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The Great Gulf Fixed, by Gerald Grant

The Great Gulf Fixed, by Gerald Grant

Gertrude Elizabeth Grant

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise ...

Modern English biography: containing many thousand concise ...

Frederic Boase

Gentleman in Black, The i.e. Charles Clarke 681. Gershom i.e. Julius Edmund Goodwyn 1175. Goggle, Mungo Coulter i.e. Robert D. Hamilton 1804. Gohebydd Llandain i.e. John Griffiths 1247. Grant, Gerald i.e. Gertrude Elizabeth Grant 1202 .
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

Bulletin of the John Rylands Library

Henry Guppy

Gertrude Elizabeth Grant published three novels under the name of " Gerald Grant " : Coming Home to Roost (3 vols., 1 872) ; Old+ [sic] Cross (3 vols., 1873) ; and The Great Gulf Fixed (3 vols., 1877 ; probably posthumous) ; these I have not  ...
Bulletin

Bulletin

John Rylands University Library of Manchester

Gertrude Elizabeth Grant published three novels under the name of " Gerald Grant " : Coming Home to Roost (3 vols., 1 872) ; Old+ [sic] Cross (3 vols., 1873) ; and The Great Gulf Fixed (3 vols., 1877 ; probably posthumous) ; these I have not  ...
Coming Home to Roost

Coming Home to Roost

Gertrude Elizabeth Grant

We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have ...

The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have ...

Alice Walker

Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, ... placed one hand under a wing, the other under Gertrude's body, covering Gertrude's gray, scaly, entirely precious feet.
Wars I Have Seen

Wars I Have Seen

Gertrude Stein

Wars I Have Seen is the American writer Gertrude Stein's memoir of her experiences during the Second World War. Gertrude Stein was living in Europe during the time of the war.
Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of ...

Willing Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of ...

Elizabeth D. Samet

When Grant resigned from the Army in California in 1854, Buckner lent him money to get back home to Saint Louis. Buckner made another loan to Grant in the 188os and served as a pallbearer at his funeral. 31. Shelby Foote, The Civil War, ...
Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell

Susan Goodman

During her lifetime the name of Gertrude Bell evoked rich images of the exotic and mysterious Arab world.
Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science and Practice of ...

Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science and Practice of ...

Stephen R. Kellert

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A Stein Reader

A Stein Reader

Gertrude Stein

This important collection presents Gertrude Stein for the first time in her brilliant modernity.
A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of ...

A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of ...

Liora Lukitz

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, the daughter of one of the most eminent members of the rising elites, was a vivid example of the new spirit of enterprise that spilled over from the aristocracy to Britain's financial and industrial upper classes.
Collected Works of George Grant

Collected Works of George Grant

George Grant

In this, the third volume of the Collected Works of George Grant, editors Arthur Davis and Henry Roper have gathered together Grant's work from the 1960s, when he was a professor at Hamilton, Ontario's McMaster University.
Narration: Four Lectures

Narration: Four Lectures

Gertrude Stein

Newly famous in the wake of the publication of her groundbreaking Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein delivered her Narration lectures to packed audiences at the University of Chicago in 1935.
Top 101 Remarkable Women

Top 101 Remarkable Women

Britannica Educational Publishing

(b. 1868–d. 1926) nglish traveler and writer Gertrude Bell worked as an administrator in Arabia. She playedaprincipalpart in the establishment of the Hāshimite Dynasty inBaghdad. Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was born on July 14, 1868, ...
Portraits and Prayers

Portraits and Prayers

Gertrude Stein

Portraits and Prayers is a collection of early essays and word portraits by the American writer Gertrude Stein. Her subjects often provide a description of what she observed in her Saturday salons.
The Ladies' Companion

The Ladies' Companion

Edgar Allan Poe

When shall we be married, Giles V said Gertrude Gray, as if awakening from a dream. "When shall I live entirely with you, in the cottage home of which you speak ? Ere many months have passed away, I hope?" "I hope so, Gertrude, yet" "Yet," ...
The London Gazette

The London Gazette

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Thompson, William DAYA, Alexandra DRURY, Clarissa Ida BOOTH, Gertrude Annie WILLIAMs, Cecilia Margaret Elizabeth. ForstER, John ... TRickett, Lionel Charles PARsons, Phyllis Blanche VicAR, Isobel Edith Lewis, Daisy Gladys .
Reconstructed World: A Feminist Biography of Gertrude Richardson

Reconstructed World: A Feminist Biography of Gertrude Richardson

Barbara Roberts

The first biography of Gertrude Richardson (1875-1946), A Reconstructed World reveals her key role in the development of feminism and pacifism in England and Canada and her remarkable accomplishments as both an activist and a writer.
The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

John Sutherland

Campbell summarised the typical Lovett Cameron plot as: 'beautiful women and handsome men, ... CAMPBELL, Lady Colin [Gertrude Elizabeth] ('G. E. Brunefille', née Blood, 1857–1911). Born in Co. ... Harriette Campbell never married.
Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein, with Two Shorter Stories

Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein, with Two Shorter Stories

Gertrude Stein

Three early experimental pieces involving such stylistic devices as repeated variations on a limited set of sentences and phrases, and "word portraits." Also includes "A Long Gay Book" and "Many, Many Women."
Look, The Sun Is Shining: A Life Near The Theater

Look, The Sun Is Shining: A Life Near The Theater

Ben Finn

There, staring up at me was the smiling face of Micki Grant. Above her picture it said: Micki Grant's Next May Be About a Revolutionary Poet. So “they” got Micki Grant to do their show. She, an Obie winner for the acclaimed off-Broadway ...
George Grant in Conversation

George Grant in Conversation

David Cayley

In these lively conversations, recorded not long before Grant's death, David Cayley explores with Grant the deep roots of his faith, his evolution as a thinker, and his views on the future of Canada.
Collected Works of George Grant: 1933-1950

Collected Works of George Grant: 1933-1950

George Parkin Grant

Included are Grant's early reviews, a brief journal written as he recovered from tuberculosis in 1942, his earliest social and political writings, and his DPhil thesis on the Scottish philosopher John Oman.
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

Gertrude Stein

This monumental two-volume set of her correspondence with Carl Van Vechten, the critic novelist, and photographer, offers new insight into Stein's life, her art, and the intellectual and artistic milieu of Paris.

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