The autobiography of Mary Smith, schoolmistress and nonconformist

The autobiography of Mary Smith, schoolmistress and nonconformist

Author: Mary Smith

Publisher: Gale and the British Library

Published: 1892

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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Excerpt from The Autobiography of Mary Smith, Schoolmistress and Nonconformist: A Fragment of a Life My father was married young, being at the time little more than twenty. My mother was his senior by a year or two. He brought her to his ancestral home, in a row of houses which faced the church. It was built of stone, and thatched, like all the others in the village (except the vicar's); a large rambling house with plenty of room in it; the shop on one side, with its low casement window and half-door, the latter of which hung open all summer long. The dwelling house was on the other side, with its carpetless stone floor and bed rooms and large attics, which last served in after years for additional bed rooms, or store rooms for apples. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


The Autobiography of Mary Smith, Schoolmistress and Nonconformist

The Autobiography of Mary Smith, Schoolmistress and Nonconformist

Author: Mary Smith

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-26

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780331963953

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Excerpt from The Autobiography of Mary Smith, Schoolmistress and Nonconformist: A Fragment of a Life My father was married young, being at the time little more than twenty. My mother was his senior by a year or two. He brought her to his ancestral home, in a row of houses which faced the church. It was built of stone, and thatched, like all the others in the village (except the vicar's); a large rambling house with plenty of room in it; the shop on one side, with its low casement window and half-door, the latter of which hung open all summer long. The dwelling house was on the other side, with its carpetless stone floor and bed rooms and large attics, which last served in after years for additional bed rooms, or store rooms for apples. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women

Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women

Author: Florence s. Boos

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-12-02

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 3319642154

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This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places these memoirs within a wider autobiographical tradition. Additionally, Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women enables readers to appreciate the clear-sightedness, directness, and poignancy of these works.


Writing and Victorianism

Writing and Victorianism

Author: J.B. Bullen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-06

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1317888472

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Writing and Victorianism asks the fundamental question 'what is Victorianism?' and offers a number of answers taken from methods and approaches which have been developed over the last ten years. This collection of essays, written by both new and established scholars from Britain and the U.S.A, develops many of the themes of nineteenth-century studies which have lately come to the fore, touching upon issues such as drugs, class, power and gender. Some essays reflect the interaction of word and image in the nineteenth-century, and the notion of the city as spectacle; others look at Victorian science finding a connection between writing and the growth of psychology and psychiatry on the one hand and with the power of scientific materialism on the other. As well as key figures such as Dickens, Tennyson and Wilde, a host of new names are introduced including working-class writers attempting to define themselves and writers in the Periodical press who, once anonymous, exercised a great influence over Victorian politics, taste, and social ideals. From these observations there emerges a need for self-definition in Victorian writing. History, ancestry, and the past all play their part in figuring the present in the nineteenth-century, and many of these studies foreground the problem of literary, social, and psychological identity.


Victorian Sensation

Victorian Sensation

Author: James A. Secord

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 0226744116

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This is where our own public controversies about evolution began.".


A History of British Working Class Literature

A History of British Working Class Literature

Author: John Goodridge

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 815

ISBN-13: 1108121306

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A History of British Working-Class Literature examines the rich contributions of working-class writers in Great Britain from 1700 to the present. Since the early eighteenth century the phenomenon of working-class writing has been recognised, but almost invariably co-opted in some ultimately distorting manner, whether as examples of 'natural genius'; a Victorian self-improvement ethic; or as an aspect of the heroic workers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century radical culture. The present work contrastingly applies a wide variety of interpretive approaches to this literature. Essays on more familiar topics, such as the 'agrarian idyll' of John Clare, are mixed with entirely new areas in the field like working-class women's 'life-narratives'. This authoritative and comprehensive History explores a wide range of genres such as travel writing, the verse-epistle, the elegy and novels, while covering aspects of Welsh, Scottish, Ulster/Irish culture and transatlantic perspectives.