Darkened Room. Women, Power, and Spiritualism in Late Victorian England, Paperback - Alex Owen

'The Darkened Room' looks at the central role played by women as healers, mediums, and believers in the golden age of spiritualism in the late Vict...

Contains fascinating details of the lives and crimes of women in Victorian England.

The ghoulish handiwork of nineteenth-century London - the rivals of the Ripper.Illustrations: 171 Illustrations, black and white

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflic...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nancy J. PriceEditor: Click AmericanaJust before the turn of the century, women found out about the latest "handsome" and "...

Reducere. Being fashionable in the late Victorian era meant wearing things like dresses with puffed sleeves and high collars, and making sure to have a prope...

A study of the internal tensions of British imperial rule told through murder and insanity trialsPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Catheri...

Publisher: UnboundNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 196 x 35Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Abrisham Ahmadzade...

Reducere. Originally published in 1891, this hilarious (and informative) collection is a treasure trove of essential advice any man or woman, or couple, woul...

The only mainstream anthology to bring together the defining Gothic tales of the 1890sComplements and deepens the context for the most enduring Got...

As new, artificial dyes were created in the second half of the nineteenth century, a longing for faded, ancient hues emerged in artistic circles. T...

This work shows how the emphasis placed on the visual elements of Victorian productions revolutionized the position that stage designers held. They...

Reducere. Nineteenth-century Britain was then the world's most prosperous nation, yet Victorians would bury meat in earth and wring sheets out in boiling wat...

Reimagining Dinosaurs is aimed at literary scholars, historians of science, and curious general readers. Unlike previous works, which suggest that ...

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Can political representation help women upend entrenched systems of power? Property and Power finds evidence that quotas improve women's ability to...

The women who wielded the real power behind the throne in Renaissance Italy, from a bestselling historian.

From hoop skirts to bustles: a practical book that's also fun to colorAn era that saw women's fashions go from hoop skirts to softly draped bustles...

28th April 1870. Fanny and Stella, the flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton, are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All ...

Jim Davis explores the relationship between comic performance and the visual arts in England c.1780-1830, focussing on the influence of Hogarth and...

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Delving into the pressing topic of gender and politics, this volume provides fresh comparative perspectives on what works to promote women in polit...

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The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on grounds of ...

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Essays bringing out the richness and vibrancy of pre-modern textual culture in all its variety.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdIllustration(s): 62 c...

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This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences'...

Fresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Gerald P. (Royalt...

Tracing three episodes in sacred history - the loss of Eden, the loading of Noah's Ark, and the Harrowing of Hell - Sarah Elliott Novacich shows ho...

MEDIEVAL WOMEN looks at a thousand years of English history, as it affected - and was made by - women.Publisher: Orion Publishing CoAuthor(s): Henr...

New B-format paperback - This fascinating book explores the status of women in medieval England, both before and after the Norman Conquest.Publishe...

The Victorian fin de siecle has many associations: the era of Decadence, The Yellow Book, the New Woman, the scandalous Oscar Wilde, the Empire on ...

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Badass Victorian Women"Wild Women is a delightful collection of riveting stories about our independent, iconoclastic, and utterly outrageous foremo...

Reducere. In this timesaving reference book, respected author and historian Kristine Hughes brings 19th century England to life as she leads you through the ...

First full examination of the medieval livery collar, form, function, and significance.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): Matthew J. WardIll...

Reducere. Poetry. Women's Studies. "From crushed bodies and crushed nouns, Kirun Kapur has composed an utterly original book. Unsparing, un-selfpitying, thes...

Reducere. DescriptionThis sci-fi classic depicts a London destroyed by a cataclysmic event, with the remnants of England's population beginning a primitive s...

Reducere. DescriptionGhost stories have always provided a popular source of entertainment, thrilling readers with tales of remote gothic castles and dark dun...

Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

Explores the expectations and experiences of women in the crucial period between the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution.

Reducere. Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its ...

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Reducere. The first high-quality reprint of a rare guide, this reproduction of an 1882 publication features fifty-two plates of original interior designs. Au...

How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches, many of the fin...

Reducere. This stunning little book gives you a glimpse of strong, independent women from all four corners of the globe. It's kid friendly and has a mix of d...