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The Sewing Girl's Tale

A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

By: John Wood Sweet

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The Sewing Girl's Tale

A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

By: John Wood Sweet

New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Gotham Book Prize Winner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book Award Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries—and how much has not On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives. The trial exposed a predatory sexual underworld, sparked riots in the streets, and ignited a vigorous debate about class privilege and sexual double standards. The ongoing conflict attracted the nation’s top lawyers, including Alexander Hamilton, and shaped the development of American law. The crime and its consequences became a kind of parable about the power of seduction and the limits of justice. Eventually, Lanah Sawyer did succeed in holding her assailant accountable—but at a terrible cost to herself. Based on rigorous historical detective work, this book takes us from a chance encounter in the street into the sanctuaries of the city’s elite, the shadows of its brothels, and the despair of its debtors’ prison. The Sewing Girl's Tale shows that if our laws and our culture were changed by a persistent young woman and the power of words two hundred years ago, they can be changed again. Includes photographs

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Henry Holt and Company

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1250761972

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Bodies Politic

Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830

By: John Wood Sweet

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Bodies Politic

Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830

By: John Wood Sweet

Sweet offers scholars a capacious history of race in the North and a primer for thinking about the relationship between 'cultures' and identities. . . . Bodies Politic is deeply researched and richly detailed."—William and Mary Quarterly

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812219783

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9780812219784

The Sewing Girl's Tale

A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

By: John Wood Sweet

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A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America

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Sweet Dreams

By: John Wise

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Sweet Dreams

By: John Wise

The village of Tibworth lies on Manchester’s most northerly border, and just outside the village is Woods Farm. This is where 10 year old Albert Wood lives with his mother, father and sister Gail in the year 1953. Albert experiences a recurring dream. It isn't like the others, because this particular dream is the same over and over again. A scary encounter with an old hermit who tells Albert he has the 'gift', only adds to his predicament: is the dream real or not? Yet amongst his family’s arduous farming life, a sprawling mystery develops. An enigma only Albert can solve.

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146787986X

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The Song of Arthur

Celtic Tales from the High King's Court

By: John Matthews

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The Song of Arthur

Celtic Tales from the High King's Court

By: John Matthews

This companion to Celtic folklorist John Matthews' The Song of Taliesin (Quest 2001) features seventeen stories never before published in book form, interspersed with the author's original poetry in the style of the ancient past whence the tales spring. The book is a stunning retelling of legends, myths, and folktales drawn from the Welsh Mabinogion, the Taliesin tradition, The Book of Leinster, the story of Perceval, Malory's Morte d'Arthur, and other traditional sources. The stories are accompanied by excellent endnotes explaining sources and elucidating points of difficulty, but they stand beautifully on their own. Taken as a whole, they present the characters, themes, and events of Celtic, Grail, and Arthurian lore in an authentic literary voice that makes for great reading and great telling. The Ancient Wisdom flows forward in many forms. One of its streams is surely found in the Arthurian "quest for the Grail"---which is, at its core, the quest for enlightenment and spiritual mastery. Matthews' lucid refashioning of these tales is informed by his deep understanding of their esoteric center. Through them, the reader may clearly see the Ancient Wisdom shine.

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Quest Books

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0835608093

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9780835608091

The Herb Book

The Most Complete Catalog of Herbs Ever Published

By: John Lust

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The Herb Book

The Most Complete Catalog of Herbs Ever Published

By: John Lust

More than 2,000 complete and concise descriptions of herbs, illustrated by more than 275 line drawings, offer natural aids to health and happiness. Includes tips on growing, botanical medicine, seasoning, and much more.

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642

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Courier Corporation

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0486794784

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9780486794785

Fire under the Ashes

An Atlantic History of the English Revolution

By: John Donoghue

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Fire under the Ashes

An Atlantic History of the English Revolution

By: John Donoghue

In Fire under the Ashes, John Donoghue recovers the lasting significance of the radical ideas of the English Revolution, exploring their wider Atlantic history through a case study of Coleman Street Ward, London. Located in the crowded center of seventeenth-century London, Coleman Street Ward was a hotbed of political, social, and religious unrest. There among diverse and contentious groups of puritans a tumultuous republican underground evolved as the political means to a more perfect Protestant Reformation. But while Coleman Street has long been recognized as a crucial location of the English Revolution, its importance to events across the Atlantic has yet to be explored. Prominent merchant revolutionaries from Coleman Street led England’s imperial expansion by investing deeply in the slave trade and projects of colonial conquest. Opposing them were other Coleman Street puritans, who having crossed and re-crossed the ocean as colonists and revolutionaries, circulated new ideas about the liberty of body and soul that they defined against England’s emergent, political economy of empire. These transatlantic radicals promoted social justice as the cornerstone of a republican liberty opposed to both political tyranny and economic slavery—and their efforts, Donoghue argues, provided the ideological foundations for the abolitionist movement that swept the Atlantic more than a century later.

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386

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University of Chicago Press

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022607286X

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9780226072869

The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

By: John Arthos

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The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

By: John Arthos

Originally published in 1949, this title was written in order to help establish a better understanding of the ‘stock diction’ of eighteenth-century English poetry, and, in particular, of the diction commonly used in the description of nature. The language characteristic of so much of the poetry of this period had been severely criticized for a long time. But in the twenty or thirty years prior to publication some effort had been made to review the subject and the problem. However, several questions still remained unanswered, and more exhaustive analysis needed to be undertaken. This volume was an effort to provide answers for some of these questions and to begin the analysis that was required.

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467

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Routledge

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1000031101

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9781000031102

The King Arthur MEGAPACK®

Tales of King Arthur and His Knights

By: Sir Thomas Mallory,Mark Twain,Howard Pyle,John Gregory Betancourt

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The King Arthur MEGAPACK®

Tales of King Arthur and His Knights

By: Sir Thomas Mallory,Mark Twain,Howard Pyle,John Gregory Betancourt

Matters Arthurian have been a theme in literature since the Middle Ages. King Arthur, Excalibur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Quest for the Holy Grail are now part of popular culture. Here are 19 works that employ the Arthurian legends, ranging from early epic poems to 19th and 20th century novels and stories, showing how these myths and legends continue to enjoy new life: LE MORTE D’ARTHUR, by Sir Thomas Malory IDYLLS OF THE KING, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson THE PLEASAUNCE OF MAID MARIAN, by Oscar Fay Adams MERLIN’S YOUTH, by George Parker Bidder MERLIN AND KENTIGERN: A LEGEND OF TWEEDDALE, by J. S. Blackie PARZIVAL, by Wolfram von Eschenback MERLIN, by Mortimer Collins SIR LANCELOT DU LAKE, by Thomas Deloney THE RETURN FROM THE QUEST, by Oscar Fay Adams THE FORTUNATE ISLAND, by Max Adeler AT THE PALACE OF KING LOT, by Oscar Fay Adams THE LEGENDS OF KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS, by James Knowles THE STORY OF THE CHAMPIONS OF THE ROUND TABLE, by Howard Pyle KING ARTHUR AND THE KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND, edited by Rupert S. Holland SIR GAWAIN AND THE LADY OF LYS, by Anonymous KING ARTHUR’S KNIGHTS, by Henry Gilbert A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR’S COURT, by Mark Twain THE SWORD, THE KING, AND NAOMI WASHINGTON, by John Gregory Betancourt ARTHUR’S GRAVE: THE EPITAPH, by Ernest Rhys Wildside Press’s MEGAPACK® Ebook Series If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction -- and much, much more!

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147943700X

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9781479437009

The Works of Robert Burns

By: John Lockhart

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The Works of Robert Burns

By: John Lockhart

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382835940

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9783382835941

Emerson Avery, That Latin Teacher

By: John Allen Boyd

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Emerson Avery, That Latin Teacher

By: John Allen Boyd

Emerson Avery, That Latin Teacher is modern American literary fiction with a Southern flavor along with a few splashes of memoir. The core of the novel, covering about seven days, concerns Emerson Avery’s two trips into places of his past which clarify the source of his struggles with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and answers questions about his youth. Now at the coda of his life, he wants to achieve an existential understanding of himself. He is bright and fascinated with life around him – the human comedy – and he is devoted to his former pupils, family (some surrogate), and friends. The author, John Allen Boyd, has lived a life similar to that of Emerson, and, as such, the novel contains anecdotes that are partly memoir. Partly. But where is fiction purely fiction? As Emerson encounters those formative years and thinks about the present and the future, the novel moves like a person walking through a busy market place that stretches and detours for miles – stopping here and there for close inspection and possible purchases – moving quickly along at other places – observing people – leaving one display or another only to return later – always watching and listening and smelling and, sometimes, touching. There is quiet honey-soaked Southern life balanced with shocking horror and cruelty. There is the purity of man-wife love in contrast to depravity and perversity. Soaring intellect and dire ignorance. Trust and freedom and innocence teetering along side predation and indenture and insanity. Blind loyalty to tribalism against independence. Beauty and the hideous. Belief versus knowledge. Children and adults. And, throughout the novel, music, music, yes, music! What better way for a person to discover self. Its mystical power like walking naked under the rising sun or the full harvest moon. A reader may perceive the novel as a woven cloth, a fabric made from various threads that interweave and become visible again and again. Their warp and woof. There are numerous anecdotes and short stories that are ancillary to the main plot. And all of them are abstractions of the life of Emerson Avery. There are several themes that resound: Emerson is a part of all that he has met (Tennyson), people are more alike than different, and life among humans is not much of a departure from that of the lower animals considering our predatory acts on innocence and trust – our greed for things and lust for dominance. Also, we remain awash in primitive language as we attempt to translate our images into words – into any art form. He accepts that all art is translation. After all, he was a teacher of Latin. Likewise, Emerson sees us, as much today as any time in human history, swimming in the seas of mythology and superstition – especially the naïve and altruistic, whether urbane or rural. Ignorance is alive and abounding as are racism and tribalism, those perverse loyalties. People are funny, or is strange the better word? Emerson is a nurturer and finds self-worth in fostering young minds. Affirming their efforts to survive intelligently. He considers most human systems absurd and is an uncomfortable nihilist. Yet, in all of this, he is an optimist and usually calm in living his life in two houses – the place where he sleeps and in his classrooms. In his private life, he is intensely introspective and scholarly. In his classrooms and among friends he is extroverted, affable, and outgoing. His safety nets are music and reading, where he can sort it all out. While composing this novel, the author refused to write it in the manner of some of the dullest books he has ever read: linear narration – a plot trudging along from point A to point Z with the expected high points and low. Instead, he narrates his story using stories within stories within stories (Proust). He uses a variety of writing styles: straight narration, stream of conscious, fantasy, and other departures from the usual journalistic drivel. He has licen

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1469104482

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Book's by John Wood Sweet

The Sewing Girl's Tale

The Sewing Girl's Tale

Bodies Politic

Bodies Politic

The Sewing Girl's Tale

The Sewing Girl's Tale

Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams

The Song of Arthur

The Song of Arthur

The Herb Book

The Herb Book

Fire under the Ashes

Fire under the Ashes

The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

The Language of Natural Description in Eighteenth-Century Poetry

The King Arthur MEGAPACK®

The King Arthur MEGAPACK®

The Works of Robert Burns

The Works of Robert Burns

Emerson Avery, That Latin Teacher

Emerson Avery, That Latin Teacher

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