An Unfortunate Woman

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312277109
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Unfortunate Woman written by Richard Brautigan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-07-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Assumes the form of a traveler's journal, chronicling the protagonists's journey and his oblique ruminations on the suicide of one woman and the death from cancer of another, close friend."--Jacket.

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Creative Arts Book Company
ISBN 13 : 9780916870737
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Unfortunate Woman written by Barry Gifford and published by Creative Arts Book Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Random House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780099841104
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young Lady; which appeared in the Bristol Mercury. To which is annexed a poem [sined, G. H., i.e. George Heath] recommendatory of the ... design to establish an Asylum in this City [Bristol]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edith M. Ziegler
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817318267
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women written by Edith M. Ziegler and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century. Great Britain’s forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain’s earlier program of sending convicts—including women—to North America. Many of these women were assigned as servants in Maryland. Titled using epithets that their colonial masters applied to the convicts, Edith M. Ziegler’s Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women examines the lives of this intriguing subset of American immigrants. Basing much of her powerful narrative on the experiences of actual women, Ziegler restores individual faces to women stripped of their basic freedoms. She begins by vividly invoking the social conditions of eighteenth-century Britain, which suffered high levels of criminal activity, frequently petty thievery. Contemporary readers and scholars will be fascinated by Ziegler’s explanation of how gender-influenced punishments were meted out to women and often ensnared them in Britain’s system of convict labor. Ziegler depicts the methods and operation of the convict trade and sale procedures in colonial markets. She describes the places where convict servants were deployed and highlights the roles these women played in colonial Maryland and their contributions to the region’s society and economy. Ziegler’s research also sheds light on escape attempts and the lives that awaited those who survived servitude. Mostly illiterate, convict women left few primary sources such as diaries or letters in their own words. Ziegler has masterfully researched the penumbra of associated documents and accounts to reconstruct the worlds of eighteenth-century Britain and colonial Maryland and the lives of these unwilling American settlers. In illuminating this little-known episode in American history, Ziegler also discusses not just the fact that these women have been largely forgotten, but why. Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women makes a valuable contribution to American history, women’s studies, and labor history.

Author : Naomi Clifford
Publisher : Pen & Sword History
ISBN 13 : 9781473863347
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Gallows 1797-1837 written by Naomi Clifford and published by Pen & Sword History. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "131 women were hanged in England and Wales between 1797 and 1837, executed for crimes including murder, baby-killing, theft, arson, sheep-stealing and passing forged bank notes. Most of them were extremely poor and living in desperate situations. Some were mentally ill. A few were innocent. And almost all are now forgotten, their voices unheard for generations. Mary Morgan – a teenager hanged as an example to others. Eliza Fenning – accused of adding arsenic to the dumplings. Mary Bateman – a ‘witch’ who duped her neighbours out of their savings. Harriet Skelton – hanged for passing counterfeit pound notes in spite of efforts by Elizabeth Fry and the Duke of Gloucester to save her. Naomi Clifford has unearthed the events that brought these ‘unfortunates’ to the gallows and has used contemporary newspaper accounts and documents to tell their stories"--

Author : Dominick Dunne
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307815102
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Inconvenient Woman written by Dominick Dunne and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Good unclean fun . . . [a] convoluted, scandal-greased, exposed-backsides-of-the-rich-and-famous story . . . told in a confiding, breathless undertone.”—Entertainment Weekly Jules Mendelson is wealthy. Astronomically so. He and his wife lead the kind of charity-giving, art-filled, high-society life for which each has been carefully groomed. Until Jules falls in love with Flo March, a beautiful actress/waitress. What Flo discovers about the superrich is not a pretty sight. And in the end, she wants no more than what she was promised. But when Flo begins to share the true story of her life among the Mendelsons, not everyone is in a listening mood. And some cold shoulders have very sharp edges. . . .

Author : Jamie Harrison
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1640092986
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence written by Jamie Harrison and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Harrison takes her time resolving these criminal matters, allowing us to linger in Blue Deer long enough to learn its history, drink in the scenery and laugh at the kinds and quirks of its idiosyncratic residents. No wonder the world-weary Jules came running back home the first chance he got—the place is heaven.” —The New York Times Book Review “The third and best of Jamie Harrison’s laconic Montana mystery novels . . . The people of Blue Deer are more than just a cast. They are a community.” —Time It’s the fall season in Blue Deer, and Jules is once again up to his crooked grin in trouble. A camper’s discovery of old bones threatens to expose secrets long and deliberately buried in the hearts and minds of the town’s eldest citizens. Jules’s investigation mushrooms into a nightmare of long-simmering enmities, love affairs, arson, and murder. An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence continues the exploits of Sheriff Jules Clement in this exciting installment of the critically acclaimed mystery series.

Author : Rabih Alameddine
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192874
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Unnecessary Woman written by Rabih Alameddine and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a “beautiful and absorbing” novel of late-life crisis (The New York Times). Aaliya is a divorced, childless, and reclusively cranky translator in Beirut nurturing doubts about her latest project: a 900-page avant-garde, linguistically serpentine historiography by a late Chilean existentialist. Honestly, at seventy-two, should she be taking on such a project? Not that Aailiya fears dying. Women in her family live long; her mother is still going crazy. But on this lonely day, hour-by-hour, Aaliya’s musings on literature, philosophy, her career, and her aging body, are suddenly invaded by memories of her volatile past. As she tries in vain to ward off these emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left. In this “meditation on, among other things, aging, politics, literature, loneliness, grief and resilience” (The New York Times), Alameddine conjures “a beguiling narrator . . . who is, like her city, hard to read, hard to take, hard to know and, ultimately, passionately complex” (San Francisco Chronicle). A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, An Unnecessary Woman is “a fun, and often funny . . . grave, powerful . . . [and] extraordinary” Washington Independent Review of Books) ode to literature and its power to define who we are. “Read it once, read it twice, read other books for a decade or so, and then pick it up and read it anew. This one’s a keeper” (The Independent)

Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.XX/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Unfortunate Woman written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: