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  • Writing Essays About Literature: A Brief Guide for University and College Students - Second Edition

    by Katherine O. Acheson ...
    This book gives students an answer to the question, “What does my professor want from this essay?” Using a single poem by William Carlos Williams as the basis for the process of writing a paper, it walks students through the processes of reading, brainstorming, researching secondary sources, gathering evidence, and composing and editing the paper.Writing Essays About Literature is designed to ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Diary of Anne Clifford 1616-1619

    A Critical Edition

    by Katherine Acheson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Originally published in 1995, this book contains a full version of The Diary of Anne Clifford, alongisde an introduction and textual notes. Anne Clifford left one of the most extensive autobiographical records of the seventeenth century and, it was first published, this edition was the first critical edition of any of her works. ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature

    by Katherine Acheson ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Early modern printed books are copiously illustrated with charts, diagrams, and other kinds of images that represent systems of thought and ways of doing things. Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature shows how these images fostered what Elizabeth Eisenstein called brainwork related to concepts of space, truth, art, and nature, and reveals their importance to poetry by Andrew Marvell ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Early Modern English Marginalia

    Edited by Katherine Acheson ...
    Series series Material Readings in Early Modern Culture
    Marginalia in early modern and medieval texts – printed, handwrit- ten, drawn, scratched, colored, and pasted in – offer a glimpse of how people, as individuals and in groups, interacted with books and manu- scripts over often lengthy periods of time. The chapters in this volume build on earlier scholarship that established marginalia as an intellec- tual method (Grafton and Jardine), as records ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Memoir of 1603 and The Diary of 1616-1619

    by Anne Clifford ...
    Anne Clifford’s memoir for the year 1603 and her diary of 1616-1619 are invaluable records of the daily life and social and family relationships of a noblewoman of her time. In them she records her travels, her reading, her religious observances, her relationships with her mother, her husband, and her child, and the progress—or lack thereof—of her legal efforts to obtain what she viewed as her ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    Mother of the Princes in the Tower

    by David Baldwin ...
    Elizabeth Woodville is a historical character whose life no novelist would ever have dared invent. She has been portrayed as an enchantress, as an unprincipled advancer of her family's fortunes and a plucky but pitiful queen in Shakespeare's histories. She has been alternatively championed and vilified by her contemporaries and five centuries of historians, dramatists and novelists, but what was ... Read more

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  • Richard III - The Young King To Be

    The Young King to be

    by Josephine Wilkinson ...
    Richard III is a paradox - the most hated of English kings, yet the most beloved, a deeply pious man, yet materialistic to the point of obsession, puritan, yet the father of at least two illegitimate children. This new biography concentrates on the much neglected early part of Richards life - from his birth in 1452 as a cadet of the House of York to his marriage to the beautiful Anne Neville - and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Kingmaker's Sisters

    Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses

    by David Baldwin ...
    Warwick the Kingmaker, the Earl of Warwick & Salisbury whose wealth and power was so great that he could effectively decide who would rule England during the Wars of the Roses (1455-1487), had six sisters: Joan, Cecily, Alice, Eleanor, Katherine and Margaret. They all married powerful noblemen who fought on opposing sides during this turbulent period.The Kingmaker's Sisters examines the role that ... Read more

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  • Quarrel with the King

    The Story of an English Family on the High Road to Civil War

    by Adam Nicolson ...
    "A moving account of the Elizabethan golden age, retold through the varying fortunes of the Pembroke family." — The Observer (London)Spanning the most turbulent and dramatic years of English history—from the 1520s through 1650— Quarrel with the King tells the remarkable saga of one of the greatest families in English history, the Pembrokes, following their glamorous trajectory across three ... Read more

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  • Henry VIII's Last Victim

    A Tudor life of poetry, ambition, war and fatal court politics

    by Jessie Childs ...
    Henry Howard had rank, talent and royal connections but under Henry VIII, proximity to power could become a death sentence.Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, moved at the glittering centre of Henry VIII's England: heir to a great noble family, cousin to Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard, pioneering poet, soldier and courtier. His rise carried him from aristocratic privilege to military command in France ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Weaker Vessel

    by Lady Antonia Fraser ...
    Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.Just how weak were the women of the Civil War era? What could they expect beyond marriage and childbirth in an age where infant and maternal mortality was frequent and contraception unknown? Did anyone marry for love? Could a woman divorce? What rights had the unmarried? What expectations the widows?An expert ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Lady Jane Grey: Classic Histories Series

    Nine Days Queen

    by Alison Plowden ...
    Series series Classic Histories Series
    Jane Grey's tragedy was her royal blood. As Henry VIII's great-niece she stood perilously close to the throne and from early childhood was used as a pawn in the deadly power game of Tudor politics. Jane was not happy at home – she once famously remarked that she thought herself in hell in her parents' company – and sought consolation in her studies and the uncompromising Protestantism fashionable ... Read more

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