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Story of Dudley

By: Edward Chitham

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This book provides a rounded account of the history of Dudley, starting before the Norman Conquest. It traces the development of industry in the town, and shows how the lack of utilities, including water, hampered the nineteenth-century town and forced a section of the population into desperate poverty. Major historical treasures remain from this era, however, giving the opportunity for the growth of tourism in the present.The Story of Dudley, compiled by an expert in the area’s history, weaves these events together into an accessible, interesting and in-depth history of the town that is sure to delight residents and visitors alike.

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The History Press

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0750956879

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Western Winds

The Brontës' Irish Heritage

By: Edward Chitham

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Western Winds

The Brontës' Irish Heritage

By: Edward Chitham

The Irish heritage of the Brontë family has long been overlooked, partly because both Charlotte and her father Patrick did their very best to ensure that this was the case and partly because there was a strong understanding at the end of the nineteenth century that the Brontës were Yorkshire regional novelists. Yet their ideas and attitudes, and perhaps even their storylines, can be traced to Ireland. This book, which develops ideas originally published in The Brontës' Irish Heritage in 1986, sets the record straight. By re-evaluating the sources available, it traces Patrick's Irish ancestry and shows how it prevented him from achieving his ambitions; it shows how that heritage influenced his children's writings, particularly Emily; and it sheds further light on the genesis of Wuthering Heights.

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309

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The History Press

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0750964626

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9780750964623

A Life of Emily Brontë

By: Edward Chitham

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A Life of Emily Brontë

By: Edward Chitham

The most comprehensive biography of the Brontë sister that wrote Wuthering Heights.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445612356

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9781445612355

Charlotte and Emily Brontë

Literary Lives

By: Edward Chitham,Tom Winnifrith

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Charlotte and Emily Brontë

Literary Lives

By: Edward Chitham,Tom Winnifrith

This new book on the Brontes concentrates on the way in which the literary interests and expressions of Charlotte and Emily were built up. It makes use of recent research into background and reading matter to investigate the development of the authors' poetry and novels.

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Springer

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1349197777

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9781349197774

The Things That Matter

What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life

By: Edward Mendelson

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The Things That Matter

What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life

By: Edward Mendelson

She felt rather inclined just for a moment to stand still after all that chatter, and pick out one particular thing; the thing that mattered . . . —Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse An illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Between the Acts—portray the essential experiences of life. Edward Mendelson—a professor of English at Columbia University—illustrates how each novel is a living portrait of the human condition while expressing its author’s complex individuality and intentions and emerging from the author’s life and times. He explores Frankenstein as a searing representation of child neglect and abandonment and Mrs. Dalloway as a portrait of an ideal but almost impossible adult love, and leads us to a fresh and fascinating new understanding of each of the seven novels, reminding us—in the most captivating way—why they matter.

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Anchor

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0307491846

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Inside Information

The defining concepts of interior design

By: Sally Stone,Edward Hollis

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Inside Information

The defining concepts of interior design

By: Sally Stone,Edward Hollis

Every built structure has an interior: whether it takes the rough form of a rudimentary shelter, the grey walls of a hospital or the finessed decoration of a one-off residence. We spend most of our time inside buildings. Shut your eyes and you will find yourself in your own interior. You will always be inside. Mastering the language, thinking and history of the interior is critical to understanding and designing spaces. This essential primer transcends the boundaries and genres that often define interiors, providing a comprehensive view of the concepts and vocabulary of interior design. Written as an accessible ‘treasury’ of principal terms and ideas, Inside Information engages with the past, uncovering the future potential of the interior, and its design. Introduces the reader to 26 key terms, from ante- to zeitgeist. Covers areas of study from the very practical – structures, decoration and sustainability – to the philosophical – gender, space and light. Features sources, ranging from: Le Corbusier to Norman Foster; Jacques Derrida to Noam Chomsky; Virginia Woolf to George Orwell. Highly illustrated with over 100 photographs and drawings.

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Routledge

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1000564630

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9781000564631

A Life of Emily Brontë

By: Edward Chitham

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A Life of Emily Brontë

By: Edward Chitham

The most comprehensive biography of the Brontë sister that wrote Wuthering Heights.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445612356

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A Life of Anne Brontë

By: Edward Chitham

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A Life of Anne Brontë

By: Edward Chitham

Edward Chitham's biography of Anne Bronte, the often underrated sister of Charlotte and Emily, makes imaginative use of recent research to redefine the personal and artistic relationship between Anne and her sisters, especially Emily. It produces new evidence about Anne's life away from home and re-examines the traumatic period before and after Branwell's 'disgrace'. It modifies the conventionally held view of Agnes Grey and reviews the evidence for Anne's relationship with William Weightman.Now available in paperback, this biography provides an elegant and original life of one of the remarkable Bronte sisters.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631166165

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9780631166160

The Novelist of Wildfell Hall: A New Life of Anne Brontë

By: Edward Chitham

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The Novelist of Wildfell Hall: A New Life of Anne Brontë

By: Edward Chitham

In this landmark new biography the leading critic Edward Chitham offers a contemporary account of the life and work of the English novelist and poet Anne Brontë (1820-49), the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. She published her two world-famed novels, initially under the pen name Acton Bell: Agnes Grey (1847), and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), one of the first feminist novels. There she tackled fundamental problems, notably the role and place of women in Victorian society. Anne was the daughter of Patrick Brontë, a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England. She lived most of her life with her family at Haworth on the Yorkshire moors. In 1846 she published a book of poems with her sisters. She had five siblings. Edward Chitham shows that she was in several ways very different. Her writing style was her own, and her novels stand out as unique literary achievements. Anne was close to her Wesleyan aunt, who encouraged her religious feeing as well as her right to be a woman, equal in status to men, but not a pseudo-male. She wanted to be loved and married, with her own children. Edward Chitham - who has also recently edited Anne's complete poems - shows that her five years as a governess resulted in a remarkable friendship with her pupils. Anne was highly musical, keeping her own manuscript music book and writing resonant and questioning poetry. In April 1839 she started work as a governess for the Ingham family at Blake Hall, near Mirfield. Her time there was so traumatic that she reproduced it in detail in Agnes Grey. The sisters paid for publication of a collection of poems, 21 from Anne and 21 from Emily and 19 from Charlotte, under pen names which retained their initials but concealed their sex. Anne's pseudonym was Acton Bell. Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was issued in May 1846. Anne's second novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, was published in the last week of June 1848. She stated her intentions in the second edition, published in August 1848. She "wished to tell the truth", and so "When we have to do with vice and vicious characters, I maintain it is better to depict them as they really are than as they would wish to appear. To represent a bad thing in its least offensive light is doubtless the most agreeable course for a writer of fiction to pursue; but is it the most honest, or the safest? Is it better to reveal the snares and pitfalls of life to the young and thoughtless traveller, or to cover them with branches and flowers? O Reader! if there were less of this delicate concealment of facts - this whispering 'Peace, peace', when there is no peace, there would be less of sin and misery to the young of both sexes who are left to wring their bitter knowledge from experience." And: "I am at a loss to conceive how a man should permit himself to write anything that would be really disgraceful to a woman, or why a woman should be censured for writing anything that would be proper and becoming for a man." This new biography makes use of recent research including a return to the issues of her `twinship` with Emily (a critical `twin`, as Wildfell Hall shows). The work also examines the family events of the autumn of 1837, when her life `hung by a thread.` Where possible primary sources are emphasised, avoiding Charlotte`s stage-managing of Brontë family history.

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Edward Everett Root

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1913087883

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9781913087883

The Birth of Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë at Work

By: Edward Chitham

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The Birth of Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë at Work

By: Edward Chitham

Chitham argues that Wuthering Heights was recast and expanded between its first submission to a publisher in 1846 and its final acceptance and publication in late 1847. He suggests that the well-known chronological coherence of the book was an innovation of the second version and explores the anomalies which still remain.

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Palgrave Macmillan

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033394545X

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9780333945452

Western Winds

The Brontës' Irish Heritage

By: Edward Chitham

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The Brontës' Irish Heritage

By: Edward Chitham

The Irish heritage of the Brontë family has long been overlooked, partly because both Charlotte and her father Patrick did their very best to ensure that this was the case and partly because there was a strong understanding at the end of the nineteenth century that the Brontës were Yorkshire regional novelists. Yet their ideas and attitudes, and perhaps even their storylines, can be traced to Ireland.This book, which develops ideas originally published in The Brontës’ Irish Heritage in 1986, sets the record straight. By re-evaluating the sources available, it traces Patrick’s Irish ancestry and shows how it prevented him from achieving his ambitions; it shows how that heritage influenced his children’s writings, particularly Emily; and it sheds further light on the genesis of Wuthering Heights.

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0750964626

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A Life of Anne Bronte

By: Edward Chitham

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A Life of Anne Bronte

By: Edward Chitham

Edward Chitham's biography of Anne Bronte, the often underrated sister of Charlotte and Emily, makes imaginative use of recent research to redefine the personal and artistic relationship between Anne and her sisters, especially Emily. It produces new evidence about Anne's life away from home and re-examines the traumatic period before and after Branwell's 'disgrace'. It modifies the conventionally held view of Agnes Grey and reviews the evidence for Anne's relationship with William Weightman. Now available in paperback, this biography provides an elegant and original life of one of the remarkable Bronte sisters.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631189440

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9780631189442

Charlotte and Emily Brontë

Literary Lives

By: Edward Chitham,Tom Winnifrith

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Literary Lives

By: Edward Chitham,Tom Winnifrith

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Springer

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The Black Country

By: Edward Chitham,Former Senior Lecturer Department of English Edward Chitham

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The Black Country

By: Edward Chitham,Former Senior Lecturer Department of English Edward Chitham

By the late nineteenth century the Black Country had become one of the most intensely industrialised areas of the nation: the South Staffordshire coal mines, the coal coking operations, and the iron foundries and steel mills that used the local coal to fire their furnaces, produced a level of air pollution that had few equals anywhere in the world. Indeed, Charles Dickens described how the area's local factory chimneys 'Poured out their plague of smoke, obscured the light, and made foul the melancholy air'. Also, the anchors and chains for the ill-fated liner RMS Titanic were manufactured in the Black Country in the area of Netherton. However, the history of the area stretches far further back than its industrial past. This book traces the origins of the area from its earliest inhabitants, through the Middle Ages, and up to the present day. Many towns are featured in the book, e.g. Halesowen, Kingswinford, Stourbridge, Tipton, Walsall, Wednesbury, West Bromwich, Dudley, Warley, Blackheath and Brownhills.

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1848684525

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The Story of Dudley

By: Edward Chitham

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The Story of Dudley

By: Edward Chitham

This book provides a rounded account of the history of Dudley, starting before the Norman Conquest. It traces the development of industry in the town, and shows how the lack of utilities, including water, hampered the nineteenth-century town and forced a section of the population into desperate poverty. Major historical treasures remain from this era, however, giving the opportunity for the growth of tourism in the present. The Story of Dudley, compiled by an expert in the area's history, weaves these events together into an accessible, interesting and in-depth history of the town that is sure to delight residents and visitors alike.

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0750956879

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The Collected Works of Edward M. Matthews

By: Edward M. Matthews

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The Collected Works of Edward M. Matthews

By: Edward M. Matthews

Transcripts of Radio Talks.

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0935461426

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