Illustrated Daughters Of Britannia

Author : Katie Hickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, British
ISBN : 0007122217

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Illustrated Daughters of Britannia by Katie Hickman Pdf

Accompanying their spouses in the most extraordinary, tough, sometimes terrifying circumstances, this book is an account of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the foreign service. Women who struggled to bring their civilization with them. The book is illustrated with archive material, extracts from original letters between the women and their families at home, maps to show the routes they travelled and the places they were posted to and pictures of ephemera to evoke the lives they led. The chapters cover: getting there; the posting; private life; embassy life; public life; and social life.

Author : Joanna Trollope
Publisher : Random House
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781845950187

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Britannia's Daughters by Joanna Trollope Pdf

In Britannia's Daughters, bestselling novelist Joanna Trollope examines the contribution of women in building and sustaining the British Empire. She draws on a vast range of sources, including diaries and letters home. She provides a panoramic picture of the countless women who departed Britain for India, Australia, the Far East, Canada and Africa - often in search of opportunities unavailable at home. Here are penniless pioneers and governors' wives, missionaries and prostitutes, explorers and army nurses. They people this book as they peopled the Empire - their astonishing courage and endurance, their remarkable personal stories vividly and enthrallingly recaptured.

Author : Corinne Fowler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401204873

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Chasing Tales by Corinne Fowler Pdf

Chasing Tales is the first exclusive study of journalism, travel writing and the history of British ideas about Afghanistan. It offers a timely investigation of the notional Afghanistan(s) that have prevailed in the popular British imagination. Casting its net deep into the nineteenth century, the study investigates the country’s mythologisation by scrutinising travel narratives, literary fiction and British news media coverage of the recent conflict in Afghanistan. This highly topical book explores the legacy of nineteenth-century paranoias and prejudices to contemporary travellers and journalists and seeks to explain why Afghans continue to be depicted as medieval, murderous, warlike and unruly. Its title, Chasing Tales, conveys the circulation, and indeed the circularity, of ideas commonly found in British travel writing and journalism. The ‘tales’ component stresses the pivotal role played by fictionalised sources, especially the writing of Rudyard Kipling, in perpetuating traumatic nineteenth-century memories of Afghan-British encounter. The subject matter is compelling and its foci of interest profoundly relevant both to current political debates and to scholarly enquiry about the ethics of travel.

Author : James Thomson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017900573

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The Seasons ... with engraved illustrations from designs ... by J. Bell, C. W. Cope, T. Creswick ... and with the life of the author by P. Murdoch. ... Edited by B. Corney by James Thomson Pdf

Author : Katie Hickman
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780007330034

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Daughters of Britannia by Katie Hickman Pdf

An authoritative and entertaining account by one of our most talented writers of the courageous and unusual women who have been the backbone of the British Empire and foreign service. âe~English ambassadresses are usually on the dotty side and leaving their embassies drives them completely off their rockersâe(tm) âe" Nancy Mitford From the first exploratory expeditions into foreign lands, through the heyday of the British Empire and still today, the foreign service has been shaped and run behind the scenes by the wives of ambassadors and minor civil servants. Accompanying their spouses in the most extraordinary, tough, sometimes terrifying circumstances, they have struggled to bring their civilization with them. Their stories âe" from ambassadresses downwards âe" never before told, are a feast of eccentricity, genuine hardship and genuine heroism, and make for a hilarious, compelling and fascinating book.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 12854 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547811510

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CHARLES DICKENS Ultimate Collection – ALL 20 Novels with Illustrations & 200+ Short Stories, Children's Books, Plays, Poems, Articles, Autobiographical Writings & Biographies (Illustrated) by Charles Dickens Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "CHARLES DICKENS Ultimate Collection" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Novels Oliver Twist The Pickwick Papers Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend The Mystery of Edwin Drood Christmas Novellas A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life The Haunted Man Short Story Collections Sketches by Boz Sketches of Young Gentlemen Sketches of Young Couples Master Humphrey' Clock Reprinted Pieces The Mudfog Papers Pearl-Fishing (First Series) Pearl-Fishing (Second Series) Christmas Stories Other Stories Children's Books Child's Dream of a Star Holiday Romance Stories About Children Every Child Can Read Dickens's Children Plays The Village Coquettes The Strange Gentleman The Lamplighter Is She His Wife Mr. Nightingale's Diary No Thoroughfare The Frozen Deep Poetry The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens Travel Books American Notes Pictures From Italy The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices Other Works Sunday Under Three Heads A Child's History of England Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi The Life of Our Lord The Uncommercial Traveller Contributions to "All The Year Round" Contributions to "The Examiner" Miscellaneous Papers Essays & Articles A Coal Miner's Evidence The Lost Arctic Voyagers Frauds on the Fairies Adelaide Anne Procter In Memoriam W. M. Thackeray Speeches of Charles Dickens: Literary and Social Letters of Charles Dickens Criticism CHARLES DICKENS by G. K. Chesterton DICKENS by Sir Adolphus W. Ward THE LIFE OF CHARLES DICKENS by John Forster MY FATHER AS I RECALL HIM by Mamie Dickens Charles Dickens (1812-1870), an English writer and social critic, created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1600 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015079755644

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Nicholas Tracy
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773575851

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Britannia’s Palette by Nicholas Tracy Pdf

Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815. This band of brothers, through their artistic and entrepreneurial efforts, established the images of the war at sea that were central to the understanding their contemporaries had of events - images that endure to this day. In this unprecedented book, Nicholas Tracy reveals the importance of the self-employed artist to the study of a nation at war. He includes lively accounts of serving officers, retired sailors, and academy-trained artists who, often under the threat of debtor's prison, struggled to balance the standards of art with the public desire for heroic, reassuring images. Containing over eighty illustrations, Britannia's Palette explores a varied and exciting collection of paintings that reveal the poignancy of the human experience of war.

Author : Joanna Trollope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCSC:32106011198089

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Britannias's Daughters by Joanna Trollope Pdf

Author : Gabrielle Eva Marie Zezulka-Mailloux,James Gifford
Publisher : CRC Studio
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Culture
ISBN : 9781551951492

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Culture + the State: Nationalisms by Gabrielle Eva Marie Zezulka-Mailloux,James Gifford Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112364034

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New Statesman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Feminism
ISBN : OSU:32435072411960

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New Books on Women and Feminism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Grant Quertermous
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781647120412

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A Georgetown Life by Grant Quertermous Pdf

An invaluable primary resource for understanding nineteenth-century America. As a Georgetown resident for nearly a century, Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon (1815 – 1911) was close to the key political events of her time. Born into the prominent Peter family, Kennon came into contact with the many notable historical figures of the day who often visited Tudor Place, her home for over ninety years. Now published for the first time, the record of her experiences offers a unique insight into nineteenth-century American history. Housed in the Tudor Place archives, "The Reminiscences of Britannia Wellington Peter Kennon" is a collection of Kennon’s memories solicited and recorded by her grandchildren in the 1890s. The text includes Kennon’s recollections of her mother Martha Custis Peter and spending time at Mount Vernon with her grandparents George and Martha Washington. She also recounts her childhood in Georgetown, life during the Civil War, the people enslaved at Tudor Place, and daily life in Washington, DC. Readers will also find it an essential companion to the incredible collection of objects preserved at Tudor Place. Edited by Grant Quertermous, this richly illustrated and annotated edition gives readers a greater appreciation of life in early Georgetown. It includes a guide to the city's streets then and now, a detailed family tree, and an appendix of the many people Britannia encountered—a who's who of the period. Notable for both its breadth and level of detail, A Georgetown Life brings a new dimension to the study of nineteenth-century America.

Author : Georgiana PEACOCKE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026170287

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Rays from the Southern Cross. [Poems.] ... With Illustrations by ... P. Walsh by Georgiana PEACOCKE Pdf

Author : John Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1817
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : NYPL:33433082304456

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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century by John Nichols Pdf