Into the Breeches!

Into the Breeches!
Author: GEORGE BRANT
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
Total Pages: 94
Release: 2020-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780573708275

Oberon Play House's director and leading men are off at war with the Axis. Determined to press on, the director's wife sets out to produce an all-female version of Shakespeare's Henriad, assembling an increasingly unexpected team united in desire, if not actual theatre experience. Together they deliver a delightful celebration of collaboration and persistence when the show must go on!

The Struggle for the Breeches

The Struggle for the Breeches
Author: Anna Clark
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1997-04-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780520208834

"In its analysis of gender and class relations and their political forms, in giving voice to the many who have left only a fleeting trace in the historical record, Clark's study is a pioneering classic. . . . It also has a salience for many of our present social and political dilemmas."—Leonore Davidoff, Editor, Gender and History "Deeply researched, scholarly, serious, important. This is a big book that develops a significant new line of inquiry on a classic story in modern history—the making of the English working class. Clark shows in great and persuasive detail how we might read this tale through the lens of gender."—Thomas Laqueur, author of Making Sex

Pandora's Breeches

Pandora's Breeches
Author: Patricia Fara
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2011-01-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1446435164

'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education. Despite the efforts of Makin and her successors, women were excluded from universities until the end of the nineteenth century, yet they found other ways to participate in scientific projects. Taking a fresh look at history, Pandora's Breeches investigates how women contributed to scientific progress. As well as collaborating in home-based research, women corresponded with internationally-renowned scholars, hired tutors, published their own books and translated and simplified important texts, such as Newton's book on gravity. They played essential roles in work frequently attributed solely to their husbands, fathers or friends.

Bold in Her Breeches

Bold in Her Breeches
Author: Jo Stanley
Publisher: Rivers Oram Press
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN:

Bold in her Breeches takes a wholly fresh look at these mythical figures and places them in their true historical and cultural contexts. From Artemisia to the contemporary women pirates of today, via eighteenth-century Grace O'Malley and nineteenth-century Cheng I Sao, we learn why women took to piracy, what it was actually like, how they were regarded by people of their own time and what history has done to their stories.

Don Gil de Las Calzas Verdes

Don Gil de Las Calzas Verdes
Author: Tirso de Molina
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0856684651

Tirso de Molina enjoys enduring popularity as a writer of irreverent comedies, though his critical reputation as a major dramatist rests largely on his more serious works.

Grounded

Grounded
Author: George Brant
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 87
Release: 2017-02-23
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 178319538X

Winner of a Scotsman Fringe First Award 2013. Shortlisted for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award 2013 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 2013. Seamlessly blending the personal and the political, Grounded tells the story of a hot-rod F16 fighter pilot whose unexpected pregnancy ends her career in the sky. Repurposed to flying remote-controlled drones in the Middle East from an air-conditioned trailer near Vegas, the Pilot struggles through surreal twelve-hour shifts far from the battlefield, hunting terrorists by day and being a wife and mother by night. A tour de force play for one actress, Grounded flies from the heights of lyricism to the shallows of workaday existence, targeting our assumptions about war, family, and the power of storytelling. Grounded was the winner of the 2012 Smith Prize.

Buckskin Dresses and Pumpkin Breeches

Buckskin Dresses and Pumpkin Breeches
Author: Kate Havelin
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2011-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0761380515

What would you have worn if you lived during the Colonial era? It depends on who you were! For example, many Native American women made skirts or dresses out of deerskin, and they completed the look with jewelry crafted from metal, shells, stones, pearls, or animal bones. But in European settlements, women of fashion dressed in many layers. One of the first layers was a stay—a corset-like garment made of whalebone that tied or laced around the chest. On top of that, they put on a bodice, a waistcoat or a jacket, and several heavy petticoats. Read more about Colonial fashions—from wigs to beaver-pelt hats and linen caps—in this fascinating book!

Must Love Breeches

Must Love Breeches
Author: Angela Quarles
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-09-08
Genre: Antiques
ISBN: 9781463675707

She's finally met the man of her dreams. There's only one problem: he lives in a different century. "A fresh, charming new voice" - New York Times bestselling author Tessa Dare HOW FAR WOULD YOU TRAVEL FOR LOVE? A mysterious artifact zaps Isabelle Rochon to pre-Victorian England, but before she understands the card case's significance a thief steals it. Now she must find the artifact, navigate the pitfalls of a stiffly polite London, keep her time-traveling origins a secret, and resist her growing attraction to Lord Montagu, the Vicious Viscount so hot, he curls her toes. To Lord Montagu nothing makes more sense than keeping his distance from the strange but lovely Colonial. However, when his scheme for revenge reaches a stalemate, he convinces Isabelle to masquerade as his fiancée. What he did not bargain on is being drawn to her intellectually as well as physically. Lord Montagu's now constant presence overthrows her equilibrium and her common sense. Isabelle thought all she wanted was to return home, but as passion flares between them, she must decide when her true home-as well as her heart-lies.

Beauty in Breeches

Beauty in Breeches
Author: Helen Dickson
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 3
Release: 2011
Genre: Historical fiction
ISBN: 0373306229

I Had Jelly on My Nose and a Hole in My Breeches

I Had Jelly on My Nose and a Hole in My Breeches
Author: Robert McNally
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-08-22
Genre: Connecticut
ISBN: 9781475102413

Robert McNally (1932) was born in Bridgeport, Ct., and has written about life during the Great Depression and WWII era. Highlights include discovering a dead baby in a fire he had created fourteen hours earlier, capturing the first black widow spider in the northeastern states and cremating the Mad Monk of Russia.