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Biography: literaryApril 2013Jane Austen & Adlestrop
Her Other Family
by Victoria Huxley
The story of Jane Austen's links with the idyllic village of Adlestrop and Stoneleigh Abbey, the ancestral home of the two branch of the Leigh family, has not yet been fully told. Jane's mother, Cassandra, was a Leigh, a dynasty that boasted an Elizabethan Lord Mayor, ducal marriage alliances, a peerage granted by Charles I, eccentric Oxford luminaries, as well as the spectre of lunacy and bitter inheritance quarrels. Jane Austen visited Adlestrop at least three times and kept in constant touch with events there by letter. It wasi n Gloucestershire that she first heard of Humphry Repton wo was emplyed by the Leighs and saw at first hand how the 18th century craze for improvements totally changed the village. Jane Austen & Adlestrop opens up a fresh window on the author's life and experience and is also a portrayal of archetypal English village's journey through the last two hundred years.
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May 2011Puritan Village
The Formation of a New England Town
by Sumner Chilton Powell
An award-winning study of Puritans and the formation of their towns.
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Children's & young adult: general non-fictionCes grands procès qui ont changé le monde
by Francesca Trop
Comment concevoir les règles les plus justes et les plus universelles, afin de permettre à tous de mieux vivre ? Des premiers mythes de l’humanité jusqu’à l’histoire contemporaine, cet album documentaire raconte, commente et illustre 24 grands procès, répartis sur tous les continents, qui ont, chacun à leur façon, fait avancer la société. - How to imagine the fairest and most universal rules, in order to allow everyone to live better? From the first myths of humanity to contemporary history, this documentary album tells, comments and illustrates 24 major trials, spread over all continents, which have, each in their own way, pushed society forward.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2019Taubenblut. Die Siedler
Eine sächsisch-polnische Familiengeschichte (1697–1939)
by Bosri, Maria
For centuries young pigeons were considered a delicacy. Broth boiled from them allowed sick people to recover and women in childbed to regain their strength. Not so in times of war. Then the farmers slaughtered all the pigeons in no time at all so that their flight would not show the plundering troops the way to the farms. Mostly in vain. Now the blood of women and girls also flowed, whom the soldiers jokingly called their pigeons before they committed suicide. And there have been many wars over the last centuries. Even on the territory of the then Polish noble republic.In 1698, after the election of Augustus the Strong as Polish king, five Saxon peasant families of Lutheran faith were resettled in Poland. They were to grow tartufflis (potatoes). A risky enterprise in the arch-catholic country. Lutherans were still considered heretics here. Near Petrikau (today Piotrków Trybunalski) they lived for almost 250 years in more or less good Polish and Jewish neighbourhood. And, depending on the ruler, in prosperity or in need. This was their home. Until Hitler came to power.
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Literary studies: generalFebruary 2018LAS ESCRITORAS ESPAÑOLAS DE LA EDAD MODERNA. HISTORIA Y GUÍA PARA LA INVESTIGACIÓN.
by BARANDA LETURIO, Nieves; CRUZ, Anne J.
Aunque ignoradas en las historias literarias y culturales, durante los siglos XVI y XVII existieron en España decenas de mujeres que buscaron un espacio en el territorio de las letras. Después de más de treinta años de estudios especializados durante los cuales se han exhumado innumerables documentos y se han desarrollado y probado metodologías específicas para entender a las escritoras como mujeres integradas en su tiempo, es posible llegar a producir un libro como este. Esta historia y guía de investigación representa un avance radical en el conocimiento de las escritoras del Siglo de Oro, porque recoge los resultados más relevantes y los utiliza para configurar un panorama en el que la literatura escrita por las mujeres se plantea, por fin, bajo unos perfiles específicos. Se prescinde de la historia de las individualidades para mostrar en qué medida las escritoras dialogaron con su entorno y modularon los temas, los géneros o la retórica para responder a sus necesidades expresivas.
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Biography & True StoriesDecember 2020Amazonas con pincel
by Victoria Combalía
This book proposes a fascinating, clear and didactic journey through the life and work of women artists. Camille Claudel, Frida Kahlo or Dora Maar, among others, occupy the pages of this book illustrating a wide time period and their corresponding styles, from Impressionism to the 1940s of the 20th century.This work constitutes a corrected and enlarged part of Amazonas con brush, a book published in 2006. The texts seek a balance between the historical importance of the creators and the interest in their life, which sheds much light on the difficulties of being a woman and artist at the same time. For this reason, special attention has been paid to their working conditions, their success or neglect of their careers, and those who were able to encourage them or, on the contrary, silence them. They fought, like men, to express their vision of the world and renew artistic language, but in a social context far removed from equal opportunities. This book written by Victoria Combalía was in 2006 the first publication that was published in Spain focused on women artists.
