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Family Matters in the British and American Novel
Andrea O'Reilly HerreraOn the subject of the ability of "maternal sorrow" to override social and racial barriers, see especially Franny Nudelman's "Harriet Jacobs and the Sentimental Politics of Female Suffering." 33. See Becker's "Harriet Jacobs's Search for Home ," ...
Anxious Power: Reading, Writing, and Ambivalence in ...
PreviewPower and Resistance in Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Debra Humphreys In her powerful African American autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs documents the oppression of female slaves by ...
The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs
PreviewDivided into four parts: I. Jacobs, Urban Philosopher; II. Jacobs, Urban Economist; II. Jacobs, Urban Sociologist; and IV. Jacobs, Urban Designer, the book evaluates the impact of Jacobs's writings and activism on the city, the professions ...
Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa ...
PreviewMost of what is known about Louisa Jacobs comes from her mother's fugitive- slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861, and the Harriet Jacobs Family Papers, edited by Jean Fagan Yellin, Kate Culkin, and Scott ...
Jane Jacobs: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
Jane JacobsThese interviews capture Jacobs at her very best and are an essential reminder of why Jacobs was—and remains—unrivaled in her analyses and her ability to cut through cant and received wisdom. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Working Press of the Nation
More editionsPaul M. Sheptow Publisher Bruce Anderson Managing Editor Joanne Jacobs _ New Products Editor Joanne Jacobs News Editor Joanne Jacobs . Joanne Jacobs . Joanne Jacobs . . Book Review Editor Photo Editor Associate Editor ...
A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living ...
A. J. JacobsAn eBook boxed set that features the first three of A.J. Jacobs's riotous—and surprisingly informative—ventures into experiential journalism.
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Ann PetryA New York Times Outstanding Book for young adult readers, this biography of the famed Underground Railroad abolitionist is a lesson in valor and justice. Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman knew the thirst for freedom.
A Study Guide for W. W. Jacobs's "Monkey's Paw"
Gale, Cengage Learning“W. W. Jacobs,” in Supernatural Fiction Writers, Vol. I, edited by E. F. Bleiler, Scribner, 1985, pp. 38387. Donaldson writes a brief description of Jacobs's supernatural tales, including “The Monkey's Paw,” which he calls Jacobs's best. Harding ...
Delphi Complete Works of W. W. Jacobs (Illustrated):
W. W. JacobsW. W. Jacobs. The Complete Works of W. W. JACOBS By Delphi Classics, 2016 COPYRIGHT Complete Works of W. W. Jacobs First published in.
Harriet's Had Enough!
Elissa Haden GuestHarriet the raccoon and her mother exchange mean words when Harriet refuses to pick up her toys, until an apology saves the day and everyone sits down to a spaghetti dinner.
Franklin and Harriet
Paulette BourgeoisFranklin loves his toddler sister, Harriet, and enjoys spending time with her, but when Harriet claims Sam, his favorite stuffed animal, for herself, Franklin isn't sure how to handle it.
My First Fourth of July Book
Harriet W. HodgsonHarriet W. Hodgson. MY FIRST FOURTH OF JULY BOOK Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Hodgson, Harriet W. by Harriet W. Hodgson illustrated by Linda Hohag created by The Child's World ...
Contemporary Perspectives on Jane Jacobs: Reassessing the ...
Dirk SchubertThe Battle for Gotham, New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs. New York, NY: Nation Books; Klemek, C., 2007. Jane Jacobs' Urban Village: Well Preserved or Cast Adrift? Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, ...
Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography
Kate CulkinYeatman's statement is in “The Freedmen's Monument to Abraham Lincoln,” folder 2, Harriet Goodhue Hosmer Additional ... See also Harriet Sigerman, “ Laborers for Liberty, 1865–1890,” in No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United ...
Many Cargoes
W. W. JacobsThis early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1896 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
Contesting Women: Conflicts Over Self and Space in ...
Dawn E. KeetleyBy the time Harriet Jacobs came to write her narrative in 1858-9, she "had to cope," as Franny Nudelman points out, "with the already canonized figure of the suffering slave, particularly the sexually degraded slave woman" (941).
Sailors' Knots
W. W. JacobsThis early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
The Lady of the Barge
W. W. JacobsThis early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
Short Cruises
W. W. JacobsThis early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1906 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher StoweHarriet. Beecher. Stowe: A. Brief. Chronology. 1811 Harriet Elizabeth Beecher, seventh of nine children, is born on June 14 to the Reverend Lyman Beecher (a prominent Presbyterian minister) and Roxana Beecher of Litchfield, Connecticut ...
Sea Urchins
W. W. JacobsW. W. Jacobs was a very popular English author of short stories at the turn of the 20th-century. Most of his tales had a humorous edge, though he revealed his dark side in one or two works.
Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big ...
Joanne JacobsThe Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea, and the School That Beat the Odds Joanne Jacobs. "A bold story about a gutsy pair of education reformers . . . Jacobs takes the reader into the lives of the struggling students as they shed ...
The Year of Living Biblically
A J JacobsThe resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal, and will make you see history's most influential book with new eyes. 'A.J. Jacobs has written a -- how else to put it?
Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary
Alice Sparberg AlexiouThis book tells how without any formal training in planning, Jacobs became a prominent spokesperson for sensible urban change.
Point of honor
David GethinThe two witnesses who appeared were Kelly and Stuart Jacobs. Jacobs is dead. Heroin overdose. Someone wanted him out of the way. That someone was Ives. He didn't want it known he'd been at the party." Daniels' eyes flickered for a ...
Dark Age Ahead
Jane JacobsIn this indispensable book, urban visionary Jane Jacobs argues that as agrarianism gives way to a technology-based future, we’re at risk of cultural collapse.
Ann: (1833-1897)
Ruth Vitrano MerkelAnn's brothers were told, and they did--most of the time. This is Ann's story--the first in the series of six true stories about Adventist girls: Ann, Marilla, Grace, Ruth, Elaine, and Erin. Ann was born in 1833.
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