Author : Mrs. B. A. Pierson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Female friendship
ISBN : OCLC:951220443
Lillian
Mrs. B. A. Pierson
Lillian The Battle Of Life
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Lillian, Or, The Battle of Life
Mrs. B. A. Pierson
Author : Mrs. B. A. Pierson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : American fiction
ISBN : OSU:32435017931049
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Lillian, Or the Battle of Life (Classic Reprint)
Mrs. B. A. Pierson
Author : Mrs. B. A. Pierson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0428384536
Lillian, Or the Battle of Life (Classic Reprint) by Mrs. B. A. Pierson Pdf
Excerpt from Lillian, or the Battle of Life A tall and stately man approached. The bouquet was taken from its concealment and held up to his gaze Please buy, sir? Not even a pleasant word or glance rewarded her. Tears gathered in her eyes, but she wiped them away - young, yet learning the world's first and great lesson, concealment. Poor little Lillian, she could not imagine the unhappy domestic scene in the dwelling of that proud and wealthy aristo crat - once, he would have bought those truly beautiful flowers for his bride - now, she was only an unloved wife, brilliant in society and admired by others, but holding no place in his heart. A group of laughing school girls approached. Oh! They all exclaimed what charming flowers! Come here, let us see them. Obeying the mandate, she drew near. Bouquet after bouquet was examined, then thrown carelessly, even rudely, down, and Lillian dared not expostulate, hoping still that they would take one or all. I will have this, said a tall, rude girl, with a wicked twinkle in her eye, and pay you to-morrow, sis! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Life and Lillian Gish (Illustrations)
Albert Bigelow Paine
Author : Albert Bigelow Paine
Publisher : THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Actresses
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Life and Lillian Gish (Illustrations) by Albert Bigelow Paine Pdf
Lillian Diana Gish was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 in silent film shorts to 1987. Gish was called the First Lady of American Cinema, and she is credited with pioneering fundamental film performing techniques. Gish was a prominent film star of the 1910s and 1920s, particularly associated with the films of director D. W. Griffith, including her leading role in the highest-grossing film of the silent era, Griffith's seminal The Birth of a Nation (1915). At the dawn of the sound era, she returned to the stage and appeared in film infrequently, including well-known roles in the controversial western Duel in the Sun (1946) and the offbeat thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955). She also did considerable television work from the early 1950s into the 1980s and closed her career playing opposite Bette Davis in the 1987 film The Whales of August. In her later years Gish became a dedicated advocate for the appreciation and preservation of silent film. Gish is widely considered to be the greatest actress of the silent era, and one of the greatest actresses in cinema history. Despite being better known for her film work, Gish was also an accomplished stage actress, and she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1972.
Enchantment the Art and Life of Lilian Westcott Hale
Diane Elizabeth Kelleher
Author : Diane Elizabeth Kelleher
Publisher : Author House
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781491816165
Enchantment the Art and Life of Lilian Westcott Hale by Diane Elizabeth Kelleher Pdf
As the title suggests, this book concerns the art and life of the world's only "American Linear Impressionist", Lilian Westcott Hale. Born in Connecticut in 1881, Hale was educated primarily at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and lived for many years in nearby Dedham, moving to Charlottesville, Virginia after the death of her beloved educator, art critic, author, and painter husband, Philip Leslie Hale. A woman, Hale far outpaced the success of many men, including her husband. During her early decades of activity, Hale garnered innumerable naational awards, accolades, and prizes, and international acclaim for her oil portraits of children, women in interiors, and charcoal sketches of snowy landscpes, all created in an Impressionist style utilizing only vertical strokes. Hale was the originator and sole practitioner of a technique which paradoxically used line in an Impressionist manner. While her classic art fell out of favor during the Modernist 1940s and later, it is now once again very much in vogue. My relationship with the artist's only child, her daughter, Nancy, was of immeasurable assistance in the production of this book. Diane Elizabeth Kelleher Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 2013.
The Sublime Tragedy of the Lost Cause
A. St. J. Pickett
Author : A. St. J. Pickett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : History
ISBN : NYPL:33433082296074
The Sublime Tragedy of the Lost Cause by A. St. J. Pickett Pdf
The Sublime Tragedy of the Lost Cause by A. St. J Pickett, first published in 1884, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.
Lillian on Life
Alison Jean Lester
Author : Alison Jean Lester
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698152656
Lillian on Life by Alison Jean Lester Pdf
"I absolutely loved Lillian on Life." —Kate Atkinson "I found it full of life and full of wisdom.” —Erica Jong Smart, poignant, funny, and totally original, Lillian on Life is as fresh and surprising as fiction gets. This is the story of Lillian, a single woman reflecting on her choices and imagining her future. Born in the Midwest in the 1930s; Lillian lives, loves, and works in Europe in the fifties and early sixties; she settles in New York and pursues the great love of her life in the sixties and seventies. Now it’s the early nineties, and she’s taking stock. Throughout her life, walking the unpaved road between traditional and modern choices for women, Lillian grapples with parental disappointment and societal expectations, wins and loses in love, and develops her own brand of wisdom. Lillian on Life lifts the skin off the beautiful, stylish product of an era to reveal the confused, hot-blooded woman underneath.
A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses
George A. Katchmer
Author : George A. Katchmer
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476609058
A Biographical Dictionary of Silent Film Western Actors and Actresses by George A. Katchmer Pdf
Long before sound became an essential part of motion pictures, Westerns were an established genre. The men and women who brought to life cowboys, cowgirls, villains, sidekicks, distressed damsels and outraged townspeople often continued with their film careers, finding success and fame well into the sound era--always knowing that it was in silent Westerns that their careers began. More than a thousand of these once-silent Western players are featured in this fully indexed encyclopedic work. Each entry includes a detailed biography, covering both personal and professional milestones and a complete Western filmography. A foreword is supplied by Diana Serra Cary (formerly the child star "Baby Peggy"), who performed with many of the actors herein.
Healing from Heaven
Lilian B. Yeomans
Author : Lilian B. Yeomans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Spiritual healing
ISBN : 0882437305
Healing from Heaven by Lilian B. Yeomans Pdf
Yeomans was a medical doctor addicted to morphine. This book tells of her desperate search to break free and the answer she finally found: God.
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : American literature
ISBN : UVA:X004795652
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part by Anonim Pdf
The Gay Revolution
Lillian Faderman
Author : Lillian Faderman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781451694123
The Gay Revolution by Lillian Faderman Pdf
A chronicle of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian and transgender rights draws on interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists and members of the LGBT community to document the cause's struggles since the 1950s.
Lillian's Story
Sally Patricia Gardner
Author : Sally Patricia Gardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Domestic fiction
ISBN : 0750527978
Lillian's Story by Sally Patricia Gardner Pdf
Lillian's life spans the 20th century. Born in Suffolk in 1900, in service at the age of twelve, her life is greatly changed by the First World War, and even more by World War Two. These experiences colour the rest of her long life. The Great Depression, post-war austerity, the assassination of Kennedy, Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon, the miners' strike and the death of Princess Diana are amongst the cultural and political events of this turbulent century which are recorded through their effect on the lives of Lillian and her beloved family.
Soviet Life
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1989-05
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : MINN:31951D011832005
Soviet Life by Anonim Pdf
Life Is a Gift
Esther Portalatin
Author : Esther Portalatin
Publisher : Certa Publishing
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780990945727
Life Is a Gift by Esther Portalatin Pdf
Life is a Gift, is a story about a young girl's faith in the midst of very troubled times. After being involved in a serious accident the struggles of wanting to live become alive, even as her world quickly becomes dark. No one but God can work the miracles that Skye prays for. Will her life change forever? Or will she stand firm believing that God works all things for good to those who love him?
My Mother's Wars
Lillian Faderman
Author : Lillian Faderman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807050538
My Mother's Wars by Lillian Faderman Pdf
An acclaimed writer on her mother’s tumultuous life as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York and her life-long guilt when the Holocaust claims the family she left behind in Latvia A story of love, war, and life as a Jewish immigrant in the squalid factories and lively dance halls of New York’s Garment District in the 1930s, My Mother’s Wars is the memoir Lillian Faderman’s mother was never able to write. The daughter delves into her mother’s past to tell the story of a Latvian girl who left her village for America with dreams of a life on the stage and encountered the realities of her new world: the battles she was forced to fight as a woman, an immigrant worker, and a Jew with family left behind in Hitler’s deadly path. The story begins in 1914: Mary, the girl who will become Lillian Faderman’s mother, just seventeen and swept up with vague ambitions to be a dancer, travels alone to America, where her half-sister in Brooklyn takes her in. She finds a job in the garment industry and a shop friend who teaches her the thrills of dance halls and the cheap amusements open to working-class girls. This dazzling life leaves Mary distracted and her half-sister and brother-in-law scandalized that she has become a “good-time gal.” They kick her out of their home, an event with consequences Mary will regret for the rest of her life. Eighteen years later, still barely scraping by as a garment worker and unmarried at thirty-five, Mary falls madly in love and has a torrid romance with a man who will never marry her, but who will father Lillian Faderman before he disappears from their lives. America is in the midst of the Depression, Hitler is coming to power in Europe, and New York’s garment workers are just beginning to unionize. Mary makes tentative steps to join, despite her lover’s angry opposition. As National Socialism engulfs Europe, Mary realizes she must find a way to get her family out of Latvia, and she spends frenetic months chasing vague promises and false rumors of hope. Pregnant again, after having submitted to two wrenching back-room abortions, and still unmarried, Mary faces both single motherhood and the devastating possibility of losing her entire Eastern European family. Drawing on family stories and documents, as well as her own tireless research, Lillian Faderman has reconstructed an engrossing and essential chapter in the history of women, of workers, of Jews, and of the Holocaust as immigrants experienced it from American shores.