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“susannah gibson”

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  • The Spirit of Inquiry

    How one extraordinary society shaped modern science

    de Susannah Gibson ...
    Cambridge is now world-famous as a centre of science, but it wasn't always so. Before the nineteenth century, the sciences were of little importance in the University of Cambridge. But that began to change in 1819 when two young Cambridge fellows took a geological fieldtrip to the Isle of Wight. Adam Sedgwick and John Stevens Henslow spent their days there exploring, unearthing dazzling fossils, ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?

    How eighteenth-century science disrupted the natural order

    de Susannah Gibson ...
    Since the time of Aristotle, there had been a clear divide between the three kingdoms of animal, vegetable, and mineral. But by the eighteenth century, biological experiments, and the wide range of new creatures coming to Europe from across the world, challenged these neat divisions. Abraham Trembley found that freshwater polyps grew into complete individuals when cut. This shocking discovery ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Bluestockings

    A History of the First Women's Movement

    de Susannah Gibson ...
    **One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year“Intimate social history.” —New York Times Book ReviewAn illuminating group portrait of the eighteenth-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit.**In England in the 1700s, a woman who was an intellectual, spoke out, or wrote professionally was considered unnatural. After all, as the wisdom of the era ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Jane Austen's Bookshelf

    A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

    de Rebecca Romney ...
    From rare book dealer and guest star of the hit show Pawn Stars, a page-turning literary adventure featuring “your favorite author’s favorite authors” (Today)—the women who inspired Jane Austen—that’s “a meditation on reading and writing, on honesty and self-discovery—and on what books can teach us, if we let them” (The Washington Post).Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Social Life of Books

    Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

    de Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Leer más

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  • Behind Closed Doors

    At Home in Georgian England

    de Amanda Vickery ...
    From the award-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England.In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Mistresses of Cliveden

    Three Centuries of Scandal, Power, and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

    de Natalie Livingstone ...
    For fans of Downton Abbey comes an immersive historical epic about a lavish English manor and a dynasty of rich and powerful women who ruled the estate over three centuries of misbehavior, scandal, intrigue, and passion.Five miles from Windsor Castle, home of the royal family, sits the Cliveden estate. Overlooking the Thames, the mansion is flanked by two wings and surrounded by lavish gardens. ... Leer más

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  • Up and Down Stairs

    The History of the Country House Servant

    de Jeremy Musson ...
    Country houses were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants, each of whom provided an essential skill. Up and Down Stairs brings to life this hierarchy and shows how large numbers of people lived together under strict segregation and how sometimes this segregation was broken, as with the famous marriage of a squire to his dairymaid at Uppark. Jeremy Musson captures the voices of the servants ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Love and Madness

    The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich

    de Martin Levy ...

    $6.99 USD

  • Eve Bites Back

    An Alternative History of English Literature

    de Anna Beer ...
    Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen.Warned not to write – and certainly not to bite – these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history.‘Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.’ A.L. KennedyEver since Sappho first put stylus to papyrus, women who write have been labelled mad, undisciplined and dangerous. Funny and provocative, Eve ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Case of the Married Woman

    Caroline Norton and Her Fight for Women's Justice

    de Antonia Fraser ...
    Award-winning historian Antonia Fraser brilliantly portrays a courageous and compassionate woman who refused to be curbed by the personal and political constraints of her time.Caroline Norton dazzled nineteenth-century society with her vivacity, her intelligence, her poetry, and in her role as an artist's muse. After her marriage in 1828 to the MP George Norton, she continued to attract friends ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • London's Sinful Secret

    The Bawdy History and Very Public Passions of London's Georgian Age

    de Dan Cruickshank ...
    Georgian London evokes images of elegant mannered buildings, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife and houses of ill repute widespread in a sex trade that employed thousands.In London's Sinful Secret, Dan Cruickshank explores this erotic Georgian underworld and shows how it affected almost every aspect of life and culture in the city from the smart new streets that sprang up in ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD