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Mighty Maurice
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Emily
AN AMBITIOUS WOMAN SEEKS A CHANGE IN HER LIFE Leaving the Scottish Highlands for a career as a English Literature professor became more elusive for a Scottish farm girl than she originally thought. Unknown to herwomen were not accepted to any English University because of the gender discrimination practiced in 1913. However, the Dean of Oxford University groomed her for enrollment, and she became the first woman to attend classes at the most exclusive University in all of England. She met a tall handsome stranger who rescued her, and then guided her through a new life as a student. During the difficult days, her Prince Charming helped her overcome the many deterrents her professors and other students put in her way. And thenWorld War I began. Her true love joined the Army, and suddenly Emilys life spun out of control. She was forced to choose between finishing her lifetime dream and caring for the most important person in her life. Her newfound passion to save the person she loved directed her life in a totally different direction. In an effort to save him from dying Emily chose a future life far away from her beloved England.
Maurice Sendak's Little Bear: Emily's Birthday
It's Emily's birthday, and Little Bear wants to throw her the best birthday party ever with all of her friends, a wonderful cake, and the perfect gift. Full color.
Three Victorian Women who Changed Their World
This provocative study examines the lives of three 19th-century English reformers, each of whom was also a gifted amateur theologian. Based on their writings and existing transcripts of their speeches, the author demonstrates the role religious faith played as a source of their social vision and their struggles to make that vision a reality.
Scornful Moon
Wellington, 1935. James Tinling, a former cabinet minister, plans a political comeback, although a brash newcomer stands in his way. James has methods of dealing with people who stand up to him, but is held back by the secrets in his life. Eric Clifton, world-renowned moon scientist, has secrets too. He lives hot-bloodedly and is at war with patrician James. Sam Holloway, literary man and moralist, records their year with its sexual intrigues, sudden violence and the overturning of the political norms. What role does the young poet Owen Moody play? And what about brothel madam Lily Maxey? There's James's daughter Charlotte, painting desperately in a shed at the bottom of the garden. The Scornful Moon deftly recreates the moral and political mood of Wellington in the 1930s. Constantly surprising the reader, it combines drama and suspense with a master writer's exquisite story telling. Also available as an eBook
John Ruskin's Politics and Natural Law
This book offers new perspectives on the origins and development of John Ruskin’s political thought. Graham A. MacDonald traces the influence of late medieval and pre-Enlightenment thought in Ruskin’s writing, reintroducing readers to Ruskin’s politics as shaped through his engagement with concepts of natural law, legal rights, labour and welfare organization. From Ruskin’s youthful studies of geology and chemistry to his back-to-the-land project, the Guild of St. George, he emerges as a complex political thinker, a reformer—and what we would recognize today as an environmentalist. John Ruskin’s Politics and Natural Law is a nuanced reappraisal of neglected areas of Ruskin’s thought.
Women in Movement (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1992, this book is an historical introduction to a wide range of women’s movements from the late eighteenth-century to the date of its publication. It describes economic, social and political ideas which have inspired women to organize, not only in Europe and North America, but also in the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham outlines a long history of women’s challenges to the gender bias in political and economical concepts. She shows women laying claim to rights and citizenship, while contesting male definitions of their scope, and seeking to enlarge the meaning of economy through action around consumption and production, environmental protests and welfare projects.
Gender, Health and Welfare
Discusses how and why gender has been so important in shaping modern welfare provision. Key issues covered include: relationship between poverty, health and gender; case studies of female reformers; birth control; women in Labour movement
Far Above Rubies
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Reality's Dark Light
In the midst of a Victorian culture ingrained with strict social etiquette and societal norms, Wilkie Collins composed novels that contained asocial, even anarchic, impulses. A contemporary of Dickens, Collins creates a world more Kafkaesque than Dickensian, a world populated by doppelgangers, secret selves, oddballs, and grotesques. The essays of Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins purposefully work to expand Collins's legacy beyond The Woman in White and The Moonstone; they move well past the simplistic view of Collins's works as "sensation novels," "detective novels," or even "popular fiction," all labels that carry with them pejorative connotations. This collection repre...
