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Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj

Florence Nightingale and the Health of the Raj

Jharna Gourlay

How sincere she was would be apparent from the fact that she wrote to Lady Charlotte Canning, who was at that time in Calcutta with her husband Lord Canning, the Governor-General of India. Lady Canning and Florence had been good ...
The Afterlives of Monuments

The Afterlives of Monuments

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Through the addition of text, Emily Bayley is inserting herself into this history, claiming her links to Charlotte Canning and to their former life in India, and she speaks of a fear of being forgotten. She is not just remembering Charlotte Canning, ...
Charlotte Canning: lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria and ...

Charlotte Canning: lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria and ...

Virginia Surtees

This Biography Of Lady Canning Is Also An Important And Entimate Picture Of Queen Victoria. Lady Canning`S Unpublished Journals Play A Revealing Part In This Biography.
The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as ...

The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as ...

Charlotte Canning

In this beautifully written and illustrated book, Charlotte Canning establishes an analytical framework to reveal the Circuit Chautauquas as unique performances that both created and unified small-town America.
Feminist Theatres in the USA: Staging Women's Experience

Feminist Theatres in the USA: Staging Women's Experience

Charlotte Canning

Canning interviews over thirty women who took part in the dynamic feminist theater of the 1970s and 1980s. They provide first-hand accounts of the excitement, struggles and innovations which formed their experience.
The Circle of the Gods

The Circle of the Gods

Victor Canning

The Crimson Chalice trilogy, first published between 1976 and 1978, is Victor Canning’s classic retelling of the story of King Arthur.
Criss Canning

Criss Canning

Jenny Zimmer

This mini-book focuses on Canning's studies of her studio, with its extraordinary array of still-life objects and the artist's favorite flowers and botanical specimens. Many of the paintings have not been previously reproduced.
Comedies and Whimsies

Comedies and Whimsies

Victor Canning

Humorous short stories covering Victor Canning's career from 1935 to 1981. Most of them have been rediscovered in old newspapers and magazines and have not appeared in book form before.
The Food Lover's Guide to Canning: Contemporary Recipes & ...

The Food Lover's Guide to Canning: Contemporary Recipes & ...

Chris Rich

A guide to home canning offers advice on equipment, processing, and storing over fifty different fruits and vegetables
Queen's Pawn

Queen's Pawn

Victor Canning

And will he be able to free himself from the clutches of his blackmailer? Victor Canning weaves riches, glamour and darkness through the world of 1960's Britain to create this complex, gripping and highly-readable crime thriller.
The Runaways

The Runaways

Victor Canning

The Runaways is the first book in Victor Canning's classic children's trilogy, which continues in Flight of the Grey Goose.
His Bones are Coral

His Bones are Coral

Victor Canning

Victor Canning. “Why didn't you tell me?” “I didn't think it was necessary.” He didn' t think it was necessary. Well, that was his opinion. But there the Barota was. An Italian boat that had got out of Suabar at the outbreak ofwar and hadbeen ...
Canning and Preserving All-in-One For Dummies

Canning and Preserving All-in-One For Dummies

Consumer Dummies

Features 300 recipes Covers canning fruits, vegetables, meats, and seafood Includes jams, jellies, butters, condiments, relishes, salsas, and chutneys Provides information on all types of food storage, including pickling, curing, juicing, ...
The Crimson Chalice

The Crimson Chalice

Victor Canning

The Crimson Chalice trilogy, first published between 1976 and 1978, is Victor Canning’s classic retelling of the story of King Arthur.
History and Directory of Yates County: Containing a Sketch ...

History and Directory of Yates County: Containing a Sketch ...

Stafford Canning Cleveland

Containing a Sketch of Its Original Settlement by the Public Universal Friends ... and a Narrative of the Universal Friend, Her Society and Doctrine Stafford Canning Cleveland. Theft 0f Pages From Clevelands Yates Co. History Saved Them For ...
The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as ...

The Most American Thing in America: Circuit Chautauqua as ...

Charlotte Canning

34 Robert T. Handy, A Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical Realities (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), 115. 35 Andrew Chamberlin Rieser, "Secularization Reconsidered: Chautauqua and the De- Christianization of ...
Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter

Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter

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Edited by Charlotte Canning and Thomas Postlewait. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010. Chen, Xaoimei. “Fifty Years of Staging a Founding Father: Political Theatre, Dramatic History, and the Question of Representation in Modern China ...
Castle Minerva

Castle Minerva

Victor Canning

‘I want you to do a job for me during the Easter vacation.
Feminist Theatres in the USA: Staging Women's Experience

Feminist Theatres in the USA: Staging Women's Experience

Charlotte Canning

Frédérique Delacoste and Felice Newman, Minneapolis: Cleis Press,1981. — andLabowitz, Leslie, “InMourning andin Rage,” inFight Back: Feminist Resistance to Male Violence,ed. Frédérique Delacoste and Felice Newman, Minneapolis: ...
Feminist Theaters in the U.S.A.: Staging Women's Experience

Feminist Theaters in the U.S.A.: Staging Women's Experience

Charlotte Canning

Frederique Delacoste and Felice Newman, Minneapolis: Cleis Press, 1981. and Labowitz, Leslie, "In Mourning and in Rage," in Fight Back: Feminist Resistance to Male Violence, ed. Frederique Delacoste and Felice Newman, Minneapolis: ...
Fifty Great Horror Stories

Fifty Great Horror Stories

John Canning

Traditional and modern tales of terror feature wolves, vampires, and other deadly creatures
The Kingsford Mark

The Kingsford Mark

Victor Canning

John Kingsford suits his home of Darlock House on Exmoor.

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