Augusta's Daughter

Augusta's Daughter
Title Augusta's Daughter PDF eBook
Author Judit Martin
Publisher
Pages 238
Release 2012
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781932043815

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Excerpt: "Presently the evenness of his breathing told her he was asleep. For a long time she lay on her back just as he had left her, mulling over her situation. In those brief minutes everything had supposedly righted itself. She had officially left her girlhood behind forever and become a woman. The days of wearing her hair down her back in a long braid were gone, although she was not yet entitled to wear a married woman's kerchief. Nor did she any longer belong to the group of young housemaids who had been her friends, nor to a group of married women whom she hardly knew. All at once she felt very alone, not knowing what was expected of her. The only thing she knew for sure was that her life had taken a false turn, and she didn't know how to set it right again." ========================= Nineteenth century Swedish peasant life was not always the dance around the Midsummer pole portrayed by the artists of the time. Those same peasants lived daily lives in the shadow of the all-powerful village church, controlled by the countless rules, customs, and traditions that governed every aspect of their existence, leaving no room for individual deviations. When it became known that Augusta Torsdotter's daughter Elsa-Carolina was illegitimate, the course of both of their lives irrevokably changed. As an adult, Elsa-Carolina immigrated to America, turning her back on the past. It wasn't until three-quarters of a century later, at the age of 94, that she returned to Sweden, to come to terms with her girlhood. "The harshness of Swedish peasant life and landscape is beautifully chronicled in Judit Martin's novel. Her knowledge of the culture, customs, work, superstitions, and attitudes of the day opens up that world for those of us seeking to know our Swedish ancestors." -Joan Morrison Granddaughter of Swedish immigrants Charleston, Maine ===================== "Wonderful and evocative! A captivating and enlightening read!" -Mr. Jan Smedh Bookseller The English Bookshop Upsala & Stockholm, Sweden This book is intended for mature audiences.

Lady Rose's Daughter

Lady Rose's Daughter
Title Lady Rose's Daughter PDF eBook
Author Mrs. Humphry Ward
Publisher IndyPublish.com
Pages 524
Release 1903
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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The Daughters of Palatine Hill

The Daughters of Palatine Hill
Title The Daughters of Palatine Hill PDF eBook
Author Phyllis T. Smith
Publisher Lake Union Publishing
Pages 0
Release 2016
Genre Rome
ISBN 9781503952478

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Two years after Emperor Augustus's bloody defeat of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, he triumphantly returns to Rome. To his only child, Julia, he brings an unlikely companion--Selene, the daughter of the conquered Egyptian queen and her lover. Under the watchful eye of Augustus's wife, Livia, Selene struggles to accept her new home among her parents' enemies. Bound together by kinship and spilled blood, these three women--Livia, Selene, and Julia--navigate the dangerous world of Rome's ruling elite, their every move a political strategy, their most intimate decisions in the emperor's hands. Always suppressing their own desires for the good of Rome, each must fulfill her role. For astute Livia, this means unwavering fidelity to her all-powerful husband; for sensual Julia, surrender to an arranged marriage and denial of her craving for love and the pleasures of the flesh; for orphaned Selene, choosing between loyalty to her family's killers and her wish for revenge. Can they survive Rome's deadly intrigues, or will they be swept away by the perilous currents of the world's most powerful empire?

Conversations with Augusta

Conversations with Augusta
Title Conversations with Augusta PDF eBook
Author Alice Marie Thorp Duxbury
Publisher iUniverse
Pages 235
Release 2015-09-11
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 149177245X

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On a pleasant May weekend in 1978, Augusta Pflug Thorp celebrated her eighty-ninth birthday with her family at her home on Black Creek in Clay County, Florida, where she had lived since the spring of 1911. Shortly after that, author Alice Marie Thorp Duxbury interviewed Augusta about her life in Florida and her family history. In Conversations with Augusta, Duxbury shares the history of a German family who adapted to a new lifestyle in rural northeast Florida in the 1900s while dealing with the effects of two world wars and the Great Depression. This memoir shares some of the lessons the family learned while setting down new roots: If your passenger boat from Jacksonville turns over in the St. Johns River, swim ashore and take the midnight train, keeping your hat properly on your head. If you are pregnant and a neighbor says, in your hearing, Miss [Gussie] sure looks good. Shes fattenin up like an old sow hog, smile and accept the compliment. If your neighbors cut your fence to permit their stock to graze in your cornfield, replace the fencingagain and again. If the neighbor boy plowing your field picks up a snake, twirls it like a whip and snaps off its head, look the other way. Conversations with Augusta narrates one familys story while providing insight into life as immigrants in the 1900s.

Lady Byron and Her Daughters

Lady Byron and Her Daughters
Title Lady Byron and Her Daughters PDF eBook
Author Julia Markus
Publisher W. W. Norton & Company
Pages 473
Release 2015-10-13
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0393248755

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A startling reevaluation of Lady Byron’s marriage and the untold story of her complex life as single mother and progressive force. The center of public attention after her tumultuous marriage to Lord Byron, Annabella Milbanke transformed herself from a neglected wife into a figure of incredible resilience and social vision. After she and her infant child were cast out of their home, she was left to navigate the stifling and unsupportive social environment of Regency England. Far from a victim or an obstacle to Byron’s work, however, Lady Byron was a rebel against the fashionable snobbery of her class, founding the first Infants School and Co-Operative School in England. A poet and talented mathematician, Lady Byron supported the education of her precocious daughter, Ada Lovelace, now recognized and lauded as a pioneer of computer science, and saved from death her “adoptive daughter” Medora Leigh, the child of Lord Byron’s incest with his sister. Lady Byron was adored by the younger abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe and by many notable friends. Yet her complex relationships with her family, including the sister Byron loved, runs like a live wire through this skillfully told and groundbreaking biography of a remarkable woman who made a life for herself and became a leading light in her century.

A Biographical Memoir of the Much Lamented Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and Saxe Coburg

A Biographical Memoir of the Much Lamented Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and Saxe Coburg
Title A Biographical Memoir of the Much Lamented Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and Saxe Coburg PDF eBook
Author J. Coote
Publisher
Pages 434
Release 1818
Genre
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A Royal Experiment

A Royal Experiment
Title A Royal Experiment PDF eBook
Author Janice Hadlow
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 704
Release 2014-11-18
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0805096566

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"Originally published as The strangest family in the U.K. in 2014 by William Collins"--Title page verso.