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This is the story of Mabel Fable who was an orphan and adopted by the Fable family. It traces her life from the time she was four to fifty-years-old. It tells of the unconditional love of her adoptive parents and brother. Our story starts in Detroit, Michigan and ends in the Los Angeles area. It chronicles her many fowled up romances. Gable Fable, her father, was employed by Ford Motor Car Company in the River Rouge Plant in Dearborn and moved to Whittier, California to escape the deterioration of the Detroit environs. Mable, the child has a happy youth and is always protected by her brother, Aesop aka Soppy who is two years older. Through her adult years she has many romantic encounters and disappointments. Once she leaves home she lives with her close friend, Heather, and Heather's aunt, Holly. Aunt Holly is the epitome of good advice that often goes unheeded by our heroine. Her convoluted romance with Homer Hogarth is a subtheme that reoccurs throughout the story.
By focusing on the artist's most famous works, this collection of essays applies studies of science and philosophy from the period to give a more accurate sense of the meanings in Hogarth's art.
A listing of medical practitioners registered with the General Medical Council. Includes England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Data includes name, address, degrees, colleges, appointment, memberships, and publications. Also contains information on United Kingdom hospitals, NHS trusts, and boards of health.
This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Beirne offers an important assessment of how Hogarth's various audiences reacted to his gruesome images and ultimately what was meant by 'cruelty'.
THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR A Sunday Times Best Paperback of 2022 Christie's Best Art Books of the Year 'Deft and richly detailed ... rescues the artist from John Bull caricature' - Michael Prodger, Sunday Times 'Marvellous ... a vivid and compelling reconstruction of the settings of Hogarth's life and artistic achievements, and of the nature of the man' - Professor Linda Colley, author of The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen 'Full of richness, originality and considered humour, unafraid to shock with thrilling new insight ... terrific' - Dr Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of V&A Stratford & Sky Arts 'The full technicolour panorama of Georgian life laid out in a huge and passionate book' - ...
Walking the Streets of Eighteenth-Century London will entertain and inform all who are interested in literature, history, and the city of London. This unique book invites the reader to walk along the dirty, crowded, and fascinating streets of eighteenth-century London in an unusual way. Nine leading experts from the fields of literature, history, classics, gender, biography, geography, and costume, offer different interpretations of John Gay's poem Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716). The poem - a lively, funny, and thought-provoking statement about urban life - accompanies the essays, in a new edition with comprehensive notes. The introduction paints a vibrant picture of London in 1716, depicting Gay's fascinating life and literary world, offering an invaluable guide to the poem. Together, these elements allow the heat, grime, and smells of the underbelly of eighteenth-century London come alive in new ways.