The book gives detailed attention to the principal trends in Dickinson scholarship during the past half-century: rhetorical and stylistic analysis of the poems and letters; biographical studies informed by theories of gender, sexuality, and by medical history; feminist studies of the poet's life and work; textual studies of the bound and unbound fascicles and the so-called worksheet drafts (or "scraps"); new assessments of the poet's social and cultural milieu, including influences on her spiritual sensibility; and of her theories of poetry, including lyricism."--BOOK JACKET.
If you are one of the thirty million people in the United States with diabetes like me, then this book is for you. It's a walk through the world of all the sweets we can no longer indulge in but only fantasize about. And that's what the book isaEUR"a satirical fantasy of chocolate cakes that talk, and cakes that endear themselves to people like you and me. So go ahead, feast on all the cake in this book, have some coffee or tea with it, and be healthy when you are finished. Some days, you just need cake, so have some and enjoy every bite.
Fred Dickinson's diary opens a window on youth and the world of Ontario lakeland cottages at the beginning of the 20th century. "The stories we hand down, the diaries we preserve become the fabric of our social history. Young Fred Dickinson's 1904 account of tenting and cottaging is a spirited first-hand sketch of a long-neglected part of our heritage. Larry Turner places the diary within social, historic and geographic contexts giving it wide appeal to history buffs of all ages ...." - Julie Johnston, award-winning author
Imaginary friends are a part of every child's life, or at least, they should be. I had two that occupied many hours of play and continually baffled my parents with their location and what they looked like. This is the story of my granddaughter and her fascination with unicorns. It has also occupied many hours of play for her, it has appeared at birthday parties in the form of a cake, clothes she wears and bed sheets she sleeps on. My hope is that all children find their imaginary friend and cling to them in times of worry and happiness. When they grow up and no longer need their friend, remember them with love and keep them alive forever.
The book gives detailed attention to the principal trends in Dickinson scholarship during the past half-century: rhetorical and stylistic analysis of the poems and letters; biographical studies informed by theories of gender, sexuality, and by medical history; feminist studies of the poet's life and work; textual studies of the bound and unbound fascicles and the so-called worksheet drafts (or "scraps"); new assessments of the poet's social and cultural milieu, including influences on her spiritual sensibility; and of her theories of poetry, including lyricism."--BOOK JACKET.
Volume 1 of Clifton William Scott...is the rich heritage of a New England family. Fond remembrances of the author's parents are provided by family and friends. Brief family histories of eight branches of the family tree--Scott, Bradford, Taylor, Robinson, Williams, Porter, Shaw, and Ranney--are followed from the immigration of each patron ancestor during the great migration of 1620-1643 from England to either the Pilgrim's Plymouth Colony or the Puritan's Massachusetts Bay Colony, then to the Connecticut Valley towns, and finally to the Berkshire Hills towns of Buckland and Ashfield. Scott and Bradford descendants to the present time are documented, as are the numerous Pilgrim connections to the 1620 Mayflower passengers.
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