Scandal And Survival In Nineteenth Century Scotland

Author : Frances B. Singh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580469555

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Scandal and Survival in Nineteenth-Century Scotland by Frances B. Singh Pdf

"Her Scottish father put her in an institution in Calcutta when she was small. Guilt made her Highland gentry grandfather send for her, but he considered her an encumbrance and boarded her in Elgin. When she was an adolescent, her grandmother enrolled her in an Edinburgh boarding school where she developed a crush on one teacher and received harsh rebukes from the other. Brushed off by the former and chastised by the latter, she retaliated by alleging that they were sexually intimate. The teachers sued for libel; in the case that ensued, she was seen through sexist and racist lenses, constructed as an Other. While the case was still going on, she was married to a Presbyterian minister. If the idea was that he would tame her and make her conformable as other household Janes, the plan failed. He turned out to be a womanizer and Jane took revenge on him by reporting his unchaste behavior to his fellow ministers. Later she made a laughingstock of him by joining another church. Posthumously, she became a mean show-stopping character in a play by Lillian Hellman. Such was the life of Jane Cumming, the biracial woman whose recovered story is the subject of this biography. Spanning three continents and more than two centuries and based on archival research, this offers a sympathetic portrait of the protagonist, seeing her as a resilient figure who, when threatened by figures of authority, took arms against her sea of troubles so as to oppose and end them"--

Author : Kevin L. Cope,Samara Anne Cahill
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781684484102

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1650-1850 by Kevin L. Cope,Samara Anne Cahill Pdf

1650-1850 combines fresh considerations of prominent authors and artists with searches for overlooked or offbeat elements of the Enlightenment legacy. Volume 27 expands around a landmark special feature on worlds and worldmaking--on the imagining of new, exotic, unexplored, ideal, and utopian worlds ranging from south sea islands to polar utopias to zones of intercultural encounter to the conjectural territories of interpretive cartography. Enlivening the volume is a cavalcade of full-length book reviews.

Author : Catherine Lee
Publisher : John Catt
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781915361998

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Pretended: Schools and Section 28 by Catherine Lee Pdf

Pretended is a vivid historical, political and cultural account of schools and teaching under Section 28, a law that banned schools in the UK from promoting homosexuality as a 'pretended family relationship'. Catherine Lee was a teacher in schools for each of the 15 years that Section 28 was law (between 1988 and 2003). In Pretended, she considers the landscape for lesbian and gay teachers leading up to, during and after Section 28. Drawing on her diary entries from the Section 28 era, Lee poignantly recalls the challenges and incidents affecting her and thousands of other teachers during this period of state-sanctioned homophobia. She reveals how these diaries led to her involvement in the 2022 feature film Blue Jean, and describes how this unexpected opportunity helped her to make peace with Section 28. Pretended will resonate with every lesbian and gay teacher who experienced Section 28 and will shock those who previously knew nothing about this law. Crucially, Pretended will explain to those who were lesbian and gay students during Section 28 why they never saw people like them in the curriculum, never had a role model and never had an adult in school to talk to about their identity.

Author : Stephen Turton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009008488

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Before the Word Was Queer by Stephen Turton Pdf

Bringing together research from queer linguistics and lexicography, this book uncovers how same-sex acts, desires, and identities have been represented in English dictionaries published in Britain from the early modern to the inter-war period. Moving across time – from the appearance of the first standalone English dictionary to the completion of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary – and shuttling across genres – from general usage, hard words, thieves' cant, and slang to law, medicine, classical myth, women's biography, and etymology – it asks how dictionary-writers made sense of same-sex intimacy, and how they failed or refused to make sense of it. It also queries how readers interacted with dictionaries' constructions of sexual morality, against the broader backdrop of changing legal, religious, and scientific institutions. In answering these questions, the book responds and contributes to established traditions and new trends in linguistics, queer theory, literary criticism, and the history of sexuality.

Author : JOHN. KELLIE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1911043064

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HANGED UNTIL DEAD by JOHN. KELLIE Pdf

Author : William Donaldson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015051640228

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Popular Literature in Victorian Scotland by William Donaldson Pdf

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0748604774

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The Three Perils of Woman, Or, Love, Leasing, and Jealousy by James Hogg Pdf

The Three Perils of Woman is essentially a combination of two stories on similar themes, one set in the Highlands following the Battle of Culloden and the other in Hogg's Edinburgh. Daring in its narrative technique, its first readers were confused by the novel's juxtaposition of the comic and the horrific as Hogg explored the relationship between fictional life, as portrayed in, say, the works of Walter Scott, and the realities of nineteenth-century Scotland. Daring in its subject matter, they were also shocked by its treatment of such delicate matters as prostitution and venereal disease. Last printed in any form in the 1820s, this new edition reveals the exceptional quality of The Three Perils of Woman and puts it squarely back into the mainstream of Scottish literature.

Author : Henry Maccormac
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022776010

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The Scottish Minister; Or, the Eviction [By H. Maccormac] by Henry Maccormac Pdf

This thrilling novel tells the story of a young minister in Scotland who sets out to defend his parishioners from the unjust eviction by a local landlord. The story is full of suspense, romance, and intrigue, and sheds light on the social and political injustices of nineteenth-century Scotland. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in history, social justice, or Scottish literature. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Edward J. Cowan
Publisher : John Donald
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049666863

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The Ballad in Scottish History by Edward J. Cowan Pdf

This collection aims to investigate the value of the Scottish ballads for historians of the period from the middle ages to the early 20th century. The role played by collectors such as Ramsay, Burns, Scott and Hogg is surveyed as are such themes as contemporaneity, fairy belief, the Border Ballads, 19th-century protest ballads and the songs of the 20th-century travelling fraternity.

Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0719065925

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Myth and Materiality in a Woman's World by Lynn Abrams Pdf

For over the past two centuries Shetland, Scotland was a place where women dominated the family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women constructed in their minds an identity of themselves as "liberated" long before organized feminism was invented. Reconstructing this "woman's world" from written and oral sources, this book will appeal to scholars in the fields of social and cultural history, social anthropology, gender and women's studies.

Author : Martin Daunton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135363802

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Charity, Self-Interest And Welfare In Britain by Martin Daunton Pdf

First published in 1996. These essays present a statement on the long-term development of welfare policy in Britain. Relating to current issues such as the cost of pensions, this work examines provisions for the poor, infirm and aged over four centuries of British history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015079635226

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Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Timothy Wilson
Publisher : British Museum Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Majolica, Italian
ISBN : UOM:39015029898783

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Italian Renaissance Pottery by Timothy Wilson Pdf

Author : Tanya Cheadle
Publisher : Gender in History
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1526125250

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Sexual Progressives by Tanya Cheadle Pdf

Sexual Progressives is a major new study of the feminists and socialists who campaigned against the moral conservatism of Victorian Scotland. Drawing on a range of sources, from letters and diaries to radical newspapers and utopian novels, its arguments disrupt current understandings of progressive thought and behaviour in fin de siecle Britain.

Author : Michael Wyness
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781137514851

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Childhood and Society by Michael Wyness Pdf

The new edition of this established core textbook continues to give an insightful, authoritative and accessible overview of competing theoretical positions on the sociological study of childhood. The book explores the ways these theories inform key themes, including education, work, identity and agency. The study of childhood has taken on an increasingly global focus in recent years, honing in on how issues of rights, protection and development shape the lives of children and those around them at political, social and institutional levels across the world. As a result, this book guides students through the theories and research on childhood in both local and global contexts. Author Michael Wyness clearly illustrates how a study of childhood can inform sociological thinking on social crises, changes and problems such as globalisation, criminality and disruption of the social order. Written for students exploring childhood from a sociological perspective, this is the essential introduction to the topic. New to this Edition: - A broadened global focus throughout every chapter, including more on the developing world. - A revised chapter on researching children and childhood. - An updated critical appraisal of children's rights, as well as new data on child protection and schooling. - The introduction of new key readings and 'Academic Insights' boxes that explore research on important topics in more detail.