The intriguing history of Dickens's London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
Tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of Charles Dickens's London ever since the death of the world-renowned author. Late Victorians and Edwardians were obsessed with tracking down the locations-dubbed 'Dickensland'-that famously featured in his novels. But his fans were faced with a city that was undergoing rapid redevelopment, where literary shrines were far from sacred. Over the following century, sites connected with Dickens were demolished, relocated, and reimagined.
Lee Jackson traces the fascinating history of Dickensian tourism, exploring both real Victorian London and a fictional city shaped by fandom, tourism, and heritage entrepreneurs. Beginning with the late nineteenth century, Jackson investigates key sites of literary pilgrimage and their relationship with Dickens and his work, revealing hidden, reinvented, and even faked locations. From vanishing coaching inns to submerged riverside stairs, hidden burial grounds to apocryphal shops, Dickensland charts the curious history of an imaginary world.
Liz Hayes has graced our television screens for more than four decades. Millions of Australians kicked off their weeks with Liz co-hosting Channel 9's Today show, and now for over 25 years have settled into their Sunday nights to watch her investigative journalism on 60 Minutes.
From camping in grizzly bear territory to sipping tea with an Afghani warlord in an active warzone, Liz has almost seen it all. She has shared the stories of celebrities and movie stars, leaders and politicians, heroes and villains across the globe, but - after a lifetime of reporting on others - when tragedy struck her own family, Liz discovered that sometimes the hardest story to tell is your own.
Compelling and elegantly written, Liz's long-awaited memoir takes us behind the cameras and back to when Beth Ryan, the dairy farmer's daughter, became seasoned journalist Liz Hayes, and how life in the country gave way to 'controlled' crash-landings on US aircraft carriers.
Synonymous with her iconic 60 Minutes television introduction, I'm Liz Hayes, is a warm and authentic memoir about what's possible, and what it can cost you, when you choose a life of adventure.
El primer libro de una de raperas más relevante de Latinoamérica, en donde confirma la fuerza de su voz y mirada.
En un trabajo de memoria e introspección, la cantante y rapera Ana Tijoux indaga en su primer libro en la configuración de su identidad, permeada por distintos países y tradiciones.
Divididos en cuatro secciones -cuatro acordes asociados a temples anímicos-, los textos autobiográficos aquí reunidos abordan temas como la amistad, el deseo, el rap, la creación, la maternidad, la injusticia o las implicancias de haber nacido en el exilio.
Con una pluma honesta, libre y tierna, la autora se vuelca hacia sí misma para recordar y pensar momentos de su experiencia que la llevaron a ser una de las voces más influyentes de la música chilena. Y de paso, Tijoux confirma una vez más la fuerza de su voz, la originalidad de su mirada.
Chris Stewart vuelve a deleitarnos con episodios asombrosos de su vida campestre en «El Valero», su ya famosa finca en la Alpujarra granadina.
Las vivencias recogidas en este tercer volumen de la serie iniciada con Entre limones y El loro en el limonero -que no sólo cosecharon un enorme éxito en España, sino que también suman más de un millón de ejemplares vendidos en Reino Unido- reflejan el particular talante de una persona con una incorregible tendencia a actuar movida por cierta visión idealista de las cosas.
De esas vivencias emerge el retrato de un hombre inasequible al desaliento y siempre dispuesto a acometer nuevos desafíos, ya sea cuando forma parte del Club de Admiradores de los Almendros en Flor, cuando su hija lo instruye en los usos y costumbres de los adolescentes españoles, o cuando inesperadamente le toca hacer una visita guiada de Sevilla a millonarios norteamericanosy a posteriori decide enfrentarse al trabajo de oficina en un centro de ayuda al inmigrante. Los almendros en flor es una muestra más de la capacidad de Chris para contagiarnos con su mirada abierta, su optimismo sincero y, sobre todo, su inquebrantable buen humor.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Exquisito [...]. El estilo consistente y dinámico de Stewart, así como su falta de pretensiones, hacen que la narración avance con fluidez.»
The Daily Telegraph
«Un libro maravilloso [...] fiel retrato de un lugar y su gente [...]. No olvide meterlo en su equipaje de vacaciones y dejarse llevar.»
The Daily Mail
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In Cooperation with Spoken RealmsMary Wollstonecraft Godwin by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Eminent Women Series (Famous Women Series in the US) Edited by John H. Ingram. W. H. Allen & Co. 1885.
Note: This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1884. It is in the public domain.
Mary Wollstonecraft is the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. She has been called Britain’s first feminist. Her daughter Mary Shelley is the author of the novel Frankenstein (1818).
This biography was written by Elizabeth Robin Pennell. It was her first book, written before she was thirty. She was married that year to illustrator/artist Joseph Pennell. She wrote many other books: including cycling travels in Europe, art and food criticism, biographies of painter/friend: James Whistler (painter of Whistler’s Mother), folklorist/uncle: Charles Godfrey Leland, and memoirs of her London salon.
CONTENTS IntroductionCHAPTER I.— Childhood and Early Youth. 1759–1778CHAPTER II.— First Years of Work. 1778–1785CHAPTER III.— Life as Governess. 1786–1788CHAPTER IV.— Literary Life. 1788–1791CHAPTER V.— Literary Work. 1788–1791 CHAPTER VI. — “Vindication of the Rights of Women'CHAPTER VII.— Visit to Paris. 1792–1793CHAPTER VIII.— Life with Imlay. 1793–1794 CHAPTER IX.— Imlay’s Desertion. 1794–1795CHAPTER X.— Literary Work. 1793–1796CHAPTER XL— Retrospective. 1794–1796CHAPTER XII.— William GodwinCHAPTER XIII.— Life with Godwin: Marriage. 1796–1797CHAPTER XIV.— Last Months: Death
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Louisa May Alcott´s Little Women is the author´s love song for German culture and literature. In the novel, there are many moments when the characters make references to German literature, and Jo's love interest professor Bhaer is also based on Alcott's favourite writer, the German poet Goethe. When Friedrich helps Jo when she struggles writing to Weekly Volcano, we can see her influences from Goethe, Friedrich recommends Jo read Shakespeare and study characters like Goethe would have done. It is also remarkable that Alcott gives Jo a German love interest because German immigrants were widely discriminated in 19th century America, but in Concord where Alcott's resided there was a full-blown German epidemic with people rushing to buy German books and anything that came from Germany.
In the very first chapter of Little Women Jo wishes for a copy of Undine and Sintram as a Christmas present. Undine and Sintram is a collection of Scandinavian and Germanic fables written by French-German author Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. This book appears again in the last Little Women book, Jo´s boys. Marches help the poor Hummel family who has immigrated from Germany. Beth and Marmee are especially close to them. Beth catches terrible scarlet fever, but the Marches never blame the Hummels. Epidemic diseases were rather common back then and Louisa always writes about the Hummels with great sympathy. In the chapter 'Camp Lawrence' John Brooke translates a German song for Meg and reads her parts from 'Mary Stuart', a play that was written by German poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller. At Meg´s and John´s wedding, Laurie suggests that they dance as the Germans do.
There was a real-life Friedrich Bhaer. In fact, Louisa May Alcott wanted to marry him and even start a school with him. This man appears in literal disguises in all of her novels. He is Friedrich in Little Women, Mac in Rose in Bloom and David in Work and many more. Henry and Louisa shared a deep friendship, was it more than friendship? In Little Women Jo's and Friedrich's age gap is 16 years. It is the same age difference as between Henry and Louisa.
One of the models for Jo and Friedrich might be Louisa's friend Elizabeth and her husband. Her life was surprisingly similar to the book Jo. She wasn't a writer, but there are parallels. Based on what I have found, her marriage with her lawyer husband was a happy one. She was devoted to the educational work and in the same way, as Jo does, she promoted co-education, for both male and female students. She became a dean of the university. Same way as Jo who becomes the matriarch of the Bhaer Academy in 'Jo´s Boys'..
There is a very compelling case to be made that Henry David Thoreau was the real-life Friedrich Bhaer. Louisa once called her friend Emerson 'The God of my idolatry' but it was Henry who merited her lifelong affection. The ties between Henry and the Alcotts are more extensive than one might expect. From the time when the Alcotts moved to Concord in March 1840 until Henry's passing in 1862. He was a frequent guest in the Alcott´s home taking tea or dinner with the family. Bronson who admired the young man's intellect often visited him in his hut at Walden Pond. If the connection between Henry and the Alcotts was strong, the connection between Louisa and Henry was even stronger
When Kevin Powell's elderly mother became ill, he returned home ever week to take her grocery shopping in Jersey City. Walking behind her during those trips, Powell began to hear her voice, stories, and language in a new way—and examined his own healing while praying for hers.
Grocery Shopping with My Mother originated as social media posts about these visits and evolved into a breathtaking collection of thirty-two new poems, crafted like an album, plus four bonus tracks celebrating a great love of wordplay.
Culturally rooted in the literary traditions of Ntozake Shange and Allen Ginsberg, Powell’s poems honor the likes of V (formerly Eve Ensler), bell hooks, and Sidney Poitier.
Grocery Shopping with My Mother dives into the complexities of relationships and contemporary themes with honesty and vulnerability. Creatively and spiritually inspired by Stevie Wonder’s Songs in the Key of Life, Powell’s poems shift in form and style, from praise chants to reverential
meditations to, most importantly, innovative hope.
A biography of the remarkable woman whose bestselling Mythology has introduced millions of readers to the classical world
Edith Hamilton (1867–1963) didn’t publish her first book until she was sixty-two.
But over the next three decades, this former headmistress would become the twentieth century’s most famous interpreter of the classical world. Today, Hamilton’s Mythology (1942) remains the standard version of ancient tales and sells tens of thousands of copies a year. During the Cold War, her influence even extended to politics, as she argued that postwar America could learn from the fate of Athens after its victory in the Persian Wars. In American Classicist, Victoria Houseman tells the fascinating life story of a remarkable classicist whose ideas were shaped by—and aspired to shape—her times.
Hamilton studied Latin and Greek from an early age, earned a BA and MA at Bryn Mawr College, and ran a girls’ prep school for twenty-six years. After retiring, she turned to writing and began a relationship with the pianist and stockbroker Doris Fielding Reid. The two women were partners for more than forty years and entertained journalists, diplomats, and politicians in their Washington, D.C., house. Hamilton traveled extensively around the world, formed friendships with Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound, and was made an honorary citizen of Athens.
While Hamilton believed that the ancient Greeks represented the peak of world civilization, Houseman shows that this suffragist, pacifist, and anti-imperialist wasfar from an apologist for Western triumphalism.
An absorbing narrative of an eventful life, American Classicist reveals how Hamilton’s Greek and Roman worlds held up a mirror to midcentury America even as she strived to convey a timeless beauty that continues to enthrall readers.
Quarantined in a southwestern desert city in the midst of her high-risk pregnancy, Margo Steines felt her life narrow around her growing body, compelling her to reckon with the violence entangled in its history. She was a professional dominatrix in New York City, a homestead farmer in a brutal relationship, a welder on a high-rise building crew, and a Mixed Martial Arts enthusiast; each of her many lives brought a new vantage point from which to see how power and masculinity coalesce?and how her body paid the price. With unflinching candor, Steines searches for the roots of her erstwhile attraction to pain while charting the complicated triumph of tenderness and care.
Mary Welsh, a celebrated wartime journalist during the London Blitz and the liberation of Paris, meets Ernest Hemingway in May 1944. He becomes so infatuated with Mary that he asks her to marry him the third time they meet-although they are married to other people. Eventually, she succumbs to Ernest's campaign, and in the last days of the war joined him at his estate in Cuba.
Through Mary's eyes, we see Ernest Hemingway in a fresh light. Their turbulent marriage survives his cruelty and abuse, perhaps because of their sexual compatibility and her essential contribution to his writing. She reads and types his work each day-and makes plot suggestions. She becomes crucial to his work and he depends upon her critical reading of his work to know if he has it right. We watch as they travel to the ski country of the Dolomites, commute to Harry's Bar in Venice; and attend bullfights in Pamplona and Madrid. We see Ernest fall in love with a teenaged Italian countess and wonder at Mary's tolerance of the affair. We witness Ernest's sad decline and Mary's efforts to avoid the stigma of suicide by claiming his death was an accident.
Her story is one of an opinionated woman who smokes Camels, drinks gin, swears like a man, sings like Edith Piaf, loves passionately, and experiments with gender fluidity in her extraordinary life with Ernest.
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