Pens and Needles

Pens and Needles
Title Pens and Needles PDF eBook
Author Susan Frye
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 339
Release 2011-11-29
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0812206983

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The Renaissance woman, whether privileged or of the artisan or the middle class, was trained in the expressive arts of needlework and painting, which were often given precedence over writing. Pens and Needles is the first book to examine all these forms as interrelated products of self-fashioning and communication. Because early modern people saw verbal and visual texts as closely related, Susan Frye discusses the connections between the many forms of women's textualities, including notes in samplers, alphabets both stitched and penned, initials, ciphers, and extensive texts like needlework pictures, self-portraits, poetry, and pamphlets, as well as commissioned artwork, architecture, and interior design. She examines works on paper and cloth by such famous figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Bess of Hardwick, as well as the output of journeywomen needleworkers and miniaturists Levina Teerlinc and Esther Inglis, and their lesser-known sisters in the English colonies of the New World. Frye shows how traditional women's work was a way for women to communicate with one another and to shape their own identities within familial, intellectual, religious, and historical traditions. Pens and Needles offers insights into women's lives and into such literary texts as Shakespeare's Othello and Cymbeline and Mary Sidney Wroth's Urania.

Stone Gables

Stone Gables
Title Stone Gables PDF eBook
Author Brenda Knight Graham
Publisher B&H Publishing Group
Pages 176
Release 1978
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Relates the life of the Graham family, parents and 10 children, at their home in a 150-acre pine forest in north Georgia during the 1940's and 50's.

Pens and Needles

Pens and Needles
Title Pens and Needles PDF eBook
Author David Levine
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 1969
Genre American wit and humor, Pictorial
ISBN 9780880294331

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A complete array of the literary figures by one of the great caricaturists of our time David Levine selected and briefly introduced by one our great writers John Updike who once himself wanted become a caricaturist.--From jacket

LSD Worldpeace

LSD Worldpeace
Title LSD Worldpeace PDF eBook
Author Joe Roberts
Publisher Anthology Editions
Pages 0
Release 2023
Genre Art
ISBN 9781944860547

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A reissue of Joe Robert's 2015 release 'LSD Worldpeace.'

How to Get Away with Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 2)

How to Get Away with Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 2)
Title How to Get Away with Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 2) PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth C. Bunce
Publisher Algonquin Young Readers
Pages 293
Release 2020-10-13
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1643751182

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Myrtle Hardcastle, your favorite amateur detective, is back to solve another murder (committed on a train headed for an English seaside village with a tragic past) in the second installment of the delightful Victorian cozy mystery series for middle-grade readers.

Mostly True

Mostly True
Title Mostly True PDF eBook
Author Bill Daniel
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2023-09
Genre Art
ISBN 9781621067429

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Daniel has crafted a remarkable book, full of obscure railroad nostalgia - the result of a 25-year obsession with hobo and rail-worker folklore. Freight riding stories, interviews with hobos and boxcar artists, historical oddities and tons of photos of modern-day boxcar tags are all presented in the guise of a vintage rail fanzine.

Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750-1950

Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750-1950
Title Women and the Material Culture of Needlework and Textiles, 1750-1950 PDF eBook
Author Maureen Daly Goggin
Publisher Routledge
Pages 0
Release 2016-11-15
Genre Art and society
ISBN 9781138265820

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With essays on a range of fiber art practices, including embroidery, knitting, crocheting, machine stitching, rug making, weaving, and quilting, this collection contributes to the ongoing scholarly redefinition of women's relationship to creative activity. Focusing on women as producers of cultural products and creators of social value, the contributors treat women as active subjects and problematize their material practices and artifacts in the complex world of textiles.