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The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture

Women’s Fiction from the 1920s to the 1940s

By: Emma Sterry

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The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture

Women’s Fiction from the 1920s to the 1940s

By: Emma Sterry

This book situates the single woman within the evolving landscape of modernity, examining how she negotiated rural and urban worlds, explored domestic and bohemian roles, and traversed public and private spheres. In the modern era, the single woman was both celebrated and derided for refusing to conform to societal expectations regarding femininity and sexuality. The different versions of single women presented in cultural narratives of this period—including the old maid, odd woman, New Woman, spinster, and flapper—were all sexually suspicious. The single woman, however, was really an amorphous figure who defied straightforward categorization. Emma Sterry explores depictions of such single women in transatlantic women’s fiction of the 1920s to 1940s. Including a diverse selection of renowned and forgotten writers, such as Djuna Barnes, Rosamond Lehmann, Ngaio Marsh, and Eliot Bliss, this book argues that the single woman embodies the tensions between tradition and progress in both middlebrow and modernist literary culture.

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3319408291

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Ireland's Seashore

A Field Guide

By: Lucy Taylor,Emma Nickelsen

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Ireland's Seashore

A Field Guide

By: Lucy Taylor,Emma Nickelsen

Ireland's seashores are famous for their spectacular beauty, ranging from exposed rocky headlands that receive the full power of the Atlantic to enclosed sea loughs and sheltered mudflats. Our northern latitude means that some Arctic species find a home here, but the warm currents that flow up from the Gulf of Mexico also make Irish shores habitable for species found in southern Europe, the Canaries and the Mediterranean. Providing habitats like no other, our coasts are teeming with plant and animal life. Whether you visit on a sunny summer day or for a wild walk in winter, there is always something interesting to see, either living on the shore or washed up from the sea . Beginning with clear background information on types of shore, tides, waves, coastal habitats and conservation, this highly accessible guide has everything you need to understand the wildlife on our coastline. A helpful identification guide uses simple questions (e.g. 'Does it have a shell?') to guide you to the correct section (e.g. 'Snails, mussels and their relatives'), where you will find an introduction to the species, followed by detailed entries on the most common shoreline inhabitants: Irish and Latin names, size, distribution and memorable nuggets of information (did you know banded wedge shells can leap if disturbed?). Written by qualified marine biologists with a passion for their subject, this is the ideal companion on any seashore ramble, whether you are a beginner or an experienced naturalist.

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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1788410459

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9781788410458

Resolution

Two Brothers. A Nation in Crisis. A World at War

By: David Rutland,Emma Ellis

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Resolution

Two Brothers. A Nation in Crisis. A World at War

By: David Rutland,Emma Ellis

John Manners, Marquis of Granby, famously led a cavalry charge during the Seven Years War in 1760, losing both hat and wig. A commander of skill and courage, he was cherished by his men and lauded by the British public as an authentic military hero. Granby predeceased his father, the 3rd Duke of Rutland, and never inherited his title, but left two sons whose contrasting fortunes and tragically short lives are the subject of this meticulously researched and richly illustrated book. Charles became 4th Duke in 1779, sought reconciliation with the American colonies and was Viceroy of Ireland; Robert embarked on a naval career, became flag captain of the Resolution and died of injuries sustained at the Battle of the Saintes. Based upon the detailed archives held at Belvoir Castle, Resolution is both an enthralling saga of two generations of the Manners family and a finely delineated portrait of aristocratic, political and naval life in mid-Georgian England.

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739

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1784979902

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9781784979904

The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories

Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850–1945

By: Emma Liggins

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The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories

Gender, Space and Modernity, 1850–1945

By: Emma Liggins

This book explores Victorian and modernist haunted houses in female-authored ghost stories as representations of the architectural uncanny. It reconsiders the gendering of the supernatural in terms of unease, denial, disorientation, confinement and claustrophobia within domestic space. Drawing on spatial theory by Gaston Bachelard, Henri Lefebvre and Elizabeth Grosz, it analyses the reoccupation and appropriation of space by ghosts, women and servants as a means of addressing the opposition between the past and modernity. The chapters consider a range of haunted spaces, including ancestral mansions, ghostly gardens, suburban villas, Italian churches and houses subject to demolition and ruin. The ghost stories are read in the light of women’s non-fictional writing on architecture, travel, interior design, sacred space, technology, the ideal home and the servant problem. Women writers discussed include Elizabeth Gaskell, Margaret Oliphant, Vernon Lee, Edith Wharton, May Sinclair and Elizabeth Bowen. This book will appeal to students and researchers in the ghost story, Female Gothic and Victorian and modernist women’s writing, as well as general readers with an interest in the supernatural.

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314

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Springer Nature

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3030407527

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Odd women?

Spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s–1930s

By: Emma Liggins

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Odd women?

Spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women's fiction, 1850s–1930s

By: Emma Liggins

This genealogy of the 'odd woman' compares representations of spinsters, lesbians and widows in British women’s fiction and auto/biography from the 1850s to the 1930s. Women outside heterosexual marriage in this period were seen as abnormal, superfluous, incomplete and threatening, yet were also hailed as ‘women of the future’. Before 1850 odd women were marginalised, minor characters in British women’s fiction, yet by the 1930s spinsters, lesbians and widows had become heroines. This book examines how women writers, including Charlotte Brontë, Elisabeth Gaskell, Ella Hepworth Dixon, May Sinclair, E. H. Young, Radclyffe Hall, Winifred Holtby and Virginia Woolf, challenged dominant perceptions of singleness and lesbianism in their novels, stories and autobiographies. Drawing on advice literature, medical texts and feminist polemic, it demonstrates how these narratives responded to contemporary political controversies around the vote, women’s work, sexual inversion and birth control, as well as examining the impact of the First World War.

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300

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Manchester University Press

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1526111640

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9781526111647

Gold: or, Legal Regulations for the Standard of Gold & Silver Wares in Different Countries of the World. Translated and Abridged from "Die Gesetzliche Regelung des Feingehaltes von Gold- und Silber-Waaren, von Arthur von Studnitz"

By: Edwin William Streeter,Arthur von Studnitz,Emma Brewer

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Gold: or, Legal Regulations for the Standard of Gold & Silver Wares in Different Countries of the World. Translated and Abridged from "Die Gesetzliche Regelung des Feingehaltes von Gold- und Silber-Waaren, von Arthur von Studnitz"

By: Edwin William Streeter,Arthur von Studnitz,Emma Brewer

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385551463

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9783385551466

Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border

By: Elizabeth Emma Ferry

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Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border

By: Elizabeth Emma Ferry

“A jewel to those interested in ore mining, mineral collecting and mineralogy, or the anthropology of value.” —American Ethnologist Anthropologist Elizabeth Emma Ferry traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections on both sides of the United States-Mexico border. She describes how and why these byproducts of ore mining come to be valued by people in various walks of life as scientific specimens, religious offerings, works of art, and luxury collectibles. The story of mineral exploration and trade defines a variegated transnational space, shedding new light on the complex relationship between these two countries—and on the process of making value itself. “A novel contribution to the anthropology of natural resources.” —Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology “Highly recommended.” —Choice

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253

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Indiana University Press

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0253009480

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9780253009487

Fodor's Exploring Florida

By: Emma Stanford

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Fodor's Exploring Florida

By: Emma Stanford

Material selection is one of the most significant decisions an architect must make, yet it is often not addressed at the beginning of the design process. Likewise, students are typically taught about material and design as if they were unrelated. With the advent of integrated design/build programs, however, the relationship between a project's aesthetics and its materiality has never been more important." "Materials for Architectural Design provides the foundation for a strong design sensibility intertwined with material knowledge. Divided into five sections - glass, concrete, wood, metal and plastic - Materials for Architectural Design makes a thorough study of each material's properties, history, permutations and production techniques. Sixty case studies by today's most inventive architects from around the world - including Baumschlager + Eberle, Sean Godsell, Werner Sobek and ARO - show these materials put to imaginative use, illustrating how their application informed each building's ultimate form and structure."--BOOK JACKET.

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Fodor's

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0679034730

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The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture

Women’s Fiction from the 1920s to the 1940s

By: Emma Sterry

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Ireland's Seashore

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The Haunted House in Women’s Ghost Stories

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Odd women?

Odd women?

Gold: or, Legal Regulations for the Standard of Gold & Silver Wares in Different Countries of the World. Translated and Abridged from "Die Gesetzliche Regelung des Feingehaltes von Gold- und Silber-Waaren, von Arthur von Studnitz"

Gold: or, Legal Regulations for the Standard of Gold & Silver Wares in Different Countries of the World. Translated and Abridged from "Die Gesetzliche Regelung des Feingehaltes von Gold- und Silber-Waaren, von Arthur von Studnitz"

Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border

Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border

Fodor's Exploring Florida

Fodor's Exploring Florida

The Single Woman, Modernity, and Literary Culture

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