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Creating a Space in the Freak Show
This is an examination of Katharine Butler Hathaway's, The Little Locksmith. This is a close reading of her autobiography that endeavors to show how she is expanding the concept of the normal body or experience using metaphors she expounds throughout her work.
The Little Locksmith
This early 20th century memoir of a woman’s faith in the face of debilitating disease is a “remarkably un-self-pitying book remains poignant and truthful” (Publishers Weekly). “You must not miss it . . . It is the kind of book that cannot come into being without great living and great suffering and a rare spirit behind it.” —The New York Times In 1895, a specialist straps five-year-old Katharine Hathaway, then suffering from spinal tuberculosis, to a board with halters and pulleys in a failed attempt to prevent her from becoming a “hunchback” like the “little locksmith” who does odd jobs at her family’s home. Forced to endure her confinement for ten years, Katharine rem...
鯉躍龍門
This book celebrates the most important collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world, assembled by the distinguished British diplomat Sir Michael Butler. His passion for porcelain is clearly reflected in the over eight hundred pieces he collected and lived with at his home and private museum in Dorset. The pots (as Sir Michael called them), many of extreme rarity or exquisite quality, give testimony to the incredible depth of knowledge he acquired over five decades and his outstanding contribution to research and education in this previously neglected field of study. This lavish and comprehensive collection covers most types of porcelain produced at Jingdezhen, in Jiangxi provin...
The Journals and Letters of the Little Locksmith
"After the publication of The little locksmith the publishers and Warren H. Butler, the author's brother and literary executor, immediately started editing her journals and many-side correspondence ... Within this book are contained revelations of the character of Katharine Butler Hathaway which prove her not only the seeking, spiritual figure revealed in The little locksmith, but also a woman of women; a woman who though weighed down through her whole life by physical infirmities nonetheless had the courage and the brilliance and the inspiration to know that life as a human being may be triumphant in spite of pain ... The several line drawings in the book show an additional facet of Katharine Butler Hathaway's extraordinary creative talent."--Dust jacket flap.
Women Who Shine
30 Inspiring Stories of Shining Light Into the World The 8th book in the Inspired Impact Book Series was preceded by previous titles Women Who Ignite, Women Who Inspire, Women Who Influence, Women Who Impact, Women Who Illuminate, Women Who Rise, Women Who Empower and now, Women Who Shine. To find out more about this #1 International Best-selling Series, visit www.katebutlerbooks.com.
The Tyldesley Diary
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