The Diary Of Elizabeth Lee

Author : Colin Pooley,Siân Pooley,Richard Lawton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789625028

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The Diary of Elizabeth Lee by Colin Pooley,Siân Pooley,Richard Lawton Pdf

Personal diaries provide rare glimpses into those aspects of the past that are usually hidden from view. Elizabeth Lee grew up on Merseyside in the late nineteenth century. She began her diary at the age of 16 in 1884 and it provides an unbroken record of her life up to the age of 25 in 1892. Elizabeth’s father was a draper and outfitter with shops in Birkenhead, and throughout the period of the diary Elizabeth lived at home with her family in Prenton. However, she travelled widely on both sides of the Mersey and her diary provides an unusually revealing picture of middle-class life that begins to challenge conventional views of the position of young women in Victorian society. The book includes a detailed introduction to and analysis of the diary, together with a glossary relating to key people in the diary and maps of the localities in which Elizabeth lived her everyday life. There have been a number of diaries published relating to ‘ordinary’ people, but most accounts were written retrospectively as life histories by people who eventually gained some degree of fame or prominence in society. This very rare first-hand account provides a unique insight into adolescent life in Victorian Britain.

Author : Elizabeth Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English diaries
ISBN : 1846315301

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The Diary of Elizabeth Lee by Elizabeth Lee Pdf

Elizabeth Lee grew up on Merseyside in the late nineteenth century. She began her diary at the age of 16 in 1884 and her diary provides an unbroken record of her life up to the age of 25 in 1892. Elizabeth's father was a draper and outfitter with shops in Birkenhead, and throughout the period of the diary Elizabeth lived at home with her family in Prenton. However, she travelled widely on both sides of the Mersey and her diary provides an unusually revealing picture of middle-class life that begins to challenge conventional views of the position of young women in Victorian society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781846316418

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Liverpool University Press Autumn 2010 Catalogue by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Kirby
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : 9781783276738

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Exhibitions, Music and the British Empire by Sarah Kirby Pdf

"International exhibitions were among the most significant cultural phenomena of the late nineteenth century. These vast events aimed to illustrate, through displays of physical objects, the full spectrum of the world's achievements, from industry and manufacturing, to art and design. But exhibitions were not just visual spaces. Music was ever present, as a fundamental part of these events' sonic landscape, and integral to the visitor experience. This book explores music at international exhibitions held in Australia, India, and the United Kingdom during the 1880s. At these exhibitions, music was codified, ordered, and all-round 'exhibited' in manifold ways. Displays of physical instruments from the past and present were accompanied by performances intended to educate or to entertain, while music was heard at exhibitors' stands, in concert halls, and in the pleasure gardens that surrounded the exhibition buildings. Music was depicted as a symbol of human artistic achievement, or employed for commercial ends. At times it was presented in nationalist terms, at others as a marker of universalism. This book argues, by interrogating the multiple ways that music was used, experienced, and represented, that exhibitions can demonstrate in microcosm many of the broader musical traditions, purposes, arguments, and anxieties of the day. Its nine chapters focus on sociocultural themes, covering issues of race, class, public education, economics, and entertainment in the context of music, trading these through the networks of communication that existed within the British Empire at the time. Combining approaches from reception studies and historical musicology, this book demonstrates how the representation of music at exhibitions drew the press and public into broader debates about music's role in society"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803272987

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Covered Wagon Women: 1864-1868 by Kenneth L. Holmes,David Duniway Pdf

V. 1. The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her little girl before reaching Oregon. Still others make themselves heard, starting out from different places and recording details along the way, from the mundane to the soul-shattering and spirit-lifting.

Author : Colin G. Pooley,Marilyn E. Pooley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031126840

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Everyday Mobilities in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century British Diaries by Colin G. Pooley,Marilyn E. Pooley Pdf

This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the past two centuries to examine and explain the nature and extent of everyday mobilities, such as travel to school, to work, to shop or to visit friends, and to explore the meanings attached to these mobilities. After a critical evaluation of diary writing, the ways in which mobility changed over time, interacted with new forms of transport technology, and varied from place to place are examined. Further chapters focus on the roles of family and life course, gender, income and class, and journey purpose in shaping mobilities, including immobility. It is argued that easy and frequent everyday mobilities were experienced by most of the diarists studied, that travellers could exercise their own agency to adapt easily to new forms of transport technology, but that factors such as gender, class, and location also created significant mobility inequalities.

Author : Simon Sleight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134790043

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Young People and the Shaping of Public Space in Melbourne, 1870-1914 by Simon Sleight Pdf

Baby booms have a long history. In 1870, colonial Melbourne was ’perspiring juvenile humanity’ with an astonishing 42 per cent of the city’s inhabitants aged 14 and under - a demographic anomaly resulting from the gold rushes of the 1850s. Within this context, Simon Sleight enters the heated debate concerning the future prospects of ’Young Australia’ and the place of the colonial child within the incipient Australian nation. Looking beyond those institutional sites so often assessed by historians of childhood, he ranges across the outdoor city to chart the relationship between a discourse about youth, youthful experience and the shaping of new urban spaces. Play, street work, consumerism, courtship, gang-related activities and public parades are examined using a plethora of historical sources to reveal a hitherto hidden layer of city life. Capturing the voices of young people as well as those of their parents, Sleight alerts us to the ways in which young people shaped the emergent metropolis by appropriating space and attempting to impress upon the city their own desires. Here a dynamic youth culture flourished well before the discovery of the ’teenager’ in the mid-twentieth century; here young people and the city grew up together.

Author : Julia Park Tracey
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475939842

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I've Got Some Lovin' to Do by Julia Park Tracey Pdf

It is July of 1925 when, on a whim, fifteen-year-old Doris Bailey decides to keep a diary-a place where she can openly confide her dreams, hopes, and ambitions. Doris is flirtatious, untamed, and romantic, imagining herself in and out of love with each passing day. In this first volume of Th e Doris Diaries, her great-niece, Julia Park Tracey, shares Doris's journals capturing a year in the life of a precocious teenager in the rapidly changing world of the mid-1920s. Doris chats on the telephone and dances to records on the Victrola. Not only does she flirt, kiss, and ride in cars with boys, but she also sneaks out, cuts school, and chops off her hair. While Doris constantly pushes the boundaries of acceptable behavior for a young girl, she retells juicy gossip from St. Helen's Hall, a military academy dance, and an Oregon dude ranch-sharing an unforgettable glimpse into a treasure trove of authentic American life in the Northwest. I've Got Some Lovin' to Do, with commentary, footnotes, and photographs, presents an entertaining portrayal of an American girl brimming with curiosity, a zest for life, and a hunger to experience love for the first time. http: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeuoA73i_nM>

Author : Elizabeth Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:457432677

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Wives of the Prime Ministers (1844-1906), by Elizabeth Lee,... with Contributions by Mrs. C. F. G. Masterman by Elizabeth Lee Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Lee, M.D
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1406864870

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Wives of the Prime Ministers 1844-1906 (Illustrated Edition) by Elizabeth Lee, M.D Pdf

First published in January 1918. The author was the sister of Sir Sidney Lee and under his editorship wrote several biographies for the Dictionary of National Biography in addition to her own works which included books on education, French literature and a biography of the novelist Ouida..

Author : Hugh Amory,David D. Hall
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807868003

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A History of the Book in America by Hugh Amory,David D. Hall Pdf

The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World carries the interrelated stories of publishing, writing, and reading from the beginning of the colonial period in America up to 1790. Three major themes run through the volume: the persisting connections between the book trade in the Old World and the New, evidenced in modes of intellectual and cultural exchange and the dominance of imported, chiefly English books; the gradual emergence of a competitive book trade in which newspapers were the largest form of production; and the institution of a "culture of the Word," organized around an essentially theological understanding of print, authorship, and reading, complemented by other frameworks of meaning that included the culture of republicanism. The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World also traces the histories of literary and learned culture, censorship and "freedom of the press," and literacy and orality. Contributors: Hugh Amory Ross W. Beales, The College of the Holy Cross John Bidwell, Princeton University Library Richard D. Brown, University of Connecticut Charles E. Clark, University of New Hampshire James N. Green, Library Company of Philadelphia David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School Russell L. Martin, Southern Methodist University E. Jennifer Monaghan, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York James Raven, University of Essex Elizabeth Carroll Reilly, Hardwick, Massachusetts A. Gregg Roeber, Pennsylvania State University David S. Shields, University of South Carolina Calhoun Winton, University of Maryland

Author : Henrietta Brady Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Venable family
ISBN : WISC:89062511647

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Some Venables of England and America and Brief Accounts of Families Into which Certain Venables Married by Henrietta Brady Brown Pdf

Thomas Venables (d.1683), possibly an English immigrant, married Sarah Wallis in 1729 in Burlington County, Ohio. Includes other Venables/ Venable immigrants and individuals and some of their descendants. Descendants and relatives lived in New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere. Includes family history and genealogical data in England.

Author : Renee Ting
Publisher : Cinderella
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1885008279

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The Prince's Diary by Renee Ting Pdf

In this version of the Cinderella tale, the Prince tells his side of the story through diary entries.

Author : Lily FrŽmont
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0816514496

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The Arizona Diary of Lily FrŽmont, 1878-1881 by Lily FrŽmont Pdf

Here, in rich detail, her day-by-day narrative and the editor's annotations bring to life Arizona's territorial capital of Prescott more than one hundred years ago. Lily gives us firsthand accounts of the operation of territorial government, of pressure from Anglo settlers to dispossess Pima Indians from their land, and of efforts by the governor and the army to deal with Indian scares. Here also, underlying her words, are insights into the dynamics of a close-knit Victorian family, shaping the life of an intelligent, educated single woman.

Author : Carl Abbott
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015070745073

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Political Terrain by Carl Abbott Pdf

Political Terrain: Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis