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Savannah's Blessing

By: Elizabeth Highfill

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Sam and Savannah Maxwell are the youngest members of a large southern family of Scots-Irish descent. Blessed with four older siblings and lively imaginations, their lives are endlessly entertaining. Sam sees things more clearly than most, and Savannah joins him in his attempts at squeezing as much out of each day as possible. He flies through life freely, unconcerned with convention. Savannah is gentle, quiet, responsible, and in awe of her tiny brother. Growing up in the 1960s in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, their young lives are rich in humor and goodness until a single afternoon changes everything. Savannah struggles to come to terms with the realization that much of life is completely beyond her control.

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iUniverse

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0595390277

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9780595390274

The First English Actresses

Women and Drama, 1660-1700

By: Elizabeth Howe

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The First English Actresses

Women and Drama, 1660-1700

By: Elizabeth Howe

This book describes how and why women were permitted to act on the public stage after 1660 in England.

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248

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Cambridge University Press

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0521422108

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9780521422109

Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists

By: Mary Pix,Susanna Centlivre,Elizabeth Griffith,Hannah Cowley

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Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists

By: Mary Pix,Susanna Centlivre,Elizabeth Griffith,Hannah Cowley

Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697) Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709) Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779) Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780) Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographies illuminate the plays' cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike. 'The series should reshape the canon in a number of signficant areas. A splendid and imaginative project' Professor Anne Barton, Cambridge University ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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449

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Oxford University Press

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0192656511

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9780192656513

The Damnation of John Donellan

A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England

By: Elizabeth Cooke,Elizabeth McGregor

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The Damnation of John Donellan

A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England

By: Elizabeth Cooke,Elizabeth McGregor

Examines the suspicious death of an eighteenth-century aristocrat, describing the circumstances of his sudden demise, the leading suspects, and the sensational trial and execution of a man who may have been innocent.

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305

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0802779964

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9780802779960

New World Drama

The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849

By: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

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New World Drama

The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World, 1649-1849

By: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon

In New World Drama, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon turns to the riotous scene of theatre in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world to explore the creation of new publics. Moving from England to the Caribbean to the early United States, she traces the theatrical emergence of a collective body in the colonized New World—one that included indigenous peoples, diasporic Africans, and diasporic Europeans. In the raucous space of the theatre, the contradictions of colonialism loomed large. Foremost among these was the central paradox of modernity: the coexistence of a massive slave economy and a nascent politics of freedom. Audiences in London eagerly watched the royal slave, Oroonoko, tortured on stage, while audiences in Charleston and Kingston were forbidden from watching the same scene. Audiences in Kingston and New York City exuberantly participated in the slaying of Richard III on stage, enacting the rise of the "people," and Native American leaders were enjoined to watch actors in blackface "jump Jim Crow." Dillon argues that the theater served as a "performative commons," staging debates over representation in a political world based on popular sovereignty. Her book is a capacious account of performance, aesthetics, and modernity in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

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392

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Duke University Press

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0822395738

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9780822395737

The Rival Widows, Or, Fair Libertine (1735)

By: Mrs. Cooper (Elizabeth)

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The Rival Widows, Or, Fair Libertine (1735)

By: Mrs. Cooper (Elizabeth)

Elizabeth Cooper's The Rival Widows, or Fair Libertine provides a unique opportunity to restore to scholarly and pedagogical attention a neglected female writer and a play with broad and significant implications for studies of eighteenth-century history, culture and gender. Following the adventures of Lady Bellair, a glowing, joyous young Widow, the storyline regenders standard expectations about desire, marriage, libertinism and sentiment. The play has not been reprinted since 1735; therefore this old-spelling edition gives scholars access to an important but neglected resource for studies of women writers and eighteenth-century theatre. In an original and extensive introduction, Tiffany Potter presents cultural and historical information that highlights the scholarly implications of this newly available play. She offers a brief biographical sketch of the playwright; a summary of sources for specific elements of the play; an overview of the theatrical climate of the time (with particular focus on the conditions leading to the Licensing Act of 1737); a discussion of the place of women in eighteenth-century society; a summary of symbiotic cultural discourses of libertinism and sensibility in the early eighteenth century; and a discussion of the general cultural significance of Cooper's demonstration of the malleability of prescriptive gender roles. Further value is added to this edition through its appendices, which reproduce documents relating to the playwright Elizabeth Cooper and to the Licensing Act of 1737 (including the text of the Act itself).

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209

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University of Toronto Press

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1442615451

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9781442615458

The Delicate Distress

By: Elizabeth Griffith

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The Delicate Distress

By: Elizabeth Griffith

Actress, playwright, and novelist, Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793) won fame in England with the publication in 1757 of the first two volumes of Letters Between Henry and Frances, letters from her own courtship with Richard Griffith whom she secretly married in 1751. Her first novel, The Delicate Distress (1769), focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage—the issue of financial independence for wives, the consequences of interfaith relationships, and the promiscuity of their husbands. Against a backdrop of rural England and Paris of the ancien regime, Griffith reimagines the epistolary novel of sensibility in the tradition of Samuel Richardson and Jean-Jacques Rousseau from a feminist perspective that centers on strong, intelligent, and virtuous women. Two sisters exchange letters about urgent ethical questions concerning love, marriage, morality, art, the duties of wives and husbands, and passion versus reason, while two men correspond about the same subjects. At the story's center is the deep distress of Emily Woodville, a virtuous young newlywed who suspects her husband of infidelity with a French marchioness from his past. The third volume in the series Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women, The Delicate Distress contributes to our understanding of the development of the novel. As Cynthia Ricciardi and Susan Staves show, Griffith's exploration of the psychology of characters who observe and reflect but engage in no grand public actions anticipates Henry James. The editors' introduction places The Delicate Distress firmly in the tradition of the English novel, provides the most complete biography available on Griffith's life, and brings together the most important eighteenth- and twentieth-century criticism of the novelist's work.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813189845

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9780813189840

Poems by Mrs. Francis Hornblower

By: Jane Elizabeth Roscoe Hornblower

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Poems by Mrs. Francis Hornblower

By: Jane Elizabeth Roscoe Hornblower

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368730320

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9783368730321

English-language Poetry from Wales 1789-1806

By: Elizabeth Edwards

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English-language Poetry from Wales 1789-1806

By: Elizabeth Edwards

This new selection of Anglophone Welsh poetry presents a range of literary responses to the French Revolution and the ensuing wars with France, a period in which Wales and its history became prime imaginative territory for poets of all political sympathies.

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348

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University of Wales Press

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0708325696

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9780708325698

Air Fryer Cookbook For Dummies

By: Wendy Jo Peterson,Elizabeth Shaw

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Air Fryer Cookbook For Dummies

By: Wendy Jo Peterson,Elizabeth Shaw

Prepare your favorite comfort foods the healthy way Chocolate chip muffins? Crispy bacon? Steak tacos? But . . . should you? Of course you should—especially when your air fryer makes it possible to put deliciously crispy food on your plate with a minimum of fuss, mess, and up to 80% fewer calories! Whether you’re looking to eat healthier, lose weight, or impress your friends, Air Fryer Cookbook For Dummies fills you in on everything you need to make air frying a regular part of your routine. In addition to 150 mouth-watering recipes from popular nutrition and diet experts Wendy Jo Peterson and Elizabeth Shaw, you’ll find a thorough exploration of the benefits of air frying, the most suitable foods, and how to cook for a specialized diet—from Keto to vegan. And to top things off, our authors share the secrets of the perfect seasoning or sauce to accompany any dish. Know how your air fryer actually works Cook safely and efficiently Prep your dishes for perfectly air fried results Plan your meals From breakfast to supper—with a few sweet treats and party snacks on the side—Air Fryer Cookbook For Dummies shows you how to turn hot air into those mouth-watering “fried” foods you love the most.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119694337

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9781119694335

ELIZABETH THE DISINHERITED DAU

By: Elizabeth Arnold Hitchcock,E. Ben EZ-Er

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ELIZABETH THE DISINHERITED DAU

By: Elizabeth Arnold Hitchcock,E. Ben EZ-Er

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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1362073644

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9781362073642

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Savannah's Blessing

Savannah's Blessing

The First English Actresses

The First English Actresses

Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists

Eighteenth-Century Women Dramatists

The Damnation of John Donellan

The Damnation of John Donellan

New World Drama

New World Drama

The Rival Widows, Or, Fair Libertine (1735)

The Rival Widows, Or, Fair Libertine (1735)

The Delicate Distress

The Delicate Distress

Poems by Mrs. Francis Hornblower

Poems by Mrs. Francis Hornblower

English-language Poetry from Wales 1789-1806

English-language Poetry from Wales 1789-1806

Air Fryer Cookbook For Dummies

Air Fryer Cookbook For Dummies

ELIZABETH THE DISINHERITED DAU

ELIZABETH THE DISINHERITED DAU

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