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Martyr of Loray Mill: Ella May and the 1929 Textile Workers' ...

Martyr of Loray Mill: Ella May and the 1929 Textile Workers' ...

Kristina Horton

Ellen May, Ellie May, Ella Wiggins, Ella May Wiggins, Ella Mae Wiggins, Ella Mae May, Ella Maise are all names Ella May has been identified by. Ella's current gravestone, erected in 1979, is incorrectly inscribed Ella Mae Wiggins. Mae was  ...
Journal of the Legislative Council of the Province of New ...

Journal of the Legislative Council of the Province of New ...

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H. Perkins, 60 00 20 Stephen L. Wiggins, 70 00 21 Josephine Ramsbothem, 40 83 22 Judith M'Donald, 29 16 23 ... $59 58 26 2 William B. Wiggins, 78 12 27 3 Nettie Hartt, 55 00 28 4 Philip Gagnon, 30 00 29 5 William S. Cronk, 46 00 30 6 ...
Righteous Content: Black Women's Perspectives of Church and ...

Righteous Content: Black Women's Perspectives of Church and ...

Daphne C. Wiggins

Black women's religiosity is also chronicled in Clarence Taylor, The Black Churches of Brooklyn (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994); Judith Weisenfeld, African American Women and Christian Activism: New York's Black YWCA, ...
Educative assessment: designing assessments to inform and ...

Educative assessment: designing assessments to inform and ...

Grant P. Wiggins

Learning expert Grant P. Wiggins advocates an approach to assessment that gives a more accurate picture of students' abilities than standardized testing.
The Wondrous Journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins

The Wondrous Journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins

Lesley M. M. Blume

The journals of Dr. Wendell Wellington Wiggins might just be the most extraordinary contribution to the study of the earth's past since the discovery of the Rosetta Stone.
The Way We Wore

The Way We Wore

Daphne Selfe

Daphne Selfe has been photographed by Mario Testino, Nick Knight and David Bailey.
Rule Britannia

Rule Britannia

Daphne Du Maurier

In this chilling novel of the future, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of a political, economic and military alliance between Britain and the United States.
Gendered Spaces

Gendered Spaces

Daphne Spain

'A work of vaulting ambition and synthesis. Daphne Spain is asked about the relations among gender, power, and space, our dwellings and domains.
Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne Du Maurier

Daphne Du Maurier

The story is as gripping as Rebecca, as full of surprises as My Cousin Rachel ... affectionate, honest, unsentimental and perceptive' Daily Mail 'Convincing throughout .
Best American Magazine Writing 2013

Best American Magazine Writing 2013

The American Society of Magazine Editors

Copyright © 2012 by Charles Graeber. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission. “Portrait of a Lady,” by Daphne Merkin, originally published in Elle. Copyright © 2012 by Daphne Merkin. Reprinted by permission of Daphne Merkin . “Social ...
The Brother of Daphne

The Brother of Daphne

Dornford Yates

Daphne is 'well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright'. In this, Yates' earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures.
The Brother Of Daphne

The Brother Of Daphne

Dornford Yates

Daphne is ‘well-born, elegant, beautiful, and not especially bright’. In this, Yates’ earliest collection of stories, we meet the Pleydell clan and encounter their high-spirited comic adventures.
Assessing Student Performance: Exploring the Purpose and ...

Assessing Student Performance: Exploring the Purpose and ...

Grant P. Wiggins

And why won't increased national testing offer the accountability of schools we so sorely need? In Assessing Student Performance, Grant P. Wiggins explores these questions and clarifies the limits of testing in an assessment system.
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 4: Rebecca; My Cousin Rachel

Daphne Du Maurier

My godfather, Nick Kendall, came over the following day, bringing Louise with him. As there were no close relatives to summon, and only bequests to Seecombe and the other servants, with the customary donations to the poor in the parish, the ...
The Immortal Throne

The Immortal Throne

Bree Despain

Only Daphne's kiss can save him, but how can she escape Garrick and reach Haden in time? Surprises lurk around every corner in the final chapter of this epic romance story, as Haden and Daphne fight to fulfill their destinies.
Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America

Glory Bound: Black Athletes in a White America

David Kenneth Wiggins

African-American athletes have experienced a tumultuous relationship with mainstream white America. Glory Bound brings together 11 essays that explore this complex topic by sports studies scholar David K. Wiggins.
Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier

Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier

Tatiana de Rosnay

I’m sure my mother would have loved this book.” — Tessa Montgomery d’Alamein, daughter of Daphné du Maurier, as told to Pauline Sommelet in Point de Vue As a bilingual bestselling novelist with a mixed Franco-British bloodline and ...
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2: The House on the Strand; ...

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 2: The House on the Strand; ...

Daphne Du Maurier

This omnibus also includes The Doll, a collection of some of du Maurier's most thrilling short stories.
Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

Daphne Du Maurier, Haunted Heiress

Nina Auerbach

Nina Auerbach examines both the life of Daphne du Maurier as it is revealed in her writings and the sensibility of a vanished class and a time now gone that haunts the fringes of our own age.
The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland: ...

The Founders of Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Maryland: ...

J. D. Warfield

Julia married William Pope Anderson, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Issue, Vachel Worthington, Larz. Worthington, Catherine Long- worth, Julia Wiggins, died 21st January, 1876; William Pope, Laura Wiggins, died 4th August, 1891; Ida Longworth, died ...
The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, ...

The Fame Lunches: On Wounded Icons, Money, Sex, the Brontës, ...

Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to a wide array of subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary culture, from the high calling of the literary life to the poignant underside ...
Daphne

Daphne

Tatiana De Rosnay

Con una prosa impeccabile, Tatiana de Rosnay ci restituisce il romanzo della vita di una delle più complesse e tormentate figure di donna del Novecento, la scrittrice inglese Daphne du Maurier, autrice di romanzi come Rebecca, la prima ...
Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical ...

Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists: A Bio-critical ...

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DAPHNE MERKIN (1954- ) Carolyn Ariella Sofia BIOGRAPHY "Perfect sex is like some Platonic essence," notes Daphne Merkin in "The Woman in the Balcony," her reading of the biblical Song of Songs, because it takes ' 'place only in our ...
Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in ...

Constructive Feminism: Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in ...

Daphne Spain

In Constructive Feminism, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men.
The Fiction of Alice Munro: An Appreciation

The Fiction of Alice Munro: An Appreciation

Brad Hooper

Daphne Merkin, “Northern Exposure,” p. 60. 5. Daphne Merkin, “Northern Exposure,” p. 62. 6. Contemporary Literary Criticism, Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson/Gale, 2006, 22, p. 129. 7. Coral Ann Howells, Alice Munro, New York: St. Martin's ...
Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & ...

Daphne du Maurier Omnibus 1: Frenchman's Creek; The Birds & ...

Daphne Du Maurier

Includes the novels Frenchman's Creek and Hungry Hill, and the story collection The Birds & Other Stories.
Poets Talk: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne ...

Poets Talk: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne ...

Pauline Butling

Conversations with Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Mouré, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen and Fred Wah Pauline Butling, Susan Rudy. CONTENTS Preface vii Acknowledgements ix Introduction xi one "Historicizing ...

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