Women's Studies Archive: Rare Titles from the American Antiquarian Society, 1820-1922

The exploits of a British family whose children, while frequently involved in misbehavior, are taught the error of their ways with strong doses of Christian doctrine.

"From her first theatrical roles as a teenager in York to her ... performances as 'M' in the James Bond films, Dame Judi Dench's professional life has consisted of non-stop acting, leading to numerous accolades, including an Academy Award for her performance as Queen Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love. [This book] is a candid blend of reminiscences and photos, many of them never-before-seen from her personal collection"--

Biography of the American author and naturalist born in Roxbury, N.Y.

I have a copy with this title and no copyright date. If you would like more specific information, communicate with me. There are several advertisers in the book. Penciled inside the front cover is 3/6 - I have taken that to mean this book sold for 3 Shillings/sixpence and indeed, there is a listing in the book: Ward, Lock & Co.'s List of Standard Reference Volumes, Popular useful Books, Approved Educational Works, Illustrated Gift Books, &c. The first listing in s"The Best Work For Self-Educators - in Three Vols., cloth gilt, [etc]" priced at 7/6 PER VOLUME - My Beeton's book appears later in the section "The Standard Cookery Books" priced at 3/6 and described as Cloth Gilt, price 3s., 6d. The publisher has 3 locations: London, New York, and Melbourne Of note to women: The Philosophy of Housekeeping (pp i-lxiv) includes very specific instructions for the wife or mistress of a household in the Routine of Household Works and Ways. Excerpts from 427 items/tips: 1. "... she is steward of her husband's property..." 4. "Early Rising on the part of the mistress..." 5. "... rise at latest (italicized) at seven o'clock..." 7. "As soon as THE MISTRESS hears her husband's step, the bell should be rung for the hot dish." The drift is clear and the instructions cover the duties of servants. Date? sometime after 1858 as there is a reference to India as a colony and before c. 1894 as it contains an ad for Captain Warren's Patent Everybody's Cooking Pot mentioned on p. 133 of Quotations and Sources on Design and the Decorative Arts edited by Paul Greenhalgh - source 9: Mary Jewry (British) Food Consumption and Kitchen Equipment (c. 1894) Also in the list is "Violin-Making as It Was and Is Being a Historical, Theoretical, and Practical Treatise on the Science and Art of Violin-Making, for the Use of Violin ... Amateur and Professional" by Edward Heron-Allen (Author) and noted: " Important Work on the Violin - Second Edition, Dedicated by Special Permission to H.R.H the Duke of Edinburgh." 10s 6d. The preface notes that this is the "... first of a series of Practical Manuals which were to be called the 'All About It' Books - were thus explained in a Prospectus issued a few months ago, and approved by the late Mrs. S. O. Beeton". She died in 1865 of puerperal fever according to The Guardian - Oct 5, 2005 in a book review. Interesting for the color plates and descriptions of Cookery over 1650 "reciepts"- first read about Bubble-and-Squeak and Toad-In-The-Hole here (making British literature more understandable). 11 recipes for eel.

A Dutch brother and sister work toward two goals--finding the doctor who can restore their father's memory, and winning the competition for the silver skates.

Harper was a freed African American woman from Baltimore. These poems range over a wide variety of subjects, but her basic concern is the female and womanhood. Appended are several essays on Christianity, the Bible, and African Americans (she encourages them to strive until the day of freedom comes).

The editor of Godey's Lady's Book writes on the nutritional value of foods.

"John is so calm, so poised, so much at home with himself, so much a familiar spirit of the forests," wrote Walt Whitman of his friend, the naturalist and writer John Burroughs. "He is a child of the woods, fields, hills - native to them in a rare sense (in a sense almost a miracle)." Henry James called Burroughs "a more humorous, more available and more sociable Thoreau. James wrote that "the minuteness of Burroughs's observation, the keenness of his perception, give. Him a real originality, and his sketches have a delightful oddity, vivacity, and freshness." Burroughs was born in 1837, the same year that Henry Thoreau graduated from Harvard. Along with Thoreau and John Muir, he was one of the nineteenth century's most popular and preeminent nature writers. In the course of his long life, Burroughs authored more than twenty-eight books on natural history and literature. Writing during the increasingly industrial decades of the late. Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Burroughs stayed constant to the transcendental message of his idols - Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. During what Mark Twain called the "faithless" era of the Gilded Age, Burroughs urged his readers to go to the woods to develop a relationship with nature that did not "vulgarize it and rob it of its divinity." In this outstanding new book - the first full biography of John Burroughs to be published since 1925 - Edward J Renehan, Jr. draws on a wealth of previously unpublished manuscripts, journals, and letters to reveal the life of the dean of American nature writers. Renehan describes Burroughs's relationships with some of the most notable figures of his time, including Jay Gould, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Edison, John Muir, E.H. Harriman, Andrew Carnegie, Oscar Wilde and especially Walt Whitman, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Ford, with whom he developed complicated and. Enduring friendships.

Since Beecher believed domestic duties should be taught scientifically, she offers instruction in this book to women on health, hygiene, nutrition, exercise, etc.

Provides an introduction to the parks and the movement to preserve the redwoods, the world's tallest trees. Explores redwood natural history, the work of restoring logged lands, North Coast Indian Culture. Includes a travel guide and reference material for touring the parks.

Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Hale offers advice on homemaking tasks, including cleaning, gardening, and childcare.

Two men vying for the hand of Esther, a young woman of charm and virtue, are Felix Holt, an idealistic young artisan, and Harold Transome, the intelligent heir to an estate. She is drawn to Holt yet has dreams of marrying into a life of refinement.

Lady Ludlow is absolute mistress of Hanbury Court and a resolute opponent of anything that might disturb the class system into which she was born. She will keep no servant who can read and write and insists that the lower orders have no rights, but only duties. However, the winds of change are blowing through the village of Hanbury. The vicar, Mr. Gray, wishes to start a Sunday school for the spiritual betterment of its pupils. Mr. Horner wants to educate the citizens into becoming more useful and active members of society. But Lady Ludlow proves to be not so rigid as one may think.

A soldier who finds two abandoned boys entrusts them to the care of the innkeepers of the Guardian Angel, thus starting the boys and their benefactors on a series of adventures.

v. 2: The Oregon Years: Here Joe Meek continues his collaboration with Frances Fuller Victor, telling the story of his own colorful life and the tale of his times in The River of the West, a memoir that proved immediately and enduringly popular upon its publication more than a century ago. In the first half of their book, published as Volume One of this new edition, Meek and Mrs. Victor presented the young Joe in his role as a dashing and gallant trapper. In this volume they show him as a pioneer, sheriff, U.S. Marshall, even legislator -- Citizen Joe. Through Meek's pungent recollections, his engaging memoir also becomes an important history of Oregon's turbulent formative years -- the struggles of the missionaries, the other early settlers, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the Indians that shaped a territory and finally a state. - Jacket flap.

Relates to tobacco sign Indians.

Contains fictionalized biography of Louis XVII, King of France.

Story of the seduction of a British schoolgirl by a dashing soldier, John Montraville, who brings her to America and there abandons her, pregnant and ill.

Married at 25 to a charming dreamer whose irresponsible behavior quickly depleted their meager earnings, Mrs. Childs compiled this book (based, very likely, on personal experience) for women of less than moderate means.

As well as hymns and songs in praise of God and nature, this work contains several songs that advocate the benefits of death over slavery and several fables praising the joys of liberty after escaping captivity.

Piece discussed Margaret Fuller's "parlor" weekly lectures on transcendentalism, and their effects on Emerson.