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The history of Jane [Martin] Henderson and husband Thomas Henderson (1752-1821) of Rockingham Co., NC, and children: Dr. Samuel Henderson, Alexander Martin Henderson, Mary [Henderson] Lacy, Col. Thomas Henderson, Jane [Henderson] Kendrick, Nathaniel Henderson and Fanny [Henderson] Springs, and their descendants
In an exploration of the oceanic connections of the Atlantic world, Michael J. Jarvis recovers a mariner's view of early America as seen through the eyes of Bermuda's seafarers. The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community capitalized on its position "in the eye of all trade." Jarvis takes readers aboard small Bermudian sloops and follows white and enslaved sailors as they shuttled cargoes between ports, raked salt, harvested timber, salvaged shipwrecks, hunted whales, captured prizes, and smuggled contraband in an expansive maritime sphere spanning Great Britain's North American and Caribbean colonies. In doing so...
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"The royal encyclopedia is a unique reference book about the modern British monarchy"--Jacket.
This volume brings together for the first time all the known poems of English writer Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825), a once esteemed but long neglected figure whose career spanned the Age of Sensibility and the Romantic Era. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft have collected 170 of her poems, including twenty-three previously unpublished and eleven conjectural attributions. This is the first scholarly edition of any writings of Barbauld, a brilliant woman whose interests ranged from literary criticism to history and affairs of state to children’s stories. At the end of the eighteenth century, Barbauld may well have been the most eminent living poet, male or female, in Britain. Barbauld...
In 'The Brothers', the long-awaited follow-up to the 2001 bestseller 'Diana's Boys', Christopher Andersen picks up where 'Diana's Boys' left off and shows William and Harry navigating their relationship as adults, with one brother the designated heir, and the other doomed to life as the spare.