Runaway Widow
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Runaway Widow The Rockwood Chronicles Book 3
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Author : Dilly Court
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2022-02-17
Runaway Widow The Rockwood Chronicles Book 3 written by Dilly Court and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-17 with Fiction categories.
Don’t miss the third book in the heartwarming six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!
Runaway Widow
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Author : Dilly Court
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Runaway Widow written by Dilly Court and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Domestic fiction categories.
London, 1859. When Lady Patricia Greystone's husband dies suddenly, she is left with nothing. At twenty-four, she finds herself a penniless widow. Determined not to return to her family cap in hand, she strikes out on her own. Patricia's voice is her only hope. She makes her living singing at inns and on the streets. But a dangerous figure from her family's past is lurking in the shadows, and before long she finds herself fleeing the city. Without her family around her, will Patricia lose her way?
The Runaway Widow
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Author : Patricia M. Pierson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-12-30
The Runaway Widow written by Patricia M. Pierson and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-30 with categories.
She hadn't wanted to run away from home like some rebellious teenager but she'd had no choice. Tomorrow she was to be declared mentally incompetent, robbed of her estate, and imprisoned in 'the worst care facility' her stepdaughter could find. At seventy-five, forgetful and frightened, there was no way Mary could stand before a judge and prove her competency. The awful truth was, her stepdaughter might be right. She might be slipping into dementia like her mother before her. Living on the streets of Portland in her eighty-thousand dollar Lexus was embarrassing. Donning a blonde wig and dropping twenty years from her age so she could get a job was audacious. Falling in love at a seniors dance was the last thing she expected.
Runaway Slaves
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Author : John Hope Franklin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-07-20
Runaway Slaves written by John Hope Franklin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-20 with Social Science categories.
From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their masters and ran away from their plantations whenever they could. For generations, important aspects about slave life on the plantations of the American South have remained shrouded. Historians thought, for instance, that slaves were generally pliant and resigned to their roles as human chattel, and that racial violence on the plantation was an aberration. In this precedent setting book, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger demonstrate that, contrary to popular belief, significant numbers of slaves did in fact frequently rebel against their masters and struggled to attain their freedom. By surveying a wealth of documents, such as planters' records, petitions to county courts and state legislatures, and local newspapers, this book shows how slaves resisted, when, where, and how they escaped, where they fled to, how long they remained in hiding, and how they survived away from the plantation. Of equal importance, it examines the reactions of the white slaveholding class, revealing how they marshaled considerable effort to prevent runaways, meted out severe punishments, and established patrols to hunt down escaped slaves. Reflecting a lifetime of thought by our leading authority in African American history, this book provides the key to truly understanding the relationship between slaveholders and the runaways who challenged the system--illuminating as never before the true nature of the South's "most peculiar institution."
The Runaway Viscount
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Author : Darcy Burke
language : en
Publisher: Zealous Quill Press
Release Date : 2022-12-27
The Runaway Viscount written by Darcy Burke and has been published by Zealous Quill Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-27 with Fiction categories.
Two years ago, independent widow Juliana Sheldon spent a blissful night with the Viscount Audlington at an inn during a snowstorm, and the next morning, he left without a word. Juliana doesn’t realize how much his abandonment upset her until she encounters him at a matchmaking house party. He’d like to rekindle their affair, but Juliana prefers to torment him instead. Until she finally surrenders to temptation—only to be dismayed when he begins to talk about the one thing she doesn’t want: marriage. Lucas Trask, heir to an earldom, has left his rakish reputation behind in favor of finally taking a wife. He never forgot Juliana and reconnecting with her seems like fate is telling him who he should wed. However, Lucas has a secret, one he’s never dared share with anyone. If he can convince Juliana to be his wife, he’ll reveal everything. But when tragedy strikes, he must leave again. This time, the runaway viscount may be all out of luck.
Chaste Wives And Prostitute Sisters
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Author : Anuja Agrawal
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2020-11-29
Chaste Wives And Prostitute Sisters written by Anuja Agrawal and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-29 with Social Science categories.
This book is an anthropological study of the unusual coincidence of prostitution and patriarchy among an extremely marginalized group in north India, the Bedias, who are also a de-notified community. It is the first detailed account of the implications of a systematic practice of familial prostitution on the kinship structures and marriage practices of a community. This starkly manifests among the Bedias in the clear separation between sisters and daughters who engage in prostitution and wives and daughters-in-law who do not. The Bedias exemplify a situation in which prostitution of young unmarried women is the mainstay of the familial economy of an entire social group. Tracing the recent origins of the practice in the community, the author goes on to explore the manner in which this familial economy manifests itself in the lives of individual women and the kind of family groupings it produces. She then examines the repercussion this economy has on the lives of Bedia men, how the problem of their marriage is resolved, and how the Bedia wives become repositories of female purity which otherwise stands jeopardized by Bedia sisters engaged in prostitution.
The Fox Spirit The Stone Maiden And Other Transgender Histories From Late Imperial China
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Author : Matthew H. Sommer
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2024-03-19
The Fox Spirit The Stone Maiden And Other Transgender Histories From Late Imperial China written by Matthew H. Sommer and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-19 with History categories.
In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, and clergy left behind normative gender roles defined by family and procreation. “Stone maidens”—women deemed physically incapable of vaginal intercourse—might depart from families or marriages to become Buddhist or Daoist nuns. Anatomical males who presented as women sometimes took a conventionally female occupation such as midwife, faith healer, or even medium to a fox spirit. Yet they were often punished harshly for the crime of “masquerading in women’s attire,” suspected of sexual predation, even when they had lived peacefully in their communities for many years. Exploring these histories and many more, this book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing. He considers a range of transgender experiences, illuminating how certain forms of gender transgression were sanctioned in particular social contexts and penalized in others. Sommer scrutinizes the ways Qing legal authorities and literati writers represented and understood gender-nonconforming people and practices, contrasting official ideology with popular mentalities. An unprecedented account of China’s transgender histories, this book also sheds new light on a range of themes in Ming and Qing law, religion, medicine, literature, and culture.
Theatre
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1888
Theatre written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1888 with Theater categories.
Jane Of The Jungle
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Author : Jane Baskin
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-04-01
Jane Of The Jungle written by Jane Baskin and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Fiction categories.
Jane is a respected trauma nurse specialist, who suddenly finds herself broke and out of a job after her husbands death from a lingering illness. Fold?...Or play? Armed only with a facelift and a nine millimeter, she defies her situation and hits the road in a converted tour bus that runs on manure. With nothing left to lose, she encounters a sudden flood of adventure, crime, unexplainable events, new friends, new enemies, and of course, true love. Can a telepathic tiger be a guide? Can a talking fox predict the future? Can a bunch of misfit bikers make a new town? Can a reluctant mobster make a new life? Most of all, can we get second chances in life, if we are smart enough to cheat death, shrewd enough to evade our enemies, and brave enough to believe that magic is real?
A Caring County
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Author : Steven King
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
Release Date : 2013-11-01
A Caring County written by Steven King and has been published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with Social Science categories.
This comparative study gathers together new research by local historians into aspects of welfare in Hertfordshire spanning four centuries and focusing on towns and villages across the county, including Ashwell, Cheshunt, Hertford, Pirton, and Royston, amongst many others. In so doing it makes a valuable contribution to the current debate about the spatial and chronological variation in the character of welfare regimes within single counties, let alone more widely. As well as viewing poor relief geographically and chronologically, the book also considers the treatment of particular groups such as the aged, the mad, children, and the unemployed, and shows how, within the constraints of the relevant welfare laws, each group was dealt with differently, giving a more nuanced picture than has perhaps been the case before. The overarching question that the book attempts to answer is how effectively Hertfordshire cared for those in need. With chapters on madhouses, workhouses, certified industrial schools, the Foundling Hospital, pensions, and medical care, the book covers a very broad range of topics through which a complex picture emerges. While some officials seem to have been driven by a relatively narrow sense of their obligations to the poor and vulnerable, others appear to have tailored welfare packages to their precise needs. Naturally, self-interest played a part: if the weakest citizens were well managed, vagrancy might be lessened, the spread of disease contained, and control maintained over the cost of looking after the poor and sick. It seems that Hertfordshire was relatively nimble and sensitive in discovering and treating its people's needs. Evidence is beginning to emerge, in other words, that Hertfordshire was in essence a caring county.