Letters To Lelia

Author : Francis Rosenfeld
Publisher : Francis Rosenfeld
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781512171020

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Letters to Lelia by Francis Rosenfeld Pdf

"Never forget, my dear child, that life is made of days, and no matter how many days you were gifted with, you should strive to enjoy every single one of them. When you have given your love and attention to your family and friends, it will still be overflowing, so pay attention to the ideals you care about, to the people whose needs call out to you, to the human race, to the universe itself. Energy spent in activities that don't touch your soul is wasted, and those activities will drag along for a while, only to be abandoned when the first justification presents itself. When you put your heart into something you love however, not a single obstacle can ever stand against it. It may not always be easy, but you can't let go of it, because it is a part of who you are, your purpose." Letters to Lelia - Chapter Twenty Four: Love. Always.

Author : Janet Newman
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780870209888

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Letters from Clara by Janet Newman Pdf

A unique collection of letters from a member of the YWCA on her first world tour in the 1930s, Letters from Clara tells one woman’s story of adventure and danger on the eve of World War II. Despite limited financial means, Clara Pagel was richly resourceful and used the YWCA network to find work and places to live in the Far East, along the way meeting other women also working their way around the world. As Clara described in letters to her YWCA friends back home, her sojourn was filled with museums and world-famous landmarks, as well as typhoons, bombings, and earthquakes. These experiences are described in over one hundred pages of letters, annotated throughout by Janet Newman. Upon Clara’s return to the United States in 1939, she enrolled at the University of Chicago and earned an MBA at the age of forty-six. This is the story of a remarkable woman on an unexpected but fulfilling journey to learn about the world and herself.

Author : Pamela Newkirk
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780807001158

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Letters from Black America by Pamela Newkirk Pdf

The first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the spectrum of African American experience in the most intimate way possible—through the heartfelt correspondence of those who lived through monumental changes and pivotal events, from the American Revolution to the war in Iraq, from slavery to the election of Obama.

Author : Thomas D'Urfey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1682
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11716341

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The Injured Princess, Or The Fatal VVager by Thomas D'Urfey Pdf

Author : Eva Schandevyl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134775064

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Women in Law and Lawmaking in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe by Eva Schandevyl Pdf

Exploring the relationship between gender and law in Europe from the nineteenth century to present, this collection examines the recent feminisation of justice, its historical beginnings and the impact of gendered constructions on jurisprudence. It looks at what influenced the breakthrough of women in the judicial world and what gender factors determine the position of women at the various levels of the legal system. Every chapter in this book addresses these issues either from the point of view of women's legal history, or from that of gendered legal cultures. With contributions from scholars with expertise in the major regions of Europe, this book demonstrates a commitment to a methodological framework that is sensitive to the intersection of gender theory, legal studies and public policy, and that is based on historical methodologies. As such the collection offers a valuable contribution both to women's history research, and the wider development of European legal history.

Author : Deema Kaneff
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1845452984

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Who Owns the Past? by Deema Kaneff Pdf

Post-socialist development in Bulgaria has led to fundamental changes in social life and political relations and threatened village identity. This study underlinessome of the fundamental processes at work across eastern Europe that explain the widespread ambiguity in regard to post-socialist reform.

Author : Michael Bloch
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781405517072

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Wallis and Edward, Letters: 1931-37 by Michael Bloch Pdf

Michael Bloch's edition of the intimate correspondence of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, from the moment they met in 1931 up to their marriage in 1937, also containing Wallis Simpson's diary of their affair in form of her weekly letters to her aunt in Washington, was a sensational bestseller when it first appeared just after the Duchess's death, shedding as it does a wealth of fascinating new light on 'the greatest love story of the century' and the mysteries of King Edward's abdication.

Author : Phillip E. Lewis
Publisher : Hogarth Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Appalachian Mountains
ISBN : 9780451495648

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The Barrowfields by Phillip E. Lewis Pdf

"Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father -- outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow -- reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town in which he was raised and installs his young family in an immense house of iron and glass perched high on the side of a mountain. There, Henry grows up under the writing desk of this fiercely brilliant man. But when tragedy tips his father toward a fearsome unraveling, what was once a young son's reverence is poisoned and Henry flees, not to return until years later when he, too, must go home again" --

Author : Maria Rubins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137508010

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Russian Montparnasse by Maria Rubins Pdf

This book reassesses the role of Russian Montparnasse writers in the articulation of transnational modernism generated by exile. Examining their production from a comparative perspective, it demonstrates that their response to urban modernity transcended the Russian master narrative and resonated with broader aesthetic trends in interwar Europe.

Author : Fred Hobson
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0807130974

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The Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays by Fred Hobson Pdf

Perhaps the preeminent contemporary scholar of southern letters, Fred Hobson is adept at cutting through the many myths and self-illusions spun about the South and exposing a far more intriguing reality. In his inaugural collection of essays, Hobson offers both an astute and deeply personal take on American and southern life. He touches on history, literature, religion, family, race, and sports as he ponders various famous and obscure biographical and autobiographical figures. Rife with stimulating writing and thought, The Silencing of Emily Mullen informs, moves, and entertains all at once. Hobson's own great-grandmother inspires the title essay, in which he investigates the whispered family rumor that Emily Mullen Gregory committed suicide by jumping down a well in the late nineteenth century. Besides the facts of Mullen's death, Hobson inquires into the plight of southern middle-class women's lives generally in that era. A happier female relative animates another absorbing chapter: Hobson's great aunt who left the benighted South with the intent of bringing enlightenment to China as a missionary and teacher from 1909 to 1941, and who became both friend and critic of Madame Chiang Kai-shek. Ruminative appraisals of H. L. Mencken, W. J. Cash, progressive journalist Gerald W. Johnson, social critic James McBride Dabbs, man of letters Louis D. Rubin, Jr., African American author Mary Mebane, novelist Richard Ford, and twentieth-century southern literature add incrementally to the collection's overall intellectual pleasures. Hobson's concluding three pieces take a more intimate turn. He reflects on his connection to the hills of North Carolina, the impact the book The Mind of the South had on him, and the love of college basketball he shared with his father. The Silencing of Emily Mullen captures both the richness and deficiencies of the South within the American society at large. It is a book that makes for exceptionally rewarding and enjoyable reading.

Author : Laura Giannetti
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802099518

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Lelia's Kiss by Laura Giannetti Pdf

In Lelia's Kiss, Laura Giannetti offers a new perspective on the way gender and marriage were portrayed, imagined, and critiqued on stage during the Italian Renaissance. Going beyond the traditional canon, Giannetti focuses her study on the social and cultural scripts found in a wide array of comedies of the period to reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles and their cultural construction in Renaissance society. Giannetti argues that the comedic dialogue and cross-dressing characters so prevalent in Italian Renaissance comedies played with the presuppositions of the day and engaged with contemporary social norms, expectations, and desires. Cross-dressing female characters reveal the relativity of sex and gender roles, and also present a vision of female empowerment. At the same time, cross-dressing male characters suggest a unique perception of the male life cycle that was more uncertain and contested than often assumed, and show more broadly how masculinity was also socially and culturally constructed. In discussing marriage, sexuality, and gender roles, the comedies deploy a social scripting that not only reflects and comments on the everyday life of the time, but also interacts with it with playful humor and revealing insight.

Author : Joseph Rosenblum
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 3141 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9798216072836

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The Definitive Shakespeare Companion [4 volumes] by Joseph Rosenblum Pdf

This expansive four-volume work gives students detailed explanations of Shakespeare's plays and poems and also covers his age, life, theater, texts, and language. Numerous excerpts from primary source historical documents contextualize his works, while reviews of productions chronicle his performance history and reception. Shakespeare's works often served to convey simple truths, but they are also complex, multilayered masterpieces. Shakespeare drew on varied sources to create his plays, and while the plays are sometimes set in worlds before the Elizabethan age, they nonetheless parallel and comment on situations in his own era. Written with the needs of students in mind, this four-volume set demystifies Shakespeare for today's readers and provides the necessary perspective and analysis students need to better appreciate the genius of his work. This indispensable ready reference examines Shakespeare's plots, language, and themes; his use of sources and exploration of issues important to his age; the interpretation of his works through productions from the Renaissance to the present; and the critical reaction to key questions concerning his writings. The book provides coverage of each key play and poems in discrete sections, with each section presenting summaries; discussions of themes, characters, language, and imagery; and clear explications of key passages. Readers will be able to inspect historical documents related to the topics explored in the work being discussed and view excerpts from Shakespeare's sources as well as reviews of major productions. The work also provides a comprehensive list of print and electronic resources suitable for student research.

Author : Harold George Scott
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Ballerinas
ISBN : 1455607274

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Lelia by Harold George Scott Pdf

Harold George Scott captures the most memorable moments of Lelia Haller�s career with lavish illustrations and photographs. A pictorial biography of one of the twentieth century�s most notable ballerinas, Lelia documents the career of the only American honored as premi�re danseuse of the Paris Op�ra. Lelia�s experience in the world of dance takes her from beginnings in New Orleans to Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, England, and back to New Orleans, where she opened Studio de Danse. On these travels, she danced alongside other great dancers--such as Italian ballerina, Carlotta Zambelli--and trained under Russian ballet master, Nicolas Legat.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Classic Books Company
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780742652941

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Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Pdf

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: * Authoritative, reliable texts * High quality introductions and notes * New, more readable trade trim size * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts

Author : Horace Howard Furness
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382109738

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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare by Horace Howard Furness Pdf

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.