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Wives and Daughters
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.
Involuntary Racism
This book had been brewing inside me for quite some time and the moment finally came to give it life. It's succinct and direct, but also full of laughs. The chapters are: ARE YOU AN INVOLUNTARY RACIST?, ITALIANS DO IT BEST, GOOD INTENTIONS, PURE RACISM, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, ODE TO MY FAMILY, LET'S LAUGH ABOUT IT, IT'S NOT A ONE WAY STREET, “THEM” AGAINST “US”, DO's AND DON'Ts. In these chapters I recount shocking and funny situations, discuss my own racism, make some predictions on the future of immigration in Italy, describe various types of racism, offer advice, praise my Italian and American families, and even play a game with readers. This book offers a critique based solely on my personal opinion and is in no way intended to condemn. My purpose in writing it was dual. First, I needed an outlet to express my feelings. Second, I wanted to provoke introspective thought in the hopes of promoting positive change. The first has been accomplished but the latter still remains to be seen.
The Findern Manuscript
This is the first critical edition of the thirty-four unattributed Middle English poems in Cambridge, University Library MS Ff.1.6. This collection of poems is significant for its thematic coherence and its stylistic variety, and for the insight it provides into regional literary culture in the century after Chaucer.
Joanna's Highlander
Present-day North Carolina sings with the passions of the Scottish Highlands as a fiery, time-traveling Celtic warrior takes a stubborn tour guide for a wild ride. Haunted by lost love, Grant MacDara still dreams of tenth-century Scotland. Nothing can soothe his aching heart—until a sharp-tongued, redheaded beauty leads a tour of senior citizens through his family’s North Carolina theme park, Highland Life and Legends. Though she’s the polar opposite of the lass he left behind, Joanna Martin is the most irresistible woman Grant has ever met. But when he decides that she’s worth the risk of loving again, he tries so hard to hold her close that she nearly slips through his fingers. For...
A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen
We only know a surprisingly small number of eighteenth-century women as personalities. This is true, in particular, of women who had to work for their living. Which is why the survival of the letters and journals of Miss Agnes Porter, dating from 1788 to 1814, constitutes an unusually important find. Miss Porter, the daughter of a Church of England clergyman, was born in 1752 with brains but not looks or wealth. Although she would have liked to marry, her various hopes ended in disappointment. She therefore had to earn her living as a governess, working principally in teaching the daughters and grand-daughter of the second Earl of Ilchester. Agnes Porter was neither morbidly religious, as were many of her Victorian successors, nor did she spend her time dwelling on the unfairness of her situation. She emerges as a intelligent, warm and likeable woman ready to make the best of her lot. Joanna Martin has provided a substantial introduction which sets Miss Porter in her historical context. A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen is a detailed, and very early, portrait of a woman entering a profession.
Kingship and Love in Scottish Poetry, 1424–1540
Looking at late medieval Scottish poetic narratives which incorporate exploration of the amorousness of kings, this study places these poems in the context of Scotland's repeated experience of minority kings and a consequent instability in governance. The focus of this study is the presence of amatory discourses in poetry of a political or advisory nature, written in Scotland between the early fifteenth and the mid-sixteenth century. Joanna Martin offers new readings of the works of major figures in the Scottish literature of the period, including Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Sir David Lyndsay. At the same time, she provides new perspectives on anonymous texts, among them The Thre Prestis of Peblis and King Hart, and on the works of less well known writers such as John Bellenden and William Stewart, which are crucial to our understanding of the literary culture north of the Border during the period under discussion.
Georgina Weldon
A fascinating account of the life of one of the most famous women of the Victorian era.
The Pregnant Surgeon
Surgeon Joanna Martin has few regrets. She has learned not to risk her heart for any man. Senior registrar Dylan Archer's determination to break through his beautiful boss's cool exterior results in one night of passion. But convincing her that they could have a future together remains a challenge.
