[PDF] The Life Of Harriot Stuart Written By Herself Volume 1 Of 2 Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition eBook

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780838635797

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This critical edition of Lennox's novel uses as its copy-text the first, and only known, edition of Harriot Stuart. The notes to the edition try to clarify the text for the modern reader by identifying people, places, and events, and commenting upon the ways in which aspects of the novel reflect or reject mid-eighteenth century social and literary prose.

Author : Charlotte Lennox
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 12,87 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category :
ISBN : 1425048749

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An outstanding novel, it presents the enigmatic vision of self-creation in the eighteenth century. It signifies Charlotte Lennox's self-identification and self-invention as an author through her works focussing on gender and geography. Stimulating!

Author : Harriet Martineau
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2006-12-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1770480749

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Harriet Martineau lived an extraordinary literary life. She became a reviewer and journalist in the 1820s when her family’s fortune collapsed; published a best-selling series, Illustrations of Political Economy (1832-34), that made her fame and fortune by the age of thirty; overcame a hearing disability to become a "literary lion" in London society; toured the United States and wrote two founding texts of sociology based on her experiences; explored north Africa and the Middle East to observe non-European societies; wrote "leaders" (editorials) on slavery for the London Daily News during the American Civil War; and commented publicly on matters of politics, history, and religion in an era when women supposedly maintained their place in the sphere of domesticity. This edition of her Autobiography reproduces the original 1877 text, which Martineau composed in 1855 and had printed in anticipation of her death. It includes illustrations of the author and her homes; excerpts from the "Memorials," added by her editor Maria Chapman; and reviews that praise and critique Martineau's method as an autobiographer and achievement as a Victorian woman of letters.

Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 39,67 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230234540

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XX IN LONDON, AND VOYAGE TO SINGAPORE AMONG the letters preserved and kindly returned to me by Dr. Spruce is one partly written on board ship on my way home, giving an account of my somewhat adventurous voyage while it was fresh in my memory, and containing some details not given in the narrative in my "Travels on the Amazon." I will therefore print it here, as no part of it has yet been made public. "Brig Jordeson, N. Lat. 49 30', W. Long. 20 . "Sunday, September 19, 1852. "my Dear Friend, "Having now some prospect of being home in a week or ten days, I will commence giving you an account of the peculiar circumstances which have already kept me at sea seventy days on a voyage which took us only twenty-nine days on our passage out. I hope you have received the letter sent you from Para, dated July 9 or 10, in which I informed you that I had taken my passage in a vessel bound for London, which was to sail in a few days. On Monday, July 12,1 went on board with all my cargo, and some articles purchased or collected on my way down, with the remnant (about twenty) of my live stock.1 After being at sea about a week I had a slight attack of fever, and at first thought I had got the yellow fever after all. However, a little calomel 1 These consisted of numerous parrots and parrakeets, and several uncommon monkeys, a forest wild-dog, etc. set me right in a few days, but I remained rather weak, and spent most of my time reading in the cabin, which was very comfortable. On Friday, August 6, we were in N. Lat. 30 30', W. Long. 52, when, about nine in the morning, just after breakfast, Captain Turner, who was half-owner of the vessel, came into the cabin, and said, ' I'm afraid the ship's on fire. Come and see what you...