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A Georgian Heroine
“A very fair and balanced portrait of one of the Regency era’s most remarkable—and most unknown—women” from the authors of A Right Royal Scandal (Jacqueline Reiter, author of Earl of Shadows). Rachel Charlotte Williams Biggs lived an incredible life, one which proved that fact is often much stranger than fiction. As a young woman she endured a tortured existence at the hands of a male tormentor, but emerged from that to reinvent herself as a playwright and author; a political pamphleteer and a spy, working for the British Government; and later single-handedly organizing George III’s jubilee celebrations. Trapped in France during the revolutionary years of 1792–95, she published...
Sugar and Slate
'In its exploration of geographical, racial and cultural dislocation, Sugar and Slate is in the finest tradition of work to have emerged from the black diaspora in recent times' Gary Younge, Guardian A powerful, radiant memoir from writer and academic Charlotte Williams exploring the intertwined history of Wales, Africa and the Caribbean The daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and a Black father from Guyana, Charlotte Williams' childhood world was one of mixed messages, dominated by the feeling that 'somehow to be half Welsh and half Afro-Caribbean was always to be half of something but never quite anything whole at all'. Sugar and Slate tells the fascinating story of her journey of se...
Another Time, Another Place
You have to stay with me, he said. We belong together for all eternity. Whatever it takes we will find a way to be together. Forever. handsome. Why was she so moved by his picture? Why did the images of him haunt her so? When she found herself in 1916, in another time and place, she just knew she had to find out what happened to him. So she began her search, facing danger and death at each turn as she searched for the truth, knowing she must follow her heart. Even if her heart was to lead her to another time, another place.
Social Work in a Diverse Society
Understanding how to work with racially and ethnically diverse populations is crucial to effective social work practice and planning, and it will only become more so as society continues to become more diverse. This textbook brings together academics and practitioners, who draw on real-life scenarios and detailed case studies to help social workers consider the many dimensions of working in a diverse society and to enable them to uncover innovative, well-tailored ways to ensure successful delivery of essential services.
Entangled Lives
An enlightening look at American women's work in the late eighteenth century. What was women's work truly like in late eighteenth-century America, and what does it tell us about the gendered social relations of labor in the early republic? In Entangled Lives, Marla R. Miller examines the lives of Anglo-, African, and Native American women in one rural New England community—Hadley, Massachusetts—during the town's slow transformation following the Revolutionary War. Peering into the homes, taverns, and farmyards of Hadley, Miller offers readers an intimate history of the working lives of these women and their vital role in the local economy. Miller, a longtime resident of Hadley, follows a...
Annual Report of the American Bible Society ...
Together with a list of auxiliary and cooperating societies, their officers, and other data.
