The Master's Daughter

The Master's Daughter
Author: Stanley E E. Willliams
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1683480732

Augustus came from the family of freed slaves who worked for the Panama Canal Project in Barbados. While on their voyage to the area for the project, Gus met Lenny, a fellow recruit for the Panama Canal work. Lenny and Gus became very good friends that they promised each other to take care of their respective finances and savings when one of them meets life’s end due to the danger posed by their work. Dr. Peter Grant and his family moved to St. Vincent in the Caribbean, from Scotland and started a sugarcane plantation. The Caribbean was the perfect place for her sick wife’s condition. Their daughter, Elizabeth, meets Gus while he was running errands for his father. The two young individuals start to kindle an affair that will create a rift between Elizabeth and her family. Will Elizabeth and Gus’s love prosper against all odds? A story about friendship, family, sacrifice, and love, The Master’s Daughter will take you on a journey that will want you to read more.

The Schoolmaster's Daughter

The Schoolmaster's Daughter
Author: Jackie French
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1460711394

Drawing on her own family history, this is a story from Jackie French about education in Colonial Australia - and how women once had to fight for their right to it. January 1901 Sharks circle a stranded ship as a young girl and her family stagger from the waves ... Rescued by a Pacific Islander boy named Jamie, Hannah's family begin a new life in Port Harris, which at first seems a paradise for the schoolmaster's daughter. But local fortunes are built on slavery and the whip. As the new Federal Parliament passes the law that will force Pacific Islanders from their homes, Hannah and her mother risk everything to run a secret school, while Hannah and Jamie must fight for their rights to education and equality. Can friendship and love win against prejudice and power? Inspired by real events, this powerful new novel brings to life the bravery and battles of the past, and gives us courage for the challenges of today. AWARDS Longlisted - Book Links Children's Historical Fiction Award

Lessons of the Masters

Lessons of the Masters
Author: George Steiner
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2013-04-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1480411876

DIVA thought-provoking examination of the complex teacher-student relationship, from one of the great minds of the modern literary world Based on George Steiner’s extensive experience as a teacher, Lessons of the Masters is a passionate examination of the “profession of the professor.” He writes about what empowers one person to teach another, and explores the complexities and nuances of this bond. From the charismatic master to the loving disciple, Steiner explores the religious, philosophical, economic, and scientific aspects of imparting knowledge, drawing upon history’s most famous teachers: Socrates, Jesus, Faust, Virgil, Dante, Heloise, and Abelard./div

The Witch's Daughter

The Witch's Daughter
Author: Paula Brackston
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2011-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429989858

My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, and my age is three hundred and eighty-four years. Each new settlement asks for a new journal, and so this Book of Shadows begins... In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save her from the same fate at the hands of the panicked mob: the Warlock Gideon Masters, and his Book of Shadows. Secluded at his cottage in the woods, Gideon instructs Bess in the Craft, awakening formidable powers she didn't know she had and making her immortal. She couldn't have foreseen that even now, centuries later, he would be hunting her across time, determined to claim payment for saving her life. In present-day England, Elizabeth has built a quiet life for herself, tending her garden and selling herbs and oils at the local farmers' market. But her solitude abruptly ends when a teenage girl called Tegan starts hanging around. Against her better judgment, Elizabeth begins teaching Tegan the ways of the Hedge Witch, in the process awakening memories--and demons--long thought forgotten. Part historical romance, part modern fantasy, Paula Brackston's New York Times bestseller, The Witch's Daughter, is a fresh, compelling take on the magical, yet dangerous world of Witches. Readers will long remember the fiercely independent heroine who survives plagues, wars, and the heartbreak that comes with immortality to remain true to herself, and protect the protégé she comes to love.

The Masters of London

The Masters of London
Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge, William Harrison Ainsworth, Petya Lehmann
Publisher: Auroralit Edition
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9783942676021

In early 16th century, life in the City of London was very different for the citizens and the royal household. The first novel is picturing citizen life in London in the early Tudor days. It is the story of the orphan-brothers Stephen and Ambrose, who must find their way in life at a very young age. Differently talented, they apprentice themselves each to an armourer and to a printer. The life of the citizens outside of the royal court is well regulated, but dependant of the court and the nobles and their pleasure. The brothers have to experience the Ill May Day as hundreds of young apprentices in London were involved in a terrible outrage against foreigners, living in London. The Aldermen of the City are helpless against the nobles in their effort to rescue their own sons from the scaffold, but for the intervention of Henry VIII … In the second novel, the life of the household of Henry VIII is presented in the period between 1529 and 1536 in Windsor Castle. A ghost-mystery is interwoven into the historical plot, covering the legend of Herne the Hunter. It is the time during Henry’s first divorce from Catherine of Aragon, his marriage to Anne Boleyn and her execution. Many of the historical figures of the time appear in a good portrayal of every-day-life in a gigantic and formidable castle.

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Author: Great Britain. Committee on Education
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1134
Release: 1852
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The Prospect Before Her

The Prospect Before Her
Author: Olwen Hufton
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 673
Release: 2011-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0307791947

Already hailed by English critics as "one of the most important works of history to be published since the Second World War, " Olwen Hufton's fascinating and brilliantly learned study begins, in this first of two volumes, with a wide ranging exploration of women's fate in Western Europe from medieval times to the early modern age. of illustrations.