Lucina's Letters
Lucina's Letters

Author: Barbara Francesca Murphy

Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers

Published: 2022-03-31

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1398406465

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“They did not mean to hurt the boy, much less kill him. They only wanted to teach him a lesson.” A stunning family saga set in Ireland and Italy, Lucina’s Letters is a gripping character study that explores the deep, dark repercussions of one long-ago deed. Family has always been of the utmost importance to Lucina, but when she learns the truth about an event that almost ripped the family apart, she sets about mending the familial bond even if her efforts are from beyond the grave. One well-timed letter allows her to bring the family together and drag not just one secret but many into the light. But what will the consequences be; will the now-grown-up girls come to terms with their actions on that fateful day and subsequently their own struggles in life? Were the messenger’s intentions just honourable and will the truth set them free and restore the family unit once again?

Lucina's Destiny
Lucina's Destiny

Author: Carole Penfield

Publisher:

Published: 2018-07-03

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780692112434

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Midwife Clare Dupres and her precocious daughter Lucina cause unpopular King James II to lose the English throne in 1688. Clare Dupres bravely faces a new life for herself and her children, after narrowly escaping to England, leaving captured Papa behind in Normandy. Grateful to brother-in-law Pierre for inviting them to share his home, Clare fails to recognize that his attentions towards her exceed the bounds of brotherly affection, ignoring perceptive Lucina's warnings. Pierre's childless wife Celia, jealous of Clare, becomes obsessed with the idea that she would be a better mother to Lucina and Jean-Pierre, and wishes her nemesis would disappear. Barred from practicing midwifery in London, Clare moves with her children to a country village, next door to Pierre and Celia. Before leaving the city, ignoring warnings that the English do not want a Papist heir to their throne, Clare befriends the royal midwife and offers to help King James' barren wife. Lucina proposes a shocking procedure which Clare secretly tests on the queen. This leads to birth of a healthy male heir, causing royal upheaval. Lucina, a gifted youngster who quotes Shakespeare, thrives in the genteel country society and enjoys writing theatricals to entertain her new friends. But caught in the struggle between Aunt Celia's goal to teach her ladylike skills and Clare's insistence she study midwifery, Lucina is conflicted. When she saves her old friend Daphne in Normandy from a disastrous fate by sending mind messages to Chateau Montjardin, Lucina believes she has developed the power to alter the future. As the years pass, a series of disasters force Lucina to come to terms with her own destiny as the plot takes unexpected twists and turns towards a stunning, surprise conclusion.

The Fates
The Fates

Author: James W. Hoddinott

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2014-04

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1490730834

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The Fates follows society's search for immortality. The exploration of what each of us would sacrifice if it meant that we could live forever. Changing societal values and reducing the importance of community has resulted in a society that continues to put the needs of the individual first. The Fates explores a society made up of those that put their needs ahead of all others versus those that believe the spiritual self is the destiny of all humans. The conflict in a society and each individual that devalues the basic human characteristics that make each of us unique manifests itself in some devastating outcomes. Each day we are faced with decisions of what each of us value and what each of us will fight for. The youth of today are influenced by increasingly uncontrolled and self-centered ideas about how they should live. The path is being set in our world where through media, we are changing culture. The Fates at one time may have seemed like science fiction; however, with our increasing knowledge of genetics and our belief that immortality can only be obtained through science rather than spiritually or through the legacies we create to make our world a better place for future generations.

The Decline of Our Neighborhood
The Decline of Our Neighborhood

Author: Robert Wexelblatt

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13:

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The eleven stories in The Decline of Our Neighborhood provide further proof that Robert Wexelblatt is a writer of uncommon intelligence and verve. Unusual characters in strange circumstances struggle here for meaning and vision. Glnin, a writer, suddenly finds himself president of an unnamed republic. Katy Moffit, sometime comic and smart alec, takes on the sleepy town of Benton, Indiana. Appearances are also made by Ishl Teitelbaum, the Savior; "the famous courtesan Lucina", who visits the hermit Arnaud and falls in love; the Alpha Company Artists' Collaborative; Isaac Fehderflos, a well-known violinist, and improbably a second Isaac Fehderflos, who is not a violinist; and the astonishing Olmaler, painter in oils, better known as O'Malley, who does not want to live if he cannot paint - and means it. As always, Wexelblatt's stories are about both language and people. They enter the consciousness of the reader in surprising and moving ways. Readers who have not encountered Robert Wexelblatt's work are in for a treat. Those who already know him will be eager to see what's new in his delightful universe.

Priests of Lucina
Priests of Lucina

Author: Palmer Findley

Publisher:

Published: 1939

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13:

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Includes biographies and portraits of the principal doctors and scientists who contributed to obstetrical knowledge. Also, covers important phases in obstetrics: anatomy, the midwife, cesarean section, the forceps and puerperal fever.

Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court
Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court

Author: J. Webster

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-08-05

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1403980284

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Performing Libertinism in Charles II's Court examines the performative nature of Restoration libertinism through reports of libertine activities and texts of libertine plays within the context of the fraternization between George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Sir Charles Sedley, Sir George Etherege, and William Wycherley. Webster argues that libertines, both real and imagined, performed traditionally secretive acts, including excessive drinking, sex, sedition, and sacrilege, in the public sphere. This eruption of the private into the public challenged a Stuart ideology that distinguished between the nation's public life and the king's and his subjects' private consciences.

Lord Rochester in the Restoration World
Lord Rochester in the Restoration World

Author: Matthew C. Augustine

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-04-23

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1107064392

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Essays by leading scholars explore the work, life and times of the notorious libertine poet John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester.

Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Author: Robert John Weston Evans

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780754641025

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'Curiosity' and 'wonder' are topics of increasing interest and importance to Renaissance and Enlightenment historians. Conspicuous in a host of disciplines from history of science and technology to history of art, literature, and society, both have assumed a prominent place in studies of the Early Modern period. This volume brings together an international group of scholars to investigate the various manifestations of, and relationships between, 'curiosity' and 'wonder' from the 16th to the 18th century. Focused case studies on texts, objects and individuals explore the multifaceted natures of these themes, highlighting the intense fascination and continuing scrutiny to which each has been subjected over three centuries.