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The stargazer's sister : a novel
Caroline, known as \"Lina\" to her family, has always lived in the shadow of her older brother William Herschel's accomplishments. And yet when William invites Lina to join him in England to assist in his musical and astronomical pursuits--not to mention to run his bachelor household--she accepts, finding a new sense of purpose. William may be an obsessive genius, but Lina adores him and aids him with the same fervency as a beloved wife. When William decides to marry, however, Lina's world collapses. As she attempts to rebuild a future, we witness the dawning of an early feminist consciousness--a woman struggling to find her own place among the stars.
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LUCRETIA AND HER CONSILIUM DOMESTICUM
The article takes a critical look at the idea that the gathering of men Lucretia confronts a few moments before her suicide is to be understood as an ancient Roman domestic court (consilium domesticum). Arguing from the basis that the paternal power (patria potestas) is a constitutive element of this private-law institution, it examines what supports and what conflicts with the interpretation.
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The age of wonder : how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of science
\"The Age of Wonder\" explores the earliest ideas of deep time and space, and the explorers of \"dynamic science\": an infinite, mysterious Nature waiting to be discovered. Three lives dominate the book: William Herschel, his sister Caroline, and Humphry Davy.
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Writer Claire Gerety-Mott on Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott
Lucretia Coffin Mott was an abolitionist and suffragette who fought for seven decades for peace and civil rights. An outspoken, anti-slavery orator, Lucretia was denied entrance at the World Anti-Slavery Conference in London because she was a woman. Segregated into side-seating, she befriended women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton, becoming a collaborator in the Seneca Falls Convention and co-authoring the Declaration of Sentiments. Lucretia was President of the first-ever Equal Rights Association. We stand on the shoulders of this titan. Listen to her story, told by her descendant, Claire Gerety-Mott.
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Comet chaser : the true Cinderella story of Caroline Herschel, the first professional woman astronomer
\"Once upon a time there lived a girl who swept floors and washed dishes, and was little more than a servant to her family. Until, one day, an invitation arrived. It was an invitation to a new country and a new beginning--a place where Caroline's dreams, her fascination with the night sky, and her extraordinary talent would open up a world of beauty and renown, and make her the belle of the scientific ball. From humble beginnings and in spite of many obstacles, Caroline Herschel and her brother William developed and built the best telescope in the world--in their back yard! Together they went on to discover a new planet, new moons, and vast arrays of unknown nebulae and comets. From a child who seemed doomed to a life of servitude, Caroline grew into a woman recognized by kings and queens-and a scientist whose work and discoveries continue to shine today. Pamela S. Turner and Vivien Mildenberger invite readers into Caroline Herschel's true Cinderella story in this inspiring account of the transformative power of curiosity and the magic-better than any fairytale-of science\"-- Provided by publisher.
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CAPTIVE MATERNALS VS. COMPRADORS
Theorizing Captive Maternal Agency and Comprador Betrayals through the case of political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal and Philadelphia Judge Lucretia Clemmons, with a focus on the denial of civil and human rights within the US penal/legal system.
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Creating an Abolitionist Genealogy
Nash, a pre-eminent historian of the American Revolution, race, and the Society of Friends in Philadelphia, and author of, among other works, Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720–1840 (1991) and The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (2006), connects Mifflin's awakening to the contradictions between his status as a wealthy Delaware slaveholder and the ongoing Quaker reformation, prompted in part by Benjamin Lay. According to Rediker, Lay's actions were \"guerilla theater\" (p. 2). [...]Lay is dressed as a typical Quaker, not in his own homespun. In 1793, Mifflin published A Serious Expostulation with the Members of the House of Representatives of the United States, which decried slavery as a national sin and a violation of the country's founding principles.
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Imagined Romes
This volume explores the conflicting representations of ancient Rome—one of the most important European cities in the medieval imagination—in late Middle English poetry.
Once the capital of a great pagan empire whose ruined monuments still inspired awe in the Middle Ages, Rome, the seat of the pope, became a site of Christian pilgrimage owing to the fame of its early martyrs, whose relics sanctified the city and whose help was sought by pilgrims to their shrines. C. David Benson analyzes the variety of ways that Rome and its citizens, both pre-Christian and Christian, are presented in a range of Middle English poems, from lesser-known, anonymous works to the poetry of Gower, Chaucer, Langland, and Lydgate. Benson discusses how these poets conceive of ancient Rome and its citizens—especially the women of Rome—as well as why this matters to their works.
An insightful and innovative study, Imagined Romes addresses a crucial lacuna in the scholarship of Rome in the medieval imaginary and provides fresh perspectives on the work of four of the most prominent Middle English poets.
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