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Tearle
Identifies several Tearle families in the area of Stanbridge, Bedford from the early 1400s to the 1900s. Concentrates on a well-known family of actors including Godfrey, Conway, Osmund and Edmund Tearle who toured England and the United States in the nineteenth century. Descendants and relatives lived in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, the United States, Australia and elsewhere.
An American Journal, 1839-40
He spent three months in New Orleans buying cotton with the legacy and shipping it to England, but he also made the most of a once-in-a-life-time opportunity by staying in America for almost a year to see as much of the country and its institutions as he could.".
Mrs. Piozzi's Tall Young Beau, William Augustus Conway
Further autograph letters of Hester Lynch Piozzi to William Augustus Conway have come to light, which show the depth of her affection for Conway and help to reveal the character of a man whose birth, life, and death have always been shrouded in mystery.
Treasury Decisions Under Customs and Other Laws
Vols. for 1904-1926 include also decisions of the United States Board of General Appraisers.
Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late caree...
Students: A Gendered History
This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain. From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But since the 1970s the proportion of women students in universities in the UK has continued to rise so that female undergraduates now outnumber their male counterparts. Drawing upon wide-ranging original research including documentary and archival sources, newsfilm, press coverage of student life and life histories of men and women who graduated before the Second World War, this text provides rich insights i...
Treasury Decisions
1890-1926 include also Decisions of the Board of U.S. general appraisers no. 1-9135.
