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Upstarts and Outcasts

Author : Valerie Green
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 9780920663745
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Upstarts and Outcasts written by Valerie Green and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular myth of Victoria's genteel history -- all upper-class colonists and Royal Navy dances -- is ripe for puncturing. Yes, there were the wealthy and the well-born, but the city's pioneers also included madams and murderers, salesmen and saloon-keepers who would never have been seated at the dinner tables of the elite. But these people, upstanding citizens or impudent criminals, contributed in their way to the life of the little settlement perched on the Pacific -- the New World represented a new start for everyone, earnest, hard-working seamstresses and fly-by-night gold seekers alike. Valerie Green has unearthed a variety of stories about saloon-keepers, housemaids, actors and brothel-owners. Victoria's past may not be as proper as legends have it, but it was a lot more colourful!

Female Outcasts

Author : Yasemin Güniz Sertel
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1496945972
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Female Outcasts written by Yasemin Güniz Sertel and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the cultural and social subordination of women in American society as represented in the American novelistic tradition in the context of sociological, psychological, and historical perspectives peculiar to the period. The selection of the novels has been based on a wide range of different cultural and historical periods, which enables the reader to witness the general outcast position of woman as depicted in the American novel and her subordination in this society by way of some historical and cultural forces. The endeavor has been to illustrate how, from the earliest examples of the American novel depicting colonial life to the contemporary ethnic and minority novels, the persistent negative image as social stereotypes are imposed on women as an unavoidable and unalterable destiny.

Courtesans: A Roleplaying Game of Sex and Society

Author : Ian Warner
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471681157
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book Courtesans: A Roleplaying Game of Sex and Society written by Ian Warner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has always been a special class of women who defy conventional morality and family structures in order to achieve power beyond any "legitimate" bride. These are the Courtesans. More than mere common strumpets they are courted as much for their razor sharp wits, minds and sporting skill as much as for sex. Set primarily in the golden age of the English Courtesan between the Restoration and the early 20th Centuries, Courtesans offers a unique political and adversarial Roleplaying experience like no other.

Liz

Author : Bill Ratcliffe
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1449058191
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Liz written by Bill Ratcliffe and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIZ is a story based on actual events. Four lives caught up in the turbulent times of the 1860’s. The struggle to survive, and the desires of a nineteen-year-old girl coming of age, leaves her vulnerable. Lust, weakness, strength, treachery, happiness, disappointment, and despair alternate as she becomes the central figure in the lives of three lovers. As war clouds gather in the United States, threatening to divide that nation, a gold rush in Canada brings three men together while at the same time tearing them apart. In turn, they face the hazards and cruelty of sealing off Alaska, violent storms at sea, dangerous cutthroats, early ranching, and the hardships and horrors of the Civil War. The story takes place sailing the West Coast of America, ranching in California, across Panama, up the East Coast of America, the Civil War in Virginia and the hazards of a post Civil War journey by stagecoach across the United States.

From Slave Girls to Salvation

Author : Shelly D. Ikebuchi
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077483059X
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book From Slave Girls to Salvation written by Shelly D. Ikebuchi and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its origins as a project to rescue Chinese prostitutes and slave girls from a life of supposed depravity the Chinese Rescue Home became a feature of the moral and racial landscape of Victoria – a place where the Methodist Women’s Missionary Society attempted to reform Chinese and Japanese girls and women, in part by teaching them domestic skills meant to ease their integration into Western society. Between 1886 and 1923, over four hundred Chinese and Japanese women sheltered in the home. Yet, despite the significance of this iconic institution, little has been written on its history. From Slave Girls to Salvation draws on a rich collection of archival materials to uncover the organizational hierarchies, as well as the religious and racial tropes, which permeated the home. In doing so, it expands our understanding of the complex interplay of gender, race, and class in BC during this time period.

Male Femininities

Author : Dana Berkowitz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 147989916X
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Male Femininities written by Dana Berkowitz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-02-14 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative essays that explore how men perform femininity and what femininity looks like without women What counts as “male femininity”? Is it simply men behaving in effeminate ways or is it the absence of masculinity? Male Femininities presents a nuanced, critical collection of essays that highlight the extent to which male femininities are neither an imitation of femaleness nor an emptying of masculinity. These innovative essays focus on both gay and straight men, and transmasculine and genderqueer people in their construction and performance of femininity, thereby revealing the possibilities that open up when we critically examine femininity without women. Male Femininities asks, What does femininity look like for men? The contributors—highly regarded scholars and rising stars—cover a range of topics, including drag queens, cosmetic enhancements, trans fertility, and gender-non-conforming childhoods. Male Femininities illuminates what happens when we decouple femininity from female bodies and how even the smallest cracks and fissures in the normative order can disrupt, challenge, and in some cases reaffirm our existing sex-gender regime. This volume pluralizes the concept of male femininities and leads readers through an exploration of how gender, sex, and sexuality are manifested in the United States today.

Above Stairs

Author : Valerie Green
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 1926971639
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Above Stairs written by Valerie Green and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Fort Victoria was first established in the mid-nineteenth century, eight pioneer families of Europe’s upper class formed the social elite of the modest colony. The self-named aristocracy of this new land, these families shaped a world suited to their proper tastes on the upper floors of the fort, and eventually, in beautiful homes that imitated the height of fashion in Europe. However, between their tea parties and balls, these particular families greatly influenced the progress of the city of Victoria and the province of British Columbia. In Above Stairs, get to know the the Douglases, the Pembertons, the Skinners, the Creases, the O’Reillys, the Trutches, the Rithets and the Barnards. These families made laws, surveyed land, founded businesses and set a standard of social acceptability for all those living in Victoria at the time. Like a kitchen hand sneaking up the servants’ steps to spy on the rich, discover the glamorous, complicated lives of Victoria’s social elite in Above Stairs.

Voyages of Hope

Author : Peter Johnson
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 1926971469
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Voyages of Hope written by Peter Johnson and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new husband. Why did these women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast? The answers lie in the lusty turmoil of a gold-rush frontier, the horrible disruptions of industrial England and the conflicting aims of earnest Christians and early British feminists.

If More Walls Could Talk

Author : Valerie Green
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781894898225
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book If More Walls Could Talk written by Valerie Green and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2004 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Valerie Green and Lynn Gordon-Findlay have put their ears to the walls of Vancouver Island's historic homes and transcribed the whispered secrets of bygone days when folk of every description left their echoes in the buildings where they lived, worked, played, and died. If the walls of a venerable mansion could speak, what stories would it tell? How about that rustic shack farther down the road? In her first book, If These Walls Could Talk,Valerie Green explored 50 heritage homes in the Greater Victoria area. In this second volume, she ranges further afield, covering Greater Victoria and Southern Vancouver Island, Duncan and the Cowichan Valley, Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Parksville, Qualicum Beach, Courtney and District, and Campbell River and the North Island, including homes in Telegraph Cove and Port McNeill. Each home tells of a way of life long past, of people who dwelt within its walls, when and how it was built, or how it is historically significant. Once again, Valerie's text is complemented by architectural artist Lynn Gordon-Findlay's exquisite drawings.

Between Heaven and Balmoral

Author : Robert Ratcliffe Taylor
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039184545
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Between Heaven and Balmoral written by Robert Ratcliffe Taylor and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1860, Cary Castle was built by George Hunter Cary in Victoria, the bustling Gold Rush capital of Vancouver Island. Cary was the brilliant “Boy Attorney-General,” unethical, unpopular and mentally disturbed—one of the colony’s vivid early characters. In 1865 Governor Arthur Kennedy forced the parsimonious Legislative Assembly to purchase the mansion as Vancouver Island’s Government House. After 1871, it became the vice-regal residence of the new province of British Columbia which it remained until it burned down in 1899. Defectively built and uncomfortable to live in, prone to drafts, fires and water leakage, it nevertheless reflected the character and heritage of Victoria and played an important role in the history of the province and Canada. The venue of elegant social events, as well as personal dramas, the mansion hosted British royalty, governors general, naval officers and local political leaders, and could have become a Canadian historic site. Cary Castle was also a family home for vice-regal couples where babies were born, boys slid down the bannister in the main hall, nasty diseases were endured and the Chinese “help’ was indispensable. Based on personal memoirs and letters, government documents, newspaper articles, photographs and plans, this book recreates how that idiosyncratic mansion looked and even smelled. Professor Martin Segger described Dr. Taylor’s earlier study, The Birdcages. British Columbia’s First Legislative Buildings (Friesen, 2020), as “a significant contribution, [with] fascinating detail, [and] a highly readable writing style.” (Ormsby Review, April 22, 2020) Between Heaven and Balmoral expands the picture of colonial Victoria developed in The Birdcages and will appeal to readers interested in Victoria’s history, especially its early social and architectural development.

The Selected Works of Eric Partridge

Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317431588
Total Pages : 2733 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Selected Works of Eric Partridge written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 2733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set reissues important selected works by Eric Partridge, covering the period from 1933 to 1968. Together, the books look at many and diverse aspects of language, focusing in particular on English. Included in the collection are a variety of insightful dictionaries and reference works that showcase some of Partridge’s best work. The books are creative, as well as practical, and will provide enjoyable reading for both scholars and the more general reader, who has an interest in language and linguistics.

Slang

Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317432142
Total Pages : 807 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Slang written by Eric Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1933, this book explores both contemporary and historical slang, focusing on the characteristics and quirks of the English and American languages. As well as looking at commonly used slang, there are sections that give the reader insight into more unusual areas such as Cockney slang, slang in journalism and slang in commerce, as well as slang used by sailors, the law and the church. The book will be of interest to scholars and the general readers who take an interest in language.

Rare Merit

Author : Colleen Skidmore
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774867078
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Rare Merit written by Colleen Skidmore and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare Merit is a beautifully illustrated and astute examination of women photographers in Canada as it took shape in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Throughout, the camera was both a witness to the colonialism, capitalism, and gendered and racialized social organization, and a protagonist. And women across the country, whether residents or visitors, captured people and places that were entirely new to the lens. This book shows how they did so, and the meaning their work carries.

On Celestial Music

Author : Rick Moody
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316191884
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book On Celestial Music written by Rick Moody and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and this book provides an ample selection from that output. His anatomy of the word cool reminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was infused with the feeling of jazz music but is now merely a synonym for neat. "On Celestial Music," which was included in Best American Essays, 2008, begins with a lament for the loss in recent music of the vulnerability expressed by Otis Redding's masterpiece, "Try a Little Tenderness;" moves on to Moody's infatuation with the ecstatic music of the Velvet Underground; and ends with an appreciation of Arvo Part and Purcell, close as they are to nature, "the music of the spheres." Contemporary groups covered include Magnetic Fields (their love songs), Wilco (the band's and Jeff Tweedy's evolution), Danielson Famile (an evangelical rock band), The Pogues (Shane McGowan's problems with addiction), The Lounge Lizards (John Lurie's brilliance), and Meredith Monk, who once recorded a song inspired by Rick Moody's story "Boys." Always both incisive and personable, these pieces inspire us to dive as deeply into the music that enhances our lives as Moody has done -- and introduces us to wonderful sounds we may not know.

The Book of Thistles

Author : Noëlle Janaczewska
Publisher : Apollo Books
ISBN 13 : 9781742588049
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Thistles written by Noëlle Janaczewska and published by Apollo Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the winner of the 2014 Windham Campbell Prize"--Cover.

Slang To-Day and Yesterday

Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447495799
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Slang To-Day and Yesterday written by Eric Partridge and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw

Author : Will Ferguson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307369080
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw written by Will Ferguson and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The follow-up to the back-to-back successes of How to Be a Canadian (over 110,000 copies sold) and Happiness™ (Winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour). Will Ferguson spent a three-year period criss-crossing Canada and back again. In a helicopter above the barrenlands of the sub-Arctic, in a canoe with his four-year-old son, aboard seaplanes and along the Underground Railroad, Will’s travels have taken him from Cape Spear on the coast of Newfoundland to the sun-dappled streets of Olde Victoria. In his last book, Will told us how to be Canadian; now in this book, he will tell us what it means to be Canadian. Will’s journey takes him to far-flung isolated communities as well as deep into Canada’s urban centres. From the “million-acre farm” that is P.E.I. to the tobacco belt of southern Ontario, from the architectural mess that is Montreal to the glorious jumble that is St. John’s, from a renegade republic in northwestern New Brunswick to a tundra buggy in the polar bear migration paths of Hudson Bay, Will explodes the myths of who we are. Funny, poignant and insightful, Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw is a provocative tribute to our quirky and fascinating country. Excerpt from Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw: In one particular seedy St. John’s pub, I was adopted by a work crew from Portugal Cove who took an immediate, almost antagonistic liking to me. “You’re from Alberta, you say? I have a cousin in Fort McMurray, maybe you know him.” (Everybody in Newfoundland has a cousin in Fort McMurray.) The crew from Portugal Cove tormented me with screech and second-hand smoke as they regaled me with tales of how their families were so poor “back when” that all they could afford to eat were lobsters. This was not the first time I had heard this. Apparently half the population of Newfoundland has subsisted on lobster at some point or other.