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I Did It My (Their) Way

By: Betty Lane Holland

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I Did It My (Their) Way

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In the 1960s when Australian horse racing rules prevented women being racehorse trainers, Betty Lane broke down barriers and became listed in the top 10 from over 1000 trainers in New South Wales

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1504319869

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I Did It My (Their) Way

By: Betty Lane Holland

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I Did It My (Their) Way

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In the 1960s when Australian horse racing rules prevented women being racehorse trainers, Betty Lane broke down barriers and became listed in the top 10 from over 1000 trainers in New South Wales

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Pauline Johnson

By: Betty Keller

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Pauline Johnson

By: Betty Keller

Billed as ""The Mohawk Princess,"" Pauline Johnson took to the stage and recited her poetry throughout Canada and the U.S. during the 1890s.

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Dundurn

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0968360122

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9780968360125

Companions Without Vows

Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women

By: Betty Rizzo

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Companions Without Vows

Relationships Among Eighteenth-Century British Women

By: Betty Rizzo

Companions Without Vows is the first detailed study of the companionate relationship among women in eighteenth-century England--a type of relationship so prevalent that it was nearly institutionalized. Drawing extensively upon primary documents and fictional narratives, Betty Rizzo describes the socioeconomic conditions that forced women to take on or to become companions and examines a number of actual companionate relationships. Several factors fostered such relationships. Husbands and wives of the period lived largely separate social lives, yet decorum prohibited genteel women from attending engagements unaccompanied. Also, women of position insisted on having social consultants and confidantes. Filling this need were the many well-born young women without sufficient funds to live independently. Because family money and property were concentrated in the hands of eldest sons, these women frequently had to seek the protection of female benefactors for whom they performed unpaid, nonmenial tasks, such as providing a hand at cards or simply offering pleasant company. The companionate relationship between women could assume many forms, Rizzo notes. It was often analogous to marriage, with one partner dominant and the other subservient, while some women experimented in establishing partnerships that were truly egalitarian. Rizzo explores these various types of relationships both in real life and in fiction, noting that much of the period's discourse about women's relationships can be seen as a tacit commentary on marriage. Provocative and engagingly written, this authoritative work casts new light on women's attempts to deal with a patriarchal power structure and offers new insight into eighteenth-century social history.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820332186

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9780820332185

Winifred Sanford

The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

By: Betty Holland Wiesepape

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Winifred Sanford

The Life and Times of a Texas Writer

By: Betty Holland Wiesepape

Winifred Sanford is generally regarded by critics as one of the best and most important early twentieth-century Texas women writers, despite publishing only a handful of short stories before slipping into relative obscurity. First championed by her mentor, H. L. Mencken, and published in his magazine, The American Mercury, many of Sanford’s stories were set during the Texas oil boom of the 1920s and 1930s and offer a unique perspective on life in the boomtowns during that period. Four of her stories were included in The Best American Short Stories of 1926. Questioning the sudden end to Sanford’s writing career, Wiesepape, a leading literary historian of Texas women writers, delved into the author’s previously unexamined private papers and emerged with an insightful and revealing study that sheds light on both Sanford’s abbreviated career and the domestic lives of women at the time. The first in-depth account of Sanford’s life and work, Wiesepape’s biography discusses Sanford’s fiction through the lens of the sociohistorical contexts that shaped and inspired it. In addition, Wiesepape has included two previously unpublished stories as well as eighteen previously unpublished letters to Sanford from Mencken. Winifred Sanford is an illuminating biography of one of the state’s unsung literary jewels and an important and much-needed addition to the often overlooked field of Texas women’s writing.

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University of Texas Press

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0292742983

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9780292742987

Fate Takes a Hand

By: Betty Neels

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Fate Takes a Hand

By: Betty Neels

Too good to be true? When Eulalia first met Fenno, she found him thoroughly irritating! So she was alarmed when her attraction to him escalated to uncomfortable levels. And it certainly didn't help that he was engaged to another woman. Eulalia had more important things to take care of—like finding a home for herself and her young cousin. But her mysterious inheritance of a country cottage made her suspicious. Was fate—or Fenno—giving her a helping hand?

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Harlequin

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0373249691

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9780373249695

The Fifth Day of Christmas

By: Betty Neels

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The Fifth Day of Christmas

By: Betty Neels

For her own sake she had to back off It hadn’t taken Julia Pennyfeather long to fall in love with Ivo van den Werff But as soon as she met Marcia Jason she realized she had to fall out of love just as quickly. Clearly the other woman had a much stronger claim on Ivo’s affection—or did she?

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Harlequin

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1459239687

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9781459239685

The True Mary Todd Lincoln

A Biography

By: Betty Boles Ellison

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The True Mary Todd Lincoln

A Biography

By: Betty Boles Ellison

This new biography provides a startlingly different picture of Mary Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln's wife. Preconceived myths about the former first lady are factually disproved. At times her judgment was faulty; in other instances it was brilliant. After her 1861 refurbishing of the Executive Mansion, she made no further furnishings purchases, only replacement items. The furniture she purchased is still in use and the Lincoln bed is well known. Committed to an insane asylum by her only surviving son, she organized, while under constant scrutiny, her friends in a skillfully successful scheme to obtain her freedom and resume control of her life and money. Mary Todd Lincoln had a brilliant mind, a caring heart and an exuberant personality and she was, in every aspect, a true partner to Abraham Lincoln.

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McFarland

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1476615179

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9781476615172

Heaven is Gentle

By: Betty Neels

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Heaven is Gentle

By: Betty Neels

WAS ELIZA KIDDING HERSELF THAT SHE MIGHT STAND A CHANCE WITH THE PROFESSOR? Sister Eliza Proudfoot took a job at the special clinic run by Professor Christian van Duyl. She found him a somewhat intimidating character—large in build and large in personality! And somehow Eliza kept getting on his wrong side, which didn’t stop her from falling in love with him even though he was engaged to the very suitable Estelle van der Daal. Eliza found Estelle a bit of a bore, but if that was what Christian wanted, who was Eliza to quibble!

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Harlequin

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1459239466

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9781459239463

Betty Neels Winter Collection

Four Heartfelt Winter Romance Stories

By: Betty Neels

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Betty Neels Winter Collection

Four Heartfelt Winter Romance Stories

By: Betty Neels

Four Heartfelt Winter Romance Stories from Betty Neels, all in one volume! A Christmas Romance Although Theodosia Chapman has gone through trying times and hardships, the one thing she would never lose is her positive outlook and sunny disposition. But the prospect of spending Christmas alone is a hard test on Theodosia’s attitude and, on top of that, her difficult manager at the hospital doesn’t make her job as an office clerk any easier. It isn’t until she meets physician Hugo Bentinck on Christmas Eve that she realizes the prospect of love might save her Christmas… and might even last forever. Dearest Eulalia Eulalia Langley is doing everything she can to keep her house, but with money running out, only something short of a Christmas miracle can save her home. Fortunately, handsome surgeon Aderik van der Leurs arrives with great timing and a very convenient marriage proposal. What Eulalia doesn’t know is that Aderik has been madly in love with her from the beginning. Would they have the courage to confess what they actually feel for each other, giving their marriage for convivence a chance to turn into a real one? Winter of Change When twenty-one-year-old Mary Jane Pettigrew inherits a large house and an income to go with it from her grandfather, she knows this is her chance to prove her independence. But when she learns the house comes with a guardian, Fabian van der Blocq, she is determined to show him she can look after herself and not let him get his way. Fabian is cold and uncommunicative; Mary Jane is rebellious and often difficult. Neither of them hides how much they hate each other and the situation they have been put in, but love can grow in the most challenging circumstances and surprise them both. A Matter of Chance When Cressida traded her nursing position for a job in Holland, she was looking for a new beginning, but the conflict she feels when dealing with Doctor Giles van der Tiele’s arrogant but charming personality, is exactly the type of feeling she was trying to avoid. But would either of them have the courage to let go of their judgments to make space for love?

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0369762320

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Winter of Change & A Matter of Chance

By: Betty Neels

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Winter of Change & A Matter of Chance

By: Betty Neels

Their lives will never be the same again… And these two young women refuse to settle for anything less than the love they deserve in these romantic favorites from Betty Neels. Winter of Change When her grandfather passes away, it comes as a huge surprise to plain nurse Mary Jane Pettigrew that she’s inherited a large house and an income to go with it. But there’s a catch—surgeon Fabian van der Blocq is to be her guardian! His young ward certainly isn’t going to let Fabian have it all his own way—but that’s easier said than done with a man as arrogant and handsome as Fabian… A Matter of Chance Recently orphaned nurse Cressida Bingley needs a fresh start—so moving to Holland for a new job seems perfect. Until she finds herself lost in Amsterdam and must accept help from a charming knight in shining armor, who turns out to be her new boss’s partner! Dr. Giles van der Tiele can’t forget the alluring young woman he rescued, and he intends to make her his bride. The only problem is that Cressida refuses to marry for anything less than love!

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1488096155

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9781488096150

How Not to Travel

“Where Are You Going Next? I Won’t Go There!”

By: Norman L. Lofland,Betty J. Lofland

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How Not to Travel

“Where Are You Going Next? I Won’t Go There!”

By: Norman L. Lofland,Betty J. Lofland

Norman L. Lofland and Betty J. Lofland share the lessons they learned traveling, teaching, and living abroad in their memoir, How Not to Travel. The couple started their teaching careers at Bethel College, a Mennonite liberal arts college in North Newton, Kansas. In 1963, interesting adventures developed after a travel agent friend inspired them to apply for jobs in Beirut, Lebanon. The Loflands never imagined that they would end up teaching four decades abroad. Their adventures included meeting the Shah of Iran; having an audience with Colonel Muamar Khaddafi; interacting with Yasser Arafat before the Israelis bombed the Palestinian headquarters; driving a Karmann Ghia from Beirut to London and back, as well as from Beirut to Tehran and back; designing a theatre in Tehran with Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West architects; and perhaps most important, exchanging ideas with students in Lebanon, Iran, Tunisia, China, Macau, and North Cyprus. Join the Loflands as they recall the highs, the lows, and the life lessons they learned amid the reality of war, revolution, and exotic living.

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678

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iUniverse

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1532080921

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9781532080920

I Remember It Well

By: Betty Kampen, van Ommen

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I Remember It Well

By: Betty Kampen, van Ommen

Betty Kampen is a jewel from the crown of Holland! Here, Betty, the quintessential New Canadian, sets forth the familiar yet ever-new story—the memories of the immigrant and her family arriving in Canada in the 1950s, and to a rural setting at that. It is a bittersweet tale of a child in a strange school in a wintry land, of family life on an isolated farm, one without amenities; of the yearnings of a young girl to be off the farm and to leave the old Dutch ways, yet with the need to cling to and follow her faith; and of her courtship and married life as she starts her own family. Her desire for further schooling leads to nursing. Even then, heartbreak continues; her faith is tested by family tragedy. My neighbor Betty resides with her husband, Rudy, in an Orangeville condominium. Here we met, and I became acquainted with her life and activities—and her memoirs—as she was teaching me Dutch in my preparation for a conference in the Netherlands. Husband and wife are retired now but still reach out to others through hospital volunteer work, beautification through gardening, seasonal decorating in and around the condo, and involvement in their local Canadian Reformed Church. Kevin Harrington Retired teacher-librarian, linguist, and geographer

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1685701957

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9781685701956

The Vicar's Daughter

By: Betty Neels

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The Vicar's Daughter

By: Betty Neels

Falling for the Professor... All the village assumed that Margo Pearson was to marry George, but unexpectedly meeting Professor Gijs van Kessel made her pause for thought. Being a plain, practical girl, Margo knew the professor was most unlikely to look her way. It took a tragic accident to bring an offer of marriage-from the professor. It was a practical proposal, but as Margo was taken into the bosom of his family over Christmas in Holland, she did wonder whether he might, someday, return her love....

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Harlequin

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0373249780

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9780373249787

Pineapple Girl

By: Betty Neels

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Pineapple Girl

By: Betty Neels

THEY SEEMED FATED TO MEET! It was a pineapple given to her by a grateful patient that led Eloise Bennett to meeting the Dutch doctor Timon van Zeilst. Shortly after that, Eloise went to Holland to nurse a patient and there was Dr. van Zeilst again! Thrown into his company, Eloise soon realized that she loved him. But Timon was going to marry the beautiful Liske—so why would he look twice at Eloise?

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Harlequin

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1459239261

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9781459239265

Intrepid Woman

Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945

By: Betty Lussier

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Intrepid Woman

Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945

By: Betty Lussier

A teenager on a Maryland farm when World War II began, Betty Lussier went to England to help the British fight off an impending invasion. Armed with a private pilot’s license, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary and was soon ferrying planes and pilots for the RAF, and her memoir describes those days in thrilling detail. After the Normandy invasion, when women pilots were barred from delivering planes to the combat zones on the continent, she joined a counter-intelligence branch of the Office of Strategic Services. Her experiences with a special liaison unit in Algeria, Sicily, Italy, and France helping to set up a chain of double agents and transmit misinformation to the enemy are described for the first time as she takes the reader step-by-step through some memorable cases that helped bring the war to an end.

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Naval Institute Press

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1612513964

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9781612513966

A Christmas Wish

By: Betty Neels

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A Christmas Wish

By: Betty Neels

For Olivia Harding, the offer of employment at a small private school came as something of a godsend. With no qualifications, she hadn't expected to find a job so easily, let alone one that still brought her into contact with the eminent surgeon Haso van der Eisler. Olivia always looked forward to Haso's visits, though she knew he came mainly to see his goddaughter, Nel. The idea that Haso should marry the child's glamorous mother seemed obvious to all, but Olivia's stubborn heart told her otherwise!

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1426843089

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