Daughter Of Calamity
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Daughter Of Calamity
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Author : Rosalie M. Lin
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2024-06-18
Daughter Of Calamity written by Rosalie M. Lin and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with Fiction categories.
An irresistibly dark, atmospheric reimagining of 1930s Shanghai filled with glamour, gods and gangsters. From Rosalie M. Lin, perfect for fans of S. A. Chakraborty and Fonda Lee. 'I was utterly swept up . . . seductive, sprawling, full of malice' – Kendare Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns In Shanghai, danger wears many faces . . . 1932, Shanghai. By day, Jingwen delivers bones for her grandmother, the exclusive surgeon to the most formidable gang in the city. By night, she dances at the Paramount, a lavish cabaret club, competing ruthlessly to charm the wealthy patrons. Then mysterious attackers start to target the club, stealing the faces of their victims – and selling them onto the powerful elite. Jingwen fears she could be next. To protect herself and her fellow performers, she has no choice but to delve deeper into the city’s glittering underworld. In this treacherous realm of cut-throat businessmen, silver-limbed gangsters and vengeful gods, Jingwen soon learns that she must become something far stranger and more dangerous than she ever imagined, if she hopes to survive . . . 'Decadent, dangerous, and addictive' – A. Y. Chao, author of Shanghai Immortal
Calamity Jane S Letters To Her Daughter
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Author : Martha Jane Hickok
language : en
Publisher:
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Calamity Jane S Letters To Her Daughter
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Author : Calamity Jane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Calamity Jane S Letters To Her Daughter written by Calamity Jane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Calamity Jane S Daughter
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Author : Ruth Shadley
language : en
Publisher: Caxton Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
Calamity Jane S Daughter written by Ruth Shadley and has been published by Caxton Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with West (U.S.) categories.
Calamity S Daughter
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Author : Rebecca Willman
language : en
Publisher: First Edition Design Pub.
Release Date : 2015-02-27
Calamity S Daughter written by Rebecca Willman and has been published by First Edition Design Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-27 with Fiction categories.
JANEY BURKE despises her life at St. Jerome's Orphanage in 1902 Sturgis, South Dakota. She harbors a messy stew of hurt, anger and confusion after having been deposited there at the age of eight by her own mother. She compensates by carrying out elaborate pranks and fiercely defending the younger children against bullies. Though these actions endear her to her peers, she is a thorn-in-the-side to the home's authority figures. Only her friendship with the shy half-Shoshone girl, EMMA TWO-SHOES makes life tolerable. Then on her fifteenth birthday a dapper stranger waltzes into St. Jerome's. Janey learns that this Englishman, SEBASTIAN KENT, has come to take her to Deadwood to be reunited with her mother. She is further shocked when he reveals her mother is the Wild West icon, CALAMITY JANE. Keywords: Historical, Teen, Coming-Of-Age, Orphans, South Dakota, Women's Issues, Bullying, Friendship, Action-Packed, Suspenseful
The Letters Of Calamity Jane To Her Daughter
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Author : Calamity Jane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Letters Of Calamity Jane To Her Daughter written by Calamity Jane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Cowgirls categories.
Calamity Jane
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Author : Richard W. Etulain
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2015-08-25
Calamity Jane written by Richard W. Etulain and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This exhaustive bibliographical reference will be the first stop for anyone looking for Calamity Jane in print, film, or photograph—and wanting to know how reliable those sources may be. Richard W. Etulain, renowned western-U.S. historian and the author of a recent biography of this charismatic figure, enumerates and assesses the most valuable sources on Calamity Jane’s life and legend in newspapers, magazines, journals, books, and movies, as well as historical and government archives. Etulain begins with a brief biography of Martha Canary, aka Calamity Jane (1856–1903), then analyzes the origins and growth of her legends. The sources, Etulain shows, reveal three versions of Calamity Jane. In the most popular one, she was a Wild Woman of the Old West who helped push a roaring frontier through its final stages. This is the Calamity Jane who fought Indians, marched with the military, and took on the bad guys. Early in her life she also hoped to embody the pioneer woman, seeking marriage and a stable family and home. A third, later version made of Calamity an angel of mercy who reached out to the poor and nursed smallpox victims no one else would help. The hyperbolic journalism of the Old West, as well as dime novels and the stretchers Calamity herself told in her interviews and autobiography, shaped her legends through much of the twentieth century. Many of the sensational early accounts of Calamity’s life, Etulain notes, were based on rumor and hearsay. In illuminating the role of the Deadwood Dick dime novel series and other pulp fiction in shaping what we know—or think we know—of the American West, Etulain underscores one of his fascinating themes: the power of popular culture. The product of twenty years’ labor sifting fact from falsehood or distortion, this bibliography and reader’s guide includes brief discussions of nearly every item’s contents, along with a terse, entertaining evaluation of its reliability.
In Calamity S Wake
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Author : Natalee Caple
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Release Date : 2015-07-07
In Calamity S Wake written by Natalee Caple and has been published by Bloomsbury USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-07 with Fiction categories.
A novel about the adventures of Calamity Jane and the abandoned daughter who seeks to be reunited with her.
Calamity Jane
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Author : James D. McLaird
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-11-27
Calamity Jane written by James D. McLaird and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Forget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert’s gritty portrayal on HBO’s Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you’ve never encountered. That is, until now. This book is a definitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman popularly known as Calamity Jane. Written by one of today’s foremost authorities on this notorious character, it is a meticulously researched account of how an alcoholic prostitute was transformed into a Wild West heroine. Always on the move across the northern plains, Martha was more camp follower than the scout of legend. A mother of two, she often found employment as waitress, laundress, or dance hall girl and was more likely to be wearing a dress than buckskin. But she was hard to ignore when she’d had a few drinks, and she exploited the aura of fame that dime novels created around her, even selling her autobiography and photos to tourists. Gun toting, swearing, hard drinking—Calamity Jane was all of these, to be sure. But whatever her flaws or foibles, James D. McLaird paints a compelling portrait of an unconventional woman who more than once turned the tables on those who sought to condemn or patronize her. He also includes dozens of photos—many never before seen—depicting Jane in her many guises. His book is a long-awaited biography of Martha Canary and the last word on Calamity Jane.
The Life And Legends Of Calamity Jane
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Author : Richard W. Etulain
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-09-15
The Life And Legends Of Calamity Jane written by Richard W. Etulain and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-15 with History categories.
Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.