In April 1888, Friedrich Engels wrote a letter to the English novelist and journalist Margaret Harkness, expressing his appreciation for her first novel, A City Girl: A Realistic Story, calling it “a small work of art.” A City Girl was one of many slum novels set in the East End of London in the 1880s. It tells the story of a young East Ender, Nelly Ambrose, who is seduced and abandoned by a middle-class bureaucrat. After the birth of her child and betrayal by her family, Nelly is rescued by two outside forces: the Salvation Army and a sympathetic local man, George, who wants to marry her despite her “fallen” status. While Nelly’s relative passivity and social ignorance distinguish her from contemporary New Woman heroines, Harkness’s sympathy for Nelly’s position and refusal to judge her morally make A City Girl a fascinating and original novel. This Broadview Edition includes contemporary reviews of A City Girl along with historical documents on London’s East End, fallen women in late-Victorian fiction, and reform organizations for East End women.
A social documentary of the East End in the 1880s, this work was originally published in 1889, as "Captain Lobe: A Story of the Salvation Army" by John Law, the pen name of Margaret Harkness, an important expounder of social realism in late 19th-century England.
Nelly Ambrose is an East End seamstress with ideas above her station. Discontented with her reliable but conservative fiancé, George, she falls for the urbane charms of middle-class Arthur Grant, a married man bothered by few moral scruples. In her first novel, Harkness presents a vivid and troubling depiction of working-class life in late-Victorian London. Based on her own experience of the slums, she exposes the appalling conditions experienced by women in the casual labour force and their desperate struggle for economic security. Friedrich Engels famously wrote a letter to Harkness after reading her novel, describing it as 'the old, old story, the proletarian girl seduced by a middle-class man'. While he praised her storytelling, Engels criticised her portrayal of the working classes as passive. In this critical edition, Deborah Mutch demonstrates that while Harkness eschewed revolutionary politics, A City Girl embodies her desire to marry socialist goals with human empathy.
Women in Transition (I am a Wanderer) is a collection of short stories exploring the more profound moments in womenas lives and offers both men and women alike the opportunity to explore the deeper connection of being human.A Born in Trieste, author Margaret Brisco has also included some of the stories about her own experiences of living in two worlds, i.e., that of the U.S. and Italy. Though she deals with universal themes such as war and love, this book also examines the subtle ironies of everyday living that we sometimes take for granted.A This book makes for a stimulating and interesting reading experience that will leave the reader with questions to ponder.
Providing a new, women-centered view of mainline Protestantism in the 20th century, Good and Mad explores the paradoxes and conflicting loyalties of liberal Protestant churchwomen who campaigned for human rights and global peace, worked for interracial cooperation, and opened the path to women's ordination, all while working within the confines of the church that denied them equality. Challenging the idea that change is only ever made by the loud, historian Margaret Bendroth interweaves vignettes of individual women who knew both the value of compromise and the cost of anger within a larger narrative that highlights the debts second-wave feminism owes to their efforts, even though these women would never have called themselves feminists. This lively historical account explains not just how feminism finally took root in American mainline churches, but why the change was so long in coming. Through its complex examination of the intersections of faith, gender, and anger at injustice, Good and Mad will be invaluable to anyone interested in the history of gender and religion in America.
The bloated remains of a man are discovered bound to a derelict pier in Orkney and newly promoted DCI Lukas Mahler dispatches a team to investigate. But when the body is identified as Alex Fleming - Mahler's former colleague from his time in the Met - the case becomes personal. Mahler's investigation takes him from his old stamping ground of London to the world of organised crime, and from sixteenth-century witch executions to Fleming's most notorious unsolved case: the 'Witchfinder' murders. Are the runic symbols found with Fleming's body proof the killer's struck again - or is there an even darker story to be uncovered? With pressure mounting from all sides and demons from his own past surfacing, Mahler is faced with the most complex moral decision of his career.
Why would a mother make her own child feel worthless and unwanted? All her life, Little Margaret had wondered why her mother didn't love her. No matter how hard she tried, she could never please her. The harder she tried, the worse things got. She never knew that there was deep-rooted reason for her animosity a secret that Little Margaret mustn't know and didn't know until it's too late. When she begins to probe the past, a harsh discovery makes her realize that no secret is ever worth its price What is this secret that you Don't Tell Little Margaret? Please also visit www.webreeds.com
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