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Author: Peter de Vere Beauclerk-Dewar
Publisher: History PressLtd
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780752446684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSex, power, mystery and blood - this fresh approach to the British monarchy recounts gripping, untold stories about their unofficial offspring.
Author: Thomas Kuehn
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780472112449
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn investigation of the complex social and legal issues surrounding illegitimate offspring in Renaissance Florence
Author: Ekaterina Hertog
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009-08-07
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0804772398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs is the case in Western industrialized countries, Japan is seeing a rise in the number of unmarried couples, later marriages, and divorces. What sets Japan apart, however, is that the percentage of children born out of wedlock has hardly changed in the past fifty years. This book provides the first systematic study of single motherhood in contemporary Japan. Seeking to answer why illegitimate births in Japan remain such a rarity, Hertog spent over three years interviewing single mothers, academics, social workers, activists, and policymakers about the beliefs, values, and choices that unmarried Japanese mothers have. Pairing her findings with extensive research, she considers the economic and legal disadvantages these women face, as well as the cultural context that underscores family change and social inequality in Japan. This is the only scholarly account that offers sufficient detail to allow for extensive comparisons with unmarried mothers in the West.
Author: Jenny Teichman
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780631128076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Norway
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Published: 1915
Total Pages: 1304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susanna Rowson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1991-02-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1440672830
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRowson's tale of a young girl who elopes to the United States only to be abandoned by her fiance was once the bestselling novel in American literary history. This edition also includes Lucy Temple, the fascinating story of Charlotte's orphaned daughter.
Author: Howard Moore
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Owen Egerton
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2012-05-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1593764383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book of Harold is as profound and deeply respectful a novel as it is irreverent in its wild, often hilarious take on a modern messianic movement in suburbia. The titular and sometimes exasperating hero of this masterful satire is Harold Peeks, a middle-aged suburbanite living a lonely if typical modern life in the outskirts of Houston, Texas. His world feels bland and pointless until one evening at a mundane office party he announces to his stunned co-workers that he is the Second Coming of Christ. Oddly enough, people start to believe him. Blake Waterson, Harold's closest friend and narrator of the novel, is as skeptical as anyone of this disheveled and disconcertingly bawdy Savior and yet this would-be Judas is compelled to follow Harold on his two-hundred mile walking journey to Austin with a mismatched group of equally puzzled disciples. On the road, this motley crew of witnesses to the holy get to experience misguided converts, violent possums, and the ungrateful recipients of off-kilter healings. They also discover the inherent paradoxes, absurdities, and dangers of spirituality, as they learn that saviors may not have all the answers, and humanity is just as bizarre and beautiful as the beliefs we hold.
Author: Ondřej Schmidt
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-09-16
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9004407898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a critical biography of John of Moravia, illegitimate member of the Luxembourg dynasty, provost of Vyšehrad, bishop of Litomyšl and eventually patriarch of Aquileia († 1394), in the wider context of the Czech and Italian history.
Author: Peter Beauclerk-Dewar
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-10-24
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0752473166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince 1066 when William the Conqueror (alias William the Bastard) took the throne, English and Scottish kings have sired at least 150 children out of wedlock. Many were acknowedged at court and founded dynasties of their own - several of today's dukedoms are descended from them. Others were only acknowledged grudgingly or not at all. In the twentieth century this trend for royals to father illegitimate children continued, but the parentage, while highly probably, has not been officially recognised. This book - split into four sections: Tudor, Stuart, Henoverian and, perhaps most fascinating, Royal Loose Ends - is a genuinely fresh approach to British kings and queens, examining their lives and times through the unfamiliar perspective of their illegitimate children.
