Anna Washing

Author : Ted Genoways
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820332062
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna, Washing written by Ted Genoways and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the bleak backdrop of the Yukon and the historical moment of the 1897 Klondike gold rush, this chronologically arranged series of sonnets is grounded in the lived experience of Finnish immigrants Anna and Abe Malm. Anna hauls her Anthony Wayne Washer into the wilderness and sets up a laundry business while Abe seeks his fortune. Anna and Abe share a unique history, revealed in the book's epigraph: Anna, nineteen years her husband's senior, had first raised him and then married him. Genoways's graceful formalism makes percussive music of a story marked by isolation and brutal difficulty. He manages a deft and plain-speaking rhyme that is in keeping with the tough lives his poems explore. The poems, which shift in frame from Anna's letters or Abe's diary to third-person verse that captures the characters' inner thoughts, bring the vitality of luminous detail and psychological depth to the arc of history.

Author : New Rochelle (N.Y.). Director of Finance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Report ... written by New Rochelle (N.Y.). Director of Finance and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anna Peck
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595089410
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Plus written by Anna Peck and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections from the years 1915 to 1945. Childhood, school years, the Great Depression, drought, dust storms, and the Roosevelt Era. Thirty years encompassing two world wars—all spent in and around Wells, Kansas.

Author : Mia Cunningham
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813188768
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna Hubbard written by Mia Cunningham and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna Eikenhout (1902-1986) was an honors graduate of Ohio State University, a fine-arts librarian, a skilled pianist, and an avid reader in three languages. Harlan Hubbard (1900-1988), a little-known painter and would-be shantyboater, seemed an unlikely husband, but together they lived a life out of the pages of Thoreau's Walden. Much of what is known about the Hubbards comes from Harlan's books and journals. Concerning the seasons and the landscape, his writing was rapturous, yet he was emotionally reticent when discussing human affairs in general or Anna in particular. Yet it was through her efforts that their life on the river was truly civilized. Visitors to Payne Hollow recall Anna as a generous, gracious hostess, whose intelligence and artistry made the small house seem grander than a mansion.

Author : Anna Matilda King
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820327174
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna written by Anna Matilda King and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the wife of a frequently absent slaveholder and public figure, Anna Matilda Page King (1798-1859) was the de facto head of their Sea Island plantation. This volume collects more than 150 letters to her husband, children, parents, and others. Conveying the substance of everyday life as they chronicle King's ongoing struggles to put food on the table, nurse her "family black and white," and keep faith with a disappointing husband, the letters offer an absorbing firsthand account of antebellum coastal Georgia life. Anna Matilda Page was reared with the expectation that she would marry a planter, have children, and tend to her family's domestic affairs. Untypically, she was also schooled by her father in all aspects of plantation management, from seed cultivation to building construction. That grounding would serve her well. By 1842 her husband's properties were seized, owing to debts amassed from crop failures, economic downturns, and extensive investments in land, enslaved workers, and the development of the nearby port town of Brunswick. Anna and her family were sustained, however, by Retreat, the St. Simons Island property left to her in trust by her father. With the labor of fifty bondpeople and "their increase" she was to strive, with little aid from her husband, to keep the plantation solvent. A valuable record of King's many roles, from accountant to mother, from doctor to horticulturist, the letters also reveal much about her relationship with, and attitudes toward, her enslaved workers. Historians have yet to fully understand the lives of plantation mistresses left on their own by husbands pursuing political and other professional careers. Anna Matilda Page King's letters give us insight into one such woman who reluctantly entered, but nonetheless excelled in, the male domains of business and agriculture.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hutchinson's Washington and Georgetown Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vincenzo Rulli
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669830411
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Through His Eyes Only written by Vincenzo Rulli and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-10-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is in part autobiographical in that it examines the life of Vincenzo Rulli. It is a story that needs telling. It needs telling because his life commences with an awareness of him being disassociated from his body. It needs telling because it traces the struggles of his parents and the history behind their decision to leave their country of birth and migrate to Australia in search of a better life. It is a story that needs telling because it chronicles the happy years when the family lived, worked together, children married and grandchildren and parents visited grandparents on a weekly basis, and grandchildren played together. It needs telling because it is filled with paranormal phenomena that followed Vincenzo from birth to the murder of one of his nieces and beyond. It needs telling because it chronicles thirty-four years of struggles by Vincenzo and the police of the state of NSW who having arrested charged and convicted one person, rested on their laurels, notwithstanding evidence within their own brief that points to the complicity of others, it needs telling because Vincenzo gathered evidence that should have been gathered by police and that even though this evidence supports the hypothesis that more than one person was involved, the police could not be moved from their position that only one person was involved in the murder of his niece. It needs telling because this story is proof positive for the proposition that good guys don’t always win, and yes you can get away with murder.

Author : John Florio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queen Anna's New World of Words, Or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues written by John Florio and published by . This book was released on 1611 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lawrence A. Coben
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356738
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna's Shtetl written by Lawrence A. Coben and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare view of a childhood in a European ghetto. Anna Spector was born in 1905 in Korsun, a Ukrainian town on the Ros River, eighty miles south of Kiev. Held by Poland until 1768 and annexed by the Tsar in 1793 Korsun and its fluid ethnic population were characteristic of the Pale of Settlement in Eastern Europe: comprised of Ukrainians, Cossacks, Jews and other groups living uneasily together in relationships punctuated by violence. Anna’s father left Korsun in 1912 to immigrate to America, and Anna left in 1919, having lived through the Great War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and part of the ensuing civil war, as well as several episodes of more or less organized pogroms—deadly anti-Jewish riots begun by various invading military detachments during the Russian Civil War and joined by some of Korsun’s peasants. In the early 1990s Anna met Lawrence A. Coben, a medical doctor seeking information about the shtetls to recapture a sense of his own heritage. Anna had near-perfect recall of her daily life as a girl and young woman in the last days in one of those historic but doomed communities. Her rare account, the product of some 300 interviews, is valuable because most personal memoirs of ghetto life are written by men. Also, very often, Christian neighbors appear in ghetto accounts as a stolid peasant mass assembled on market days, as destructive mobs, or as an arrogant and distant collection of government officials and nobility. Anna’s story is exceptionally rich in a sense of the Korsun Christians as friends, neighbors, and individuals. Although the Jewish communities in Eastern Europe are now virtually gone, less than 100 years ago they counted a population of millions. The firsthand records we have from that lost world are therefore important, and this view from the underrecorded lives of women and the young is particularly welcome.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1358 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boyd's Directory of the District of Columbia written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: