Beauty in Breeches
Author | : Helen Dickson |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Historical fiction |
ISBN | : 0373306229 |
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Author | : Helen Dickson |
Publisher | : Harlequin |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Historical fiction |
ISBN | : 0373306229 |
Author | : Jo Stanley |
Publisher | : Rivers Oram Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
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Bold in her Breeches takes a wholly fresh look at these mythical figures and places them in their true historical and cultural contexts. From Artemisia to the contemporary women pirates of today, via eighteenth-century Grace O'Malley and nineteenth-century Cheng I Sao, we learn why women took to piracy, what it was actually like, how they were regarded by people of their own time and what history has done to their stories.
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Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Theater |
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Author | : Patricia Fara |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2011-01-18 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1446435164 |
'Had God intended Women merely as a finer sort of cattle, he would not have made them reasonable.' Writing in 1673, Bathsua Makin was one of the first women to insist that girls should receive a scientific education. Despite the efforts of Makin and her successors, women were excluded from universities until the end of the nineteenth century, yet they found other ways to participate in scientific projects. Taking a fresh look at history, Pandora's Breeches investigates how women contributed to scientific progress. As well as collaborating in home-based research, women corresponded with internationally-renowned scholars, hired tutors, published their own books and translated and simplified important texts, such as Newton's book on gravity. They played essential roles in work frequently attributed solely to their husbands, fathers or friends.
Author | : W. J. Thorold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Theater |
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Author | : W. J. Thorold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Theater |
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Author | : Edward Jewitt Wheeler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Literature |
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Author | : Edward Jewitt Wheeler |
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Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1889 |
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Total Pages | : 610 |
Release | : 1889 |
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Author | : Jennifer Clement |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317071166 |
While humility is not especially valued in modern Western culture, Jennifer Clement argues here, it is central to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century understandings of Christian faith and behavior, and is vital to early modern concepts of the self. As this study shows, early modern literary engagements with humility link it to self-knowledge through the practice of right reading, and make humility foundational to any proper understanding of human agency. Yet humility has received little critical interest, and has often been misunderstood as a false virtue that engenders only self-abjection. This study offers an overview of various ways in which humility is discussed, deployed, or resisted in early modern texts ranging from the explicitly religious and autobiographical prose of Katherine Parr and John Donne, to the more politically motivated prose of Queen Elizabeth I and the seventeenth-century reformer and radical Thomas Tryon. As part of the wider 'turn to religion' in early modern studies, this study seeks to complicate our understanding of a mainstream early modern virtue, and to problematize a mode of critical analysis that assumes agency is always defined by resistance.