Events, Anecdotal, Historical, and Biographical, in the Life of an Octogenarian Between the Years 1796 and 1815
Title | Events, Anecdotal, Historical, and Biographical, in the Life of an Octogenarian Between the Years 1796 and 1815 PDF eBook |
Author | George Washington Abbott |
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Pages | 48 |
Release | 1878 |
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Publisher and Bookseller
Title | Publisher and Bookseller PDF eBook |
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Pages | 1572 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Bibliography |
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
The Bookseller
Title | The Bookseller PDF eBook |
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Pages | 1564 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Bibliography |
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Nieuwsblad Voor Den Boekhandel
Title | Nieuwsblad Voor Den Boekhandel PDF eBook |
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Pages | 752 |
Release | 1878 |
Genre | Bibliography |
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With 1855-1927 are issued and bound: Handelingen van de algemeene vergadering.
The Graphic
Title | The Graphic PDF eBook |
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Pages | 232 |
Release | 1878 |
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In These Times
Title | In These Times PDF eBook |
Author | Jenny Uglow |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 2015-01-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1466828226 |
A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars—but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers—how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century.
Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
Title | Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 PDF eBook |
Author | Devoney Looser |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2008-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0801887054 |
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.