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Funeral sermons. --- Smith, Ann, --- Bible.
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George Sturt (1863-1927) was a British wheelwright and writer who usually wrote under the pen-name George Bourne. A native of Surrey, he inherited his father's workshop in the rural village of Bourne, near Farnborough, in 1894. He began to record the daily lives and recollections of his rural family and acquaintances, which he published towards the end of his life. First published in 1922, this volume contains Sturt's unique biography of his uncle, farmer John Smith. Sturt bases his account of his uncle's life around Smith's anecdotes and recollections as recounted him during the last years of Smith's life. This unusual structure provides a lively, intimate account of the life of a farmer in rural England during the nineteenth century. Through Smith's recollections and Sturt's own memories, Sturt sensitively describes the domestic life, work and farming methods of a now vanished way of life.
Farm life --- Country life --- History --- Smith, John, --- Smith, Ann, --- Rural life --- Manners and customs
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In 1823, the History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson rattled Philadelphia society and became one of the most scandalous, and eagerly read, memoirs of the age. This tale of a woman who tried to rescue her lover from the gallows and attempted to kidnap the governor of Pennsylvania tantalized its audience with illicit love, betrayal, and murder.Carson's ghostwriter, Mary Clarke, was no less daring. Clarke pursued dangerous associations and wrote scandalous exposés based on her own and others' experiences. She immersed herself in the world of criminals and disreputable actors, using her acquaintance with this demimonde to shape a career as a sensationalist writer.In Dangerous to Know, Susan Branson follows the fascinating lives of Ann Carson and Mary Clarke, offering an engaging study of gender and class in the early nineteenth century. According to Branson, episodes in both women's lives illustrate their struggles within a society that constrained women's activities and ambitions. She argues that both women simultaneously tried to conform to and manipulate the dominant sexual, economic, and social ideologies of the time. In their own lives and through their writing, the pair challenged conventions prescribed by these ideologies to further their own ends and redefine what was possible for women in early American public life.
Social status --- Fame --- Crime --- Sex role --- Women authors, American --- Female offenders --- Women --- City crime --- Crime and criminals --- Crimes --- Delinquency --- Felonies --- Misdemeanors --- Urban crime --- Social problems --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Criminology --- Transgression (Ethics) --- Celebrity --- Renown --- Glory --- Social standing --- Socio-economic status --- Socioeconomic status --- Standing, Social --- Status, Social --- Power (Social sciences) --- Prestige --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Delinquent women --- Offenders, Female --- Women criminals --- Women offenders --- American women authors --- History --- Social aspects --- Clarke, Mary, --- Carson, Ann Baker. --- Smith, Ann, --- Philadelphia (Pa.) --- Philadelphie (Pa.) --- Filadelfia (Pa.) --- Filadelʹfii︠a︡ (Pa.) --- Филадельфия (Pa.) --- Philly (Pa.) --- City of Philadelphia (Pa.) --- Lower Dublin (Pa. : Township) --- Philadelphia County (Pa.) --- Social conditions --- Filadelfiyah (Pa.) --- פילדלפיה (Pa.) --- American History. --- American Studies. --- Gender Studies. --- Women's Studies.
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