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A Portrait of Elizabeth Willing Powel (1743-1830)
Drawing on original manuscript sources, Maxey has produced a persuasive study of a late-18th-century portrait and its subject. He has focused attention on an enigmatic painting, and the person portrayed in it -- a woman of talent and verve, whose life has remained undeservedly obscure. Elizabeth Willing Powel presided over a salon; spoke her mind freely; and maintained, for a period of 40 years, an extensive, illuminating correspondence. She was the trusted confidante of the country’s first president, whom she did not hesitate to instruct on where duty summoned him. At a critical moment, the Philadelphia painter, Matthew Pratt, was commissioned to capture on canvas the grief she experienced. Color portrait.
Writing Welsh History
The first book to explore how the history of Wales and the Welsh has been written over the past fifteen hundred years, 'Writing Welsh History' analyses and contextualizes historical writing, from Gildas in the sixth century to recent global approaches, to open new perspectives both on the history of Wales and on understandings of Wales and the Welsh.
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America's First Plague
As disease spread, the national government was slow to react. Soon, citizens donned protective masks and the authorities ordered quarantines. The streets emptied. Doubters questioned the science and disobeyed. The year: 1793. The place: young America from Baltimore to Boston but especially in Philadelphia, the nation’s largest city and seat of the federal government. For 3 long months yellow fever, carried by mosquitoes let loose from a ship from Africa, ravaged the eastern seaboard The federal government abandoned the city and scattered, leaving a dangerous leadership gap. By the end of the pandemic, ten percent of Philadelphians had died. America's First Plague offers the definitive tell...
My Love Will Never Die
Leigh Taylor married only six months when her husband is murdered by his best friend. Her husband’s spirit lingers around watching her grieve until one day a wounded Cheyenne rides into the yard. Raindancer, a half breed is cared for by Leigh and awakens facing two problems: his attraction to a white woman and her dead husband’s spirit asking him to help Leigh hold onto her ranch. Together they battle wits against a murdering neighbor who tries everything to steal her land. Also, when hoof and mouth disease infects one third of Leigh’s herd it almost leads to a range war. When Leigh’s shot, her husband’s spirit wants revenge. Editors Note: Many characters in this book have accents and or different speech patterns. The author has attempted to illustrate this phonically. These are not spelling errors.
