Flemington

Flemington
Author: Violet Jacob
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1911
Genre:
ISBN:

Flemington

Flemington
Author: Violet Jacob
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2024-01-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9361425994

The book “Flemington” is a historical novel written by Violet Jacob. The story of the book is about the Jacobite rising of 1715 in Scotland and continues to follow the lives of Grahams and describes the struggles they faced during the raging in Scottish history. The main protagonist of whole story is Elspeth Blair, a young woman who find herself in dilemma between her love Robin Graeme and her significant duty to her family. During the Jacobite rebellion, she got entangled in political and personal conflicts. The book spots the light on various themes like honour, loyalty and hazardous consequences of political interference. Through vivid description and point to pint details of historical views, the author comprehensively describes tumultuous period of Scottish history. Also readers will connect with the crossfire of political strife. Overall the book is a compelling historical novel that’s takes readers in to intimating era market full of conflicts and passion. The book has put lots of efforts to keep readers into end of their seat till it needs.

Clinton, Flemington, and Lambertville

Clinton, Flemington, and Lambertville
Author:
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2003-07-30
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 143961198X

The rich heritage of descendants of English, Dutch, and German settlers in the Hunterdon County population centers of Clinton, Flemington, and Lambertville is presented here. Life among the rolling hills of northwest New Jersey and in the three small towns that became centers of that area's population has been faithfully recorded by residents since the Civil War, capturing the rural character of their landscape.

Flemington And Tales From Angus

Flemington And Tales From Angus
Author: Violet Jacob
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 559
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1847675425

Edited and introduced by Carol Anderson. ‘I think it is the best Scots romance since The Master of Ballantrae,’ said John Buchan when Flemington was first published in 1911. Violet Jacob’s fifth and finest novel is a tragic drama of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, tightly written, poetic in its symbolic intensity, lit by flashes of humour and informed by the author’s own family history as one of the Erskines of the House of Dun near Montrose. Drawn back to these roots in her later years, Violet Jacob also wrote many unforgettable short stories about the people, the landscapes and the language of the North-east. In this volume fourteen of these stories are re-collected and re-edited as Tales from Angus.

Fashion and Flemington

Fashion and Flemington
Author: Emily Power
Publisher:
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2012
Genre: Fashion
ISBN: 9781921778599

To coincide with the 50th anniversary of Myer Fashions on the Field, this beautiful book celebrates the unique and long established link between the Melbourne Cup Carnival and style, exploring the fun and flamboyancy of fashion at Flemington over the years. Covering the designers and milliners who have shaped today's racewear, to the winners of Myer Fashions on the Field, as well as Jean Shrimpton and her white mini dress and the celebrities and royalty who have graced Flemington's famous lawns. Essays - interspersed with stunning photography - include: The all-inclusive nature of fashion at Flemington, an exciting forum where global runway trends are interpreted. A foreword by iconic hat designer Philip Treacy OBE and fashion designer Leona Edmiston. The history of Fashions on the Field, from the VRC's launch of a fashion contest in 1962 to the present-day national competition, plus a look at global raceday fashion events.

Official Record of the Centennial International Exhibition Melbourne

Official Record of the Centennial International Exhibition Melbourne
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1182
Release: 1890
Genre: Centennial International Exhibition
ISBN:

also records of the manner in which the work of the different sections of of the exhibition was carried out, the official awards of the executive commisioners, the catalogue of exhibits, together with sundry illustrations.

Heartland

Heartland
Author: Sarah Smarsh
Publisher: Scribner
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501133101

*Finalist for the National Book Award* *Finalist for the Kirkus Prize* *Instant New York Times Bestseller* *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly* An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways in which class shapes our country and “a deeply humane memoir that crackles with clarifying insight”.* Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side, and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side. Through her experiences growing up on a farm thirty miles west of Wichita, we are given a unique and essential look into the lives of poor and working class Americans living in the heartland. During Sarah’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, she enjoyed the freedom of a country childhood, but observed the painful challenges of the poverty around her; untreated medical conditions for lack of insurance or consistent care, unsafe job conditions, abusive relationships, and limited resources and information that would provide for the upward mobility that is the American Dream. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves with clarity and precision but without judgement, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country. Beautifully written, in a distinctive voice, Heartland combines personal narrative with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, challenging the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. “Heartland is one of a growing number of important works—including Matthew Desmond’s Evicted and Amy Goldstein’s Janesville—that together merit their own section in nonfiction aisles across the country: America’s postindustrial decline...Smarsh shows how the false promise of the ‘American dream’ was used to subjugate the poor. It’s a powerful mantra” *(The New York Times Book Review).