The Canterbury Sisters

The Canterbury Sisters
Author: Kim Wright
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501100769

Che de Milan "embarks on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral after losing her mother, sharing life lessons--in the best Chaucer tradition--with eight other women along the way"--Amazon.com.

The Canterbury Sisters

The Canterbury Sisters
Author: Kim Wright
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2015-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1501100807

In the vein of Jojo Moyes and Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, a warm and touching novel about a woman who embarks on a pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral after losing her mother, sharing life lessons—in the best Chaucer tradition—with eight other women along the way, from the author of the upcoming novel Last Ride to Graceland. Che Milan’s life is falling apart. Not only has her longtime lover abruptly dumped her, but her eccentric, demanding mother has recently died. When an urn of ashes arrives, along with a note reminding Che of a half-forgotten promise to take her mother to Canterbury, Che finds herself reluctantly undertaking a pilgrimage. Within days she joins a group of women who are walking the sixty miles from London to the shrine of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, reputed to be the site of miracles. In the best Chaucer tradition, the women swap stories as they walk, each vying to see who can best describe true love. Che, who is a perfectionist and workaholic, loses her cell phone at the first stop and is forced to slow down and really notice the world around her, perhaps for the first time in years. Through her adventures along the trail, Che finds herself opening up to new possibilities in life and discovers that the miracles of Canterbury can take surprising forms.

Sisters of Gore

Sisters of Gore
Author: John C. Franceschina
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134820895

The plays collected in Sisters of Gore span the development of Gothic melodrama from the 1790s to the 1840s.

A Foreign and Wicked Institution

A Foreign and Wicked Institution
Author: Rene Kollar
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2011-11-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0227903110

This work explores the prejudice that existed against women in Victorian England who joined sisterhoods and worked in orphanages and in education and were committed to social work among the urban poor. The accomplishments of the nineteenth-century nuns and the opposition they overcame should serve as both an example and encouragement to all men and women committed to the Gospel.

Shaker Textile Arts

Shaker Textile Arts
Author: Beverly Gordon
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1982-07
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780874512427

A comprehensive book on the kinds of textiles the Shakers used, how they were produced, and their cultural and economic importance to the communities.