Writing Black Beauty
Writing Black Beauty

Author: Celia Brayfield

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-10-03

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1639365001

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The story of a remarkable woman who wrote a novel that not only became a classic, but also changed the way human society views and treats animals. Born in 1829 to a young Quaker couple, Anna Sewell grew up in poverty in London. She was fourteen when she fell and injured her ankle, which left her permanently disabled. Rejecting the life of a Victorian invalid, she developed an extraordinary empathy with horses, learning to ride side-saddle and to drive a small carriage. Rebellious and independent-minded, Anna suffered periods of severe depression as a young woman. She left the Quaker movement, but remained close friends with the women writers and abolitionists who had been empowered by its liberal principles. It was not until she became terminally ill, aged 51, that she found the courage to write her own book. Tragically, she died just five months after the book was published in 1877. Black Beauty is now recognised as the first anthropomorphic novel, and it had an extraordinary emotional impact on readers of all ages. After modest success in Britain, it was taken up by a charismatic American, George Thorndike Angell, a campaigner against animal cruelty who made it one of the bestselling novels of all time. Using newly discovered archive material, Celia Brayfield shows Anna Sewell developing the extraordinary resilience to overcome her disability, rouse the conscience of Victorian Britain and make her mark upon the world.

The Body, the Dance and the Text
The Body, the Dance and the Text

Author: Brynn Wein Shiovitz

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2019-01-25

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1476634858

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This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the "Other." Contributors draw on varied backgrounds to examine different movement practices. They focus on movement as a meaning-making process, including the choreographic act of writing. The challenges faced by marginalized bodies are discussed, along with the ability of a body to question, contest and re-write historical narratives.

Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan
Ivory and the Aesthetics of Modernity in Meiji Japan

Author: M. Chaiklin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1137363339

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The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of sculpture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth century.

The Illustrated Record of the International Exhibition of the Industrial Arts and Manufactures, and the Fine Arts, of All Nations, in 1862
The Illustrated Record of the International Exhibition of the Industrial Arts and Manufactures, and the Fine Arts, of All Nations, in 1862

Author: Taliaferro Preston Shaffner

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-17

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9781333654221

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Excerpt from The Illustrated Record of the International Exhibition of the Industrial Arts and Manufactures, and the Fine Arts, of All Nations, in 1862: In a Series of Tinted Steel Engravings, Comprising Views of the Building, and of the Principal Objects Exhibited; Also, Several Views of the Exhibition of 1853, From Daguerreotypes Taken at the Time But as funds were required to set the machinery in motion, and the ordinary resources of the Society were not available for such a purpose, it became necessary to provide for an estimated outlay in building, and preliminary expenses, of In this position they were compelled, at the commencement of their proceedings, to make an arrangement with a firm willing to advance the sum likely to be required, in consideration of a share in the contingent profits. 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.