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Charles Gilchrist was born in about 1775 in Scotland. His parents may have been John Gilchrist and Elizabeth Struthers. He married Catherine Robinson, daughter of Robert Robinson and Catherine, 16 August 1798 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England. They had seven children. Charles died in 1829. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Derbyshire and Dorset.
Desperate with homesickness she haunted the New York public library, studying the atlas to establish the most direct route home. She may not have had good English but she did understand the hieroglyphics of cartography. In the spring of 1927, aided only by a hand-drawn route map, she set her face toward Siberia and started to walk . . . From the moment Cassandra Pybus heard about Lillian Alling, the woman who walked to Russia, the story sank hooks into her imagination. She too haunted the New York Library and archives looking for clues about this enigmatic pedestrian. When her historical sleuthing yielded little, Cassandra set out on her own epic trek to follow Lillian's route through the wilderness of north-western Canada and subarctic Alaska to Siberia. In this delightfully frank and funny account, travel and adventure mingle with history and autobiography as Cassandra Pybus travels through an astonishing landscape embedded with tales of folly and courage, eating disorders and obsession at high latitude.
Directory of foreign diplomatic officers in Washington.
This comprehensive volume presents the biographies of 1,000 women who were active in the British decorative arts over the last few centuries. Some of these women are known today, some are not, yet all made valuable contributions in areas such as stained glass, metalwork, pottery, woodcarving, illustration, bookbinding and decoration, sculpture, decorative embroidery, decorative jewellery, and illumination. This volume is the largest of its kind to document the lives and careers of some British women artists and decorative artists, published in Britain to date, and helps to shed new light on a still-neglected area of British art and design history. It includes entries for well-known artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Mary Lowndes, and Alice Woodward, alongside influential but forgotten women such as Mary Symonds, Amy Singer, and Catherine Donaldson. Researched and written by Dr. Sara Gray over a period of eight years, this book is her third to be published. She completed a B.A. Hons Degree in 1992 at Bolton University, followed by a Ph.D. in 2002 awarded by Manchester University. She has a particular interest in the work of British women artists and in regional arts and crafts.
Maggie Gale's West End Women uncovers groundbreaking material about women playwrights and the staging of their performances between the years 1918 and 1962. It documents a dynamic era of social and theatrical history, analysing the transformations that occurred in the theatre and the lives of British women in relation to specific plays of the period. Focusing on the work of playwrights such as Dodie Smith, Clemence Dane, Gordon Daviot and Bridget Boland, Maggie Gale examines the cultural and political context within which they enjoyed commercial success and great notoriety.
Departing from the largely accepted existence of a "Negro Problem," Wright and such literary luminaries as Ralph Ellison, Lillian Smith, and James Baldwin described and challenged a racist social order whose psychological undercurrents implicated all Americans and had yet to be adequately studied. Motivated by the elastic possibilities of clinical and academic inquiry, writers and critics undertook a rethinking of "race" and assessed the value of psychotherapy and psychological theory as antiracist strategies. Garcia examines how this new criticism brought together black and white writers and became a common idiom through fiction and nonfiction that attracted wide readerships.
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