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Häftad, Engelska, 2010
219 kr
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The incredible story of the fight for female education in BritainIn 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. When the Cambridge Senate held a vote on whether women students should be allowed official membership of the university, there was a full-scale riot. Despite the prejudice and the terrible sacrifices they faced, women from all backgrounds persevered and paved the way for the generations who have followed them since.Bluestockings tells an inspiring story - of defiance and determination, of colourful eccentricity and at times heartbreaking loneliness, as well as of passionate friendships, midnight cocoa-parties and glorious self-discovery.'Social history of the best kind' Sunday Times'Modern girls need reminding of the long battle, and Jane Robinson's fine book does just that, charting the lives and struggles of campaigners' Mail on Sunday
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The incredible story of the fight for female education in BritainIn 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. When the Cambridge Senate held a vote on whether women students should be allowed official membership of the university, there was a full-scale riot. Despite the prejudice and the terrible sacrifices they faced, women from all backgrounds persevered and paved the way for the generations who have followed them since.Bluestockings tells an inspiring story - of defiance and determination, of colourful eccentricity and at times heartbreaking loneliness, as well as of passionate friendships, midnight cocoa-parties and glorious self-discovery.'Social history of the best kind' Sunday Times'Modern girls need reminding of the long battle, and Jane Robinson's fine book does just that, charting the lives and struggles of campaigners' Mail on Sunday
E-bok
Engelska, 2001191 kr
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Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women''s travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been met and usually overcome by thesesame women.Jane Robinson''s first book,Wayward Women, was a guide to women travellers and their writing, and having read over a thousand of their books she is uniquely qualified to compile this anthology. Life is never dull for her intrepid women, whether diving to the bed of the Timor Sea or reaching the summit of Annapurna. From an encounter with a snake in the Amazon jungle to shipwreck and kidnap on the Barbary Coast, there are tales of adventure, derring-do, and great danger. There are also moving accounts of unimaginable hardship, includingcaring for a family in an ammunition cart during the siege of Delhi and a journey through Tibet that leaves its author childless and widowed.There is no such thing as a typical woman traveller--and there never has been--as this exhilarating anthology shows on a journey of its own through sixteen centuries of travel writing, aboard almost anything from a Bugatti to a Bath chair. You are taken as far afield as it is possible to go, in the company of some of the most extraordinary characters you are ever likely to meet.
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PDF, Engelska, 1994191 kr
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Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women''s travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been met and usually overcome by thesesame women.Jane Robinson''s first book,Wayward Women, was a guide to women travellers and their writing, and having read over a thousand of their books she is uniquely qualified to compile this anthology. Life is never dull for her intrepid women, whether diving to the bed of the Timor Sea or reaching the summit of Annapurna. From an encounter with a snake in the Amazon jungle to shipwreck and kidnap on the Barbary Coast, there are tales of adventure, derring-do, and great danger. There are also moving accounts of unimaginable hardship, includingcaring for a family in an ammunition cart during the siege of Delhi and a journey through Tibet that leaves its author childless and widowed.There is no such thing as a typical woman traveller--and there never has been--as this exhilarating anthology shows on a journey of its own through sixteen centuries of travel writing, aboard almost anything from a Bugatti to a Bath chair. You are taken as far afield as it is possible to go, in the company of some of the most extraordinary characters you are ever likely to meet.
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
268 kr
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Real ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women's travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been met and usually overcome by thesesame women.Jane Robinson's first book,Wayward Women, was a guide to women travellers and their writing, and having read over a thousand of their books she is uniquely qualified to compile this anthology. Life is never dull for her intrepid women, whether diving to the bed of the Timor Sea or reaching the summit of Annapurna. From an encounter with a snake in the Amazon jungle to shipwreck and kidnap on the Barbary Coast, there are tales of adventure, derring-do, and great danger. There are also moving accounts of unimaginable hardship, includingcaring for a family in an ammunition cart during the siege of Delhi and a journey through Tibet that leaves its author childless and widowed.There is no such thing as a typical woman traveller--and there never has been--as this exhilarating anthology shows on a journey of its own through sixteen centuries of travel writing, aboard almost anything from a Bugatti to a Bath chair. You are taken as far afield as it is possible to go, in the company of some of the most extraordinary characters you are ever likely to meet.
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
198 kr
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There is nothing quite like parrot pie for breakfast. First one must catch one's parrot, of course, and build the hearth to bake it, but that is all in a days work for the woman pioneer. This riveting anthology tells the story of over 100 such women spanning four centuries, from the lowliest kitchen skivvy to ambassadors' wives: emigrants who settled the wildernesses of the world in search of new and better lives. Many were lured abroad by the promise of work or fortune; some went because imperial duty called, while for others it was a most unfeminine lust for adventure that drew them away. But all faced challenges in their homes from home that were to test to the limit their spirits, their resourcefulness, even their survival.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
176 kr
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Only a generation or two ago, illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a family.In the Family Way tells secrets kept for entire lifetimes: long-silent voices from the workhouse, the Magdalene Laundry or the distant mother-and-baby home. Anonymous childhoods are recalled, spent in the care of Dr Barnardo or a Child Migration scheme halfway across the world. There are sorrowful stories in this book, but it is also about hope: about supportive families who welcomed 'love-children' home, or those who were parted and are now reconciled. Most of all, In the Family Way is about finally telling the truth.
E-bok
Engelska, 2015104 kr
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Unmarried mothers, absent fathers, orphaned children - Jane Robinson's In the Family Way is a truly gripping book about long-buried secrets, family bonds and unlikely heroes.Only a generation or two ago, illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a family. Unmarried mothers were considered immoral, single fathers feckless and bastard children inherently defective. They were hidden away from friends and relations as guilty secrets, punished by society and denied their place in the family tree. Today, the concept of illegitimacy no longer exists in law, and babies' parents are as likely to be unmarried as married. This revolution in public opinion makes it easy to forget what it was really like to give birth, or be born, out of wedlock in the years between World War One and the dawn of the Permissive Age. By speaking to those involved - many of whom have never felt able to talk about their experiences before - Jane Robinson reveals a story not only of shame and appalling prejudice, but also of triumph and the every-day strength of the human spirit. In the Family Way tells secrets kept for entire lifetimes and rescues from the shadows an important part of all our family histories. In it we hear long-silent voices from the workhouse, the Magdalene Laundry or the distant mother-and-baby home. Anonymous childhoods are recalled, spent in the care of Dr Barnardo or a Child Migration scheme halfway across the world. There are sorrowful stories in this book, but it is also about hope: about supportive families who defied social expectations by welcoming 'love-children' home, or those who were parted and are now reconciled. Most of all, In the Family Way is about finally telling the truth.Praise for Bluestockings'A gem of a book. Social history of the best kind' Sunday Times'Fascinating. Inspiring. Impassioned and wonderfully entertaining' ScotsmanJane Robinson was born in Edinburgh and brought up in North Yorkshire. After reading English at Somerville College, Oxford, she became an antiquarian book dealer, and later a writer and lecturer. In the Family Way is her ninth book, and like her previous work, including the acclaimed Bluestockings and A Force to Be Reckoned With, it confirms her as one of our most engaging and original social historians. Jane lives near Oxford with her husband and two sons.
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Josephine Butler
A Very Brief History
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
193 kr
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When Josephine Butler died in 1906, she was declared by Millicent Fawcett to have been 'the most distinguished Englishwoman of the nineteenth century'. With impassioned speeches and fiery writing, Butler's campaigns for women's rights shook Victorian society to its core and became a force for change that has shaped modern Britain.As well as campaigning for women's suffrage and for married women's property rights she was a tireless advocate of women's access to higher education and of equality in the workplace. Her greatest achievement was to change social attitudes to women and children forced into prostitution, and to expose the sex-trafficking business - both of which resulted in new, more humane legislation.But how did the physically frail wife of a schoolmaster become a leading social reformer? In this brief introduction Jane Robinson explores Butler's fascinating life and describes how her progressive politics, her anger at injustice and her passionate Christianity combined to create a vibrant legacy that lasts to this day.
Inbunden, Engelska, 1996
2 474 kr
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A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing history over the last decade, transforming it into a robust and reflective area of scholarship. Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare highlights the significant contribution that researching nursing history has to make in settling a new intellectual and political agenda for nurses.The seventeen international contributors to this book look at nursing from different perspectives, as it has developed under different regimes and ideologies and at different times, in America, Australia, Britain, Germany, India, The Phillipines and South Africa. They highlight the role of politics and gender in understanding nursing history and propose strategies for achieving greater recognition for nursing, and bringing it into line with other related health care professions.
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
882 kr
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A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing history over the last decade, transforming it into a robust and reflective area of scholarship. Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare highlights the significant contribution that researching nursing history has to make in settling a new intellectual and political agenda for nurses.The seventeen international contributors to this book look at nursing from different perspectives, as it has developed under different regimes and ideologies and at different times, in America, Australia, Britain, Germany, India, The Phillipines and South Africa. They highlight the role of politics and gender in understanding nursing history and propose strategies for achieving greater recognition for nursing, and bringing it into line with other related health care professions.
Häftad, Engelska, 1996
572 kr
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This text aims to assist nurses grasping the complex context of current issues surrounding the process of needs assessment so that they could contribute to the debates and develop their practice appropriately.
E-bok
Engelska, 201144 kr
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Everyone knows three things about the Women''s Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. But there''s so much more to this remarkable Movement. Over 200,000 women in the UK belong to the WI and their membership is growing. They cross class and religion,include all ages -from students and metropolitan young professionals, such as the Shoreditch Sisters,to rural centenarians -with passions that range from supporting the 1920s Bastardy Bill (in response to a wartime legacy of illegitimate babies) to the current SOS for Honey Bees campaign.It was founded in 1915, not by worthy ladies in tweeds but by the feistiest women in the country, including suffragettes, academics and social crusaders who discovered the heady power of sisterhood, changing women''s lives and their world in the process. Certainly its members boiled jam and sang '' Jerusalem '', but they also made history. This fascinating book reveals for the first time how they are - and always were - a force to be reckoned with.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
280 kr
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'What a lot we have to thank Barbara Bodichon and her circle for. She was a charismatic but self-effacing woman so she would at the very least have been perplexed by the idea of being a role model. But I can't think of a better one for today.' - Literary Review'Lively and well researched ... [Bodichon] was a vital cog in the wheel of social change for women. Her energy is contagious.‘ The TimesJane Robinson is brilliant at putting the women back into history and her biography of Barbara Leigh Bodichon, a Victorian feminist we should all be grateful to, is as entertaining as it is necessary.’ - Daisy Goodwin‘Jane Robinson’s admiration of [Barbara’s] achievements, and her incisive and immersive approach to writing her life story, ensures that her subject catches the sun.’ - Times Literary Supplement'An overdue tribute to an unsung feminist pioneer . . . Robinson gives a buoyant, skilfully managed account that is undeniably moving.' - Financial TimesYou have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done.Name any 'modern' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion, mental health awareness, Black Lives Matter. While her name has been omitted from too many history books, it was Barbara that opened the doors for more famous names to walk through. And her influence owed as much to who she was as to what she did: people loved her for her robust sense of humour, cheerfulness and indiscriminate acts of kindness.This is a celebration of the life of the founder of Britain's suffrage movement: campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace, the law, at home and beyond. Co-founder of Girton, the first university college for women, a committed activist for human rights, fervently anti-slavery, she was also one of Victorian England's finest female painters.Jane Robinson's brilliant new book shines a light on a remarkable woman who lived on her own terms and to whom we owe a huge debt.
E-bok
Engelska, 20051 056 kr
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A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing history over the last decade, transforming it into a robust and reflective area of scholarship. Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare highlights the significant contribution that researching nursing history has to make in settling a new intellectual and political agenda for nurses.The seventeen international contributors to this book look at nursing from different perspectives, as it has developed under different regimes and ideologies and at different times, in America, Australia, Britain, Germany, India, The Phillipines and South Africa. They highlight the role of politics and gender in understanding nursing history and propose strategies for achieving greater recognition for nursing, and bringing it into line with other related health care professions.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 20051 056 kr
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A quiet revolution has been sweeping through the writing of nursing history over the last decade, transforming it into a robust and reflective area of scholarship. Nursing History and the Politics of Welfare highlights the significant contribution that researching nursing history has to make in settling a new intellectual and political agenda for nurses.The seventeen international contributors to this book look at nursing from different perspectives, as it has developed under different regimes and ideologies and at different times, in America, Australia, Britain, Germany, India, The Phillipines and South Africa. They highlight the role of politics and gender in understanding nursing history and propose strategies for achieving greater recognition for nursing, and bringing it into line with other related health care professions.
E-bok
Engelska, 201944 kr
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The ''Greatest Black Briton in History'' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. "The Times" called her a heroine, Florence Nightingale called her a brothel-keeping quack, and Queen Victoria''s nephew called her, simply, ''Mammy'' - Mary Seacole was one of the most eccentric and charismatic women of her era. Born at her mother''s hotel in Jamaica in 1805, she became an independent ''doctress'' combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical techniques. On the outbreak of the Crimean War, she arrived in London desperate to join Florence Nightingale at the Front, but the authorities refused to see her. Being black, nearly 50, rather stout, and gloriously loud in every way, she was obviously unsuitable. Undaunted, Mary travelled to Balaklava under her own steam to build the ''British Hotel'', just behind the lines. It was an outrageous venture, and a huge success - she became known and loved by everyone from the rank and file to the royal family. For more than a century after her death this remarkable woman was all but forgotten. This, the first full-length biography of a Victorian celebrity recently voted the greatest black Briton in history, brings Mary Seacole centre stage at last.
E-bok
Engelska, 2018105 kr
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_______'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist. Set against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story of the ordinary people effecting extraordinary change. 1913: the last long summer before the war. The country is gripped by suffragette fever. These impassioned crusaders have their admirers; some agree with their aims if not their forceful methods, while others are aghast at the thought of giving any female a vote.Meanwhile, hundreds of women are stepping out on to the streets of Britain. They are the suffragists: non-militant campaigners for the vote, on an astonishing six-week protest march they call the Great Pilgrimage. Rich and poor, young and old, they defy convention, risking jobs, family relationships and even their lives to persuade the country to listen to them. Fresh and original, full of vivid detail and moments of high drama, Hearts and Minds is both funny and incredibly moving, important and wonderfully entertaining.
E-bok
Engelska, 2020104 kr
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It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at once political watershed and a social revolution; the point at which women of 21 and over were recognised in law as being as competent as men. But were they? What actually happened when this bill was passed? This is the story of what happened next.Ladies Can't Climb Ladders focuses on the lives of six women - six pioneers - forging paths in the fields of medicine, law, academia, architecture, engineering and the church. Robinson's startling study into the public and private lives of these women sheds light not on the desires and ambitions of her subjects but how family and society responded to the working woman and what their legacy looks like today. This book is written in their honour. It is a book about live subjects: equal opportunity, the gender pay gap, and whether women can expect, or indeed deserve, to have it at all.'An important and crackingly good read.' - Telegraph
E-bok
Engelska, 2024104 kr
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‘Jane Robinson is brilliant at putting the women back into history and her biography of Barbara Leigh Bodichon, a Victorian feminist we should all be grateful to, is as entertaining as it is necessary.’ - Daisy GoodwinYou have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done.Name any 'modern' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion, mental health awareness, Black Lives Matter. While her name has been omitted from too many history books, it was Barbara that opened the doors for more famous names to walk through. And her influence owed as much to who she was as to what she did: people loved her for her robust sense of humour, cheerfulness and indiscriminate acts of kindness.This is a celebration of the life of the founder of Britain's suffrage movement: campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace, the law, at home and beyond. Co-founder of Girton, the first university college for women, a committed activist for human rights, fervently anti-slavery, she was also one of Victorian England's finest female painters.Jane Robinson's brilliant new book shines a light on a remarkable woman who lived on her own terms and to whom we owe a huge debt.‘Skillful storytelling and a warm-hearted narrative style . . . What a lot we have to thank Barbara Bodichon and her circle for’ Literary Review‘Stylishly written, and rich with entertaining anecdotes, Robinson’s biography reanimates this almost forgotten, generous and visionary woman’ The Lady‘Lively and well researched’ The Times
Ljudbok
Engelska, 2024184 kr
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Brought to you by Penguin.You have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done.Name any ''modern'' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion, mental health awareness, Black Lives Matter. While her name has been omitted from too many history books, it was Barbara that opened the doors for more famous names to walk through. And her influence owed as much to who she was as to what she did: people loved her for her robust sense of humour, cheerfulness and indiscriminate acts of kindness.This is a celebration of the life of the founder of Britain''s suffrage movement: campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace, the law, at home and beyond. Founder of Girton, the first university college for women, a committed activist for human rights, fervently anti-slavery, she was also one of Victorian England''s finest female painters.Jane Robinson''s brilliant new book shines a light on a remarkable woman who lived on her own terms and to whom we owe a huge debt.©2024 Jane Robinson (P)2024 Penguin Audio
Inbunden, Engelska, 2027
240 kr
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‘Let it be remembered that insanity is still considered as more disgraceful than crime, and that it is therefore made the immediate interest of the family of the insane to bury her in oblivion . . .’Today we are increasingly aware that poor mental health affects all of us, collectively if not personally; it is something to be accepted and addressed, rather than kept at bay like a dangerous beast. But for most of human history mental illness has been seen as taboo, a shameful secret that required hiding away. Women – who have long been stigmatised as melancholic, hysteric and feeble minded, more prone to insanity than their male counterparts – have been particularly sidelined.In Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Jane Robinson traces the history of women’s madness from the ancient Greek humours and seventeenth-century witch trials to institutions, modern psychiatry and the birth of the NHS, giving a voice to both the patients of the past and the pioneering women who came to their aid. Drawing on case studies, first-hand accounts and the tireless work of female campaigners, journalists and doctors, Robinson reveals how a chorus of women helped to engineer the change towards compassion, understanding and effective treatment; how much prejudice they had to overcome in the process, and how their greatest ally in the battle for recognition was their own strength of character.
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
121 kr
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_______'A history book that should be read by all' - Stylist. Set against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story of the ordinary people effecting extraordinary change. 1913: the last long summer before the war. The country is gripped by suffragette fever. These impassioned crusaders have their admirers; some agree with their aims if not their forceful methods, while others are aghast at the thought of giving any female a vote.Meanwhile, hundreds of women are stepping out on to the streets of Britain. They are the suffragists: non-militant campaigners for the vote, on an astonishing six-week protest march they call the Great Pilgrimage. Rich and poor, young and old, they defy convention, risking jobs, family relationships and even their lives to persuade the country to listen to them. Fresh and original, full of vivid detail and moments of high drama, Hearts and Minds is both funny and incredibly moving, important and wonderfully entertaining.
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
133 kr
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It is a myth that either of the World Wars liberated women.The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919 was one of the most significant pieces of legislation in modern Britain. It marked at once political watershed and a social revolution; the point at which women of 21 and over were recognised in law as being as competent as men. But were they? What actually happened when this bill was passed? This is the story of what happened next.Ladies Can't Climb Ladders focuses on the lives of six women - six pioneers - forging paths in the fields of medicine, law, academia, architecture, engineering and the church. Robinson's startling study into the public and private lives of these women sheds light not on the desires and ambitions of her subjects but how family and society responded to the working woman and what their legacy looks like today. This book is written in their honour. It is a book about live subjects: equal opportunity, the gender pay gap, and whether women can expect, or indeed deserve, to have it at all.'An important and crackingly good read.' - Telegraph
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
137 kr
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‘Jane Robinson is brilliant at putting the women back into history and her biography of Barbara Leigh Bodichon, a Victorian feminist we should all be grateful to, is as entertaining as it is necessary.’ - Daisy GoodwinYou have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done.Name any 'modern' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion, mental health awareness, Black Lives Matter. While her name has been omitted from too many history books, it was Barbara that opened the doors for more famous names to walk through. And her influence owed as much to who she was as to what she did: people loved her for her robust sense of humour, cheerfulness and indiscriminate acts of kindness.This is a celebration of the life of the founder of Britain's suffrage movement: campaigner for equal opportunity in the workplace, the law, at home and beyond. Co-founder of Girton, the first university college for women, a committed activist for human rights, fervently anti-slavery, she was also one of Victorian England's finest female painters.Jane Robinson's brilliant new book shines a light on a remarkable woman who lived on her own terms and to whom we owe a huge debt.‘Skillful storytelling and a warm-hearted narrative style . . . What a lot we have to thank Barbara Bodichon and her circle for’ Literary Review‘Stylishly written, and rich with entertaining anecdotes, Robinson’s biography reanimates this almost forgotten, generous and visionary woman’ The Lady‘Lively and well researched’ The Times
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
146 kr
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Everyone knows three things about the Women's Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. But there's so much more to this remarkable Movement. Over 200,000 women in the UK belong to the WI and their membership is growing. They cross class and religion,include all ages -from students and metropolitan young professionals, such as the Shoreditch Sisters,to rural centenarians -with passions that range from supporting the 1920s Bastardy Bill (in response to a wartime legacy of illegitimate babies) to the current SOS for Honey Bees campaign.It was founded in 1915, not by worthy ladies in tweeds but by the feistiest women in the country, including suffragettes, academics and social crusaders who discovered the heady power of sisterhood, changing women's lives and their world in the process. Certainly its members boiled jam and sang ' Jerusalem ', but they also made history. This fascinating book reveals for the first time how they are - and always were - a force to be reckoned with.
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
256 kr
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The 'Greatest Black Briton in History' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. "The Times" called her a heroine, Florence Nightingale called her a brothel-keeping quack, and Queen Victoria's nephew called her, simply, 'Mammy' - Mary Seacole was one of the most eccentric and charismatic women of her era. Born at her mother's hotel in Jamaica in 1805, she became an independent 'doctress' combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical techniques. On the outbreak of the Crimean War, she arrived in London desperate to join Florence Nightingale at the Front, but the authorities refused to see her. Being black, nearly 50, rather stout, and gloriously loud in every way, she was obviously unsuitable. Undaunted, Mary travelled to Balaklava under her own steam to build the 'British Hotel', just behind the lines. It was an outrageous venture, and a huge success - she became known and loved by everyone from the rank and file to the royal family. For more than a century after her death this remarkable woman was all but forgotten. This, the first full-length biography of a Victorian celebrity recently voted the greatest black Briton in history, brings Mary Seacole centre stage at last.
E-bok
Tyska, 201651 kr
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In dieser neuartigen Romanausgabe beweisen die Autoren erfolgreicher Serien ihr großes Talent. Geschichten von wirklicher Buch-Romanlänge lassen die illustren Welten ihrer Serienhelden zum Leben erwachen. Es sind die Stories, die diese erfahrenen Schriftsteller schon immer erzählen wollten, denn in der längeren Form kommen noch mehr Gefühl und Leidenschaft zur Geltung. Spannung garantiert!Unter großer Anstrengung gelang es Marlene schließlich die Augen zu öffnen. Was sich ihren Blicken darbot, brachte ihren Herzschlag vor Schreck aus dem Rhythmus! An der Wand, gleich neben der Tür, stand aufgerichtet ein offener Sarkophag, wie man sie auf Fotos aus ägyptischen Museen sehen kann. Und in diesem Sarg lehnte eine Mumie, ganz von goldglänzendem Metall umhüllt und angestrahlt von einem grünlichen, phosphoreszierendem Licht. Ein Pharao, dachte Marlene verstört. Großer Gott, wie kommt dieser Sarkophag mit einer Mumie darin auf unser Schiff und in unser Schlafgemach? Voller Entsetzen ließ Marlene ihren Blick umherschweifen. Alles in der Kabine schien sich auf gespenstische Weise verändert zu haben, durch das grünliche Licht, das von der Mumie ausstrahlte. O Gott, was passiert mit mir, dachte Marlene verstört. Bin ich vielleicht gar nicht mehr da, wo ich zu sein glaube.Marlene von Haltern stand vor dem großen, dreiteiligen Ankleidespiegel und betrachtete sich im Brautkleid.Wenn Hanno mich so sieht, wird er mich noch mehr lieben, dachte sie, und bei der Vorstellung, daß nach der Trauung endlich all ihre leidenschaftlichen Träume Wirklichkeit werden würden, geriet ihr Blut in Wallung, und ihre Wangen überzogen sich mit glühender Röte.Hinter ihr öffnete sich die Tür zu ihrem Schlafgemach. Das Geräusch schreckte Marlene aus ihren verliebten Träumereien auf. Aber nicht ihre Freundin Angela von Gerau war zurückgekehrt und auch nicht ihre Friseuse. – Die beiden waren wenige Minuten zuvor aus dem Zimmer gerufen worden. – Im Spiegel entdeckte Marlene, daß niemand anderer als Gunter von Meersfeld eingetreten war!»Gunter?« murmelte sie fassungslos
E-bok
Tyska, 201651 kr
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In dieser neuartigen Romanausgabe beweisen die Autoren erfolgreicher Serien ihr großes Talent. Geschichten von wirklicher Buch-Romanlänge lassen die illustren Welten ihrer Serienhelden zum Leben erwachen. Es sind die Stories, die diese erfahrenen Schriftsteller schon immer erzählen wollten, denn in der längeren Form kommen noch mehr Gefühl und Leidenschaft zur Geltung. Spannung garantiert!Vom alten Schloßturm schlug es Mitternacht. Im Ballsaal von Dunvegan Castle brach die Musik im selben Moment mit einem schrillen Mißton ab. Das Licht flackerte und erlosch. Angst und Entsetzen breiteten sich unter den Gästen aus. Alle starrten wie gebannt nach draußen, wo ein grelles Licht über dem Meer erschien, als sei mitten in der Nacht eine gleißende Sonne aufgegangen. Ein unheimliches Rauschen erfüllte die Luft. Und plötzlich flogen die Flügeltüren zur Terrasse auf. Im Lichtschein näherte sich ein Rappe in raschem Galopp dem Schloß.Der Reiter trug ein feuerrotes Cape und einen breitkrempigen schwarzen Hut. Eine schwarze Maske verdeckte sein Gesicht.»Heiliger Himmel! Der Geisterreiter!« rief Lady Burnsfield. Dann sank sie ohnmächtig zu Boden.Lady Burnsfield war die älteste unter den Ballgästen, und man sagte ihr nach, sie habe Verbindung zu den Geistern ihrer verstorbenen Ahnen.Bisher hatte man die Geschichten, die hinter vorgehaltener Hand über sie verbreitet wurden, nur amüsiert belächelt. In dieser Nacht jedoch, in der sich auf Schloß Dunvegan etwas so Außergewöhnliches ereignete, erhielt all das, was Lady Burnsfield betraf, eine besondere Bedeutung.Jeder hier im Festsaal konnte erleben, daß es zwischen Himmel und Erde Dinge gab, die sich mit dem normalen Menschenverstand nicht erklären ließen.Schreiend und kreischend wichen die Ballgäste vor dem heranpreschenden Reiter zurück, suchten Schutz hinter den Säulen oder begannen aus dem Saal zu fliehen.Nur Rebecca, die schöne junge Tochter des Schloßherrn, schien sich nicht zu fürchten. Sie blieb mitten im Saal stehen und blickte dem Reiter lächelnd entgegen.Sie trug ein reich mit Spitzen besetztes Abendkleid mit blaßroter
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Der Liebesroman mit Gänsehauteffekt begeistert alle, die ein Herz für Spannung, Spuk und Liebe haben. Mystik der Extraklasse – das ist das Markenzeichen der beliebten Romanreihe Irrlicht – Neue Edition: Werwölfe, Geisterladies, Spukschlösser, Hexen und andere unfassbare Gestalten und Erscheinungen erzeugen wohlige Schaudergefühle.Diese Serie enthält alles, was die Leserinnen und Leser von Mystik Romanen interessiert.Wie unter einem magischen Zwang schickte Lord Wismore seinen Blick ein weiteres Mal zu den Tannen hinüber, doch seine geheime Hoffnung, die weiße Schleiergestalt könnte inzwischen wie eine flüchtige Lichtspiegelung verschwunden sein, erfüllte sich nicht! Die lichtumflutete Gestalt stand vielmehr noch immer an derselben Stelle – angestrahlt von einem seltsamen, geradezu überirdischen unwirklichen Licht – eine ganz eigenartige zauberhafte Erscheinung! Und die Gestalt schien inzwischen sogar auf Gordon aufmerksam geworden zu sein, denn sie hob plötzlich die linke Hand und winkte herüber. Dabei lag auf ihren bleichen blutleeren Lippen ein seltsam wissendes Lächeln, das Gordon unwillkürlich den Eindruck vermittelte, sie wollte ihn an alle ihre gemeinsamen düsteren Geheimnisse erinnern! Lord Wismore stand am offenen Grabe seiner vor kurzem unter mysteriösen Umständen plötzlich verstorbenen Gemahlin. Ein unbarmherziges Schicksal hatte ihr Lebenslicht in der Blüte ihrer Jugend ausgelöscht. Besonders tragisch war der Umstand, daß der herbeigerufene Arzt sie wahrscheinlich hätte retten können, wenn er nur eine halbe Stunde früher verständigt worden wäre! So aber hatte er bei seinem Eintreffen nur noch bedauernd Lady Moiras Tod feststellen können. Lord Wismore war seither wie von Sinnen vor Schmerz und vor Trauer. Es schien, als hätte ihn der tragische Schicksalsschlag zu einem gebrochenen Mann werden lassen. Und auch jetzt, da er am offenen Grabe der geliebten Toten stand und den zu Herzen gehenden Worten des Geistlichen lauschte, machte er den Eindruck, trotz seiner Jugend alle Lebenslust verloren zu haben. Aber nicht nur deshalb durfte er sich des Mitleids aller Trauergäste gewiß sein! Das tragische Geschehen hatte sich nur wenige Monate nach der Hochzeit des jungen Paares ereignet, und bisher hatte niemand eine plausible Erklärung gefunden für die seltsamen Umstände, die so plötzlich zum Tode der jungen Frau geführt hatten. Nicht einmal Scotland Yard! So jedenfalls hieß es in dem offiziellen Abschlußbericht der Behörde, mit dem der Leichnam der jungen Lady vor zwei Tagen endlich zur Bestattung freigegeben worden war. Der herzzerreißende Nachruf des jungen Lords nahm in der TIMES eine halbe Seite ein. Und niemand, der diese bewegenden Worte voll tiefster Trauer und Verzweiflung las, konnte an dem großen Schmerz des Witwers zweifeln. Abgesehen davon war die märchenhafte Hochzeit des verliebten, glückstrahlenden jungen Paares allen Freunden und Bekannten, aber auch ungezählten Zaungästen noch in zu guter Erinnerung, als daß man angesichts dieser Tragik nicht zutiefst hätte berührt sein müssen. Damals war man sich einig gewesen: Lord und Lady Wismore hatten ein traumhaftes Liebesglück gefunden, und dieses Glück hatte ihnen aus den Augen geleuchtet, als sie sich vor dem Altar die Hände reichten und der Geistliche den Segen sprach. Doch selbst die, die damals weder geladen gewesen waren, noch als Zaungäste der Hochzeit hatten beiwohnen können, hatten durch die überschwenglichen Berichte in Presse und Fernsehen von der Krönung dieser großen Liebe erfahren und bewegt Anteil genommen an dem außergewöhnlichen Glück des Paares.