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The thrilling historical mystery by Sarah Schoonmaker Baker, set in the antebellum South, about an American slave woman who steals away in the night with two children hidden in a basket.
Sarah Schoonmaker (Tuthill) Baker (1824-1906) was a prolific American author who also wrote under the pseudonyms C. E. Bowden, Aunt Friendly and Mrs. Woods Baker. She wrote many books for children during the late nineteenth-century, including: Christian Effort (1850), The Christian Year for Children (1850), Timid Lucy (1851), Smiles and Frowns for Good and Bad Little Children (1852), The Babes in the Basket; or, Daph and her Charge (1859), Hatty and Marcus; or, First Steps in the Better Path (1859), The Orange Seed (1859), Meggie of "The Pines" (1860), Aunt Friendly's Picture Books (1860- 1869), The Jewish Twins (1861), The Woodman's Nannette (1862), Kelly Nash; or, "I Didn't Think" (1863), ...
This Encyclopedia is the first to compile pseudonyms from all over the world, from all ages and occupations in a single work: some 500,000 pseudonyms of roughly 270,000 people are deciphered here. Besides pseudonyms in the narrower sense, initials, nick names, order names, birth and married names etc. are included. The volumes 1 to 9 list persons by their real names in alphabetical order. To make the unequivocal identification of a person easier, year and place of birth and death are provided where available, as are profession, nationality, the pseudonym under which the person was known, and finally, the sources used. The names of professions given in the source material have been translated into English especially for this encyclopaedia. In the second part, covering the volumes 10 to 16, the pseudonyms are listed alphabetically and the real names provided. Approx. 500,000 pseudonyms of about 270,000 persons First encyclopedia including pseudonyms from all over the world, all times and all occupations Essential research tool for anyone wishing to identify persons and names for his research within one single work
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This pioneering study surveys nineteenth- and twentieth-century narratives of the West Indies written by white women, English and Creole. It introduces a fascinating wealth of relatively unknown material and constitutes a timely interrogation of the supposed homogeneity of Caribbean discourse, especially with regard to 'race' and gender.