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Girl Who Lived On Her Clothes
The People of Paisley and the New Poor Law, 1839–76
Av Wendy Gordon, Valentina Bold
Häftad, 2024
603 kr
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Criticized as parsimonious and cruel in the later 1800s, the Poor Law for Scotland was first passed in 1845 as a frankly humanitarian measure in response to desperate poverty on display in Paisley and elsewhere in the early 1840s. Poor Law Inspector James Shaw Brown of Paisley Burgh Parish, a …
Second Sight: The Making of the Brahan Seer Legend
Av Alexander Sutherland, Valentina Bold
Häftad, 2025
728 kr
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«We have here a masterly, well-indexed and clear account of the evolution of the legend of the Brahan Seer over the centuries, one that will add a contextual depth in understanding to the many sources which give the prophesies attributed to him. Sutherland manages to inform his readers of the way …
Gateway to the Modern
Resituating J. M. Barrie
Av Valentina Bold, Andrew Nash
Häftad, 2014
337 kr
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J. M. Barrie (1860 - 1937) is today known almost exclusively for one work: Peter Pan. Yet he was the most successful British playwright of the early twentieth century, and his novels were once thought equal to those of George Meredith and Thomas Hardy. Although in recent years there has been a …
James Hogg
A Bard of Nature’s Making
Av Valentina Bold, Valentina Bold
Häftad, 2007
814 kr
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This book sheds new light on James Hogg, the Scottish poet (1770-1835), going beyond the ‘Ettrick Shepherd’ stereotype. By focussing on Hogg’s poetry (Scottish Pastorals, The Queen’s Wake, Jacobite Relics, Queen Hynde, Pilgrims of the Sun) it shows that his work, and the critical response to it, …
