Another in the Greta X/Angela Pearson series, first published in 1962 as part of the Othello Books line. Whipsdom shows the author on top of her game, in its account of young Joan, sent off by her parents to a strict boarding before her genetic impulses take hold. But the school in question is not hallowed ground for chastity and prudery...
An Account of some of the Activities of a Number of Lovely Women who have Men in their Power. The very first title by M. Pearson. A multi-part narrative, it describes various members of the club, including a pair of incredibly enthusiastic twins, and their activities, culminating a wild orgy at the nicely-equipped Blakely Manor. If you read only one book by Pearson, or her sister Greta X, make it this one.
Introduce your students to acrostic and alphabet poems with this easy to use packet, complete with definition, example, guidelines and a place for students to write their own poems! Master teacher and poet, Greta Barclay Lipson, shows the power of language and how to use it with these poetic forms.
A decade after the publication of The Man Behind the Syndrome, which was warmly received, particularly by medical geneticists, syndromologists and those doctors from many different dis ciplines with an interest in medical history, Peter and Greta Beighton now present the second volume of their work, promised ten years ago. The length of time which has passed since the pub lication of the first book gives an inkling of the extraordinary effort involved on the part of the authors in collecting the necessary biographical data and the portraits of their subjects. The Person Behind the Syndrome conforms exactly in structure, quality and size with the first volume, thus facilitating the use of the series. Again we find detailed presentations of a hundred people who have given their names to disorders or syndromes which are thought to have a significant genetic or chromosomal component (with a photograph or portrait, biography, com mentary on the development of nomenclature and references). The reader finds information not only on the doctor and/or scientist under discussion, but also, as in the previous volume, on the person behind the name. This is followed by brief, un illustrated biographies of about seventy, mostly younger and, in some cases, still professionally active personalities.
The Man Behind the Syndrome by my friends and colleagues Peter and Greta Beighton is a delightful book which will be read eagedy and with keen intellectual pleasure by all human, medical, and dinical genetieists. The reader with a historical tum of mind will note right away that the book achieyes more than the usual entry in a dictionary of seientific biography. In addition to the standard professional data, it gives a photo and some personal glimpses of the man, allowing the reader to appreeiate his human qualities as weIl. This volume contains, so to speak, the creme de la creme, namely, those in a group whose names are daily on the lips of every practicing dinical geneticist. This interesting and instructive book is commended to all in medical genetics and the history of medieine with the highest enthusiasm and gratitude to its authors for undertaking this labor of love. A second volume is planned for more recently delineated disorders for which an eponym is not yet widely used.
The lost sequel to The Whipping Club! Subject of a two-year search by your publisher. Come now for mirth and pleasure In such delightful measure Some pretty miss The rod shall kiss In this sweet land of bliss.
Whether at boarding school in the country, a London home, or even in the film studio, the heroines of Whips Incorporated are dramatically turned on by their power over men.
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