The Rural Life of England
Author | : William Howitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Howitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Howitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Washington Irving |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2002-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780898759686 |
Chapters on The Country Church, Rural Funerals, The Stage Coach, Stratford-on-Avon, John Bull, The Angler, and more. Washington Irving ( 1783 - 1859 ), born in New York, was the son of a wealthy British merchant who, following a visit to England, published a volume of essays and tales, The Sketch Book ( 1820 ), containing pieces on both English and American life, and thereby earned himself celebrity on two continents. He is widely believed to be the first American author to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim.
Author | : Michael McLoughlin |
Publisher | : Michael McLoughlin |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9780670881963 |
On March 29, 1971, a Canadian was found brutally murdered in a small Paris apartment. The victim, François Mario Bachand, was a radical member of the separatist Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ), the terrorist group that had been causing havoc in Canada, planting bombs and carrying out kidnappings. Bachand served a jail term in the early 1960s, and after his release he was considered a loose cannon, heartily despised by many associates. It was widely believed that the FLQ had killed one of its own. Twenty years after Bachand died in Paris, author Michael McLoughlin came across a single document in the National Archives of Canada that shed an eerie new light on the circumstances of Bachand's death. The murder, McLoughlin discovered, was not so simple after all. And the deeper he dug, the more complicated - and disturbing - the case became. Last Stop, Paris analyzes the shocking circumstances surrounding Bachand's murder. McLoughlin carefully reconstructs the secret meeting that determined Bachand's fate and the events that led to his assassination on the March day in Paris. It also follows the movements of the FLQ and the RCMP Security Service, and reveals the close international connections that tied revolutionary groups of the later 1960s and 1970s - from Cuba to Europe to the Middle East - to underground agents of the CIA, MI5, and French intelligence. A revealing look at the international web of terrorism and government intelligence, Last Stop, Paris is an explosive examination of the secrets, betrayals and violence that characterized the most tumultuous period in Canada's recent history.
Author | : William Howitt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 860 |
Release | : 1838 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Goodridge |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521433819 |
Recent research into a self-taught tradition of English rural poetry has begun to offer a radically new dimension to our view of the role of poetry in the literary culture of the eighteenth century. In this important new study John Goodridge offers a detailed reading of key rural poems of the period, examines the ways in which eighteenth-century poets adapted Virgilian Georgic models, and reveals an illuminating link between rural poetry and agricultural and folkloric developments. Goodridge compares poetic accounts of rural labour by James Thomson, Stephen Duck, and Mary Collier, and makes a close analysis of one of the largely forgotten didactic epics of the eighteenth century, John Dyer's The Fleece. Through an exploration of the purpose of rural poetry and how it relates to the real world, Goodridge breaks through the often brittle surface of eighteenth-century poetry, to show how it reflects the ideologies and realities of contemporary life.
Author | : Howard Newby |
Publisher | : Barnes & Noble |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alun Howkins |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Country life |
ISBN | : 9780415138840 |
This engaging history of rural England and Wales during the twentieth century looks at the role of the countryside as both a place of work and of leisure and looks at the many crises it has suffered during that time.
Author | : G. E. Mingay |
Publisher | : Alan Sutton Publishing |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
During Victoria's reign the English countryside underwent rapid and far-reaching changes. This book offers a portrait of rural England at that time, concentrating on how the changes affected the people who lived there.
Author | : Paul Brassley |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2016-11-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317007514 |
It is now almost impossible to conceive of life in western Europe, either in the towns or the countryside, without a reliable mains electricity supply. By 1938, two-thirds of rural dwellings had been connected to a centrally generated supply, but the majority of farms in Britain were not linked to the mains until sometime between 1950 and 1970. Given the significance of electricity for modern life, the difficulties of supplying it to isolated communities, and the parallels with current discussions over the provision of high-speed broadband connections, it is surprising that until now there has been little academic discussion of this vast and protracted undertaking. This book fills that gap. It is divided into three parts. The first, on the progress of electrification, explores the timing and extent of electrification in rural England, Wales and Scotland; the second examines the effects of electrification on rural life and the rural landscape; and the third makes comparisons over space and time, looking at electrification in Canada and Sweden and comparing electrification with the current problems of rural broadband.