This book details criminal accounts from the seventeenth century involving women. Crimes range from murder and witchcraft to more common crimes of theft and owning an alehouse without a licence.
This is an inside look into the world of epilepsy. An ailment that many people have but most do not discuss openly. This is one woman's story. A story that follows her life's ups and downs, twists and turns. A story that could possibly open the public's eyes to the daily struggles of an epileptic. "After awaking in a rocking chair, I looked around the room and a feeling so powerful came over me that no bolt of light could strike it. It was confusion. I know this place. But I should not be here. No I don't belong! I recognized the tables and chairs - or did I? I heard a voice. It was my husband. Oh God it's taken him too! The cat meowed... I looked at my watch. What happened?! I lost time! I don't remember anything! Tears streaked from my already exhausted eyes. Help me! Dan held me and talked me through what I last remembered. I felt I was in my time warp once again. - Where all of your familiar surroundings are not so familiar anymore. Although you know you have seen the items it's almost like you've seen them in another lifetime. Confusing? Crazy? Welcome to my world my friends - you have now entered the Seizure Zone.
A collection of images from Whitwell, a local rural community. These images depict life in the last century, when the railway existed and there was much industry and agriculture in the village.
This book explores the Island's folklore and legend. Looking at stories and tales that have been passed down in tradition. These interesting tales and the truth behind them are explored alongside photographs of the locations as they are today.
IVF and any type of Assisted Conception is a roller coaster ride. Would you like to know what the needles are like, how your body may react to the drugs or what you will go through emotionally before you start? Then take it from someone who has been there, done that. This is a very personal and honest insight into what really goes on and includes some journal writing throughout particular cycles. It also touches on the taboo subject of miscarriage. You will benefit from some really helpful pre-planning advice which will make your journey easier to cope with and understand. If you've already started on your journey then reading this will hopefully support and give you the push to carry on even when you think you can no longer continue.
Features Elizabeth Gaskell's work. This work brings together her journalism, her shorter fiction, which was published in various collections during her lifetime, her early personal writing, including a diary written between 1835 and 1838 when she was a young mother, her five full-length novels and "The Life of Charlotte Bronte".
Accessible, introductory student guide which identifies key feminist approaches to popular culture from the 1960s to the present.. The only introduction to both feminist cultural studies and feminism and popular culture published in the UK.. Presents its information in a reader friendly series of case studies on: women's film romantic fiction soap opera consumption and material culture fashion and beauty proactices youth culture and popular music. Will appeal to students across a wide range of disciplines as a variety of popular cultural forms are discussed.
Do you, or does someone you know, have cancer? Do you want to know how you can help make this rollercoaster ride a little easier? Jim did it well. Leaning on God, Jim strived to keep humour and normalcy in everyday life. He walked through the things he was losing with his family, preparing them for the future. Are you doing it well?
Experience life in Britain’s “long eighteenth-century” with this collection of 25 real tales from history by the authors of An Infamous Mistress. Marvel at the Queen’s Ass, gaze at the celestial heavens through the eyes of the past, and be amazed by the equestrian feats of the Norwich Nymph. Journey to the debauched French court at Versailles, travel to Covent Garden and take your seat in a box at the theatre, and, afterwards, join the mile-high club in a new-fangled hot air balloon. Meet actresses, whores and high-born ladies, politicians, inventors, royalty, and criminals as we travel through the Georgian era in all its glorious and gruesome glory. In roughly chronological order, covering the reign of the four Georges (1714-1830), and set within the framework of the main events of the era, these tales are accompanied by over 100 stunning color illustrations.
This work builds on indigenous theory as evident in the writing of Willie Ermine, Gregory Cajete, Craig Womack, Jace Weaver, Laurie Anne Whitt, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Voila Cordova, Dennis McPherson, and others. It works towards a criticism that, in accordance with the precepts of such theory, is community-oriented. It argues for a examination of literature in terms of its function for (or against) the community, in the expansive sense of the term.
A lovely young actress disappears on her way to the theater. Her sister Frankie, a single mother, fears she has been harmed by her wealthy but controlling and sometimes abusive husband. Or one of his dangerous friends. Or even more dangerous enemies. Frankie seeks the aid of a cynical undercover cop turned detective to confront some very evil people and discover the truth in a world of secrets and lies set against the cold winter background of the Pocono Mountains.
Features Elizabeth Gaskell's work. This work brings together her journalism, her shorter fiction, which was published in various collections during her lifetime, her early personal writing, including a diary written between 1835 and 1838 when she was a young mother, her five full-length novels and "The Life of Charlotte Bronte".
This book critically investigates the ways in which Aboriginal children and childhood figure in Australia’s cultural life to mediate Australians’ ambivalence about the colonial origins of the nation, as well as its possible post-colonial futures. Engaging with representations in literature, film, governmental discourse, and news and infotainment media, it shows how ways of representing Aboriginal children and childhood serve a national project of representing settler-Australian values, through the forgetting of colonial violence. Analysing the ways in which certain negative aspects of Australian nationhood are concealed, rendered invisible, and repressed through practices of representing Aboriginal children and childhood, it challenges accepted ‘shared understandings’ regarding Australian-ness and settler-colonial sovereignty. Through an innovative interdisciplinary approach that engages critical theory, post-colonial theory, literary studies, history, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, Representing Aboriginal Childhood responds to urgent questions that pivot on the role of the Indigenous child within settler nation-state formations. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and social geography, collective memory, politics and cultural studies.
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