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Vitreous Vitae St. Margaret of Antioch in Thirteenth-century Stained Glass


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English | ISBN: 9004430210 | 2025 | 300 pages | PDF | 74 MB
In Vitreous Vitae: St. Margaret of Antioch in Thirteenth-Century Stained Glass, Ashley J. Laverock considers the representation of the virgin martyr St. Margaret in thirteenth-century stained-glass windows in Europe. These windows appeared at a moment when Margaret’s cult was expanding but before the motif of the saint with the ragon became normative. They offer insight into the rich narrative potential of Margaret’s life in a monumental medium seen by wide audiences.

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The Icon and the Idealist Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America


Free Download The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America by Stephanie Gorton
English | November 26th, 2024 | ISBN: 0063036290 | 464 pages | True EPUB | 3.07 MB
A riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in America

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Fiction of Margaret Atwood, The


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English | ISBN: 1350336777 | 2024 | 212 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Winner of the 2023 Atwood Society Award for Best Book on Atwood and Her Work Margaret Atwood is one of the most significant writers working today. Her writing spans seven decades, is phenomenally diverse and ambitious, and has amassed an enormous body of literary criticism. In this invaluable guide, Fiona Tolan provides a clear and comprehensive overview of evolving critical approaches to Atwood’s work. Addressing all of the author’s key texts, the book deftly guides the reader through the most characteristic, influential, and insightful critical readings of the last fifty years. It highlights recurring themes in Atwood’s work, such as gender, feminism, power and violence, fairy tale and the gothic, environmental destruction, and dystopian futures. This is an indispensable companion for anyone interested in reading and writing about Margaret Atwood.

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Letters to Margaret Confessions to my Late Wife


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English | 15 Aug. 2024 | ISBN: 183793102X | True EPUB | 256 pages | 17.9 MB
At the end of almost every day of their fifty-five years of married life, the publicity-shy author Margaret Forster would ask her naturally gregarious and outgoing husband Hunter Davies to describe to her the highlights of his working day spent in the worlds of journalism and publishing. In the six years that have elapsed since Margaret’s death, Hunter has continued these conversations with his wife, regaling her with accounts of the events and developments in his life – domestic, social, romantic, book-related, health-related and others – through a sequence of ‘Letters to Margaret’.

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Margaret Fuller, Wandering Pilgrim


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English | 2008 | ISBN: 0820328944 | PDF | pages: 548 | 5.7 mb
How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller, the pioneering feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary asked herself as a child. What does it mean? Filled with new insights into the causes and consequences of Fuller s lifelong psychic conflict, this biography chronicles the journey of an American Romantic pilgrim as she wanders from New England into the larger world-and then back home under circumstances that Fuller herself likened to those of both the prodigal child of the Bible and Oedipus of Greek mythology.

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Educating the Women of Hainan The Career of Margaret Moninger in China, 1915-1942


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English | 1994 | ISBN: 0813118824, 0813156300 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 2.8 mb
For Margaret Moninger – a brilliant, fun-loving, and dedicated young woman from Iowa – a career as a missionary in China promised adventure and the chance for responsibility and authority denied most American women of her time. In 1915 she went as a Presbyterian missionary to Hainan Island, China’s southernmost territory, where she remained until repatriated in 1942.

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