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Virginia B. Evans
A study of the life and work of the West Virginia artist Virginia B. Evans (1894-1983). Evans was a painter and art educator as well as a designer of Upper Ohio Valley glass.
A "topping People"
A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names--Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few--are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was due to a variety of factors--economic, social, and demographic. The third generations showed an ...
Anthony Evans of Colonial Southside Virginia
Anthony Evans (b.ca. 1620) immigrated from Wales to Surry County, Virginia before 1657, and married widow Dorothy (Sheppard) Meadows Bartley in 1669, and died after 1671. Descendants lived in Virginia and elsewhere.
The Correspondent
**Pre-order this heartwarming, witty story about the life of an extraordinary woman, told through her letters, for fans of A Man Called Ove and 84 Charing Cross Road** 'Subtly told and finely made, The Correspondent is a portrait of a small life expanding' ANN PATCHETT In her letters to family and friends we come to know the life of Sybil Van Antwerp: stubborn, cantankerous, opinionated, always steadfast in her belief in the power of the written word. But as the clock begins to tick for Sybil, the need for a few post-scripts to the life she’s led becomes apparent. Fixing her difficult relationship with her children. Taking a final chance at romance. Atoning for an old legal case which has ...
The Correspondent
“Subtly told and finely made, The Correspondent is a portrait of a small life expanding. Virginia Evans shows how one woman changes at a point when change had seemed impossible. That change, like this novel, turns out to be a cause for celebration.”—Ann Patchett A woman tries to heal old wounds and make sense of the world the only way she knows how—through letters—in this charming, laugh out loud debut novel about a life fully lived. “Dear Ms. Van Antwerp, There is a movie coming out this month and I saw the trailer and it made me think of you. It’s about an old woman who lives alone like a hermit. She is eccentric and rude….” Sybil Van Antwerp is a mother and grandmother, ...
