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Vinny's Wilderness

By: Janet Shepperson

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Vinny's Wilderness opens in South Belfast with divorced teacher Vinny. She returns to her home to discover that her dearly loved and overgrown garden has been bulldozed and unceremoniously dumped in a skip outside her house. Who is responsible? We learn of her friendship with the glamorous Alex Masterton, whose son Denzil she is tutoring for the elevenplus. More interested in the outdoors than in endless practice papers, Denzil struggles against expectations, both at school, and within his rigid family home. The constraints governing Alex's life as Mrs Masterton are similarly exposed, with a psychologically abusive husband scornful of her supposedly inferior education. As Alex and Vinny's relationship develops, both women struggle to come to terms with past hurts and Alex makes a dramatic decision that will affect all their lives. Vinny's Wilderness is a sensitive rendering of childhood friendship, meditating on the importance and strength of female friendships alongside the curveballs of motherhood.

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Liberties Press

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1910742600

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9781910742600

Vinny's Wilderness

By: Janet Shepperson

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Tender exploration of the relationship between a teacher and pupil

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1910742341

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Writing the Pioneer Woman

By: Janet Floyd

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Writing the Pioneer Woman

By: Janet Floyd

Focusing on a series of autobiographical texts, published and private, well known and obscure, Writing the Pioneer Woman examines the writing of domestic life on the nineteenth-century North American frontier. In an attempt to determine the meanings found in the pioneer woman's everyday writings -- from records of recipes to descriptions of washing floors -- Janet Floyd explores domestic details in the autobiographical writing of British and Anglo-American female emigrants.

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240

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University of Missouri Press

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0826262651

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9780826262653

The Gospel of Kindness

Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America

By: Janet M. Davis

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The Gospel of Kindness

Animal Welfare and the Making of Modern America

By: Janet M. Davis

When we consider modern American animal advocacy, we often think of veganism, no-kill shelters, Internet campaigns against trophy hunting, or celebrities declaring that they would "rather go naked" than wear fur. Contemporary critics readily dismiss animal protectionism as a modern secular movement that privileges animals over people. Yet the movement's roots are deeply tied to the nation's history of religious revivalism and social reform. In The Gospel of Kindness, Janet M. Davis explores the broad cultural and social influence of the American animal welfare movement at home and overseas from the Second Great Awakening to the Second World War. Dedicated primarily to laboring animals at its inception in an animal-powered world, the movement eventually included virtually all areas of human and animal interaction. Embracing animals as brethren through biblical concepts of stewardship, a diverse coalition of temperance groups, teachers, Protestant missionaries, religious leaders, civil rights activists, policy makers, and anti-imperialists forged an expansive transnational "gospel of kindness," which defined animal mercy as a signature American value. Their interpretation of this "gospel" extended beyond the New Testament to preach kindness as a secular and spiritual truth. As a cultural product of antebellum revivalism, reform, and the rights revolution of the Civil War era, animal kindness became a barometer of free moral agency, higher civilization, and assimilation. Yet given the cultural, economic, racial, and ethnic diversity of the United States, its empire, and other countries of contact, standards of kindness and cruelty were culturally contingent and potentially controversial. Diverse constituents defended specific animal practices, such as cockfighting, bullfighting, songbird consumption, and kosher slaughter, as inviolate cultural traditions that reinforced their right to self-determination. Ultimately, American animal advocacy became a powerful humanitarian ideal, a touchstone of inclusion and national belonging at home and abroad that endures to this day.

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321

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Oxford University Press

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0199911320

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9780199911325

Charles Darwin

Voyaging

By: E. Janet Browne

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Charles Darwin

Voyaging

By: E. Janet Browne

Chronicles the life of Charles Darwin from his birth in 1809 through his mid-life, discussing his childhood in England, early schooling, first discoveries, personal challenges, voyage on the Beagle, and the early foundations of his "Origin of Species.

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656

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Princeton University Press

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0691026068

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9780691026060

The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Vol 7

By: Marilyn Butler,Janet Todd

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The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Vol 7

By: Marilyn Butler,Janet Todd

A seven volume set of books containing all the known published writings and translations of Mary Wollstonecraft, who is generally recognised as the mother of the feminist movement. She was also an acute observer of the political upheavals of the French revolution and advocated educational reform.

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Routledge

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1000749665

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9781000749663

Charles Darwin

By: Adrian Desmond,James Moore,Janet Browne

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Charles Darwin

By: Adrian Desmond,James Moore,Janet Browne

Definitive, concise, and very interesting... From William Shakespeare to Winston Churchill, the Very Interesting People series provides authoritative bite-sized biographies of Britain's most fascinating historical figures - people whose influence and importance have stood the test of time. Each book in the series is based upon the biographical entry from the world-famous Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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OUP Oxford

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0191647489

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9780191647482

Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South

By: Janet Duitsman Cornelius

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Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South

By: Janet Duitsman Cornelius

How slaves created the organized black church while still under the oppression of bondage.

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326

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570032475

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9781570032479

Janet Laurence

After Eden

By: Janet Laurence

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After Eden

By: Janet Laurence

A new commission, In After Eden, Janet continues her exploration of the destruction of the environment with particular emphasis on the plight of animals, whilst simultaneously attempting to address notions of healing and caring.

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111

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Power Publications at the University of Illinois Press

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0980776333

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9780980776331

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Vinny's Wilderness

Vinny's Wilderness

Vinny's Wilderness

Vinny's Wilderness

Writing the Pioneer Woman

Writing the Pioneer Woman

The Gospel of Kindness

The Gospel of Kindness

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Vol 7

The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Vol 7

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South

Slave Missions and the Black Church in the Antebellum South

Janet Laurence

Janet Laurence

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