Frances Calderón De La Barca

Author : Howard T. Fisher,Marion Hall Fisher
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781514421369

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Frances Calderón De La Barca by Howard T. Fisher,Marion Hall Fisher Pdf

Frances Erskine Inglis, daughter of a prominent lawyer and Freemason, was born in Edinburgh in 1804. As the Marquesa de Calderón de la Barca, she died in Madrid's Royal Palace in 1882. During her life she was a teacher, legation hostess, and successful author, remembered now for her travel classic Life in Mexico and semi-fictional The Attaché in Madrid. But her books tell nothing about the greater part of her far-ranging career, which led through a half-dozen countries in response to bankruptcy, extortion, marriage, diplomacy, and revolution. For this colorful biography the authors have drawn from many sources, including contemporary memoirs, diaries, and numerous letters by and about Madame Calderón. Sometimes her trenchant commentary on people and places flared into newspaper controversy. From all that can be discovered about her, she emerges as a person of high abilities, energy, and nerve. In addition to the spirited woman at the center of the story, there are also her extraordinary family and a cast of memorable minor characters.

Author : Madame Frances Calderón de la Barca
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1982-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520907010

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Life in Mexico by Madame Frances Calderón de la Barca Pdf

Originally published in 1843, Fanny Calderon de la Barca, gives her spirited account of living in Mexico–from her travels with her husband through Mexico as the Spanish diplomat to the daily struggles with finding good help–Fanny gives the reader an enlivened picture of the life and times of a country still struggling with independence.

Author : Howard T. Fisher,Marion Hall Fisher
Publisher : Xlibris Us
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1514421372

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Frances Calderón de la Barca Née Frances Erskine Inglis by Howard T. Fisher,Marion Hall Fisher Pdf

"Frances Erskine Inglis, daughter of a prominent lawyer and Freemason, was born in Edinburgh in 1804. As the Marquesa de Calderaon de la Barca, she died in Madrid's Royal Palace in 1882. During her life she was a teacher, legation hostess, and successful author, remembered now for her travel classic Life in Mexico and semi-fictional The Attachae in Madrid. But her books tell nothing about the greater part of her far-ranging career, which led through a half-dozen countries in response to bankruptcy, extortion, marriage, diplomacy, and revolution. For this colorful biography the authors have drawn from many sources, including contemporary memoirs, diaries, and numerous letters by and about Madame Calderaon. Sometimes her trenchant commentary on people and places flared into newspaper controversy. From all that can be discovered about her, she emerges as a person of high abilities, energy, and nerve. In addition to the spirited woman at the center of the story, there are also her extraordinary family and a cast of memorable minor characters" -- Provided by publisher.

Author : Madame Calderón de la Barca (Frances Erskine Inglis)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Travel
ISBN : UOM:39015020646207

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Life in Mexico by Madame Calderón de la Barca (Frances Erskine Inglis) Pdf

Author : Kristi Siegel
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820449059

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Gender, Genre, and Identity in Women's Travel Writing by Kristi Siegel Pdf

Women experience and portray travel differently: Gender matters - irreducibly and complexly. Building on recent scholarship in women's travel writing, these provocative essays not only affirm the impact of gender, but also cast women's journeys against coordinates such as race, class, culture, religion, economics, politics, and history. The book's scope is unique: Women travelers extend in time from Victorian memsahibs to contemporary «road girls», and topics range from Anna Leonowens's slanted portrayal of Siam - later popularized in the movie, The King and I, to current feminist «descripting» of the male-road-buddy genre. The extensive array of writers examined includes Nancy Prince, Frances Trollope, Cameron Tuttle, Lady Mary Montagu, Catherine Oddie, Kate Karko, Frances Calderón de la Barca, Rosamond Lawrence, Zilpha Elaw, Alexandra David-Néel, Amelia Edwards, Erica Lopez, Paule Marshall, Bharati Mukherjee, and Marilynne Robinson.

Author : Madame Calderón de la Barca (Frances Erskine Inglis),Howard T. Fisher,Marion Hall Fisher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 908 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Mexico
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038817644

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Life in Mexico by Madame Calderón de la Barca (Frances Erskine Inglis),Howard T. Fisher,Marion Hall Fisher Pdf

Author : Silvia Marina Arrom
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520383432

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La Guera Rodriguez by Silvia Marina Arrom Pdf

Fact is torn from fiction in this first biography of Mexico’s famous independence heroine, which also traces her subsequent journey from history to myth. María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osorio Barba (1778–1850) is an iconic figure in Mexican history. Known by the nickname “La Güera Rodríguez” because she was so fair, she is said to have possessed a remarkably sharp wit, a face fit for statuary, and a penchant for defying the status quo. Charming influential figures such as Simon Bolívar, Alexander von Humboldt, and Agustín de Iturbide, she utilized gold and guile in equal measure to support the independence movement—or so the stories say. In La Güera Rodríguez, Silvia Marina Arrom approaches the legends of Rodríguez de Velasco with a keen eye, seeking to disentangle the woman from the myth. Arrom uses a wide array of primary sources from the period to piece together an intimate portrait of this remarkable woman, followed by a review of her evolving representation in Mexican arts and letters that shows how the legends became ever more fanciful after her death. How much of the story is rooted in fact, and how much is fiction sculpted to fit the cultural sensibilities of a given moment in time? In our contemporary moment of unprecedented misinformation, it is particularly relevant to analyze how and why falsehoods become part of historical memory. La Güera Rodriguez will prove an indispensable resource for those searching to understand late-colonial Mexico, the role of women in the independence movement, and the use of historic figures in crafting national narratives.

Author : Elizabeth Blackwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1739
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BML:37001100074116

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A Curious Herbal Containing Five Hundred Cuts of the Most Useful Plants which are Now Used in the Practice of Physick Engraved... by Elizabeth Blackwell... by Elizabeth Blackwell Pdf

Author : Frances Erskine Inglis Calderón de la Barca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10469519

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Life in Mexico during a residence of two years in that country by Frances Erskine Inglis Calderón de la Barca Pdf

Author : Maria Finn Dominguez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307496782

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Mexico in Mind by Maria Finn Dominguez Pdf

Two centuries of writers drawn to Mexico—from D. H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, and Tennessee Williams to Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, and Sandra Cisneros This scintillating literary travel guide gathers the work of great writers celebrating Mexico in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Ranging from 1843 to the present, Mexico in Mind offers a remarkably varied sampling of English-speaking writers’ impressions of the land south of the border. John Reed rides with Pancho Villa in 1914; Graham Greene defends Mexico’s priests; Langston Hughes describes a bullfight; Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs find Mexico intoxicating; Alice Adams visits Frida Kahlo’s house; Ann Louise Bardach meets the mysterious Subcommandante Marcos face to face. Fictional accounts are equally vivid, including poems by Muriel Rukeyser, Archibald Macleish, and Sandra Cisneros, short stories by Katherine Anne Porter and Ray Bradbury, and excerpts from John Steinbeck’s The Pearl, Tennessee Williams’ Night of the Iguana, and Salman Rushdie’s The Ground Beneath Her Feet. From the bustle of Mexico City to coffee planations in remote Chiapas, from Mayan ruins to the markets at Oaxaca, the scenes evoked in this anthology reflect the rich variety of the place and its history, sure to enchant vacationers, expatriates, and armchair travelers everywhere. Alice Adams • Ann Louise Bardach • Ray Bradbury • William S. Burroughs • Frances Calderón de la Barca • Ana Castillo • Sandra Cisneros • Anita Desai • Erna Fergusson • Charles Macomb Flandrau • Donna Gershten • Graham Greene • Langston Hughes • Fanny Inglehart • Gary Jennings • Diana Kennedy • Jack Kerouac • D. H. Lawrence • Malcolm Lowry • Archibald Macleish • Rubén Martínez • Tom Miller • Katherine Anne Porter • John Reed • Luis Rodriguez • Richard Rodriguez • Muriel Rukeyser • Salman Rushdie • John Steinbeck • Edward Weston • Tennessee Williams From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Madame Calderón de la Barca (Frances Erskine Inglis)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Mexico
ISBN : LCCN:gb54007788

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Life in Mexico by Madame Calderón de la Barca (Frances Erskine Inglis) Pdf

Author : Sarah Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135964931

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The Political Worlds of Women by Sarah Richardson Pdf

Traditional analyses of nineteenth-century politics have assigned women a peripheral role. By adopting a broader interpretation of political participation, the author identifies how middle-class women were able to contribute to political affairs in the nineteenth century. Examining the contribution that women made to British political life in the period 1800-1870 stimulates debates about gender and politics, the nature of authority and the definition of political culture. This volume examines female engagement in both traditional and unconventional political arenas, including female sociability, salons, child-rearing and education, health, consumption, religious reform and nationalism. Richardson focuses on middle-class women’s social, cultural, intellectual and political authority, as implemented by a range of public figures and lesser-known campaigners. The activists discussed and their varying political, economic and religious backgrounds will demonstrate the significance of female interventions in shaping the political culture of the period and beyond.

Author : Nellie Bly
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547027850

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Six Months in Mexico by Nellie Bly Pdf

Six Months in Mexico is a book by an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker Nellie Bly. She wrote this book after her travels through Mexico in about 1885. In the book, she describes the lives and customs of the people of Mexico, their poverty, the widespread addiction to playing the lottery, courtship, wedding ceremonies, the popularity of tobacco smoking, and the habits of the soldiers, including an early mention of their marijuana use.

Author : Susan Manning,Andrew Taylor
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801887313

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Transatlantic Literary Studies by Susan Manning,Andrew Taylor Pdf

This groundbreaking volume is the first to define the emergent field of transatlantic literary studies. It brings together a wide range of material to explore the theoretical and literary possibilities of the transatlantic world as an arena for textual and intellectual exchange. In their introduction, the editors suggest ways in which the transatlantic paradigm offers renewed potential for literary study that for too long has been tied to the ideological and political requirements of the nation-state. The Reader provides accessible, annotated examples of theoretical frameworks that provoke further scholarly inquiry and important works of literary criticism that demonstrate different possibilities of comparative analysis. This important compilation represents and promotes the conceptualization of American culture within the broader context of transatlantic activity.

Author : Nicolás Bas Martín
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004359529

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Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) by Nicolás Bas Martín Pdf

In Spanish Books in the Europe of the Enlightenment (Paris and London) Nicolás Bas recreates, using a bibliographical approach, the manner in which Spain was regarded in Europe in the eighteenth century, by consulting booksellers’ catalogues, private book collections and key auctions in Paris and London.