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The New Zealand Journeys of Lucy Violet Hodgkin

The New Zealand Journeys of Lucy Violet Hodgkin

Frances Henry

Lucy Violet Hodgkin (1869-1954), daughter of Thomas and Lucy Anna Hodgkin, was born in Northumberland, England. She later married John Holdsworth in 1922, whom she had met in an earlier visit to New Zealand.
Silent Worship: The Way of Wonder (Classic Reprint)

Silent Worship: The Way of Wonder (Classic Reprint)

Lucy Violet Hodgkin

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Ignorance: How It Drives Science

Ignorance: How It Drives Science

Stuart Firestein

PAGE 79 I heard about this Alan Hodgkin story from a colleague, Vincent Torre, who was a postdoc with Alan Hodgkin. It has since been confirmed in a pub conversation with his son Jonathon Hodgkin, an excellent molecular geneticist at  ...
A sacred challenge: Violet Oakley and the Pennsylvania ...

A sacred challenge: Violet Oakley and the Pennsylvania ...

Pennsylvania. Capitol Preservation Committee

Likos, "Violet Oakley," 14. 61. Violet Oakley, taxi receipts, Violet Oakley Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 62. Loretta Hoagland, "Lawrence Park: Bronxville's Turn-of-the-Century Art Colony" ( Bronxville ...
Violet In Private

Violet In Private

Melissa Walker

The return of Violet, the not-so- confident model?
Galvani's Spark: The Story of the Nerve Impulse

Galvani's Spark: The Story of the Nerve Impulse

Alan McComas

Driving his own car, and towing a trailer filled with electrophysiological equipment, Alan Hodgkin was the first to arrive. Only 25, Hodgkin (Fig. 12–1) was in the third year of a Research Fellowship at Trinity College and had already had several ...
Lucy Finds Her Way

Lucy Finds Her Way

Nancy N. Rue

Lucy’s a good detective—but she ends up a hostage too. In the fourth and last installment in the Lucy Novels, Lucy must depend on an unlikely ally to find her way out of this mess and in life.
Haunting Violet

Haunting Violet

Alyxandra Harvey

Violet Willoughby doesn't believe in ghosts, especially since her mother has worked as a fraudulent medium for a decade.
I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, ...

I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, ...

Max F. Perutz

In August 1939, Alan Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley joined forces at the Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association in Plymouth for experiments on the transmission of nervous impulses along the giant axons of the squid. Hodgkin was a ...
Violet Oakley: An Artist’s Life

Violet Oakley: An Artist’s Life

Bailey Van Hook

Violet Oakley: An Artist's Life is the first full-length biography of Violet Oakley (1874–1961), the only major female artist of the beaux-arts mural movement in the United States, as well as an illustrator, stained glass artist, ...
The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences: Technique, ...

The History of the Brain and Mind Sciences: Technique, ...

Stephen T. Casper

See Alan Hodgkin and Andrew F. Huxley, “Action Potentials Recorded from Inside a Nerve Fibre,” Nature 144 (1939): 710–11. More broadly, see Alan Hodgkin, Chance and Design: Reminiscences of Science in Peace and War ( Cambridge: ...
Iron Hearted Violet

Iron Hearted Violet

Kelly Barnhill

The story cannot be true--not really. But then the whispers start. Violet and Demetrius, along with an ancient, scarred dragon, may hold the key to the Nybbas's triumph...or its demise. It all depends on how they tell the story.
Lucy in Print

Lucy in Print

Michael Karol

Michael Karol, the author of Lucy A to Z, has done it again! Lucy in Print digs deep to give Lucy fans (and who isn't one?) a unique look at Lucille Ball, her TV shows, and her co-stars, as reported by the press over the past 60 years.
Violet Dawn

Violet Dawn

Brandilyn Collins

Alone, terrified, fleeing a dark past, Paige must make an unthinkable choice. In Violet Dawn, hurtling events and richly drawn characters collide in a breathless story of murder, the need to belong, and faith’s first glimmer.
William Cullen Bryant: Author of America

William Cullen Bryant: Author of America

Gilbert H. Muller

The influence of the British poet can be seen in a delicate lyric, “The Yellow Violet ,” which Bryant wrote in 1814 when he was twenty years old. Over the eight quatrains of “The Yellow Violet,” Bryant creates a quietly dramatic encounter with the ...
Visionary Dreariness: Readings in Romanticism's Quotidian ...

Visionary Dreariness: Readings in Romanticism's Quotidian ...

Markus Poetzsch

... Anna Seward's “Sonnet: Tothe Poppy,” Harriet Falconar's “The Violet”and “The Snowdrop,” Helen MariaWilliams's “Sonnet to the Strawberry,” HenriettaO'Neill's “ Ode tothePoppy,” Walter Scott's “The Violet,” Mary Robinson's“The Snowdrop,” ...
Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder

Vampire Apocalypse: A World Torn Asunder

Derek Gunn

Harrington lookedover to Lucy Irvine. “Lucy, can you give us the state of thenation please?” Lucy Irvine remained seated. Harris had always considered hera shy woman with people but had come to realise, as hadmany others, that, where ...
We remember Pearl Harbor: Honolulu civilians recall the war ...

We remember Pearl Harbor: Honolulu civilians recall the war ...

Lawrence Reginald Rodriggs

Violet Lai Violet Lau Lai (Mrs. Kum Pui Lai), a fourth generation Chinese- American, was twenty-five and the mother of one-year-old Alma at the outset of the war. The family lived at 1037-C Seventh Avenue in Kaimuki. The couple agreed with ...
THE COMIC DNA OF LUCILLE BALL: INTERPRETING THE ICON

THE COMIC DNA OF LUCILLE BALL: INTERPRETING THE ICON

Michael Karol

This book, by acclaimed Lucy author Michael Karol-Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia, The Lucille Ball Quiz Book, Lucy in Print-examines Ball's impact and dissects what it was, and is, that makes Lucy not only an icon of laughter, ...
The Transformation of Yvette

The Transformation of Yvette

Lucy Costigan

Lucy Costigan. THE TRANSFORMATION OF YVETTE A Novel Lucy Costigan The Transformation of Yvette Copyright © 2007 by Lucy Costigan. iUniverse, Inc. New York Lincoln Shanghai.
Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry and Culture 1640-1680

Forms of Engagement: Women, Poetry and Culture 1640-1680

Elizabeth Scott-Baumann

Hutchinson, Lucy, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, ed. N. H. Keeble ( London: Everyman, 1995) Hutchinson, Lucy, 'Elegies', text attached to David Norbrook, 'Lucy Hutchinson's “Elegies” and the Situation of the Republican Woman ...
The BBC National Short Story Award 2012:

The BBC National Short Story Award 2012:

Lucy Caldwell

Lucy Caldwell, Julian Gough, M.J. Hyland, Krys Lee, Deborah Levy, Miroslav Penkov, Henrietta Rose-Innes, Adam Ross, Carrie Tiffany, Chris Womersley. Contents. Introduction – Clive Anderson Escape Routes – Lucy Caldwell The iHole ...
Lucy's Men

Lucy's Men

Lynn Ray Lewis

One stripping entrepreneur, a high power business man, and a lawyer all have Lucy in their sights.

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