Morning 1808
Morning 1808

Author: Shirley M. Sprague

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2014-08-29

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1491742011

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It is a cold January morning in 1796 when a ship docks in Boston Harbor. Among its passengers is an English theatre troupe that includes their leader, Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold, and her young daughter, Betty. Hired by Charles Stuart Powell for the reopening of a Boston theatre, the troupe makes their way to the theater with baggage in tow. A new life is about to begin. A short time later, the troupe is unpacked and ready for opening night. As Mrs. Arnold makes her stage debut in America, Betty meets John Howard Payne, a precocious young man who introduces her to an exciting world she never knew existed. After her mother takes her troupe on a summer tour, Betty makes her own stage debut to rave reviews. But when a horrifying accident suddenly takes the life of her mother, a now fourteen-year-old Betty, who now goes by Elizabeth, has no idea that her destiny will soon lead her to a secret affair, two marriages, and to become the mother of three children, one being Edgar Allen Poe. Morning 1808 interweaves the adventures of a nineteenth century theatre troupe with a young womans journey of self-discovery in America as she learns to survive on her own and attempts to make her dreams come true.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Author: Hugh Chisholm

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 1058

ISBN-13:

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This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.

Samuel Wesley (1766–1837): A Source Book
Samuel Wesley (1766–1837): A Source Book

Author: Michael Kassler

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 776

ISBN-13: 1351550128

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Hailed as a child prodigy and later acclaimed as England's finest extempore organist, Samuel Wesley - son of Charles Wesley and nephew of John Wesley, the founders of Methodism - is best known today for his musical compositions and for his promotion of the music of J. S. Bach. At the heart of this source book is a calendar of Samuel Wesley's correspondence. The editors date and summarise the content of over 1100 surviving letters and other documents, most of which have not previously been published. The book accordingly reveals considerable new information about Wesley and his complex personal affairs, including his incarceration for debt and his confinement in a lunatic asylum for a year. Many details are provided about London musical life in the era from Boyce to Mendelssohn that prior scholars have not taken into account. The book also presents a chronology of Wesley's life, a descriptive list of his nearly 550 musical and literary works, a discography, an iconography and a bibliography. It therefore is the most comprehensive available reference source for Wesley's life, times and music.

Bare-Knuckle Britons and Fighting Irish
Bare-Knuckle Britons and Fighting Irish

Author: Adam Chill

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2017-08-11

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1476630283

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Boxing was phenomenally popular in 18th and 19th century Britain. Aristocrats attended matches and patronized boxers, and the most important fights drew tens of thousands of spectators. Promoters of the sport claimed that it showcased the timeless and authentic ideal of English manhood--a rock of stability in changing times. Yet many of the best fighters of the era were Irish, Jewish or black. This history focuses on how boxers, journalists, politicians, pub owners and others used national, religious and racial identities to promote pugilism and its pure English pedigree, even as ethnic minorities won distinction in the sport, putting the diversity of the Empire on display.

The Early Haitian State and the Question of Political Legitimacy
The Early Haitian State and the Question of Political Legitimacy

Author: James Forde

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-10-24

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 3030526089

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This book explores the different ways in which the early Haitian state was represented in print culture in America and Britain in the early nineteenth century. This study demonstrates that American and British arguments about the most effective forms of governance and political leadership impacted how Haiti’s early leaders were presented to transatlantic audiences. From the end of the Haitian Revolution and the moment that Haitian independence was declared in 1804, conservatives and radical thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic used Haiti and its early leaders as central frames of references in discussions of political legitimacy. Against the backdrop of a vibrant and volatile age of revolutions, the different forms of governance adopted by Jean Jacques Dessalines, Henry Christophe and Jean Pierre Boyer were used by writers, playwrights and caricaturists to either support or call into question the legitimacy of America’s and Britain’s own forms of government.

The World of Disney: From Antiquarianism to Archaeology
The World of Disney: From Antiquarianism to Archaeology

Author: David W. J. Gill

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1789698286

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A biography of Dr John Disney (1779-1857), the benefactor of the first chair in archaeology at a British university. He also donated his major collection of Classical sculptures to the University of Cambridge. The sculptures continue to be displayed in the Fitzwilliam Museum.