Augusta Locke

Author : William Haywood Henderson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 014303829X

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Augusta Locke by William Haywood Henderson Pdf

An indelible portrait of a woman who through great toughness of character blazes her own trail Novelist William Haywod Henderson has won acclaim for his depictions of land and nature and his ability to bring the American West to vivid life. Of his most recent novel, The Rest of the Earth, Annie Proulx remarked that Henderson “writes some of the most evocative and transcendently beautiful prose in contemporary American literature.” Redolent with myth, humor, strange landscapes, and stark reality, Henderson’s new novel tells the story of Augusta Locke, a troubled yet spirited woman, as she raises her daughter in the deserts of Wyoming. Spanning the twentieth century, Augusta’s extraordinary challenges play out themes of love and loss, home and family, redemption and reconciliation.

Author : William Haywood Henderson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143038290

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Augusta Locke by William Haywood Henderson Pdf

An indelible portrait of a woman who through great toughness of character blazes her own trail Novelist William Haywod Henderson has won acclaim for his depictions of land and nature and his ability to bring the American West to vivid life. Of his most recent novel, The Rest of the Earth, Annie Proulx remarked that Henderson “writes some of the most evocative and transcendently beautiful prose in contemporary American literature.” Redolent with myth, humor, strange landscapes, and stark reality, Henderson’s new novel tells the story of Augusta Locke, a troubled yet spirited woman, as she raises her daughter in the deserts of Wyoming. Spanning the twentieth century, Augusta’s extraordinary challenges play out themes of love and loss, home and family, redemption and reconciliation.

Author : Rhode Island
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Law
ISBN : MINN:31951D02279610J

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At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Begun and Holden, ... at ... Within and for the Said State, on ..., in the Year of Our Lord by Rhode Island Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Session laws
ISBN : NYPL:33433007056660

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At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Begun and Holden, ... at ... Within and for the Said State, on ..., in the Year of Our Lord ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tom Wareham
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781783032327

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Frigate Commander by Tom Wareham Pdf

The naval historian presents the thrilling true story of a Royal Navy officer’s frigate command in the tumultuous late 18th and early 19th centuries. Based on the private journals of Admiral Sir Graham Moore, Frigate Commander recounts his experiences as a Lieutenant and then Captain during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Moore's journal gives a detailed account of life as a serving naval officer, revealing the unique problems of managing a frigate crew, maintaining discipline and turning his ship into an efficient man of war. Moore was one of the Royal Navy's star captains, serving continuously as a frigate commander between 1793 and 1804. His early career took him to Newfoundland before serving with Sir William Sidney Smith's squadron on the north coast of France. Moore was present during the Naval Mutiny at Spithead in 1797, and helped to destroy the French fleet off Ireland in 1798. His most famous action occurred in September 1804, when his squadron captured a Spanish frigate squadron carrying a fortune in treasure. The following year his frigate, HMS Indefatigable, was involved in the opening of the Trafalgar Campaign.

Author : Frances Burney
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 943 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141911052

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Journals and Letters by Frances Burney Pdf

Novelist and playwright Frances (Fanny) Burney, 1752-1840, was also a prolific writer of journals and letters, beginning with the diary she started at fifteen and continuing until the end of her eventful life. From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d'Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she captured the changing times around her, creating brilliantly comic and candid portraits of those she encountered - including the 'mad' King George, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and a charismatic Napoleon Bonaparte. She also describes, in her most moving piece, undergoing a mastectomy at fifty-nine without anaesthetic. Whether a carefree young girl or a mature woman, Fanny Burney's forthright, intimate and wickedly perceptive voice brings her world powerfully to life.

Author : John Wentworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105358865

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The Wentworth Genealogy by John Wentworth Pdf

Author : John Wentworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3898348

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The American genealogy (continued): Fifth generation (completed). Sixth generation. Seventh generation. Eighth and succeeding generations. Additions and corrections to this volume by John Wentworth Pdf

Elder William Wentworth was living at Exeter, New Hampshire, by 1639, and at Wells, Maine, from 1642-1649. In 1649, he moved to Dover, New Hampshire, where he lived most of the rest of his life. He was the father of at least eleven children. He died at Dover ca. 1696/7. Descendants lived in New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusettes, New York, Vermont, Illinois, and elsewhere.

Author : Philip Olleson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317026655

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The Journals and Letters of Susan Burney by Philip Olleson Pdf

Susan Burney (1755-1800) was the third daughter of the music historian Charles Burney and the younger sister of the novelist Frances (Fanny) Burney. She grew up in London, where she was able to observe at close quarters the musical life of the capital and to meet the many musicians, men of letters, and artists who visited the family home. After her marriage in 1782 to Molesworth Phillips, a Royal Marines officer who served with Captain Cook on his last voyage, she lived in Surrey and later in rural Ireland. Burney was a knowledgeable enthusiast for music, and particularly for opera, with discriminating tastes and the ability to capture vividly musical life and the personalities involved in it. Her extensive journals and letters, a selection from which is presented here, provide a striking portrait of social, domestic and cultural life in London, the Home Counties and in Ireland in the late eighteenth century. They are of the greatest importance and interest to music and theatre historians, and also contain much that will be of significance and interest for Burney scholars, social historians of England and Ireland, women's historians and historians of the family.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 904 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015005660017

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Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : UIUC:30112018112703

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Proceedings of the Fourth National Conference on Labor Legislation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Betty Rizzo
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820332185

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Companions Without Vows by Betty Rizzo Pdf

Companions Without Vows is the first detailed study of the companionate relationship among women in eighteenth-century England--a type of relationship so prevalent that it was nearly institutionalized. Drawing extensively upon primary documents and fictional narratives, Betty Rizzo describes the socioeconomic conditions that forced women to take on or to become companions and examines a number of actual companionate relationships. Several factors fostered such relationships. Husbands and wives of the period lived largely separate social lives, yet decorum prohibited genteel women from attending engagements unaccompanied. Also, women of position insisted on having social consultants and confidantes. Filling this need were the many well-born young women without sufficient funds to live independently. Because family money and property were concentrated in the hands of eldest sons, these women frequently had to seek the protection of female benefactors for whom they performed unpaid, nonmenial tasks, such as providing a hand at cards or simply offering pleasant company. The companionate relationship between women could assume many forms, Rizzo notes. It was often analogous to marriage, with one partner dominant and the other subservient, while some women experimented in establishing partnerships that were truly egalitarian. Rizzo explores these various types of relationships both in real life and in fiction, noting that much of the period's discourse about women's relationships can be seen as a tacit commentary on marriage. Provocative and engagingly written, this authoritative work casts new light on women's attempts to deal with a patriarchal power structure and offers new insight into eighteenth-century social history.

Author : Lois Swann
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504917261

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Sippicon by Lois Swann Pdf

SIPPICON closes the mythic circle of a unique Native American and British family divided by the fiery politics of pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts. The woods, the sea, the farm, merchant ships, the church, the university, Venice, London, a Sippicon village, drawing rooms and battlefields are the stomping grounds for iconic characters reaching for independence of soul. The red man and white woman once married now suffering life apart are the catalyst for the action of the novel.

Author : Jerry Norman Harrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Reference
ISBN : WISC:89066328089

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The Descendants of Ebenezer Locke (1674-1723) by Jerry Norman Harrison Pdf

Ebenezer Locke (1674-1723) was born born in Woburn, Massachusetts, son of William Locke and Mary Clarke. He married Susannah Walker (1674-1699) and (2) Hannah Mead (1676-1739) in 1701. He later died in Woburn. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Michigan, Ontario, and elsewhere.

Author : Maine. Insurance Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Insurance
ISBN : HARVARD:HL2KKG

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Annual Report of the Insurance Commissioner by Maine. Insurance Department Pdf