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Do Penance Or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland

Do Penance Or Perish: Magdalen Asylums in Ireland

Frances Finnegan

Frances Finnegan traces the history of the Magdalen Asylums in Ireland, homes founded in the 19th century for the detention of prostitutes undergoing reform, but which later received unwed mothers, wayward girls and the mentally retarded, ...
Primitieve dagen: een surfend leven

Primitieve dagen: een surfend leven

William Finnegan

William Finnegan (1952) schrijft voor The New Yorker en wordt geroemd om zijn journalistieke oeuvre als internationaal verslaggever over armoede, racisme en politiek. Daarnaast is Finnegan bekend om zijn literaire werk over surfen.
Años salvajes

Años salvajes

William Finnegan

Años salvajes nos habla de una obsesión, la de William Finnegan con el surf. Finnegan comenzó a hacer surf de pequeño en Hawái y California.
Jours barbares

Jours barbares

William Finnegan

William Finnegan a acquis ses galons de journaliste lors de la guerre civile au Soudan, en Afrique du Sud pendant l'Apartheid, dans les Balkans ou à Mogadiscio.
Flight from Wonder: An Investigation of Scientific Creativity

Flight from Wonder: An Investigation of Scientific Creativity

Albert Rothenberg MD

See John Pedro Schwartz, “Monument and Museum Discourse in Finnegan's Wake,” James Joyce Quarterly 44 (2006), pp. 77–93. See also the many ways Joyce uses the word Willingdone in the passage where it is introduced in Finnegan's ...
A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique

A Complicated War: The Harrowing of Mozambique

William Finnegan

Among Africa's suffering is the little- known war in Mozambique, now in its second decade. Finnegan traveled through the country in 1988 to assess the impact of a war waged by guerrillas who are armed and often directed by South Africa.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

William Finnegan

William Finnegan first started surfing as a young boy in California and Hawaii. Barbarian Days is his immersive memoir of a life spent travelling the world chasing waves through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa and beyond.
Infinite Opportunities

Infinite Opportunities

Frances Page Cecelia Frances Page

Frances Page Cecelia Frances Page, Cecelia Frances Page. of peasant farmers in many areas have resulted in a steady drift of people, especially the young, to the cities to look for work. Manila, the present capital, is the most important city in  ...
The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: ...

The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: ...

Fanny Burney

Volume II: 1787 Fanny Burney, Stewart Cooke Peter Sabor. [Burney, Frances] Cecilia [Burney, Frances] Evelina [Burney, Frances] The Wanderer CJL Davenport Delany Corr. Dictionary DL ED EJL Eton College Register GEC, Peerage Berg ...
Frances Partridge: The Biography

Frances Partridge: The Biography

Anne Chisholm

Frances Partridge: the last survivor of the Bloomsbury group - the authorised biography. Frances Partridge was one of the great British diarists of the 20th century.
History of New London, Connecticut: From the First Survey of ...

History of New London, Connecticut: From the First Survey of ...

Frances Manwaring Caulkins

MEMOIR OF FRANCES MANWARING CAULKINS. Frances Manwaring, daughter of Joshua and Fanny (Man waring) Caulkins, was born in New London, Conn., April 26, 1795, and died there February 3, 1869. Her ancestry, on the paternal ...
The Witlings and The Woman-Hater

The Witlings and The Woman-Hater

Frances Burney

Frances Burney Peter Sabor, Geoffrey Sill. Short Titles Burney, Complete Plays Burney, Camilla Burney, Cecilia Burney, Evelina Burney, The Wanderer Burney, Early Journals Burney, Journals and Letters Doody, Frances Burney OED The ...
Meet Paula Danziger

Meet Paula Danziger

Frances E. Ruffin

Ruffin, Frances E. Meet Paula Danziger / Frances E. Ruffin. v. cm. — (About the author) Includes index. Contents: Writing with a funny bone — Family life - Books and comedy — College and a mentor — The students' teacher — Accidents ...
Bargain for Frances

Bargain for Frances

Anne Troy

Frances foils Thelma's plot to trick her out of a new china set. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Alcoholysis of Some Amine Salts

The Alcoholysis of Some Amine Salts

Frances Porter Stewart

Frances Porter Stewart. UC-NRLF HIINIHIWIHHMH lli) llHHlilNVIIHIHIIIV В 5 BDC ] ULB The alooholysis of some amine salts By Frances Porter Stewart. Front Cover.
O cérebro adolescente: Guia de sobrevivência para criar ...

O cérebro adolescente: Guia de sobrevivência para criar ...

Dra. Frances E. Jensen

Frances E. Jensen, Amy Ellis Nutt. DRA. FRANCES E. JENSEN COm AMY ELLIS NUTT | #EEEE| |LESCENTE UIA DE SOBREVIVÊNCIA PARA CRIAR A DO LES C E N T ES E JOVENS A DULTOS | i | DRA. FRANCES E. JENSEN COm AMY ...
The Boom Femenino in Mexico: Reading Contemporary Women's ...

The Boom Femenino in Mexico: Reading Contemporary Women's ...

Nuala Finnegan

It is clear from the collection that interest in such issues is still alive and that the debate is far from over.
Frances and Bernard

Frances and Bernard

Carlene Bauer

In witness to all the wonder of kindred spirits and bittersweet romance, Frances and Bernard is a tribute to the power of friendship and the people who help us discover who we are. “There are so many reasons to love this perfect novel, ...
The Complete Plays of Frances Burney

The Complete Plays of Frances Burney

Fanny Burney

This two-volume set of the comedies and tragedies of Frances Burney (1752-1840) reveals her remarkable, yet little-known, talent as a dramatist.
Other People: Diaries, 1963-1966

Other People: Diaries, 1963-1966

Frances Partridge

Other People chronicles Frances' life in the mid-1960s, when she is still struggling to come to terms with existence after the double blow of the deaths of her husband Ralph and her son Burgo.
The Duke's Obsession

The Duke's Obsession

Frances Fowlkes

About the Author Frances Fowlkes lives in South Carolina with her high school sweetheart, three redheaded sons, and a spoiledstandard poodle. Whennotwriting about ardent heroes or strongwilled heroines, she enjoys spendingtime with her ...
My Hand Will Write what My Heart Dictates: The Unsettled ...

My Hand Will Write what My Heart Dictates: The Unsettled ...

Frances Porter

From these rich, diverse (and largely unpublished) sources, Frances Porter and Charlotte Macdonald have built up a portrait of 'life as it happens' in nineteenth-century New Zealand. The women of this book are mainly Pakeha.
The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others

The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others

Georgiana Fullerton

In presenting to the general reader a newly-written Life of so extraordinary a person as St. Frances of Rome, together with the biographical sketches contained in the present volume, it may be useful to introduce them with a few brief ...
The Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, ...

The Countess: The Scandalous Life of Frances Villiers, ...

Tim Clarke

Leader of society, lover of the Prince Regent and contemporary of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, Frances Villiers had a reputation as a scandalous woman.
The Civil War and Yadkin County, North Carolina: A History, ...

The Civil War and Yadkin County, North Carolina: A History, ...

Frances H. Casstevens

Casstevens, Frances Harding. The Civil War and Yadkin County, North Carolina: a history: with contemporary photographs and letters / by Frances H. Casstevens. p. cm. “New evidence regarding home guard activity and the shootout at the ...
The Earl's New Bride

The Earl's New Bride

Frances Fowlkes

Frances Fowlkes lives in South Carolina with her high school sweetheart, three redheaded sons, and a spoiled standard poodle. When not writing about ardent heroes or strongwilled heroines, she enjoys spending time with her family, ...
Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature

Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature

Stephen Guy-Bray

For recent discussions of E.K., see Frances M. Malpezzi, 'E.K., A Spenserian Lesson in Reading,' Connotations 4 (1994-5), 181-91, and Peter C. Herman, ' Poets, Pastors, and Antipoetics: A Response to Frances M. Malpezzi, "E.K., ...
Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in the Canadian ...

Discourses of Domination: Racial Bias in the Canadian ...

Frances Henry

Applying critical discourse analysis as their principal methodology, Frances Henry and Carol Tator investigate the way in which the media produce, reproduce, and disseminate racist thinking through language and discourse.

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