall. With the help of her only friend—the absurdly erudite Professor—Maria soon learns that this settlement is no less than the kingdom of Lilliput (first seen in Gulliver’s Travels) in exile. Safely hidden for centuries, the Lilliputians are at first endangered by Maria’s well-meaning but clumsy attempts to make their lives easier, but their situation grows truly ominous when they are discovered by Maria’s greedy guardians, who look at The People and see only a bundle of money.
Book Synopsis The Young Mistress by : Gabriel Pearson
Download or read book The Young Mistress written by Gabriel Pearson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Young Mistress is an adult novel, with adult themes and a deep engagement in the world of BDSM. It is unlike any other journey the reader might take. In a world of fantasy, not far removed from our own, a young woman struggles to escape her past. Her life has been full of pain, betrayal and abuse at the hands of those who should have loved and protected her. As fortune favours her, she begins to believe in something so much better. Taught to be nothing more than flesh and bone, to be broken at the will of others, salvation, empowerment and the love of her new-found family, brings her a freedom for which there must surely be an ultimate price.
Book Synopsis The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress by : Ariel Lawhon
Download or read book The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress written by Ariel Lawhon and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia comes a “genuinely surprising whodunit” (USA Today) that tantalizingly reimagines a scandalous murder mystery that rocked the nation. One summer night in 1930, Judge Joseph Crater steps into a New York City cab and is never heard from again. Behind this great man are three women, each with her own tale to tell: Stella, his fashionable wife, the picture of propriety; Maria, their steadfast maid, indebted to the judge; and Ritzi, his showgirl mistress, willing to seize any chance to break out of the chorus line. As the twisted truth emerges, Ariel Lawhon’s wickedly entertaining debut mystery transports us into the smoky jazz clubs, the seedy backstage dressing rooms, and the shadowy streets beneath the Art Deco skyline. Don't miss Ariel Lawhon's new book, The Frozen River!
Book Synopsis Mistress Ruby Ties It Together by : Robin Shamburg
Download or read book Mistress Ruby Ties It Together written by Robin Shamburg and published by AtRandom. This book was released on 2001-02-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equal parts memoir, how-to and social satire, Mistress Ruby Ties it Together is a guided tour through New York's S underworld, where the author worked as a professional dominatrix to subsidize her writing career. As Mistress Ruby, this former Catholic school girl took confessions from some of the country's most powerful men. Within the sanctity of the dungeon, they revealed to her their darkest lusts, fears and frailties -- as well as their sincere desire to connect with the opposite sex. Each of these provocative essays provides an insider's view of human deviation; together, they present a startling portrait of our everyday selves. Mistress Ruby is a striking, candid, and humorous look behind the dungeon doors to a darker -- and often unexplored -- side of human nature.
Book Synopsis Wittgenstein's Mistress by : David Markson
Download or read book Wittgenstein's Mistress written by David Markson and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson or anyone else has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well that she is the only person left on earth.
