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American Civilization in the First Machine Age: 1890-1940

American Civilization in the First Machine Age: 1890-1940

Gilman Marston Ostrander

During the 1920's all of the younger generations, from Floyd Dell's to Malcolm Rowley's and on down, could unite in the common sense of being the Lost Generation, because they shared a common sense of alienation from what they ...
The Painted Lady

The Painted Lady

Edward Marston

In his latest Restoration mystery, Edward Marston, the master of historical detail, reveals the dark and often debauched depths of seventeenth-century London.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts

Jennifer S. Tuttle

"Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts represents a new phase of feminist scholarhip in recovery, drawing readers' attention to Gilman's lesser-known works from fresh perspectives that revise what we thought we knew about the ...
The Indian Army and the End of the Raj

The Indian Army and the End of the Raj

Daniel Marston

Daniel Marston draws upon extensive archival research and interviews with veterans of the events of 1947 to provide fresh insight into the final days of the British Raj.
The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories

The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

" Together, these impressive works throw new light on Gilman as a writer of fiction.
The American Revolution 1774–1783

The American Revolution 1774–1783

Daniel Marston

Daniel Marston. OSPREY guide to. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1774–1783 - D A N | E L M A R S T 0 N 18TH 8, 197H CENTURY - --- - - -o- - - - - - - --- Guide To The American Revolution 17741783 Daniel Marston. Front Cover.
A Study Guide for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"

A Study Guide for Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Yellow Wallpaper"

Gale, Cengage Learning

Golden, Catherine. “'Overwriting' the Rest Cure: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Literary Escape from S. Weir Mitchell's Fictionalization of Women,” in Critical Essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman, edited by Joanne B. Karpinski, G. K. Hall, 1992, pp.
Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up ...

Hypocrite in a Pouffy White Dress: Tales of Growing Up ...

Susan Jane Gilman

Tales of Growing Up Groovy and Clueless Susan Jane Gilman ... —Cheryl Peck, author of Fat Girls and Lawn Chairs “If David Sedaris married most of the cast of TheBreakfast Club,the resulting child just might be Susan Jane Gilman.
The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English ...

The Children's Troupes and the Transformation of English ...

Jeanne McCarthy

device ̄ focused on the audience with a reading of Marston«s innovative authorship in relationship to Jonson, see Rebecca Yearling, Ben Jonson, John Marston and Early Modern Drama: Satire and the Audience (New York: Palgrave  ...
Inspector Colbeck's Casebook: Thirteen Tales from the ...

Inspector Colbeck's Casebook: Thirteen Tales from the ...

Edward Marston

You’re after a cunning devil, Inspector - smoke him out.’ An eagerly awaited collection of brand new, specially commissioned short stories from the master of historical crime fiction Edward Marston, featuring his quick-witted Railway ...
The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

THE CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN READER is an anthology of fiction by one of America's most important feminist writers.
Guide to Reprints

Guide to Reprints

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Women and Economics

Women and Economics

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is considered by many to be her single greatest work, and as with much of Gilman’s writing, the book touched a few dominant themes: the transformation of marriage, the family, and the home, with her central argument: “the economic ...
Anthropological Resources: A Guide to Archival, Library, and ...

Anthropological Resources: A Guide to Archival, Library, and ...

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12); Mary Jane Schneider, "A Guide to the Wilson Collections," in Carolyn Gilman and Mary Jane Schneider, The Way to Independence: Memories of a Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920 (St. Paul: 1 987) (= Museum Exhibit Series, no. 3), p.
Families, Marriages, and Children

Families, Marriages, and Children

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Transcending her era, Gilman speaks with wit, insight, and candor to twenty-first century readers about many controversial aspects of family, and family life.
The Poll for a Knight of the Shire to Represent the County ...

The Poll for a Knight of the Shire to Represent the County ...

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Cottesbrook, Northampt. Palmer, John, Peatling. Magna Perkins, John, Lubbenham onton, John, ditto Randle, Judd, Marston-Truffel, Northam. Randle, Matthew, ditto Reynolds, Edward, Hillersden, Bucks Sims Benjamin, Marston-T | Šmart, ...
The Home: Its Work and Influence

The Home: Its Work and Influence

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Reprint of 1903 edition of Gilman's classic indictment of domestic life, offering a program of domestic reform that inspired women at the beginning of what became a century-long struggle.
The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The early twentieth-century writer, feminist, and social reformer recounts her upbringing, development, and career
Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck

Reading Psychoanalysis: Freud, Rank, Ferenczi, Groddeck

Peter L. Rudnytsky

Acknowledgments. That this book should appear in a series edited by Sander Gilman and George Makari has for me a feeling of inevitability. Like many others, I owe much of my good fortune in the academic profession to Sander Gilman.
La ragazza di Orchard Street

La ragazza di Orchard Street

Susan Jane Gilman

«Un romanzo dal cuore grande... La Gilman riesce a dipingere un bellissimo affresco della storia americana del secolo scorso, mettendoci al centro un meraviglioso personaggio di donna.» Chicago Tribune
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with ...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with ...

Carol Farley Kessler

A fresh reading of Gilman's fiction and a biographical exploration of her life yield a vision of how the feminist author developed her capacity to imagine a full-blown utopia for women.
Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Sander L. Gilman

This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day.
Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Fat: A Cultural History of Obesity

Sander L. Gilman

This fascinating new book by Sander Gilman looks at the interweaving of fact and fiction about obesity, tracing public concern from the mid-nineteenth century to the modern day.
Scottish Notes and Queries

Scottish Notes and Queries

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... erection, and before it in wealth of varied tradition, the William and Mary College has celebrated this year its second centenary. ... James Blair, D.D., who was educated at one of the Universities of Aberdeen, and ordained in Scotland by a Scotch ... so far as related to Henrico, but President Gilman throws a further light upon the desire for higher education in Virginia. ... royal signatures attached to the charter of William and Mary College, which was to be built at Williamsburg, Virginia.
Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

Susan Jane Gilman

Irreverent, provocative, hip - this guide to power and attitude offers women an intelligent alternative to the negative messages we hear every day from magazines, TV and relatives. Gilman serves up advice on everything from sex to politics.
Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess

Susan Jane Gilman

Irreverent, provocative, hip - this guide to power and attitude offers women an intelligent alternative to the negative messages we hear every day from magazines, TV and relatives. Gilman serves up advice on everything from sex to politics.
Multiculturalism and the Jews

Multiculturalism and the Jews

Sander Gilman

In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims.
Multiculturalism and the Jews

Multiculturalism and the Jews

Sander L. Gilman

In this powerful and wide-ranging study, Sander Gilman explores the idea of 'the multicultural' in the contemporary world, a question he frames as the question of the relationship between Jews and Muslims.
Critical essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Critical essays on Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Joanne B. Karpinski

Victorian Daughters: The Lives and Feminism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Olive Schreiner Barbara Scott Winkler In the period before World War I, when most feminists in Britain and America were preoccupied with the struggle to gain the ...

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