The Impossible Life of Mary Benson
The Impossible Life of Mary Benson

Author: Rodney Bolt

Publisher: Atlantic Books

Published: 2013-04-01

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0857895826

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The remarkable true story of the life of Mary Benson: wife of an archbishop, friend of Queen Victoria, mother of three "unpermissably gifted" children—including E. F. Benson, and in love with dozens of women Sometimes touching and sometimes hilarious, this is the story of one lovable, brilliant woman and her trajectory through the often surprising opportunities and the remarkable limitations of a Victorian woman's life. Young Minnie Sidgwick was just 12 years old when her cousin, 12-year-old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie—as Mary Benson—to preside a social world that ranged from Tennyson, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde to foreign royalty and Queen Victoria herself. Yet Mrs. Benson's most intense relationships were not with her husband and his associates, but with other women. When the Archbishop died, Mary, or "Ben" to her intimates, turned down an offer from the Queen to live at Windsor, and set up home in a Jacobean manor house with her friend Lucy Tait. Drawing on the diaries and novels of the Bensons themselves, including E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels, as well as the writing of contemporary writers and poets, this book creates a very rich portrait of Mary Benson, her family, her close female friends, and their world.

As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil
As Good as God, as Clever as the Devil

Author: Rodney Bolt

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 9781445871172

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Tells the extraordinary story of Mary Benson and her family, bringing the late Victorian and early Edwardian period vividly to life.

Isabelle Boursier's Book of Hours, a Dismembered Manuscript from Mary Benson's Collection
Isabelle Boursier's Book of Hours, a Dismembered Manuscript from Mary Benson's Collection

Author: Carla Rossi

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2024-03-08

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1036400441

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This book provides a detailed exploration of profit-driven biblioclasm, centring on the case of a Book of Hours, part of the Brooklyn Museum’s holdings until 2021. Facing financial difficulties exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum chose to deaccession and sell various pieces, among which was a manuscript from the Mary Benson bequest of 1919, later dismembered by an American dealer who had purchased it at auction. Whilst examining the moral complexities surrounding these sales and the destruction of irreplaceable European cultural artifacts, the book uncovers the identity of the original owner of the manuscript, and provides a digital reconstruction of the original text. This book not only brings to light a critical occurrence but also discusses wider issues of cultural conservation and ethical responsibility in the art world. Its global significance and focus on a notable event in art history render it an indispensable read for those dedicated to safeguarding our collective cultural heritage.

End of Discussion
End of Discussion

Author: Mary Katharine Ham

Publisher: Forum Books

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0553447777

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With a new foreword for the paperback edition reflecting Trump's election and the recent uproar surrounding right-leaning speakers on college campuses, this unapologetic conservative duo featured on FOX News, Townhall, The Federalist, and CNN combat the silencing of free speech in America. They're trying to silence you. But don't let them dictate the End of Discussion. In the age of Trump, a prejudice against free speech is spreading, fueled by a growing movement that believes ideas must be squelched to "protect" people. The presidential election of 2016 should have been the clearest sign yet to the Left that trying to convince half the country to shut up is not the same as actually convincing them. And yet, in its wake, the impulse to stifle and punish "incorrect" viewpoints, and the "deplorables" who voice them, is alive and well. It's a vicious and ironic cycle, especially in academia, where dissenting speech is deemed dangerous and equated to violence -- while actual violence is justified to bully its proponents. From Berkeley to Middlebury, the mob is on the march. Free speech isn't always pretty, but it's vital to the American way. We have to make America talk again. End of Discussion arms readers to find their voices and fight back against the death of debate.

Genealogies of Barbados Families
Genealogies of Barbados Families

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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 775

ISBN-13: 0806310049

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Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, there was a continuous flow of settlers from Barbados to virtually every point on the Atlantic seaboard, with the result that many families in America today trace their origins in the New World first to Barbados. Records of Barbados families exist in a variety of places and indeed a great many have been written up and published in the turn-of-the-century journal Caribbeana and The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society.This present work contains every article pertaining to family history ever published in these journals.The combined articles, reprinted here in facsimile, range from conventional genealogies and pedigrees to will abstracts and Bible records and refer to some 15,000 persons, all of whom are listed in the index.

Manful Assertions
Manful Assertions

Author: Michael Roper

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-10-14

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1000443035

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Masculine assertions, whether of verbal command, political power or physical violence, have formed the traditional subject matter of history. This volume combines current discussions in sexual politics with historical analysis to demonstrate that, far from being natural and monolithic, masculinity is an historical and cultural construct, with varied, competing and above all changing forms.

Part of My Soul Went with Him
Part of My Soul Went with Him

Author: Winnie Mandela

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780393302905

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Winnie Mandela, wife of South African leader Nelson Mandela, shares the story of her life through interviews and letters in which she discusses the development of her political beliefs, and her forced separation from her husband.

Bourgeois Radicals
Bourgeois Radicals

Author: Carol Anderson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0521763789

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Bourgeois Radicals explores the NAACP's key role in the liberation of Africans and Asians across the globe even as it fought Jim Crow on the home front during the long civil rights movement. In the eyes of the NAACP's leaders, the way to create a stable international system, stave off communism in Africa and Asia, and prevent capitalist exploitation was to embed human rights, with its economic and cultural protections, in the transformation of colonies into nations. Indeed, the NAACP aided in the liberation struggles of multiple African and Asian countries within the limited ideological space of the Second Red Scare. However, its vision of a "third way" to democracy and nationhood for the hundreds of millions in Asia and Africa was only partially realized due to a toxic combination of the Cold War, Jim Crow, and die-hard imperialism. Bourgeois Radicals examines the toll that internationalism took on the organization and illuminates the linkages between the struggle for human rights and the fight for colonial independence.