Medieval London widows, 1300-1500
Medieval London widows, 1300-1500
"Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 shows that it is possible to expand the repertoire of examples of medieval women with personalities and individuality beyond the well-known triad of Margaret Paston, Margery Kempe and the Wife of Bath. The rich documentation of London records a…
Medieval London Widows, 1300-1500 shows that it is possible to expand the repertoire of examples of medieval women with personalities and individuality beyond the well-known triad of Margaret Paston, Margery Kempe and the Wife of Bath. The rich documentation of London records al…
Contributed articles with special reference to India.
Shadow lives: writings on widowhood
by Chakravarti, Uma, Gill, Preeti
fromA Zubaan book
Contributed articles with special reference to India
Contributed articles with special reference to India.
Clara Solberg's world shatters when her husband and their four-year-old daughter are in a car crash, killing Nick while Maisie is remarkably unharmed. The crash is ruled an accident - until the coming days, when Maisie starts having night terrors that make Clara question what re…
Persuasion: & Lady Susan
by Oakley, Jacqui, Danielson, Julie, Austen, Jane, Austen, Jane
fromComplete Jane Austen collection
Twenty-seven-year-old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a navel officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a m…
A life of love and adventure--and loss. When her husband, Don, called on his way to the hospital, Kathi Koll had no idea how dramatically their lives would change--or how her loving heart and indomitable spirit would fight it. From childhood, her life might have seemed charmed: …
"An intensely moving and revelatory memoir of enduring and emerging from exceptional grief"--
"An intensely moving and revelatory memoir of enduring and emerging from exceptional grief"--
"An intensely moving and revelatory memoir of enduring and emerging from exceptional grief"--
In the late 1320s, Martha de Cabanis was widowed with three young sons, eleven, eight, and four years of age. Her challenges would be many: to raise and train her children to carry on their father's business; to preserve that business until they were ready to take over; and to l…