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In 1911 Cora Wilson Stewart founded the Moonlight Schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, an innovative night program that taught illiterate adults to read. Hoping that 150 people would attend the first classes, Stewart was amazed that over 1,200 men and women enrolled. She quickly developed reading material for these men and women that appealed to them instead of the children's texts that most educators were using with adults. With the success of the Moonlight Schools, Stewart moved forward in her crusade against illiteracy; she quickly became the most prominent advocate for the cause on both the national and international scene. Stewart took the fight against illiteracy at a time when it was an accepted part of American life. She shocked the nation when she pointed out that 25 percent of the men who signed up for the draft in 1917 could neither read nor write. From her beginnings in the mountains of Kentucky, she went on to chair the Illiteracy Section of the World Conference of Education Associations five times; she founded the National Illiteracy Crusade in 1926. She even received one vote for president at the 1920 Democratic convention. Her crusade came despite the fact she was a victim of domestic abuse who suffered through three failed marriages. Her life reflects the challenges faced by female reformers in the early part of the 20th century.
On the occasion of her death in 1936, a New York newspaper wrote that actress Cora Urquhart Potter "probably accomplished more for the cause of feminism than the efforts of all the equal rights organizations of her day." This critical biography explores the life of the famed Victorian stage star who, abandoning her position in New York society, undertook a professional career spanning more than two decades. Potter's defiance of convention both mirrored and propelled the changes transforming fin de siecle theatre and society. In advancing the concept of the New Woman, both on and off stage, she became a lightning rod for criticism within a social milieu and a profession still fervidly clinging to Victorian ideals.
Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a remarkable life as an anthropologist and diplomat in the vanguard of social and academic change.Du Bois studied with Franz Boas, a founder of American anthropology, and with some of his most eminent students: Ruth Benedict, Alfred Kroeber, and Robert Lowie. During World War II, she served as a high-ranking officer for the Office of Strategic Services as the only woman to head one of the OSS branches of intelligence, Research and Analysis in Southeast Asia. After the war she joined the State Department as chief of the Southeast Asia Branch of the Division of Research for the Far East. She was also the first female full professor, with tenure, appointed at Harvard University and became president of the American Anthropological Association.Du Bois worked to keep her public and private lives separate, especially while facing the FBI's harassment as an opponent of U.S. engagements in Vietnam and as a "liberal" lesbian during the McCarthy era. Susan C. Seymour's biography weaves together Du Bois's personal and professional lives to illustrate this exceptional "first woman" and the complexities of the twentieth century that she both experienced and influenced.
In this colorfully illustrated book, Cora Lynn, abeautiful butterfly, takes very young readers throughthe magical adventure of her life: from egg, tocaterpillar, to chrysalis, to butterfly. Through verseand charming images, children will discover thesestages of complex metamorphosis—a basic conceptin the science curriculum for elementary students.In the telling, Cora Lynn shows how small thingscan turn into better, more beautiful things for all theworld to see.
Cora Lee France came as a surprise to her parents, born in a cliff-side cabin in the hills of Pennsylvania at the end of the Great Depression. She was no surprise to God, who brought her through 81+ years of adventures.
Cora is a Highland cow Who's always there for you She'll babysit and bake a cake All with a hearty 'moooooooo' Our favourite farmyard friend Cora is back and this time she's in charge of the puppies...
Cora had big dreams, the kind a girl like her from a place like Black Bottom, TN, shouldn't' have the audacity to dream. With the encouragement of a benefactor and the boldness of a young woman whose spirit is not yet broken by disappointment, Cora set out for a new life in a new place and found a world so much bigger than she ever imagined. The days seemed full of possibility and promise, but that was not to be her path.Soon she was called back home to family responsibility and the small life she'd hoped to escape. Although her dreams crumbled just as they were coming to fruition, Cora resigned herself to the life she was given, honoring her faith and trusting the plan God had for her. Throughout her life, Cora endured the kind of hardship and loss that robs people of hope, yet she found purpose in loving and supporting the people in her life. Though life may not have offered her a crystal stair, Cora kept climbing, kept going, and ultimately, she kept her promise to do something meaningful with her life-she made it possible for others to do the same.
Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife
Madeline Leslie
Anson Street Press
2025
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Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife
Madeline Leslie
Anson Street Press
2025
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Cora Linn. a Romance of the Clyde.
J Gordon Phillips
British Library, Historical Print Editions
2011
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This adorable book is from a dogs point of view. Cora takes you through all the adventures of her first year. The photography throughout the book captures a puppy and her boys in action as they explore and get into trouble from time to time. On many of the pages, there is an explanation the age, weight and height of Cora at the time the picture was taken. This is to help readers understand how fast a puppy grows the first year of their life.
When Cora is selected to be part of the exclusive mermaid Spirit Team, she is beyond thrilled. But her happiness quickly fades when Rachel isn't picked. And when Cora finds out the reason why Rachel isn't picked, her spirit is crushed. Cora has a big decision to make. A decision she never thought she'd have to make.
At age forty-five - her life a mess - Cora Gordon was persuaded to reinvent herself as an artist. Cora paid for her decision with agonies of self-doubt; but prodded by family and friends, she bent to her talents and found acceptance as a rising sculptor. Years later, now almost eighty - celebrated for her art and longevity - Cora is upset to learn that a troublemaker from her past has attacked the posthumous reputation of photographer Thorold Carey, a headstrong friend from her hardscrabble days. As she reflects on past struggles with the countering claims of art, love and loyalty - on the colleagues and relatives who regularly made life so hard - Cora feels more than ever grateful to Carey, for being there when she needed him - for his enduring inspiration. A vindication of her obstreperous friend, Cora's is a wry tale of two mid-lives in disarray and of the circumstances that brought them together; lives seeming to have little in common - unlikely to benefit from second chances.
