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The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting

The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting

Clara Parkes

And another, and another.” Praise for The Yarn Whisperer: “Clara Parkes: The Yarn Seer.” —Interweave Knits magazine “If you are a knitter, or even if you are not, read this book for the sheer joy of her writing, for the way she ...
The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays

The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays

Allan William Martin

1862; Menie Parkes to H. Parkes, 19 March 1862,PCA933. 65 H. Parkes to C. Parkes, 20 April 1862, PC A1044. 66 H. Parkes to C. Parkes, 24 April 1862, ibid. Emphasis in original. 67 H. Parkes to C. Parkes, 24 May 1862, ibid. 68 Fitzpatrick  ...
Cultural Studies V2

Cultural Studies V2

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(Menie Parkes, 1866) (It's a bit hard to like Menie Parkes, although she is the brilliant daughter effaced by the father's Legend. She had a sad life, and found ferocious consolations in religion. She was Parkes's companion and counsellor,  ...
Trajectories: towards a new internationalist cultural ...

Trajectories: towards a new internationalist cultural ...

Ping-hui Liao

(Menie Parkes, 1866) (It's a bit hard to like Menie Parkes, although she is the brilliant daughter effaced by the father's Legend. She had a sad life, and found ferocious consolations in religion. She was Parkes' s companion and counsellor,  ...
Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus

Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus

Stephen Dando-Collins

Stephen Dando-Collins. THE HENRY PARKES FAMILY TREE Henry PARKES ( 1815–1896) ... 1878 Robert Moser HISCOX (c.1843–1919) Varney PARKES ( 1859-1935) m. 1883 Mary Cameron MURRAY (1864–1883) m. 1884 Isabella ...
Begums, Thugs and White Mughals

Begums, Thugs and White Mughals

Fanny Parkes Parlby

To read Fanny Parkes is to go as close as one can to early colonial India, in all its violence and beauty.
The Last Shilling: A History of Repatriation in Australia

The Last Shilling: A History of Repatriation in Australia

Clem J. Lloyd

When it returned, Menie Parkes, the daughter of Sir Henry Parkes who had stoutly opposed the commitment, asked tartly: 'What are they going to do with the contingent now? Embalm them?'21 According to the Bulletin, another opponent of ...
Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism

Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism

Susan Hamilton

Joseph Parkes to Bessie Rayner Parkes, 2 August 1864, Girton College, Cambridge. Qtd in M. Vicinus, 81. Vicinus traces the resilience of Faithfull's reputation for mannish appearance. In 1898, three years after 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 ...
Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of ...

Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of ...

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1/10; Joseph Parkes to BRP, n.dv PPG, vol. 11/85. 6 William Thomas, The Philosophic Radicals; Nine Studies in Theory and Practice, 1817-41, Oxford, OUP, 1979, ch. 6; there is alsoJessie Buckley, Joseph Parkes of Birmingham, London, ...
Beyond Southern Skies: Radio Astronomy and the Parkes Telescope

Beyond Southern Skies: Radio Astronomy and the Parkes Telescope

Peter Robertson

Beyond Southern Skies tells the story of the planning and construction of the Parkes Telescope in rural New South Wales, Australia and surveys its achievements over the past thirty years.
The End of the Urban Ancient Regime in England

The End of the Urban Ancient Regime in England

Frédéric Moret

42 Philip J. Salmon, 'Parkes, Joseph (1796–1865)', Jessie Kathleen Buckley, Joseph Parkes of Birmingham and the Part which he played in Radical Reform Movements from 1825 to 1845, Etc. (London, Methuen & Co., 1926), xiv p. 207.
Clara's clock: a life of volunteering

Clara's clock: a life of volunteering

Clara Zaitchick Balinsky

... honorary degree from the Hebrew University: Ph.D. Honoris Causa. President of Hebrew University, Hanoch Gutfreund, presenting Clara with an honorary degree. Clara with Knesset politician Dan Meridor and Hanoch Gutfreund, President.
Echoes of a Haunting: A House in The Country

Echoes of a Haunting: A House in The Country

Clara M. Miller

A House in The Country Clara M. Miller. ECHOES OF A HAUNTING A House in The Country Clara M. Miller Copyright © 1999 by Clara M. Miller. Library ofCongress Number: 0633-MILL.
Clara and Señor Frog

Clara and Señor Frog

Campbell Geeslin

Although her mother works with a magician performing tricks, Clara finds real magic in creating art.
Clara Hughes

Clara Hughes

Terry Barber

Clara Hughes is specifically written to meet the needs of adolescents and adults who are reluctant readers. The photographs, maps, and illustrations reflect the text, making the words easy to decode.
Arrangements for solo piano

Arrangements for solo piano

Clara Schumann

Clara Schumann Jonathan Kregor. Stille Tränen Op.35, No. 10 Robert Schumann Sehr langsam له ـــــر - 7. ad lib / .هSEك% لم * بلد را 5ة 33 ع ع ب ا ع م م. 72 N056_pp072-074.
If Clara

If Clara

Martha Baillie

A mysterious manuscript falls into a bed-ridden writer's lap in this novel ofbroken bones, syrian folktales, and plummets of all varieties.In If Clara, nobody stands on firm ground.Daisy, an author confined to her home, her leg in a ...
Clara: or, On Nature's Connection to the Spirit World

Clara: or, On Nature's Connection to the Spirit World

F. W. J. Schelling

Part novella, part philosophy, Clara was Schelling's most popular work during his lifetime, and appears here in English for the first time.
Well Played 1.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning

Well Played 1.0: Video Games, Value and Meaning

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CLARA FERNÁNDEZ-VARA Everybody should feel the thrill of telling an ugly stinky pirate for the first time: “How appropriate. You fight like a cow.” THE SECRET OF MONKEY ISLAND: PLAYING BETWEEN CULTURES CLARA FERNÁNDEZ- ...
Open Heart, Open Mind

Open Heart, Open Mind

Clara Hughes

In 2006, when Clara Hughes stepped onto the Olympic podium in Torino, Italy, she became the first and only athlete ever to win multiple medals in both Summer and Winter Games.
Open Heart, Open Mind

Open Heart, Open Mind

Clara Hughes

In 2006, when Clara Hughes stepped onto the Olympic podium in Torino, Italy, she became the first and only athlete ever to win multiple medals in both Summer and Winter Games.
A Parents' Guide to Special Education in New York City and ...

A Parents' Guide to Special Education in New York City and ...

Laurie Dubos

ALSO OF INTEREST— New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools, by Clara Hemphill New York City's Best Public Middle Schools, by Clara Hemphill New York City's Best Public High Schools, by Clara Hemphill Butterfly photo by Jack ...
Snow Kittens

Snow Kittens

Jean Ure

Clara and Jilly rescue two newborn kittens whose mother has died, and, as members of "Animal Lovers, " must cope with a rescued turkey left on Clara's doorstep.
Open Heart, Open Mind

Open Heart, Open Mind

Clara Hughes

An autobiography of Canadian woman speed skater and cyclist Clara Hughes, who is the first and only athlete ever to win multiple medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.
Women of the Day: An American Comedy of Modern Society in ...

Women of the Day: An American Comedy of Modern Society in ...

Charles H. Morton

ALBERT. (Astonished.) Why of what should they accuse you? CLARA. Of being the mistress of Theodore Prescott. ALBERT. (Forcibly.) ... going towards the ball- room, enter — -from there ; Mrs. Sampson, Bella, and Cornelia. Albert with Clara  ...
Diets to Fit the Family Income

Diets to Fit the Family Income

Clara Rowena Schmidt Carpenter

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Dust Storm

Dust Storm

Jane McKellips

When the family is away in town and Clara is left at home to watch her younger brother, a dangerous dust storm arrives. Clara is faced with the task of saving her brother, the farm animals, and herself.

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