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“winifred holt”

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    Inventions - A Short Story Collection

    Stories about technology and progress, whatever the cost

    by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ambrose Bierce, Ethel Dell, Herbert C Ridout, Winifred Holt, Edward Page Mitchell, Frank R Stockton, Robert Duncan Milne, Bernard Capes ...
    Narrated by Eric Meyers, Christopher Ragland, Elliot Fitzpatrick ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    The human mind has many amazing characteristics. It is logical and creative and able to make great leaps of imagination and turn many of its ideas into physical reality.In this volume our authors, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Winifred Holtby, Bernard Capes and many others bring forth creations and contraptions that are both amazing and abstract as well as diabolical and ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Biografio De Henry Fawcett

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Winifred Holt ...
    Ĉi tiu biografia verko sekvas Henry Fawcett de vigla, obstina kaj ambicia knabo ĝis respektata angla ŝtatisto, montrante kiel lia infanaĝo, edukado kaj karaktero preparis lin por publika servo. Inter naturo, bestoj, legado kaj parolado, li jam frue evoluigis amon al justaj leĝoj kaj al la bonstato de la laboristaro, dum la viktoria fono de Salisbury kaj Kembriĝo formis lian pensmanieron kaj ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • A Beacon for the Blind: Being a Life of Henry Fawcett, the Blind Postmaster-General

    by Winifred Holt ...
    "A Beacon for the Blind: Being a Life of Henry Fawcett, the Blind Postmaster-General" by Winifred Holt is a compelling biography that chronicles the life of Henry Fawcett, a remarkable figure who overcame the challenges of blindness to achieve significant accomplishments. Fawcett, who lost his sight at a young age, became a prominent advocate for the rights of the visually impaired and made ... Read more

    $1.31 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Irish Books and Irish People

    by Stephen Lucius Gwynn ...
    In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized. Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with ... Read more

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  • Everyday Life in 19th Century Ireland

    by Dr Ian Maxwell ...
    To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes – luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841 40% of Irish housing was the latter). This thorough and engaging social history of Ireland offers new insights into the ways in which ordinary people lived during this dramatic moment in Ireland's history from 1800-1914.It covers wide range of aspects of everyday lives: from work on ... Read more

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  • Ragged London in 1861

    by John Hollingshead ...
    John Hollingshead (1827-1904) was an English journalist, writer and theatrical producer. Based on letters from the Morning Post, he published ‘Ragged London in 1861’ in the same year, capturing the essence of London’s bleak environment. in the novel, a correspondent travels through the underbelly of the metropolis, meeting and living with the very poorest and most desperate members of society. ... Read more

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  • The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent

    by S. M. Hussey, Home Gordon, Editor ...
    This edition features• illustrations• a linked Table of Contents and IndexCONTENTSPREFACEI. ANCESTRYII. PARENTAGE AND EARLY YEARSIII. EDUCATIONIV. FARMINGV. LAND AGENT IN CORKVI. FAMINE AND FEVERVII. FENIANISMVIII. MYSELF, SOME FACTS, AND MANY STORIESIX. THE HARENC ESTATEX. KERRY ELECTIONSXI. DRINKXII. PRIESTSXIII. CONSTABULARY AND DISPENSARY DOCTORSXIV. IRISH CHAR... ... Read more

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  • Lord Randolph Churchill Volume 1

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
    Series Book 1 - Lord Randolph Churchill
    The first volume of the Nobel Prize-winning Prime Minister's biography of his father, the fiery Conservative Party leader of late Victorian Britain.In 1906, Sir Winston Churchill produced a two-volume biography of his father Lord Randolph Churchill, the 19th century Member of Parliament whose political career ended in scandal. This first volume deals with early events in Randolph's life, including ... Read more

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  • Three Guineas (a book-length essay) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Feminist Pacifist Essay on War, Patriarchy, Education, and Women's Professional Independence

    by Virginia Woolf, Cora Tallowmere ...
    Published in 1938, Three Guineas is Virginia Woolf's searching book-length essay on the entanglement of war, patriarchy, education, and professional exclusion. Framed as a reply to a gentleman's letter asking how war might be prevented, it proceeds through ironic argument, documentary evidence, and moral interrogation. Its style is at once lucid, digressive, satirical, and severe, extending the ... Read more

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  • The Strange Death of Liberal England

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    by George Dangerfield ...
    This book focuses on the chaos that overtook England on the eve of the First World War. Dangerfield weaves together the three wild strands of the Irish Rebellion (the rebellion in Ulster), the Suffragette Movement and the Labour Movement to produce a vital picture of the state of mind and the most pressing social problems in England at the time. The country was preparing even then for its entrance ... Read more

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  • Robert Blincoe and the Cotton Trade

    by Stuart Courtman ...
    A Memoir of Robert Blincoe' published in 1828 was influential in improving the working conditions of children in factories. It is also believed that Charles Dickens based his character Oliver Twist on Robert Blincoe. This book contains the original full 1828 text of the memoir by John Brown and historical notes by the author, Stuart Courtman. The historical notes explore the influences that led to ... Read more

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