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Download or read book Fanny & Adelaide written by Ann Blainey and published by Ivan R. Dee Publisher. This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of two extraodinarily gifted sisters and their encounters with nineteenth-century society.
Download or read book Fanny Kemble written by Deirdre David and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007 Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as an actress and member of the famous Kemble theatrical dynasty, as a fierce opponent of slavery despite her marriage to a wealthy slave owner, as a brilliantly successful solo performer of Shakespeare, and as the author of journals about her career and life on her husband's Georgia plantations. She was, in her own words, irresistible as a "woman who has sat at dinner alongside Byron . . . and who calls Tennyson, Alfred." Touring in America with her father in the early 1830s, Kemble impulsively wed the wealthy and charming Philadelphia bachelor Pierce Butler, beginning a tumultuous marriage that ended in a sensational divorce and custody battle fourteen years later. At the time of their marriage, Kemble had not yet visited the vast Georgia rice and cotton plantations to which Butler was heir. In the winter of 1838, they visited Butler's southern holdings, and a horrified Kemble wrote what would later be published on both sides of the Atlantic as Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation. An important text for abolitionists, it revealed the inner workings of a plantation and the appalling conditions in which slaves lived. Returning to England after her divorce, she fashioned a new career as a solo performer of Shakespeare's plays and as the author of memoirs, several travel narratives and collections of poems, a short novel, and miscellaneous essays on the theater. For the rest of her life, she would divide her time between the two countries. In the various roles she performed in her life, on stage and off—abolitionist, author, estranged wife—Kemble remained highly theatrical, appropriating and subverting nineteenth-century prescriptions for women's lives, ever rewriting the roles to which she was assigned by society and inheritance. Hers was truly a performed life, and in the first Kemble biography in twenty-five years to examine that life in its entirety, Deirdre David presents it in all its richness and complexity.
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Download or read book Collecting Ladies written by Penny Olsen and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 2013 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1870, Ferdinand von Mueller, the greatest Australian botanist of the nineteenth century, began to advertise in several newspapers across Australia for 'lady' plant collectors. This was at a time when women typically had little recourse to science, or contact with men outside their circle of friends, making Mueller's network of ladies quite extraordinary. Collecting Ladies profiles 14 of Mueller's coterie of women collectors. Included are Fanny Charsley, Louisa Atkinson, Annie Walker and Ellis Rowan for whom Mueller made time to assist in pursuit of their own passions. He identified the plants they painted and provided letters of introduction to publishers and scientists. Together, these ladies produced some of the most beautiful books and botanical art to come out of Australia in the nineteenth century, covering all the Australian colonies.
Download or read book Courts of Probate and Divorce written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars by : Catherine Clinton
Download or read book Fanny Kemble's Civil Wars written by Catherine Clinton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the British stage star turned plantation mistress, whose abolitionist writings made her an unlikely heroine of the Union cause--and whose life intersected in bold and dramatic ways with the most tumultuous of American conflicts, the Civil War. 64 illustrations.
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Download or read book Supreme Court, City and County of New York, General Term-First Department. written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 2012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Slayton Family written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Stephens-Stevens Genealogy, Lineage from Henry Stephens, Or Stevens of Stonington, Connecticut, 1668 by : Plowdon Stevens
Download or read book Stephens-Stevens Genealogy, Lineage from Henry Stephens, Or Stevens of Stonington, Connecticut, 1668 written by Plowdon Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Robert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered by : William B. Jones, Jr.
Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson Reconsidered written by William B. Jones, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-10-02 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical interest in Robert Louis Stevenson has never been greater. New editions of the author’s works—from the poems to the travel writing, from the Scottish novels to the South Seas tales—are appearing. During the year 2000, the sesquicentennial of RLS’s birth, three conferences were held in honor of the occasion and each entertained an international audience. This collection of essays reflects the scope of Robert Louis Stevenson’s achievement and the range of current critical response. The first section contains four critical overviews that include an analysis of the Stevensonian imagination, an assessment of the author’s literary theory, an examination of the coded significance of burial and reanimation in Stevenson’s Wrong Box and other works, and an examination of the use of both Scottish and South Seas islands in his fiction. The second section contains three essays that examine the many-faceted Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Other works—An Inland Voyage, A Child’s Garden of Verses, The Dynamiter, The Master of Ballantrae, and Prayers Written at Vailima—are the subjects of the six essays in the third section. Three essays on biography, popular culture, and personal response are in the fourth section.
Book Synopsis Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts by : Benjamin Shurtleff
Download or read book Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts written by Benjamin Shurtleff and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Outing Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The American Shorthorn Herd Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Angel of Kings Cross by : Anne Sarzin
Download or read book The Angel of Kings Cross written by Anne Sarzin and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-11 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Fanny Reading arrived in Australia in 1889 as a migrant child and felt the loneliness of the newcomer. A brilliant musician and compassionate medical doctor, she created the National Council of Jewish Women of Australia, mentoring thousands of women, bringing them out of their kitchens into the worlds of public debate and policies. A leader on Australia’s home-front during World War II, she was a trailblazer, feminist and courageous activist for the disadvantaged at home and abroad. ‘This illuminating biography makes a significant contribution to Australian history, politics and culture.’—Emeritus Professor Konrad Kwiet, Resident Historian at the Sydney Jewish Museum ‘Few leaders are endowed with the vision and ability to transform their society. One such catalyst of change was Dr Fanny Reading …’—Professor Andrew Markus, Emeritus Professor of Monash University’s Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation ‘Sarzin’s book, a labor of love, is a precious gift – not only to a great woman whose legacy has justly been restored but especially to readers, who will emerge with a greater knowledge of critical chapters in Jewish and Australian history, and an appreciation for someone they can cherish as a role model and source of inspiration.’—Dr Daniel Polisar, Executive Vice-President, Shalem College, Jerusalem
Book Synopsis The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888 by : Samuel Pearce May
Download or read book The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888 written by Samuel Pearce May and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: