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The spider and the fly
An illustrated version of the well-known poem about a wily spider who preys on the vanity and innocence of a little fly.
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True Story of My Life
From the translator: No literary labor is more delightful to me than translating the beautiful thoughts and fancies of Hans Christian Andersen. My heart is in the work, and I feel as if my spirit were kindred to his; just as our Saxon English seems to me eminently fitted to give the simple, pure, and noble sentiments of the Danish mind. This True Story of his Life will not be found the least interesting of his writings; indeed, to me it seems one of the most so. It furnishes the key, as it were, to all the rest; and the treasures which it unlocks will be found to be possessed of additional value when viewed through the medium of this introduction.
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Searching for a heaven attainable on Earth: Understanding the feminism of Annie Besant
From her birth in 1847 until her death in 1933, Annie Besant played many roles, was many things, and contributed to endless causes of the Victorian age: she was a wife, mother and daughter, she was a believer and a doubter, she was a liberal and a socialist, a Malthusian and a Theosophist. The question that is asked here, however, is whether or not she can be considered a feminist as well, and if so, what part did it play in her life, and to what extent did it govern her actions? Besant wrote and spoke on all the roles she played; we know about her relationships with her mother, her husband and her children, we know how her crisis of faith came about, we know why she left liberalism for socialism, and how she finally came to Theosophy, but she rarely wrote on women or feminism, and when she did, it coincided with an experience in her own life which reinforced the subordinate position of women in Victorian England. Feminism was not the guiding force in Besant's life, yet she is considered a militant feminist by almost all twentieth century historians who consider her life. This thesis also seeks to explain this historiographical vacuum, and by examining Annie Besant's writings which concern feminism closely, as well as the events in her life that coincide with their publication, also hopes to fill the same vacuum.
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Mary Howitt was born in 1799 to a strict Staffordshire Quaker family. In 1861, she married William Howitt, also a writer. Even though she had 12 children, she became an author, editor and translator of more than 100 works. She also introduced the tales of Hans Christian Andersen to England. (Selected by Amy Friedman; original art by Jillian Gilliland) Black & White Photo; Jillian Gilliland; (Tree bearing flowers)
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