Berks County Women In History

Author : Irene Reed
Publisher : TUDOR GATE PRESS
ISBN 13 : 0974094978
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berks County Women in History written by Irene Reed and published by TUDOR GATE PRESS. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 17th century to the present, thousands of women have lived and worked in Berks County, Pennsylvania. This book celebrates their accomplishments and honors the women who have contributed to the quality of life in Berks County.

Author : Irene Reed
Publisher : TUDOR GATE PRESS
ISBN 13 : 097409496X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berks County Women in History written by Irene Reed and published by TUDOR GATE PRESS. This book was released on 2005 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 17th century to the present, thousands of women have lived and worked in Berks County, Pennsylvania. This book celebrates their accomplishments and honors the women who have contributed to the quality of life in Berks County.

Author : Morton Luther Montgomery
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical and biographical annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania written by Morton Luther Montgomery and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1909-01-01 with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Trina Vaux
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512808369
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Women's History Resources in the Delaware Valley Area written by Trina Vaux and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Molly Peacock
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1773058398
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flower Diary written by Molly Peacock and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Graceful yet precise, poetic yet deeply rooted in research, this exploration of an overlooked painter is gorgeous — a joy to read. Molly Peacock’s insights and empathy with her subject bring to life both Mary Hiester Reid and her luscious flower paintings.” — Charlotte Gray, author of The Massey Murder Molly Peacock uncovers the history of neglected painter Mary Hiester Reid, a trailblazing artist who refused to choose between marriage and a career. Born into a patrician American family in the middle of the nineteenth century, Mary Hiester Reid was determined to be a painter and left behind women’s design schools to enter the art world of men. After she married fellow artist George Reid, she returned with him to his home country of Canada. There she set about creating over 300 stunning still life and landscape paintings, inhabiting a rich, if sometimes difficult, marriage, coping with a younger rival, exhibiting internationally, and becoming well-reviewed. She studied in Paris, traveled in Spain, and divided her time between Canada and the United States where she lived among America’s Arts and Crafts movement titans. She left slender written records; rather, her art became her diary and Flower Diary unfolds with an artwork for each episode of her life. In this sumptuous and precisely researched biography, celebrated poet and biographer Molly Peacock brings Mary Hiester Reid, foremother of painters such as Georgia O’Keefe, out of the shadows, revealing a fascinating, complex woman who insisted on her right to live as a married artist, not as a tragic heroine. Peacock uses her poet’s skill to create a structurally inventive portrait of this extraordinary woman whom modernism almost swept aside, weaving threads of her own marriage with Hiester Reid’s, following the history of empathy and examining how women manage the demands of creativity and domesticity, coping with relationships, stoves, and steamships, too. How do you make room for art when you must go to the market to buy a chicken for dinner? Hiester Reid had her answers, as Peacock gloriously discovers.

Author : Juliana Barr
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807867730
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace Came in the Form of a Woman written by Juliana Barr and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control. Barr argues that Indians not only retained control over their territories but also imposed control over Spaniards. Instead of being defined in racial terms, as was often the case with European constructions of power, diplomatic relations between the Indians and Spaniards in the region were dictated by Indian expressions of power, grounded in gendered terms of kinship. By examining six realms of encounter--first contact, settlement and intermarriage, mission life, warfare, diplomacy, and captivity--Barr shows that native categories of gender provided the political structure of Indian-Spanish relations by defining people's identity, status, and obligations vis-a-vis others. Because native systems of kin-based social and political order predominated, argues Barr, Indian concepts of gender cut across European perceptions of racial difference.

Author : Patricia A. Stompf Blackwell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738536330
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along the Route 100 Corridor written by Patricia A. Stompf Blackwell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tiny villages along what is now known as the Route 100 Corridor are Bally, Eshbach, Bechtelsville, New Berlinville, Boyertown, and Washington Township, which consists of Schultzville, Barto, and Forgedale. In the late 1800s, the area's prosperous industry attracted such figures as Thomas Edison. The rich history of the area also includes the worst fire in U.S. history, the first Mennonite house of worship, one of the first Catholic missions in the thirteen original colonies, and a young missionary woman who traveled to India and perished on the Titanic. Through vintage photographs and descriptive captions, Along the Route 100 Corridor is a trip down these historic dirt roads with the early settlers.

Author : Patricia A. Stompf Blackwell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738538440
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Along the Route 100 Corridor Revisited written by Patricia A. Stompf Blackwell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the Route 100 Corridor Revisited documents the villages and townspeople along the Route 100 Corridor that were instrumental in the beginnings of many industries in the area. They also played a significant role in the formation of religious organizations, including the Mennonite, Catholic, and Schwenkfelders. Heavily populated by the Pennsylvania Dutch, industries such as furniture making, pottery, shoemaking, and tinsmithing all developed. Businesses known as hucksters serviced the nearby communities by traveling via horse-drawn wagons. Travel back to the dirt roads, country doctors, and rural lifestyle through this collection of vintage photographs.

Author : Historical Society of Berks County
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Historical Society of Berks County written by Historical Society of Berks County and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Patricia Suter
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811705609
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hanging of Susanna Cox written by Patricia Suter and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigation into a child's gruesome murder. New findings on a justice system that failed a young woman. The real story behind the legend.