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  • Gumboot Girls

    Adventure, Love & Survival on British Columbia's North Coast

    by Jane Wilde ...
    Forty years ago, droves of young women migrated away from urban settings and settled in rural areas across North America. Many settled on the north coast of British Columbia, on Haida Gwaii or around Prince Rupert. Gumboot Girls tells the stories of thirty-four women, through their own eyes, as they moved from their comfortable city-dwelling surroundings to the rugged north coast. Part back-to-the ... Read more

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  • Folk Medicine, Plant Lore, and Healing Plants

    by Jane Wilde ...
    Jane Francesca Agnes, Lady Wilde (1821–1896) was an Irish poet and mother of Oscar Wilde. She wrote under the pseudonym "Speranza” and famously supported the Irish nationalist movement. She also had a particular interest in folktales, which she collected. In “Folk Medicine, Plant Lore, and Healing Plants”, Wilde looks at a variety of natural cures, healing plants, and remedies from Irish folk ... Read more

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  • Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland

    Lady Jane Wilde was the mother of Oscar Wilde and an accomplished folklorist. She sought to preserve Irish culture through recording their enchanting myths, rituals and beliefs. This collection contains over 100 of these enthralling tales, from fairies stealing children to leprechauns promising gold. Each showcase the strange and mystical superstitions spread by Irish peasantry in the ancient ... Read more

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  • Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland

    by Jane Wilde ...
    Series series Arcturus World Mythology
    Discover the incredible myths and legends of Ireland in this wonderful selection of tales, collected and retold by Lady Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde.Lady Wilde was an accomplished folklorist who sought to preserve Irish culture through recording their enchanting myths, rituals and beliefs. This collection contains over 100 of these enthralling and eerie tales including, "The Horned Women," ... Read more

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  • Dancing in Gumboots

    Adventure, Love & Resilience: Women of the Comox Valley

    by Jane Wilde ...
    After the extraordinary success of Gumboot Girls comes the sequel anthology, Dancing in Gumboots. Having relocated to Comox, Jane encountered a new group of women who travelled to the Comox Valley in the 1970s. Fascinated by their stories, Lou Allison and Jane Wilde return to their dynamic partnership to bring us an anthology that shines a light on these trailblazing women and their unique stories ... Read more

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  • Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland - With Sketches of the Irish Past

    Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland is a luminous collection of Ireland’s enchanted past, lovingly gathered and retold by Lady Jane Wilde, poet, folklorist, and mother of Oscar Wilde.Drawing from oral lore and ancient custom, Lady Wilde preserves tales of banshees and blessings, charms and curses, sacred wells, and the rites of the hearth and field. With deep reverence for ... Read more

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  • Tales of Sacred Wells in Ireland (Folklore History Series)

    There is no superstition stronger in Ireland then a belief in the curative power of the sacred wells that are scattered over the country. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • Wild Calm

    Life is spiralling out of control for Maggie as she struggles to care for her mother, stricken with advanced dementia. A chance finding of a letter changes everything. Maggie, her mother, son, and his girlfriend take a leap of faith in search of the person missing from all their lives.It is not an easy task to travel through two countries with the obvious problems dementia can present, but the ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Authors - Women - Born 1800 - 1849

    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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  • Ancient legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland

    The three great sources of knowledge respecting the shrouded part of humanity are the language, the mythology, and the ancient monuments of a country. From the language one learns the mental and social height to which a nation had reached at any given period in arts, habits, and civilization, with the relation of man to man, and to the material and visible world. The mythology of a people reveals ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Ancient Legends of Ireland

    Unabridged

    14 hours 33 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.While Lady Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde is probably best known for being Oscar Wilde’s mother, she was a formidable writer in her own right. The people of Ireland owe Lady Wild a great debt for collecting and persevering folk-lore that might otherwise have been lost to them. The present work deals with the mythology, or the fantastic creed of the Irish ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Legends of Ireland

    Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland with Sketches of the Irish Past

    This beautiful keepsake edition of Ancient Legends of Ireland is lavishly illustrated with 22 period illustrations. While Lady Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde is probably best known for being Oscar Wilde’s mother, she was a formidable writer in her own right. The people of Ireland owe Lady Wild a great debt for collecting and persevering folk-lore that might otherwise have been lost to them.The present ... Read more

    $1.99 USD