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Begums, Thugs and White Mughals

Begums, Thugs and White Mughals

Fanny Parkes Parlby

To read Fanny Parkes is to go as close as one can to early colonial India, in all its violence and beauty.
The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays

The 'Whig' View of Australian History and Other Essays

Allan William Martin

1862; Menie Parkes to H. Parkes, 19 March 1862,PCA933. 65 H. Parkes to C. Parkes, 20 April 1862, PC A1044. 66 H. Parkes to C. Parkes, 24 April 1862, ibid. Emphasis in original. 67 H. Parkes to C. Parkes, 24 May 1862, ibid. 68 Fitzpatrick  ...
Cultural Studies V2

Cultural Studies V2

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(Menie Parkes, 1866) (It's a bit hard to like Menie Parkes, although she is the brilliant daughter effaced by the father's Legend. She had a sad life, and found ferocious consolations in religion. She was Parkes's companion and counsellor,  ...
Trajectories: towards a new internationalist cultural ...

Trajectories: towards a new internationalist cultural ...

Ping-hui Liao

(Menie Parkes, 1866) (It's a bit hard to like Menie Parkes, although she is the brilliant daughter effaced by the father's Legend. She had a sad life, and found ferocious consolations in religion. She was Parkes' s companion and counsellor,  ...
Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus

Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus

Stephen Dando-Collins

Stephen Dando-Collins. THE HENRY PARKES FAMILY TREE Henry PARKES ( 1815–1896) ... 1878 Robert Moser HISCOX (c.1843–1919) Varney PARKES ( 1859-1935) m. 1883 Mary Cameron MURRAY (1864–1883) m. 1884 Isabella ...
The Last Shilling: A History of Repatriation in Australia

The Last Shilling: A History of Repatriation in Australia

Clem J. Lloyd

When it returned, Menie Parkes, the daughter of Sir Henry Parkes who had stoutly opposed the commitment, asked tartly: 'What are they going to do with the contingent now? Embalm them?'21 According to the Bulletin, another opponent of ...
Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism

Frances Power Cobbe and Victorian Feminism

Susan Hamilton

Joseph Parkes to Bessie Rayner Parkes, 2 August 1864, Girton College, Cambridge. Qtd in M. Vicinus, 81. Vicinus traces the resilience of Faithfull's reputation for mannish appearance. In 1898, three years after 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 ...
Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of ...

Sexuality and Subordination: Interdisciplinary Studies of ...

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1/10; Joseph Parkes to BRP, n.dv PPG, vol. 11/85. 6 William Thomas, The Philosophic Radicals; Nine Studies in Theory and Practice, 1817-41, Oxford, OUP, 1979, ch. 6; there is alsoJessie Buckley, Joseph Parkes of Birmingham, London, ...
Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young

Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young

Ronald Warren Walker

Fanny Stenhouse, TIAH, pp. 576-77. 2. Tullidge, Life of Joseph the Prophet (1880 ). 3. Fanny Stenhouse, TIAll, pp. 554-57; Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest, 1:208 -9. 4. Fanny Stenhouse, Expose of Polygamy in Utah, p. 141; Excommunication ...
Beyond Southern Skies: Radio Astronomy and the Parkes Telescope

Beyond Southern Skies: Radio Astronomy and the Parkes Telescope

Peter Robertson

Beyond Southern Skies tells the story of the planning and construction of the Parkes Telescope in rural New South Wales, Australia and surveys its achievements over the past thirty years.
The End of the Urban Ancient Regime in England

The End of the Urban Ancient Regime in England

Frédéric Moret

42 Philip J. Salmon, 'Parkes, Joseph (1796–1865)', Jessie Kathleen Buckley, Joseph Parkes of Birmingham and the Part which he played in Radical Reform Movements from 1825 to 1845, Etc. (London, Methuen & Co., 1926), xiv p. 207.
The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting

The Yarn Whisperer: My Unexpected Life in Knitting

Clara Parkes

And another, and another.” Praise for The Yarn Whisperer: “Clara Parkes: The Yarn Seer.” —Interweave Knits magazine “If you are a knitter, or even if you are not, read this book for the sheer joy of her writing, for the way she ...
The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography

The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography

Fanny Lewald

The Education of Fanny Lewald is the autobiography of the most popular and prolific German woman writer of her period (1811-1889).
Fanny Fern

Fanny Fern

Nancy A. Walker

Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Hawthorne said, "writes as if the devil was in her.
Map of Life and Beauty: A Memoir

Map of Life and Beauty: A Memoir

Fanny Barry

Fanny Barry was a successful engineer, artist, yoga instructor and girlfriend living in Boston, Massachusetts.
LIFE & BEAUTIES OF FANNY FERN

LIFE & BEAUTIES OF FANNY FERN

Fanny 1811-1872 Fern

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Ruth Hall and Other Writings

Ruth Hall and Other Writings

Fanny Fern

Briefly traces Fanny Fern's life, presents her novel about a young widow struggling to support her children, and gathers a selection of her newspaper articles
The world of Fanny Burney

The world of Fanny Burney

Evelyn Farr

This book, which draws extensively on Fanny Burney's renowned diaries, provides an intimate portrait of a woman whose life was described by a contemporary as 'a vortex of pleasure, brilliancy, and wit'.
Fanny Says

Fanny Says

Nickole Brown

A raucous, bawdy, and hilarious investigation of the South through the unforgettable voice of Fanny, Nickole Brown's fierce, tough-as-new-rope grandmother.
Fanny Seward: A Life

Fanny Seward: A Life

Trudy Krisher

Giving readers a previously unseen glimpse into the era, Fanny Seward: A Life broadens our understanding of Civil War America.
Fanny Burney

Fanny Burney

Judy Simons

The first comprehensive critical study of the work of Fanny Burney. Living in a world where male supremacy was unchallenged, Burney pioneered the 'women's novel' by presenting a distinctively female perspective in English fiction.
Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman

Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman

Joyce W. Warren

Fanny Fern is a name that is unfamiliar to most contemporary readers. In this first modern biography, Warren revives the reputation of a once-popular 19th-century newspaper columnist and novelist.
Evelina; or The history of a young lady's introduction to ...

Evelina; or The history of a young lady's introduction to ...

Fanny Burney

Fanny Burney, Evelina (fict.name.) in affluence ; and, therefore, the less her grandchild requires her assistance, the more gladly she will give it. I have but one thing more to add, from which, however, I can by no means recede : my word so ...
Fanny Burney: Her Life

Fanny Burney: Her Life

Kate Chisholm

23 This miniature was commissioned by Charles from the portraitist Gervase Spencer. ... 29 In her notoriously unreliable Memoirs of her father, Fanny claimed that Charles's salary was £100, but Dr Scholes included in his The Great Dr Burney ...
A Year of Revolutions: Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848

A Year of Revolutions: Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848

Fanny Lewald

From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich Eric Dorn Brose During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. However, these studies often gravitate ...
Frontiers

Frontiers

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Oklahoma's pioneering woman progressive, who fought for social justice reform. $34.95 Hardcover • 0-8061-3563-8 - 256 [ Fanny Dunbar Corbusier Recollections of Her Army Life. 1869-1908 By Fanny Dunbar Corbusier Edited by Patricia Y.
La Citadelle: Layle Lane and Social Activism in ...

La Citadelle: Layle Lane and Social Activism in ...

Leonard L. Bethel

FANNY SIMON An educator and New York teacher, Fanny Simon became a close friend of Layle Lane's. They became acquainted right after she graduated from Cornell University. Their comradeship developed during a period of challenge ...

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