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The Poppy Lady
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 42

The Poppy Lady

Here is the inspiring story behind the Veterans Day red poppy, a symbol that honors the service and sacrifices of our veterans. When American soldiers entered World War I, Moina Belle Michael, a schoolteacher from Georgia, knew she had to act. Some of the soldiers were her students and friends. Almost single-handedly, Moina worked to establish the red poppy as the symbol to honor and remember soldiers. And she devoted the rest of her life to making sure the symbol would last forever. Thanks to her hard work, that symbol remains strong today. Author Barbara Elizabeth Walsh and artist Layne Johnson worked with experts, primary documents, and Moina's great-nieces to better understand Moina's determination to honor the war veterans. A portion of the book's proceeds will support the National Military Family Association's Operation PurpleĀ®, which benefits children of the US Military.

A Gentry Community
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

A Gentry Community

An examination of the gentry as land holders, pillars of society, political leaders, family members and individuals.

The Learned and the Lewed
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 428

The Learned and the Lewed

The essays gathered in this volume, organized around the theme of medieval literature, display a great range of subjects and of critical approaches. One third of the pieces deal with Chaucer: his use of mythology, his characters, narrative techniques, his treatment of courtly love. Other contributions focus on medieval proverbs and ballads, medieval use of classical authors, John Gower, Lydgate, Icelandic saga, the Middle Scots poets, problems of teaching medieval drama in twentieth-century classrooms, French influences on Middle English literature, and the tale of Robin Hood.

Reading the Splendid Body
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Reading the Splendid Body

This book surveys an underlying discourse on female and oriental consumerism in nearly four centuries of British colonialist narratives on India. It examines some of the significant ways in which the subaltern and female body was constructed by Western ethnographers within early modern British colonialist discourses. The book offers a genealogy of colonialist spectatorship, and examines the ideologies originating within both public and private colonial spheres. Through a comparison of the discourses about and by women one can see the continuation of patriarchal injunctions within Western protofeminist discourses. Economic, ethical, colonial, patriarchal, and protofeminist polemics thus reached to and shaped one another, and this book is a record of the complex ways in which gender discourses and colonialist discourses intersected to create a colonialist spectatorship that constituted non-Western and female subjects as spectacular and needing discipline. The insights on Western protofeminists and their crisis of self-representation as subjects versus objects of discourse also further the examination of women's history in the colonial arena.

The Register Book of Marriages Belonging to the Parish of St. George, Hanover Square, in the County of Middlesex
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 572
Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Collections for the History of Worcestershire: Names of persons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 248

Collections for the History of Worcestershire: Names of persons

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1894
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Early Modern Women's Manuscript Poetry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Early Modern Women's Manuscript Poetry

Early modern women's manuscript poetry is an anthology of texts by fourteen women poets writing between 1589 and 1706. It is the only currently available anthology of early modern women's writing which focuses exclusively on manuscript material. Authors include Mary Sidney, Lucy Hutchinson and Katherine Philips; central figures in the emerging canon of early modern women writers, but whose work appears in a fresh and very different light in the manuscript context emphasised by this anthology. The volume also includes substantial excerpts from a recently discovered verse paraphrase of Genesis, thought to be by the previously unknown seventeenth-century writer Mary Roper, as well as selections from the unjustly neglected poet, Hester Pulter.