A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf write by Kevin J. Hayes. This book was released on 2016-02-05. A Colonial Woman's Bookshelf available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf represents a significant contribution to the study of the intellectual life of women in British North America. Kevin J. Hayes studies the books these women read and the reasons why they read them. As Hayes notes, recent studies on the literary tastes of early American women have concentrated on the post-revolutionary period, when several women novelists emerged. Yet, he observes, women were reading long before they began writing and publishing novels, and, in fact, mounting evidence now suggests that literacy rates among colonial women were much higher than previously supposed. To reconstruct what might have filled a typical colonial woman’s bookshelf, Hayes has mined such sources as wills and estate inventories, surviving volumes inscribed by women, public and private library catalogs, sales ledgers, borrowing records from subscription libraries, and contemporary biographical sketches of notable colonial women. Hayes identifies several categories of reading material. These range from devotional works and conduct books to midwifery guides and cookery books, from novels and travel books to science books. In his concluding chapter, he describes the tensions that were developing near the end of the colonial period between the emerging cult of domesticity and the appetite for learning many women displayed. With its meticulous research and rich detail, A Colonial Woman’s Bookshelf makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the complexities of life in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America.
Woman's Life in Colonial Days
Woman's Life in Colonial Days - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Woman's Life in Colonial Days write by Carl Holliday. This book was released on 2020-07-17. Woman's Life in Colonial Days available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reproduction of the original: Woman's Life in Colonial Days by Carl Holliday
The History of Southern Women's Literature
The History of Southern Women's Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Southern Women's Literature write by Carolyn Perry. This book was released on 2002-03-01. The History of Southern Women's Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many of America’s foremost, and most beloved, authors are also southern and female: Mary Chesnut, Kate Chopin, Ellen Glasgow, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Lee Smith, to name several. Designating a writer as “southern” if her work reflects the region’s grip on her life, Carolyn Perry and Mary Louise Weaks have produced an invaluable guide to the richly diverse and enduring tradition of southern women’s literature. Their comprehensive history—the first of its kind in a relatively young field—extends from the pioneer woman to the career woman, embracing black and white, poor and privileged, urban and Appalachian perspectives and experiences. The History of Southern Women’s Literature allows readers both to explore individual authors and to follow the developing arc of various genres across time. Conduct books and slave narratives; Civil War diaries and letters; the antebellum, postbellum, and modern novel; autobiography and memoirs; poetry; magazine and newspaper writing—these and more receive close attention. Over seventy contributors are represented here, and their essays discuss a wealth of women’s issues from four centuries: race, urbanization, and feminism; the myth of southern womanhood; preset images and assigned social roles—from the belle to the mammy—and real life behind the facade of meeting others’ expectations; poverty and the labor movement; responses to Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the influence of Gone with the Wind. The history of southern women’s literature tells, ultimately, the story of the search for freedom within an “insidious tradition,” to quote Ellen Glasgow. This teeming volume validates the deep contributions and pleasures of an impressive body of writing and marks a major achievement in women’s and literary studies.
Beyond the Cliffs of Kerry
Beyond the Cliffs of Kerry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Beyond the Cliffs of Kerry write by Amanda Hughes. This book was released on 2011-06-02. Beyond the Cliffs of Kerry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It seduces her like a lover. It bewitches her like a spell. It is something mysterious and powerful that Darcy McBride must follow beyond the cliffs of Kerry. Ireland in 1755 is a terrible place. Ravaged by famine and the brutal occupation of the British, Darcy McBride joins a group of smugglers who trade illegally with the French. The operation is discovered and the young woman is transported to the English Colonies for servitude. Shattered by war and bloodshed, Darcy finds the colonists on a feeding frenzy of survival. She refuses to be devoured and meets them with determination and fire stopping them in their tracks. When she confronts the brash and attractive Jean Michel Lupe', a surveyor for the Crown, sparks fly, and Darcy meets her match. His blend of refinement and frontier masculinity unsettles and entices her. Together, they are swept into a whirlwind of violence and intrigue that threatens their love and their survival."As he stepped out into the pouring rain, Jean Michel had to regain his composure. He was not sure he liked the feelings that were churning inside him. This McBride woman had the ability to reach into his soul and open doors he thought were closed forever. She ignited a desire in him that was beyond anything he had ever imagined. Confused and overwhelmed, he blamed it on long months without carnal pleasures, and pushing it from his mind; he started down the path for the McDermott homestead."
Colonial Women of Affairs
Colonial Women of Affairs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Colonial Women of Affairs write by E. W. A. Dexter. This book was released on 1931. Colonial Women of Affairs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
