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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Constance Fenimore Woolson
One forgotten street, 12 unforgettable women. ‘’Ang on boy, Joan’s got sumfink to show yer.’ She rummaged in a drawer for a moment, pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to me. ‘Constance Street,’ she said. ‘As I remember it.’ Through the story of one street – Constance Street – we hear the true life tales of a tight knit group of working class women in the East End of London set against a backdrop of war, hardship and struggle. It’s a story of matriarchy and deep family ties, of a generation that was scattered away from the street during the blitz bombings, but which maintained the ties of that street for decades afterwards. Set in an area of East London called Silvertown, a once thriving docking community that at the turn of the 20th century was the industrial heartland of the south of England; the story focuses on the lives of 12 incredible women and their struggle to survive amidst the chaos of the war years. We have Nellie Greenwood, the author’s great grandmother who runs a laundry in Silvertown which becomes the focal point of the community. In 1917 a munitions factory in Silvertown explodes flattening much of the surrounding area and causing extensive damage to Constance Street – Nellie’s daughter is blown from her crib but miraculously survives. Deciding to open the laundry as a field hospital for the injured, Nellie and the women on the street come together to tend the wounded, the sick and the emotionally shattered as they cope with the aftermath of not just one but two world wars. Through the Great War, the roaring Twenties, the Depression and then the unimaginable – the outbreak of a second world war – Nellie and the street survive with love, laughter and friendships that bind the community together. But just as this incredible group of women live through the worst, the unthinkable happens. On 7 September 1940, Constance Street is no more. Following in the footsteps of Farewell to the East End by Jennifer Worth and The Sugar Girls, Constance Street is a life-affirming, heart-warming read that reminds us of a time when people pulled together.
To all the young dreamers and the crime fighters from within! ~ Meet Constance Ann, age 6. Her best friend Mary Margaret, age 6 and a half and our tumbling genius Elliot, age 7. In truth, they were all exceptional geniuses living in Johnsville, Vermont solving mysteries and problems in the lives of the young children and sometime even the lives of the old ~ The Shawn Dog's Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery Shall we meet them inside ~
Trapped in Dream Valley, our three geniuses must find a way out of this nightmare dream and expose the mastermind behind kidnapping children into a not so friendly Wild West dream!
In Seattle to reunite Elliot with his father, the three families continue to enjoy their vacationing while Constance Ann and her two best friends, Mary Margaret & Elliot must find a way to save all the children in Seattle from losing their childhood years by the time reversal machine that immediately thrust all children into the state of adulthood!
Still on summer vacation, our young detectives from Vermont and their parents are on the last leg of their long trip ~ Hollywood! Mary Margaret has been kidnapped by party crashing teenagers! It's a race against time as Constance Ann & Elliot must face several obstacles in each studio as they search for their friend!
Born in Brighton in 1861, Constance Clara Garnett (née Black) was the sixth of eight children. Educated at Newnham College, Cambridge she studied Latin and Greek, as well as Russian. She married Edward Garnett in 1889 and they had one son, David. It was on a visit to Russia in 1893 that Garnett met Leo Tolstoy and this meeting prompted her to begin translating the Russian literature that she was most passionate about. As a translator of Gogol, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Turgenev, Chekhov and Dostoevsky among others, Constance Garnett translated about 70 Russian works and received great acclaim from writers such as D. H. Lawrence and Joseph Conrad. Her translations had a major effect on readers and were reprinted well into the twentieth century. First published in 1991 and written by her grandson Richard Garnett, Constance Garnett is the biography of an extraordinary woman who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, made Russian literature available to the English speaking public. 'When you come to the last page you feel you have travelled through life with a peculiarly British heroine, self-effacing, frugal, honourable, clear-thinking, brave, and above all a worker on a scale that can only be called heroic.' Claire Tomalin, Independent on Sunday
Constance the Peahen and the Tale of Beauty Within
Nathan Dye; Chris Dye
Dye Brothers LLC
2019
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Constance is a Peahen who lives in the Cincinnati Zoo, where she walks around all day watching all of her friends get the attention of the kids because of their beautiful tales. Since only Peacocks, the boys, have big beautiful tales, Constance feels like she's not as beautiful as them. Every time she looks in the mirror, she doesn't like what she sees. One day, she shows unknowingly shows her greatest talent and it has everyone in awe of her beauty. This is a story about finding your beauty. Sometimes it's outward facing and sometimes it's something that comes from within, but each of us has something that makes us beautiful in our own way.
Constance is a Peahen who lives in the Cincinnati Zoo, where she walks around all day watching all of her friends get the attention of the kids because of their beautiful tales. Since only Peacocks, the boys, have big beautiful tales, Constance feels like she's not as beautiful as them. Every time she looks in the mirror, she doesn't like what she sees. One day, she shows unknowingly shows her greatest talent and it has everyone in awe of her beauty. This is a story about finding your beauty. Sometimes it's outward facing and sometimes it's something that comes from within, but each of us has something that makes us beautiful in our own way.
The third book in the Little Library series. When your collection is complete, youâ??ll have a little library â?? and big knowledge! Discover the revolutionary that was Constance Markievicz! She wanted Ireland to become free and the people to be treated fairly, so she spent her life working to make these things happen.
Constance Lindsay Skinner made a living as a writer at a time when few men, and fewer women, managed the feat. Born in 1877 on the British Columbia frontier, she worked as a journalist in Vancouver, Los Angeles, and Chicago, before moving to New York City in 1912, where she supported herself by her pen until her death in 1939. Despite a prolific output - poetry, plays, short stories, histories, reviews, adult and children's novels - and in contrast to her reputation in the United States, she remains virtually unknown in the country of her birth. Reconstructing Constance Lindsay Skinner's writing life from her papers in the New York Public Library and from her publications, Jean Barman argues for three bases to her success. As well as a capacity to respond to market forces by moving between genres, she possessed an aura of authenticity by virtue of her Canadian frontier heritage. As a literary device, the frontier gave a freedom to tackle contentious issues of Aboriginal and hybrid identities, gender and sexuality, that might otherwise have been far more difficult to get into print. Third, and very important, was her willingness to subordinate a private self to the life of the imagination. Barman ponders Constance Lindsay Skinner's absence from the Canadian literary canon. She mixed with such twentieth-century personalities as Jack London, Harriet Monroe, Frederick Jackson Turner, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Cornelia Meigs, Long Lance, and Margaret Mitchell, yet was unrecognized in her own country. Her sex mattered, just as it did for fellow Canadian women writers. So did her facility at multiple genres, a talent that, even as it made possible a writing life, prevented her from achieving a major breakthrough in any one of them. Perhaps most responsible was her identification with the frontier of a nation whose centre long shaped literary matters in its own image. Constance Lindsay Skinner makes a significant contribution to Canadian and American history and to literary and gender studies.