![]() ![]() ![]() It was her tragedy that these successes were overshadowed by private and public misfortune. Georgiana was a patron of the arts, a novelist and writer, an amateur scientist and a musician. She took advantage of the country’s rapidly expanding newspaper trade to increase the popularity of the Whig party and succeeded in turning herself into a national celebrity. She was the first woman to conduct a modern electoral campaign, going out into the streets to persuade ordinary people to vote for the Whigs. ![]() ![]() Georgiana was not content to lead the fashionable set nor merely to host soirées for the Whig party, instead she became an adept political campaigner and negotiator, respected by the Whigs and feared by her adversaries. Though most of her contemporaries adored her because she seemed so natural and vibrant, only a few knew how tormented she was by self-doubt and loneliness. She was thrust into public life at the age of sixteen, unprepared for the pressures that quickly followed and unsupported in a cold and loveless marriage. Born Lady Georgiana Spencer, she married the fifth Duke of Devonshire in 1774. WINNER OF THE 1998 WHITBREAD BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR AWARDįINALIST FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARDĪs one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the late 18th century, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was an icon of her time. ![]()
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![]() ![]() “’Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half’ was the first one I encountered. This statement is exemplified Gene’s description of Finny playing blitzball “he created reverses and deceptions and acts of sheer mass hypnotism which were so extraordinary that they surprised even him.” (Knowles 31) Additionally, Finny is shown to be of honorable character as is illustrated by his set of rules, as Gene described, In A Separate Peace, Finny is shown to be an incredible athlete who is seemingly perfect. The first important purpose of Finny and Alaska is to demonstrate a unique personality fundamental to the connections between Finny, Alaska, and Gene and Miles. ![]() ![]() ![]() The museum’s Black History Month celebration also features the digital return of one of its signature programs, "A Seat at the Table," an interactive program for participants to consider challenging questions about race, identity and economic justice over a meal. They will be joined by several contributors to the book, including Herb Boyd, City University of New York Kali Nicole Gross, Emory University Peniel Joseph, University of Texas and Annette Gordon Reed, Harvard University. In this discussion moderated by Mary Elliott, the museum’s curator of American slavery, Kendi and Blain will focus on slavery, reconstruction and segregation and their continuing impact on the United States. Blain on their newly released book Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019, a 10-part book spanning 400 years of African American history. The month kicks off February 2 with a book discussion with authors and scholars Ibram X. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is offering a wide range of digital programs for all ages this February. ![]() Smithsonian will celebrate Black History Month this year with a twist-virtual programming. ![]() ![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. Enduringly popular, the tale is at once a comic adventure story, a spring of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeys towards enlightenment which each of them can achieve only with the help of all of the others. Journey to the West has strong roots in Chinese folk religion, Chinese mythology, Taoist and Buddhist philosophy, and the pantheon of Taoist immortals and Buddhist bodhisattvas are still reflective of some Chinese religious attitudes today. These disciples are Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing, together with a dragon prince who acts as Xuanzang's steed, a white horse. Wu ChEng-En is believed to have been born around 1506, and is traditionally attributed with the 100-chapter novel 'Hsi-yu chi' (Japanese: Sai-yu Ki English: Journey to the West), first published in 1592. It retains the broad outline of Xuanzang's own account, Great Tang Records on the Western Regions, but the Ming dynasty novel adds elements from folk tales and the author's invention, that is, that the Buddha gave this task to the monk and provided him with three protectors who agree to help him as an atonement for their sins. ![]() ![]() The novel is an extended account of the legendary pilgrimage of the Tang dynasty Buddhist monk Xuanzang who traveled to the "Western Regions", that is, India, to obtain sacred texts and returned after many trials and much suffering. ![]() ![]() ![]() These weren't safe jobs 200 women producing TNT died from poisoning or accidental explosions. From all walks of life, they began working in munitions factories, developing chemical weapons (at one point, 90 per cent of industrial chemists were women) and building war machinery, while male scientists were on the battlefield. It was the First World War that gave women unprecedented access to careers for which they had until then been deemed unsuitable. ![]() In A Lab of One's Own, the Cambridge historian Patricia Fara documents these scientists' stories, painting a picture of a world that clearly wanted to remain male. They weren't always high-profile campaigners, but by forcing open the gates to the male-dominated worlds of science and engineering they helped shed stereotypes about women's abilities. But what has been ignored is that in the quiet corridors of university science departments, important battles were fought by women whose names were quickly forgotten. You might assume that there's not much left to be written about the suffragette movement. ![]() ![]() Soon, Jane and her family are in danger, with few allies to help her make sense of the true scope of the peril. ![]() By taking the hummingbird from the storage unit, Jane sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin beyond her control. Silvina, the dead woman who left the note, is a reputed ecoterrorist and the daughter of an Argentine industrialist. Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit that holds a taxidermied hummingbird and clues leading her to a taxidermied salamander. From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Door is a very intense reading experience. It nearly broke my heart, but The Spouse visited him instead until I was given the ok by the doc.) Well enough to be concerned about me and my chest infection! Yes, I did keep away while I was infectious. ![]() (He’s back at his aged care home now, thankfully on the mend. ![]() A kindle is easy to read one-handed (something I never appreciated before!) but I should have read something less demanding… My father had a nasty infection for a while and I read it holding his hand while he drifted in and out of sleep during the worst of it at the hospital. I should never have tried to read it in spurts on the Kindle. ![]() And Magda Szabó has the distinction of being the only female Hungarian author included in Michael Orthofer’s The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction (my new bible for international fiction).īut I read it all wrong. First published in Hungary in 1987, but not in English till 1994, the French translation won France’s Prix Femina Étranger in 2003, it was nominated for the 2006 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and in 2015 it was first on the NYT’s 10 Best Books List. The Door was my choice for #WIT (Women in Translation) Month (a) because it was recently reissued by The New York Review of Books ( see the interview with editor Edwin Frank at The Paris Review) and (b) because I read the article at The New Yorker. ![]() ![]() ![]() The two became involved with One Table, an organization that aims to bring people in their 20s and 30s together to celebrate Shabbat in a way that’s approachable and sustainable for them. They had each grown up with what they deemed quintessential Jewish foods, but Cohen’s babka and his husband’s tahdig were worlds apart. He came back with Jew-ish, a documentation of his and his husband’s journey to explore their Jewish identity. The couple both grew up relatively secular, but decided to start hosting Shabbat dinners as adults as a way to connect with their Jewish heritage without going to synagogue. His first book proposal, about the Iraqi Jewish recipes of his husband’s family, was turned down. “I think it’s part of the process, and it makes the sweetness of success that much sweeter when it’s layered over the bitterness of rejection.” “For every great position I’ve had, I’ve been rejected from three to four others,” he said. Despite the impressive resume, Cohen said “there was a crazy amount of rejection the whole way.” He left that job last Fall to strike out on his own. ![]() There was also a short stint as the restaurant critic for Time Out New York before landing his “dream job” at The FeedFeed, helping them build their editorial brand. ![]() Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Excerpted from JEW-ISH: A COOKBOOK: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch © 2021 by Jake Cohen. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “The training we received ensures we will be able to effectively respond to help our fellow Alaskans in a crisis and to effectively interface with our local, state and federal interagency partners.” “This exercise was extremely important to help us develop and test a continuity of operations plan which will allow us to respond in the event of a significant event in the Anchorage area which reduces or disables the ability of our primary emergency operations command and control agencies to function,” said Col. The 168th Wing Joint Operations Center and Crisis Action Management Team worked alongside counterparts from the Army National Guard and members of the Joint Operations Center at Alaska National Guard Joint Force Headquarters. “Testing our emergency plans and training our service members is critical to ensuring we are prepared to serve our fellow Alaskans in their time of need.” Aaron Kelsey, Alaska National Guard deputy director of emergency operations. “The Arctic Eagle 23 exercise focused on testing our continuity of operations plan and training our service members north of the Alaskan Range,” said Col. ![]() The exercise scenario required members to respond to a large earthquake and multiple tsunamis striking southern Alaska and coastal communities. EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska - The 168th Wing and the Alaska National Guard Joint Force Headquarters conducted an earthquake continuity of operations (COOP) exercise, moving the joint operations center from Anchorage to Fairbanks May 1-5. ![]() ![]() ![]() I thought maybe Devil would take her on an adventure after they married. ![]() I was also disappointed that her goal of going to Africa was just dropped. I liked the love story between Devil and Honoria, although the back and forth with the I’m-going-to-marry-you/no-you’re-not played out a little too long. I don’t think I’ve ever read a romance where a family was so involved with the wooing. Devil’s family was so close-knit and welcoming to Honoria, and reading how they drew her into the fold warmed my heart. The thing I liked most about this was the idea of falling in love with a family as well as a person. I liked the Cynster family, so I will likely read more in that series after a bit of a break (the plots sound somewhat similar). This is my first book by this author, and I’ll certainly try more. ![]() |