Tag: Mary

Free Download John Van der Kiste, "William and Mary: Heroes of the Glorious Revolution"
English | ISBN: 075094577X | 2008 | 288 pages | PDF | 19 MB
Mary (1662-1694), daughter of James, Duke of York, heir to the English throne, then 15, is said to have wept for a day and a half when she was told she was to marry her cousin, William (1650-1702), son of William II of Orange (1626-50), Stadtholder of the Dutch republic, and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I of England, who was 11 years older than her. In November 1677, on William’s 27th birthday, they married in a private ceremony at St James’s Palace. William was solemn, James gloomy, Mary in tears, and only King Charles appeared cheerful. This dual biography deals with both the life and times of the monarchs, and with England’s place in Europe. Interests of the subjects, outside the constitutional, are dealt with, as well a their personal relationships: William’s rumored homosexuality (probably actually a platonic relationship with Bentinck) and Mary’s hinted-at lesbianism; Mary’s troubled personal relations with her father, James II; and the relationship between Mary and her sister and husband’s successor Anne. The book will also examine the personal and political relations between William and his uncle Charles II, and between William and Mary and Charles’ illegitimate son the Duke of Monmouth, whose attempts to lay claim to his father’s throne ended in defeat and execution.

Free Download Ida E Jones, "Mary McLeod Bethune in Washington, D.C.: Activism and Education in Logan Circle"
English | ISBN: 1540221458 | 2013 | 194 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Best known as an educator and early civil rights activist, Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves. After moving to Washington, D.C., in 1936, she organized and represented thousands of women with the National Council of Negro Women. She led the charge to change the segregationist policies of local hospitals and concert halls, and she acted as a mentor to countless African American women in the District. Residents of all races were brought together to honor Bethune’s birthday with some of the first games between the local Negro League team and a white semi-pro team. Historian Ida E. Jones explores the monumental life of Mary McLeod Bethune as a leader, a crusader and a Washingtonian.

Free Download Kyle Roberts, "A Complicated Pregnancy: Whether Mary Was a Virgin and Why It Matters"
English | ISBN: 1506406246 | 2017 | 192 pages | EPUB | 315 KB
The virgin birth is a much-loved story in the Christian tradition. It is the standard "origin story" of Jesus, marking the incarnation of the Son of God. Today, however, many theologians dispute the tradition of the virginal conception on both historical and scientific grounds.

Free Download Mary Wollstonecraft, "The Works by Mary Wollstonecraft"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1540894851 | PDF | pages: 2547 | 697.7 mb
Mary Wollstonecraft was an eighteenth-century British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children’s book. Wollstonecraft is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argues that women are not naturally inferior to men, but appear to be only because they lack education. She suggests that both men and women should be treated as rational beings and imagines a social order founded on reason. This Compilation is Comprised by the Works : Mary: A Fiction [1788] Original Stories from Real Life [1788] A Vindication of the Rights of Men [1790] A Vindication of the Rights of Woman [1792] Maria; or the Wrongs of Woman [1798] Letters Written During a Short Residence In Sweden, Norway and Denmark [1889]

Free Download Herod and Mary: The True Story of the Tyrant King and the Mother of the Risen Savior (Ancient Evil, Living Hope) by Kathie Lee Gifford, Bryan M. Litfin
English | July 16, 2024 | ISBN: 1400336627 | 256 pages | EPUB | 5.65 Mb
Explore the interwoven lives of King Herod and Mary, Mother of Jesus as New York Times bestselling author Kathie Lee Gifford brings these biblical figures into a new light. Follow Herod from boyhood as he strives and fails throughout his life to become a beloved king. Walk in the steps of Mary of Nazareth as she navigates the repercussions of Herod’s deadly obsession.

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

Free Download Jack Zipes, Neil Gaiman, "Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins"
English | 2006 | pages: 202 | ISBN: 0415977673, 113885610X | PDF | 2,7 mb
The Mary Poppins that many people know of today-a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny-is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930’s. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins,

Free Download The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic Imagination by Eileen M. Hunt
English | April 16, 2024 | ISBN: 0812254023 | 224 pages | PDF | 23 Mb
Beyond her most famous creation―the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein’s Creature―Mary Shelley’s most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her lesser-known novel about the near-extinction of the human species through war, disease, and corruption. This novel, The Last Man (1826), gives us the iconic image of a heroic survivor who narrates the history of an apocalyptic disaster in order to save humanity―if not as a species, then at least as the practice of compassion or humaneness. In visual and musical arts from 1826 to the present, this postapocalyptic figure has transmogrified from the "last man" into the globally familiar filmic images of the "invisible man" and the "final girl."

Free Download Never Understood: The Jesus and Mary Chain by Jim Reid, William Reid
English | September 17, 2024 | ISBN: 0306835517 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 28.97 MB
William and Jim Reid, brothers and founding members of The Jesus and Mary Chain-a band that bridged the gap between the punk explosion and the emergence of grunge and Britpop-chronicle the chaos, confusion, and stories behind their music.

Free Download Mary Queen of Scots by Antonia Fraser, Anne Flosnik, Tantor Audio
English | May 22, 2018 | ISBN: B07CWX3JTB | 25 hours and 3 minutes | MP3 64 Kbps | 688 Mb
She was the quintessential queen: statuesque, regal, dazzlingly beautiful. Her royal birth gave her claim to the thrones of two nations; her marriage to the young French dauphin promised to place a third glorious crown on her noble head. Instead, Mary Stuart became the victim of her own impulsive heart, scandalizing her world with a foolish passion that would lead to abduction, rape, and even murder. Betrayed by those she most trusted, she would be lured into a deadly game of power, only to lose to her envious and unforgiving cousin, Elizabeth I.
Here is her story, a queen who lost a throne for love, a monarch pampered and adored even as she was led to her beheading, the unforgettable woman who became a legend for all time.
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