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Author : Annie E. Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Elsie written by Annie E. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane Atkinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681770164
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Elsie and Mairi Go to War written by Diane Atkinson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible story of two courageous and spirited women who were the only female participants to serve on the western front during World War I. When they met at a motorcycle club in 1912, Elsie Knocker was a thirty year-old motorcycling divorcee dressed in bottle-green Dunhill leathers, and Mairi Chisholm was a brilliant eighteen-year old mechanic, living at home borrowing tools from her brother. Little did they know, theirs was to become one of the most extraordinary stories of World War I. In 1914, they roared off to London 'to do their bit,' and within a month they were in the thick of things in Belgium driving ambulances to distant military hospitals. Frustrated by the number of men dying of shock in the back of their vehicles, they set up their own first-aid post on the front line in the village of Pervyse, near Ypres, risking their lives working under sniper fire and heavy bombardment for months at a time. As news of their courage and expertise spread, the 'Angels of Pervyse' became celebrities, visited by journalists and photographers as well as royals and VIPs. Glamorous and influential, they were having the time of their lives, and for four years Elsie and Mairi and stayed in Pervyse until they were nearly killed by arsenic gas in the spring of 1918. But returning home and adjusting to peacetime life—and the role of women in British society—was to prove more challenging than even the war itself.
Author : Donna M. Lucey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393634787
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas written by Donna M. Lucey and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection “[Lucey] delivers the goods, disclosing the unhappy or colorful lives that Sargent sometimes hinted at but didn’t spell out.”—Boston Globe In this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny intuition, Sargent hinted at the mysteries and passions that unfolded in his subjects’ lives. These women inhabited a rarefied world of wealth and strict conventions—yet all of them did something unexpected, something shocking, to upend society’s rules.
Author : Martha Finley
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters written by Martha Finley and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters' by Martha Finley, readers are taken on a thrilling adventure through the American countryside as Elsie embarks on a journey down the Mississippi River. Finley's writing style is characterized by its vivid descriptions of the natural landscape and the detailed portrayal of characters' emotions and motivations. Set in the mid-19th century, the book provides insight into the social and political issues of the time, offering a glimpse into the challenges and triumphs faced by individuals of that era. The narrative also explores themes of family, friendship, and personal growth, making it a compelling read for both younger and older audiences. Martha Finley, a prolific 19th century author, drew inspiration for her 'Elsie Dinsmore' series from her own experiences and beliefs. Her strong Christian faith is evident in the moral lessons woven throughout the stories, reflecting her desire to impart values and virtues to her readers. Finley's dedication to creating engaging and educational literature for young readers has made her a beloved figure in the world of children's literature. I highly recommend 'Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters' to readers who enjoy historical fiction and stories that delve into the complexities of human relationships. With its engaging plot and well-developed characters, this book is sure to captivate audiences and leave a lasting impression.
Author : Adrian Plass
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 031029343X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Sacred Diaries written by Adrian Plass and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these two bestselling classics, popular author Adrian Plass takes us on a rollicking tour of the 'Sacred Diarist's' slightly surreal world. From the pugnacious Andromeda Veal to the loony, loveable Leonard Thynn, the whole gang is here in full glory, bound for misadventure, loads of fun and the occasional insight neatly camouflaged as side-splitting humour.
Author : Kathryn Carter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802081599
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (815 download)
Download or read book The Small Details of Life written by Kathryn Carter and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diaries of twenty different women from various points in Canadian history, covering 160 years, from 1830 to 1996. Each diary is a snapshot into a different time period. Includes short biographies on each woman. 2002.
Author : Helena Wayne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113480959X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Story of a Marriage written by Helena Wayne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about the work of Bronislaw Malinowski but little is available about his personal life and thoughts. These letters, available for the first time, were written by him and Elsie Masson from 1916 to her death in 1935. They chronoicle their meeting and subsequent extraordinary marriage in a highly accessible and revealing way, also telling the story of his remarkable, courageous and largely unknown wife and personalise Malinowski, not just as a teacher and scientist, but as a husband, father and friend. There is a tremendous variety in the correspondence. The Malinowskis lived in half a dozen countries and visited many more and their gypsy lifestyle, his brilliant successes in his professional life, the tragedy of her illness, as well as their continuing love story are all recorded. The letters bring in luminaries such as Sir James Frazer, and Malinowski's students, many of whom went on to become famous anthropologists themselves. There are also fascinating glimpses of attitudes and day-to-day life in the twenties and thirties, including the rise of Nazism and Fascism. Volume I presents the letters written between 1916 and the beginning of 1920 in Australia and New Guinea. They start with a retrospective diary letter from Elsie Masson to Bronislaw Malinowski and detail their first meeting and eventual falling in love. Malinowski describes his third, and final, time of fieldwork in New Guinea, in the Trobriand Islands, 1917-1918. He then returns to Australia where, despite opposition from Elsie's parents, they marry and then spend a year there. At this time they both succumb to the Spanish 'flu epidemic but, having recovered, then move to England.
Author : Joanna Cannon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501187406
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Three Things About Elsie written by Joanna Cannon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep delivers a suspenseful and emotionally satisfying novel “infused with warmth and humor” (People) about a lifelong friendship, a devastating secret, and the small acts of kindness that bring people together. There are three things you should know about Elsie. The first thing is that she’s my best friend. The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better. And the third thing…might take a bit more explaining. Eighty-four-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly. As she waits to be rescued, she thinks about her friend Elsie and wonders if a terrible secret from their past is about to come to light. If the charming new resident is who he claims to be, why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago? From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Three Things About Elsie “breathes with suspense, providing along the way piercing, poetic descriptions, countless tiny mysteries, and breathtaking little reveals…a rich portrait of old age and friendship stretched over a fascinating frame” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). This is an “amusing and heartbreaking” (Publishers Weekly) story about forever friends on the twisting path of life who come to understand how the fine threads of humanity connect us all.
Author : Aidan Macfarlane
Publisher : Auckland University Press
ISBN 13 : 1775589358
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (755 download)
Download or read book Teenagers written by Aidan Macfarlane and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever felt you need to turn to a whole team of advisers for help in bringing up your wayward children? From psychiatrists to cooks, from laundry maids to substance abuse counsellors? Then this book, an easy-to-read guide to teenagers—and how to live happily with them—is aimed at you. By interviewing over 40 parents and their offspring, and based on up-to-the-minute medical and social facts, the authors have produced a handbook that highlights areas of conflict and advises on how to get things right. For both parents who want to get maximum enjoyment out of life with their teenagers and for teenagers to give to their parents, this book seeks to cover everything you want to know about friendships, drugs, sex, bullying, grief, eating disorders, and general teenage living.
Author : Robert A. Schanke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472066810
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Passing Performances written by Robert A. Schanke and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passing Performances gathers a range of critical and biographical essays on notable personalities whose major contributions to the stage occurred before 1969, the year of the Stonewall riots that kicked off the gay rights movement in the United States. How these theater practitioners variously "passed"-- i.e., managed unconventional sexual inclinations both on- and offstage--significantly determined the course of their personal and professional lives and thus the course of U.S. theater history. The actors, directors, producers, and agents examined here include Edwin Forrest, Charlotte Cushman, and Adah Isaacs Menken, whose personal lives and careers traded on the same-sex erotics of "true love" in the antebellum period; Elisabeth Marbury, Elsie de Wolfe, Elsie Janis, Nance O'Neil, and Alla Nazimova, whose intimate female liaisons were variously interpreted around the turn of the century; the "lavender marriages" of Alfred Lunt to Lynne Fontanne and Guthrie McClintic to Katharine Cornell; the lesbian collaborations of Margaret Webster and Cheryl Crawford; the comic antics of Monty Woolley, which negotiated codified constructions of homosexual perversion in the post-Freudian interwar years; and the on- and offstage performances of Mary Martin and Joe Cino, which resisted the paranoid enforcements of heterosexual normality in the McCarthy era. Central to these investigations are the complex connections of performances of sexuality and gender and their different implications for men and women practitioners working under pervasive sexism and homophobia. The volume also includes striking archival photographs of the performers and their performances, and an index to facilitate the cross-referencing of subjects' intersecting careers. Passing Performances will engage both general and academic readers interested in theater, gay and lesbian history, American studies, and biography. Robert A. Schanke is Professor of Theatre and Chair of the Division of Fine Arts, Central College, Iowa. Kim Marra is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, University of Iowa.
Author : William Edward Norris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book An Embarrassing Orphan written by William Edward Norris and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Harding
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250065062
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The House by the Lake written by Thomas Harding and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the summer of 1993, Thomas Harding traveled to Germany with his grandmother to visit a small house by a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. It had been a holiday home for her and her family, but in the 1930s, she had been forced to flee to England as the Nazis swept to power. Nearly twenty years later, the house was government property and soon to be demolished. It was Harding's legacy, one that had been loved, abandoned, fought over -- a house his grandmother had desired until her death. Could it be saved? And should it? As Harding began to make inquiries, he unearthed secrets that had lain hidden for decades about the lives of the five families who had lived there: a wealthy landowner, a prosperous Jewish family, a renowned composer, a widow and her children, and a Stasi informant. All had made the house their home, and all -- bar one -- had been forced out. The house had been the site of domestic bliss and of contentment, but also of terrible grief and tragedy. It had weathered storms, fires and abandonment; witnessed murders, had withstood the trauma of a world war, and the dividing of a nation. As the story of the house began to take shape, Harding realized that there was a chance to save it, but in doing so, he would have to resolve his own family's feelings towards their former homeland -- and a hatred handed down through the generations. -- For readers of Edmund de Waal, Daniel Mendelson, and David Laski" -- Provided by publisher.
Author : Barbara Anne Waite
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983945208
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (452 download)
Download or read book Elsie - Adventuresof an Arizona Schoolteacher 1913-1916 written by Barbara Anne Waite and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of events in the life of Elsie Hayes as a teacher in Arizona during the years 1913-1916.
Author : Peter Rees
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741766079
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)
Download or read book The Other Anzacs written by Peter Rees and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I had my right arm under a leg, which I thought was [the patient's], but when I lifted it I found to my horror that it was a loose leg with a boot and a puttee on it. It was one of the orderly's legs which had been blown off and had landed on the patient's bed. The next day they found the trunk about 20 yards away." By the end of The Great War, 45 Australian and New Zealand nurses had died in overseas service and more than 200 had been decorated. These were women who left for war on an adventure, but were soon confronted with remarkable challenges for which their civilian lives could never have prepared them. They were there for the horrors of Gallipoli and they were there for the savagery the Western Front. Within 12 hours of the slaughter at Anzac Cove they had more than 500 horrifically injured patients to tend on one crammed hospital ship, and scores of deaths on each of the harrowing days that followed. Every night was a nightmare. Their strength and humanity were remarkable. Using diaries and letters, Peter Rees takes us into the hospital camps, wards, and tent surgeries on the edge of some of the most horrific battlefronts of human history. But he also allows the friendships and loves of these courageous and compassionate women to enrich their experiences, and ours. This is a very human story from a different era, when women had not long begun their quest for equality and won the vote. They were on the frontline of social change as well as war, and the hurdles they had to overcome and the price they paid, personally and professionally, make them a unique group in Anzac history. Profoundly moving, "The Other Anzacs" is story of extraordinary compassion and courage shown by a group of Australian and New Zealand women whose contribution to the Anzac legend has barely been recognized in history. Peter Rees has changed our understanding of that history forever.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book New York Supreme Court written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Priscilla Rogers
Publisher : Priscilla Rogers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Flashback: 50 Stories of Nostalgia written by Priscilla Rogers and published by Priscilla Rogers. This book was released on with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flashback: 50 Stories of Nostalgia" is a captivating anthology that invites readers on a journey through time, delving into the rich tapestry of human experience and emotion. Through a collection of poignant and evocative tales, this anthology explores the delicate threads of nostalgia woven into the fabric of our lives. From heartwarming stories of childhood memories that transport readers to the innocence of youth to the tender embrace of grandparents' wisdom, the anthology resonates with themes of familial bonds and the enduring impact of formative years. The narratives within "Flashback" delicately unravel the intricacies of first dates, capturing the exhilaration and nervous anticipation that accompany such memorable moments. Old friendships are rekindled, offering a glimpse into the enduring strength of connections that withstand the test of time. The anthology doesn't shy away from exploring the enchanting world of prom, where dreams are spun, and the dance of fleeting romance unfolds against the backdrop of glittering lights and timeless music. Each story in this anthology serves as a portal to the past, illuminating the universal experiences that shape the human condition. With a focus on relatable moments and the indelible imprints left by shared history, "Flashback" becomes a literary time capsule, preserving the essence of nostalgia for readers to savor and reflect upon. Whether revisiting the carefree days of youth or navigating the complexities of first love, this collection embraces the universal themes that bind us together in the shared tapestry of memory and longing.
Author : Susie Schecter
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440199965
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Lifetimes Ago written by Susie Schecter and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the historical romance, Lifetimes Ago, a modern-day couple discovers through past life regression that their lives were once intertwined and unintentionally uncover a passionate 1930s love story. It is 1934 in Rensselaer, Indiana, when Elsie Wilkins meets John McDonald-a man unlike any other. After feeling an immediate and intense chemistry, Elsie cannot take her eyes off him. It's official-the handsome apprentice architect has just swept the independent-minded teacher off her feet. Despite the fact that Elsie is still married to a man who abandoned her without warning, she and John begin a fervent courtship as all social mores fall away. As the Great Depresssion continues to wreak havoc around them, John and Elsie feel no hunger other than for each other. Just when their infatuation transforms to a powerful love, Elsie's husband makes an appearance and suddenly, the joyful future they have planned together is threatened. Despite an unbearable tragedy, John and Elsie's deep love for each other transcends sixty-six years proving that true love never dies.
