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Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Wives and Daughters written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sarah Weinman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143122541
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives written by Sarah Weinman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen chilling tales from the pioneering women who created the domestic suspense genre Murderous wives, deranged husbands, deceitful children, and vengeful friends. Few know these characters—and their creators—better than Sarah Weinman. One of today’s preeminent authorities on crime fiction, Weinman asks: Where would bestselling authors like Gillian Flynn, Sue Grafton, or Tana French be without the women writers who came before them? In Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, Weinman brings together fourteen hair-raising tales by women who—from the 1940s through the mid-1970s—took a scalpel to contemporary society and sliced away to reveal its dark essence. Lovers of crime fiction from any era will welcome this deliciously dark tribute to a largely forgotten generation of women writers.
Author : Joanna Martin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852852719
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (527 download)
Download or read book Wives and Daughters written by Joanna Martin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-07-16 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told through the stories, journals and personal letters of the women of the powerful Fox family, Wives and Daughters is a window into the daily lives and experiences of women of eighteenth-century aristocratic society and the country houses that symbolized the power and taste of eighteenth-century Britain. Combining personality with historical setting and detail, Joanna Martin traces the lives of fifteen individual women in their four country houses through several generations, in society and at home. Taking an intimate and personal look at courtship, marriage, childbirth, education, houses and gardens, reading, hobbies, travel and health, this book is an engrossing account of woman's lives in this fascinating time.
Author : Katie Hickman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780060934231
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Daughters of Britannia written by Katie Hickman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-08-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an absorbing mixture of poignant biography and wonderfully entertaining social history, Daughters of Britannia offers the story of diplomatic life as it has never been told before. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West, and Lady Diana Cooper are among the well-known wives of diplomats who represented Britain in the far-flung corners of the globe. Yet, despite serving such crucial roles, the vast majority of these women are entirely unknown to history. Drawing on letters, private journals, and memoirs, as well as contemporary oral history, Katie Hickman explores not only the public pomp and glamour of diplomatic life but also the most intimate, private face of this most fascinating and mysterious world. Touching on the lives of nearly 100 diplomatic wives (as well as sisters and daughters), Daughters of Britannia is a brilliant and compelling account of more than three centuries of British diplomacy as seen through the eyes of some of its most intrepid but least heralded participants.
Author : Susan K. Resnick
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803228368
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Goodbye Wifes and Daughters written by Susan K. Resnick and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana. Only three came out alive. "Goodbye wifes and daughters . . ." wrote two of the miners as they died. The story of that tragic day and its aftermath unfolds in this book through the eyes of those wives and daughters-women who lost their husbands, fathers, and sons, livelihoods, neighbors, and homes, yet managed to fight back and persevere.
Author : June McDaniel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791487652
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Making Virtuous Daughters and Wives written by June McDaniel and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the folk religion of India and the role of girls and women within it, author June McDaniel focuses on the brata (vrata) ritual in which moral lessons are taught and goddesses are revealed. Bratas are performed to gain such goals as a healthy family, a good husband, and a happy life. They are also performed so that the performers (bratinis) develop such virtues as devotion, humility, and compassion.This book presents data from fieldwork, along with brata stories, songs, poems, and ritual activities. It discusses Bengali folk religion, offers an example of ritual worship in folk Hinduism, and surveys a variety of bratas. The author analyzes the similarities and differences among these rituals in low-caste village life and in high-caste Hindu tradition, and notes that the development of these rituals involves a form of continuing divine revelation with women as the primary transmitters. Bratas act to maintain traditional Hindu values, but also emphasize the power of women, whose virtues can save their husbands from hell worlds and their families from disasters.
Author : Kathy Lynn Emerson
Publisher : Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Wives and Daughters written by Kathy Lynn Emerson and published by Troy, N.Y. : Whitston Publishing Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteenth-century England was scarcely a paradise for anyone by modern standards. Yet despite huge obstacles, many sixteenth-century women achieved personal success and even personal wealth. This is a resource for all interested in this time-period.
Author : Jennie Melamed
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316463671
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Gather the Daughters written by Jennie Melamed and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers -- chosen male descendants of the original ten -- are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires. The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly -- they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers' hands and their mothers' despair. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others. Born leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing. Gather the Daughters is a smoldering debut; dark and energetic, compulsively readable, Melamed's novel announces her as an unforgettable new voice in fiction.
Author : Jennifer S. Uglow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571170364
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by Jennifer S. Uglow and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Suzanne Morris
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 150402897X
Total Pages : 997 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Wives and Mistresses written by Suzanne Morris and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 997 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynastic tale of two families—the Gerrards and Leiders—as seen through the eyes of four women whose lives are bound by blood and friendship, and interwoven with the destiny of Houston, Texas, for over 70 years.
Author : Mavis E. Mate
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851155340
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Daughters, Wives and Widows After the Black Death written by Mavis E. Mate and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did the expanding economic life of England after the Black Death improve the lot of women, as is commonly thought? This study argues not. It has long been thought that the post Black Death period offered unparallelled opportunities for women. However, through a careful consideration of economic and legal changes affecting women of all social classes and conditions, the author shows that this was not the case, taking issue with orthodox opinion. She argues that marriage at a late age was not customary for women, and that the ability of wives to supplement their income with intermittent paid labour (at harvest time, for example) was not so great as has been supposed: rather, most married women spent more time on unpaid agricultural labour on their own land than their peers had done in the pre-plague economy. ProfessorMate also demonstrates that there is little evidence to support the current belief that widowhood was the period in a woman's life when she enjoyed most power, freedom, and independence; moreover, legal changes were a mixed blessing for women, leaving some widows with a larger portion and a more secure title to land, but totally depriving others. Throughout, the book pays much attention to class as well as gender, showing how many things were determined byit, from what a woman wore or ate to the age at which she married, her power within the household, and even her vulnerability to rape. The late MAVIS E. MATE was Professor of History Emerita, University of Oregon.
Author : Joan Larsen Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Daughters, Wives, and Widows written by Joan Larsen Klein and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Rosenbaum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988323360
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives written by Karen Rosenbaum and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These stories sink deep and rise high. And along the way, they gleam with love." -Lavina Fielding Anderson The female protagonists of these fourteen short stories are daughters of devout Mormon women. Some choose to leave the family faith; some choose to stay. All hum the hymns of their forebears. They are women of the American West, but some have also journeyed a bit beyond those borders. One swims in a tributary of the Colorado; another dips her elbow into the Ganges. Each finds her own way to ask (not answer) the big questions. They represent four distinct families. They are separated by mountain ranges and deserts. But they share a common birthright. They are sisters. "Rosenbaum probes the feminine soul with deep empathy." -Levi S. Peterson Karen Rosenbaum's published work comprises short stories, personal essays, and newspaper articles, some of which have won awards from Sunstone, Exponent II, and Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought.
Author : Pamela Horn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Ladies of the Manor written by Pamela Horn and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Wives and Daughters written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annabel Venning
Publisher : Headline Review
ISBN 13 : 9780755312597
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Following the Drum written by Annabel Venning and published by Headline Review. This book was released on 2006 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries army wives and daughters have gone to some of the most treacherous places in the world, following their men to the cholera-ridden valleys of the Crimea, the sweltering plains of India and the inhospitable Burmese jungles. Drawing on letters, journals and interviews, Following the Drum vividly brings to life their amazing stories and tells of the daily tribulations of barrack life, the romances and scandals, the hostile natives and devoted servants as well as the personal tragedies, hopes and ambitions of these brave and resourceful women.
Author : Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141905735
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Wives and Daughters written by Elizabeth Gaskell and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. Soon the girls become close, and Molly finds herself cajoled into becoming a go-between in Cynthia's love affairs. But in doing so, Molly risks ruining her reputation in the gossiping village of Hollingford - and jeopardizing everything with the man she is secretly in love with.
