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![]() ![]() ![]() Grounded in student experiences of the period, this social history explores the origins of women's higher education and the rural roots of reform. Shared labor, a dense kinship system, a separatist denomination, independence from that denomination, liberal theology, and a secular mission all supported an explicit ideology of equality. Susan Rumsey Strong shares the history of nineteenth-century Alfred, explaining its uniquely liberal environment by focusing on the individuals who created it and the sociocultural factors that contributed to it. ![]() Founded in 1836 as a select school in rural western New York State, it embraced women's public speaking, women's rights, and even suffrage. ![]() One of the nation's first coeducational colleges and an early leader in women's higher education, Alfred University offered a remarkably egalitarian environment for women in an era when their voices were silenced elsewhere. Jonathan Allen, President, Alfred University (1867-1892) The essential powers of the spirit are neither masculine nor feminine, but human, sexless. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The owner of the barn is not an ordinary landlord, as you will see, for he is a young man with fine ideals, and he is not content with establishing Shirley and her family in the quaintly beautiful old place, but makes the world a much happier place to live in for all of them. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of the Hollisters, contrives a way out by renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low price, transforming it into a house. The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. She wrote over 100 novels and numerous short. Grace Livingston Hill (1865 - 1947) was an early 20th-century novelist and wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at 10.86. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Enchanted Barn Buy The Enchanted Barn by Grace Livingston Hill online at Alibris. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Soon after arriving for his honeymoon at the Tower, the mild-mannered headmaster of a small village school, Thomas Senlin, gets separated from his wife, Marya, in the overwhelming swarm of tourists, residents, and miscreants.” ![]() ![]() It is a world of geniuses and tyrants, of luxury and menace, of unusual animals and mysterious machines. Immense as a mountain, the ancient Tower holds unnumbered ringdoms, warring and peaceful, stacked one on the other like the layers of a cake. “The Tower of Babel is the greatest marvel in the world. Through it all, Senlin gets to become a more decisive protagonist (often signified in the latter sections of the book with physical violence of a not-too-gratuitous level), maintain a basic goodness in a wild world, while the reader continues to discover new things about the Tower that click into place in satisfying ways. Josiah Bancroft’s protagonist, the eponymous Senlin, gets to go do stuff and see cool things, some of which genuinely have a sense of wonder or at least amusement to them the book alternates between action and introspection while bumping into a whole series of characters and set pieces that appear just long enough to show off their best elements and then fade quickly before anything can puncture them. It’s not hard to see why it succeeded as a self-published novel and then got picked up by Orbit. ![]() ![]() ![]() Education-no formal beyond elementary school.The 2006 film version stars Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Jill Clayburgh, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow and Evan Rachel Wood. The funny, harrowing and bestselling account of an ordinary boy’s survival under the most extraordinary circumstances. ![]() The story of an outlaw childhood where rules were unheard of, and the Christmas tree stayed up all year round, where Valium was consumed like candy, and if things got dull an electroshock-therapy machine could provide entertainment. ![]() So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor’s bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard shed. Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. ![]() ![]() They make it clear at the outset that ‘even considering recent advances in the development of women’s studies as a discipline, women remain underrepresented in the history and historiography of the Great Hunger’. The seventeen editors and authors contributing to this groundbreaking study include some of the leading researchers in Irish studies, offering new scholarship, methodologies and perspectives on this immense tragedy and its multiple legacies. ![]() ![]() Women and the Great Hunger, Christine Kinealy, Jason King and Ciaran Reilly, Cork University Press, 2017, paperback, 236 pp., £21.95, ISBN 97809909454 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SOURCES (not complete least) Daughter Testifies in Support of King Daughter Heard Shots, Cops Say A Woman Concerns with Appearances The Statement King Gave Cops Photos (article) Harsh Evidence Trial Focuses on the Clothes Dead Teen Wore (Part 1) Trial Focuses on the Clothes Dead Teen Wore (Part 2) Stepfather: Turner's Sister Heard Shots Turner's Stepfather Puzzles Over the Events of Her Murder Memories of Shilie King Called Both Killer and Victim Missing Girl Baffles Family, Psychic Didn't Help Mother Charged with Murder in Track Star's Death Suspect Depicted as Volatile and Domineering/ Community is Shaken by the Horror Mason Stuns Courtroom Rumors Led to Mother's Confession. When her body was discovered a month later, that heartache turned to shock and dismay about who was responsible for Shilie's death. ![]() When 17 year old shooting track star Shilie Turner suddenly disappeared over the Martin Luther King weekend, her disappearance turned the City of Brotherly Love inside out with worry and heartache. The finale to Shilie's heartbreaking story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And soon she begins to realise that stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she has ever made. Then a letter arrives which makes no sense and yet chills Cynthia to the core. ![]() And so she agrees to take part in a TV documentary revisiting the case, in the hope that somebody somewhere will remember something - or even that her father, mother or brother might finally reach out to her. Were her family murdered? If so, why was she spared? And if they're alive, why did they abandon her in such a cruel way? Now married with a daughter of her own, Cynthia fears that her new family will be taken from her just as her first one was. Twenty-five years later Cynthia is still haunted by unanswered questions. Fourteen-year-old Cynthia wakes one morning to discover that her entire family - mother, father, brother - have vanished. In the blink of an eye, without any explanation, her family has simply disappeared. But when she leaves her bedroom, she discovers the house is empty, with no sign of her parents or younger brother Todd. On the morning she will never forget, suburban teenager Cynthia Archer awakes with a nasty hangover and a feeling she is going to have an even nastier confrontation with her mom and dad. ![]() ![]() From his early years, he has been thinking that he was created for something else, a higher purpose which he will eventually accomplish and people will praise him for it (Bloom, 2009).Ī further analysis of Stephen’s character reveals that he is not like other children. This is why there is a distinct difference between Stephen’s reality and that of other people. There is a direct link to the author of the novel, as Stephen’s character represents Joyce’s individuality. ![]() This is the beginning of the formation of a character who will be sensitive to the surroundings, artistic and appreciative of specific stimuli received from the immediate world. It also hints to the fact that from an early age he appreciated attention and praise for his art. The applause that he received from Dante and Uncle Charles is significant of his development as an artist (Joyce, 2011). ![]() When Stephen remembers his mother and the way she smelled, it is notably important because it speaks about his connection with his mother and the affection she must have given him. This is critical because a child recalling his bed as cold is really saying that there were some major limitations in his life, and there was no real choice that could be made by the child. He remembers the feeling of his bed sheets and characterizes them as cold. ![]() From the very first lines, it is possible to see how Stephen values his memories, and the seemingly insignificant recollections of his childhood. ![]() ![]() Move pieces into place and set the stage for the war he’s been planning for over 500 years. It was supposed to be easy get in and get out. Knox has ulterior motives for being in Haven Falls and never expected the little witch to show up and brazenly challenge his rule. Will Aria embrace her savage side to find her sister and save her family, or will she burn to ashes from his heated kisses and burning hot embrace? Sparks fly when the two enter a fiery battle of wills as Aria learns she is more than just a witch in the Hecate bloodline she is much, much, more. ![]() They soon discover things have changed in the Human Realm and that nothing is what it seems, including Knox, the egotistical, self-centered, frustratingly gorgeous man who declared himself King during their absence. ![]() ![]() Aria and her sisters return to the Human Realm of Haven Falls to find one of their own that’s gone missing. ![]() |