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Author | : Jane Robinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780192880208 |
Catching a parrot and building the hearth to bake it was all in a day's work for the woman pioneer. This riveting anthology tells the story of over 100 such women who settled everywhere from Africa and India to North America and Canada in the age of Empire, from the early 17th to the early 20th centuries.
Author | : Jane Robinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | : 9781383003154 |
This anthology tells the story of over 100 women pioneers spanning four centuries, from the lowliest kitchen skivvy to ambassador's wives, all emigrants who settled the wildernesses of the world in search of new and better lives.
Author | : Jane Robinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
ISBN | : 0192802011 |
Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, thathave not been met and usually overcome by thesesame women.Jane Robinson's first book,Wayward Women, was a guide to women travellers and their writing, and having read over a thousand of their books she is uniquely qualified to compile this anthology. Life is never dull for her intrepid women, whether diving to the bed of the Timor Sea or reaching thesummit of Annapurna. From an encounter with a snake in the Amazon jungle to shipwreck and kidnap on the Barbary Coast, there are tales of adventure, derring-do, and great danger. There are also moving accounts of unimaginable hardship, includingcaring for a family in an ammunition cart during the siege of Delhi and a journey through Tibet that leaves its author childless and widowed.There is no such thing as a typical woman traveller--and there never has been--as this exhilarating anthology shows on a journey of its own through sixteen centuries of travel writing, aboard almost anything from a Bugatti to a Bath chair. You are taken as far afield as it is possible to go, in thecompany of some of the most extraordinary characters you are ever likely to meet.
Author | : Jane Robinson |
Publisher | : Robinson |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-10-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1472144902 |
The 'Greatest Black Briton in History' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. "The Times" called her a heroine, Florence Nightingale called her a brothel-keeping quack, and Queen Victoria's nephew called her, simply, 'Mammy' - Mary Seacole was one of the most eccentric and charismatic women of her era. Born at her mother's hotel in Jamaica in 1805, she became an independent 'doctress' combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical techniques. On the outbreak of the Crimean War, she arrived in London desperate to join Florence Nightingale at the Front, but the authorities refused to see her. Being black, nearly 50, rather stout, and gloriously loud in every way, she was obviously unsuitable. Undaunted, Mary travelled to Balaklava under her own steam to build the 'British Hotel', just behind the lines. It was an outrageous venture, and a huge success - she became known and loved by everyone from the rank and file to the royal family. For more than a century after her death this remarkable woman was all but forgotten. This, the first full-length biography of a Victorian celebrity recently voted the greatest black Briton in history, brings Mary Seacole centre stage at last.
Author | : William Kean Seymour |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Parodies |
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Author | : Anne Langton |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802035493 |
. First published in 1950, A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada is a classic work of early pioneering literature. This new, significantly expanded edition includes many of Langton's original illustrations and reveals Langton's views on writing, art, and women's social and familial roles in nineteenth-century Europe and Canada.
Author | : A. J. Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Children's stories |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jane Robinson |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473540860 |
_______ 'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist. Set against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story of the ordinary people effecting extraordinary change. 1913: the last long summer before the war. The country is gripped by suffragette fever. These impassioned crusaders have their admirers; some agree with their aims if not their forceful methods, while others are aghast at the thought of giving any female a vote. Meanwhile, hundreds of women are stepping out on to the streets of Britain. They are the suffragists: non-militant campaigners for the vote, on an astonishing six-week protest march they call the Great Pilgrimage. Rich and poor, young and old, they defy convention, risking jobs, family relationships and even their lives to persuade the country to listen to them. Fresh and original, full of vivid detail and moments of high drama, Hearts and Minds is both funny and incredibly moving, important and wonderfully entertaining.
Author | : Catherynne M. Valente |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015-03-03 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250023491 |
"A young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Golden Wind, and becomes a changeling in our world, a place no less bizarre than Fairyland in his eyes"--
Author | : Bonnie G. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2710 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195148908 |
The Encyclopedia of Women in World History captures the experiences of women throughout world history in a comprehensive, 4-volume work. Although there has been extensive research on women in history by region, no text or reference work has comprehensively covered the role women have played throughout world history. The past thirty years have seen an explosion of research and effort to present the experiences and contributions of women not only in the Western world but across the globe. Historians have investigated womens daily lives in virtually every region and have researched the leadership roles women have filled across time and region. They have found and demonstrated that there is virtually no historical, social, or demographic change in which women have not been involved and by which their lives have not been affected. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History benefits greatly from these efforts and experiences, and illuminates how women worldwide have influenced and been influenced by these historical, social, and demographic changes. The Encyclopedia contains over 1,250 signed articles arranged in an A-Z format for ease of use. The entries cover six main areas: biographies; geography and history; comparative culture and society, including adoption, abortion, performing arts; organizations and movements, such as the Egyptian Uprising, and the Paris Commune; womens and gender studies; and topics in world history that include slave trade, globalization, and disease. With its rich and insightful entries by leading scholars and experts, this reference work is sure to be a valued, go-to resource for scholars, college and high school students, and general readers alike.