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Author: June and Vernon Bull
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-07-15
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1445676699
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecret Peterborough explores the little-known and often colourful history of the Cambridgeshire cathedral city of Peterborough through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Author: Karen Merrison
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2022-05-15
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1398108057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSecret Fens explores the lesser-known history of the Fens in the East of England through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
Author: Ren Pepitone
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-05-31
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1009456741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical investigation of masculinity, the gentlemanly professional, and the exclusionary culture of the British legal profession.
Author: Alexis Easley
Publisher: University of Delaware
Published: 2011-04-29
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1611490170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914 with chapters focused on a variety of Victorian authors, including Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, and Octavia Hill. Through lively analysis of rare cultural materials, Easley demonstrates the crucial role of the celebrity author in the formation of British national identity. As Victorians toured the homes and haunts of famous writers, they developed a sense of shared national heritage. At the same time, by reading sensational accounts of writers' lives, they were able to reconsider conventional gender roles and domestic arrangements. Women writers capitalized on celebrity media as a way of furthering their own careers and retelling British history on their own terms. Easley demonstrates how the trope of the literary celebrity was utilized for other purposes as well, including the professionalization of medicine, the development of the open space movement, and the formation of the literary canon.
Author: Anne-Marie Beller
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0786436670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn important figure in the development of crime fiction, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) wrote more than 80 novels, numerous plays, poems, essays and short stories, and edited two magazines during her 55-year literary career. Her bestselling Lady Audley's Secret secured her reputation as a leading "sensation novelist." Though critics called her work immoral, Braddon's novels influenced the detective fiction of the late Victorian period. With entries on all her published writing, characters, relationships and influences, and themes and contexts, as well as numerous illustrations, a career chronology, and a chronological and alphabetical listing of all of her works, this companion to Braddon's mystery fiction is the definitive reference on this provocative but overlooked writer.
Author: Abigail Hamilton-Thompson
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: 2022-12-31
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1526716747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVotes for Women. Handle with Care' was the message left on a hoax bomb found under the Oundle railway bridge in 1913, just two years after the leading suffrage campaigner Mrs Pankhurst visited the city. Notable women of Peterborough include Florence Saunders, a selfless dedicated nurse who regularly visited the poorer areas of Peterborough and set up the District Nursing Health Service at the Soke. Another well known nurse, Edith Cavell, spent some time at the Laurel Court School, which was run by a leading female character. The Women's United Total Abstinence Council (WUTAC) set up a coffee wagon to encourage male workers to avoid drinking, thus helping families in the war against alcoholism. The WUTAC also set up a tea room at the railway station during the First World War to discourage sailors and soldiers from the public houses. This book explores the lives of women in Peterborough between 1850 and 1950 by looking at home life, the taking on of men's roles during the First World War, the land army, nursing, the accommodating of evacuees during the Second World war, the eccentric first Freewoman of the city and the first female mayor. Struggle and Suffrage in Peterborough uncovers the stories of the leading women in the city who helped change women's lives forever.
Author: Jessica Cox
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-04-25
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1350309486
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the establishment of sensation fiction in the 1860s, key trends have emerged in critical readings of these texts. From Victorian responses emphasising the 'lowbrow' or potentially dangerous qualities of the genre to the prolific critical attention of the present day, this Reader's Guide identifies the dominant approaches to sensation fiction and charts the critical trends of various scholarly evaluations and interpretations. With coverage spanning empire, class, sexuality and adaptation, this is the ideal companion for students of Victorian Literature looking for an introduction to the key debates surrounding sensation fiction.
Author: Le Queux William
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-11-01
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9359954020
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Closed Book," which was written by way of William Le Queux, is a great action book. A mystery text that holds the important thing to a huge historic thriller is observed and the tale starts. When Derrick Yale, an unheard-of book collector, buys an ancient tome, he finds a mysterious message inner its pages that guidelines at a mystery royal lineage. As Yale attempts to parent out the mysterious clues inside the manuscript, he receives caught up in a web of ancient plots and mystery corporations. His search for the reality takes him on a thrilling journey thru a global of mystery codes, competing creditors, and people who do not want the book's contents to be made public. Le Queux skillfully weaves a story complete of mystery and tension by combining vintage secrets and techniques, codes, and the search for expertise. People are drawn into the book via its take a look at of hidden histories and the lengths humans will go to get facts that isn't supposed to be shared. "The Closed Book" is a thrilling tale that takes you to locations in which historical discoveries have been made, in which secrets had been saved, and where human beings are constantly trying to find hidden facts that might exchange the route of records.
Author: Christine Gerrard
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780198183884
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring his lifetime Aaron Hill was one of the most lively cultural patrons and brokers on the London literary scene - an image hard to square with the company of undistinguished scribblers to which Pope relegated him in the Dunciad. Aaron Hill: The Muses' Projector, 1685-1750, the firstbiography of this fascinating figure for nearly a century, aims to correct the distorted picture of the Augustan cultural scene which Pope passed down to posterity. Hill deliberately confronted Pope in his attempt to free poetry's sublime and visionary potential from the stale platitudes ofneo-classical convention. An early champion of women poets, he also enjoyed close relationships with Eliza Haywood and Martha Fowke, and brought his three writing daughters Urania, Astrea, and Minerva into close contact with his lifelong friend the novelist Samuel Richardson. In 1711 Hill, as stagemanager and librettist, introduced Handel to the English stage, as well as lobbying tirelessly for innovation in the eighteenth-century theatre. His entrepreneurial energies, directed at both commercial and cultural projects, mirror the zeitgeist of early Hanoverian Britain.
