A Woman Of Two Worlds

Author : Alexandra Deutsch
Publisher : Maryland Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780996594431
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Woman of Two Worlds written by Alexandra Deutsch and published by Maryland Historical Society. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a woman whose seductive beauty and tragic marriage repeatedly pulls us back for another look. Alexandra Deutsch literally “unpacks” Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte’s personal belongings in this intuitively sophisticated material culture biography of the woman whose seductive beauty and tragic marriage repeatedly pulls us back for another look and, ideally, a deeper understanding of the person behind the celebrity. In addition to letters and portraits, Deutsch found bits of the story in previously overlooked objects in the vast Bonaparte family collections. Long overlooked textile scraps, for example, tell rich stories of forgiveness gifts from Jerome to Elizabeth. A lone red account book contains a record of her finances, yet turned 180 degrees reads like a journal, providing “some of the most powerful evidence of Elizabeth's internal struggles” during the French trial over her son’s legitimacy. The volume is likely one of the five in which she recorded a “skeleton” of a memoir. Deutsch pays equal attention to the lives of Elizabeth’s son Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, “Bo,” and grandsons Jerome Jr. and Charles, deftly exploring how the members of these next generations defined and perpetuated their royal heritage through material possessions. This work truly expands Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte’s story beyond the “mésalliance” with Napoleon’s younger brother and reveals the complex life of a romantic and rebellious young woman whose deep hurt drove her to the courts of Europe and who ultimately found comfort and satisfaction in her hard-won financial independence. In this well-balanced and exceptionally sensitive work, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte finally breathes.

Author : Lynn V. Andrews
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060169565
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman at the Edge of Two Worlds written by Lynn V. Andrews and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author illuminates the experience of menopause, showing how the actual event can be an access to a new and beautiful way of life.

Author : Robert Bly
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loving a Woman in Two Worlds written by Robert Bly and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1987 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Selina Siak Chin Yoke
Publisher : AmazonCrossing
ISBN 13 : 9781503939349
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds written by Selina Siak Chin Yoke and published by AmazonCrossing. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing challenges in an increasingly colonial world, Chye Hoon, a rebellious young girl, must learn to embrace her mixed Malayan-Chinese identity as a Nyonya-- and her destiny as a cook, rather than following her first dream of attending school like her brother. Chye Hoon begins to appreciate the richness of her traditions, eventually marrying Wong Peng Choon, a Chinese man. Together, they have ten children. But by the 1930s the cultural shift towards the West has begun, and Chye Hoon is in danger of losing the heritage she so prizes as her children move more and more into the modern Western world.

Author : Lorna Eglin
Publisher : Flamingo Fiction 9-13s
ISBN 13 : 9781857928396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Girl of Two Worlds written by Lorna Eglin and published by Flamingo Fiction 9-13s. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction with a Clear Gospel Message Mission Focus, Maasai tribe, Africa Conflict between school and life, young girl

Author : Apela Colorado, Ph.D.
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1788175719
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woman Between the Worlds written by Apela Colorado, Ph.D. and published by Hay House, Inc. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apela Colorado shares her knowledge and experiences of indigenous wisdom and promotes an understanding between the indigenous and modern world perspectives. A ceremonial journey to reconnect with the essence of indigenous spirituality and awaken to its beauty, power and potential in contemporary society. In this book, Apela Colorado, the inspirational authority on indigenous wisdom, shares her lifelong journey of connecting with the essence of indigenous spirituality and culture. From China to Alaska, Benin to France, Apela recounts her passionate work to communicate, conserve, and celebrate sacred indigenous ways, all while reawakening to the wisdom of her Native American and French Gaul ancestors and reclaiming her own truth, healing, and story. With gentle grace and generous insight, this book lovingly teaches us to honor the power, beauty, and potential of indigenous wisdom, and explores how it continues to resonate in modern life. Apela's experiences form a ceremony of remembrance and renewal, a spiritual guide to help you reconnect to the wisdom of your ancestors, apply sacred ways of knowing and being to your life, and reclaim your own Creation Story.

Author : Roxana Saberi
Publisher : Harper
ISBN 13 : 9780061965289
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Two Worlds written by Roxana Saberi and published by Harper. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Between Two Worlds is an extraordinary story of how an innocent young woman got caught up in the current of political events and met individuals whose stories vividly depict human rights violations in Iran.” — Shirin Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Between Two World is the harrowing chronicle of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi’s imprisonment in Iran—as well as a penetrating look at Iran and its political tensions. Here for the first time is the full story of Saberi’s arrest and imprisonment, which drew international attention as a cause célèbre from Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and leaders across the globe.

Author : Nancy M. Peterson
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 0870044508
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking in Two Worlds written by Nancy M. Peterson and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[The author] tells the stories of twelve mixed-blood women who, steeped in the tradition of their Indian mothers but forced into the world of their white fathers, fought to find their identities in a rapidly changing world. In an era when most white women had limited opportunities outside the home, these mix-blood women often became nationally recognized leaders in the fight for Native American rights. They took the tools and training the whites provided and used them to help their people. They found differing paths--medicine, music, crafts, the classroom, the lecture hall, the stage, the written word--and walked strong and tall. These women did far more than survive; they extended a hand to help their people find a place in a hard new future."--Back cover.

Author : Kristyn Maslog-Levis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789712733604
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl Between Two Worlds written by Kristyn Maslog-Levis and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day after Karina's sixteenth birthday, supernatural things start to happen around her and she has no idea why. Her mother, who disappeared soon after they migrated from the Philippines to America, speaks to her in prophetic dreams. Stranger still is the old man who turns up at her house one day and claims to be her grandfather, even though Karina's mother had told her he died a long time ago. Karina discovers that her mother is an engkanto princess who ran away from Engkantasia. Karina is now of age to take the throne and must do so to prevent a war between Engkantasia and the human world. She must learn to control her powers and fight a range of weird creatures trying to kill her and her family. To make matters worse, she finally meets a boy she likes and there's something about him she can't quite figure out.

Author : Carol Berkin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385351623
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wondrous Beauty written by Carol Berkin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning historian and author of Revolutionary Mothers (“Incisive, thoughtful, spiced with vivid anecdotes. Don’t miss it.”—Thomas Fleming) and Civil War Wives (“Utterly fresh . . . Sensitive, poignant, thoroughly fascinating.”—Jay Winik), here is the remarkable life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, renowned as the most beautiful woman of nineteenth-century Baltimore, whose marriage in 1803 to Jérôme Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, became inextricably bound to the diplomatic and political histories of the United States, France, and England. In Wondrous Beauty, Carol Berkin tells the story of this audacious, outsized life. We see how the news of the union infuriated Napoleon and resulted in his banning the then ­pregnant Betsy Bonaparte from disembarking in any European port, offering his brother the threat of remaining married to that “American girl” and forfeiting all wealth and power—or renouncing her, marrying a woman of Napoleon’s choice, and reaping the benefits. Jérôme ended the marriage posthaste and was made king of Westphalia; Betsy fled to England, gave birth to her son and only child, Jérôme’s namesake, and was embraced by the English press, who boasted that their nation had opened its arms to the cruelly abandoned young wife. Berkin writes that this naïve, headstrong American girl returned to Baltimore a wiser, independent woman, refusing to seek social redemption or a return to obscurity through a quiet marriage to a member of Baltimore’s merchant class. Instead she was courted by many, indifferent to all, and initiated a dangerous game of politics—a battle for a pension from Napoleon—which she won: her pension from the French government arrived each month until Napoleon’s exile. Using Betsy Bonaparte’s extensive letters, the author makes clear that the “belle of Baltimore” disdained America’s obsession with moneymaking, its growing ethos of democracy, and its rigid gender roles that confined women to the parlor and the nursery; that she sought instead a European society where women created salons devoted to intellectual life—where she was embraced by many who took into their confidence, such as Madame de Staël, Madame Récamier, the aging Marquise de Villette (goddaughter of Voltaire), among others—and where aristocracy, based on birth and breeding rather than commerce, dominated society. Wondrous Beauty is a riveting portrait of a woman torn between two worlds, unable to find peace in either—one a provincial, convention-bound new America; the other a sophisticated, extravagant Old World Europe that embraced freedoms, a Europe ultimately swallowed up by decadence and idleness. A stunning revelation of an extraordinary age.