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Country Lanes quilt by Emma Marie Williams
No full textImage of Country Lanes quilt created in 1860 by Emma Marie Williams. Also includes questionnaires describing the quilt completed by Uintah County D.U.P. Museum as part of the Utah Quilt Guild\u27s documentation days held from 1988-1994
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England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
No full textBiography of Emma Hamilton.
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton (2006) (UK Hardback): ISBN 978-0-09-179474-3
England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton (2007) (UK Paperback): ISBN 978-0-09-945183-
Oral History Interview: Steve Williams (1168)
No full textIn his 2010 interview with Emma Schroeder, Steve Williams discusses his memories of the Eagle Heights Community Garden. Williams begins with a discussion of his family background and tells how he ended up living in Eagle Heights. Williams describes his efforts at gardening, details the international student community, tensions with the university, weed policies, and reflects on several of the important persons that he encountered while living in Eagle Heights.
This interview was conducted for inclusion in a Master?s thesis on the Eagle Heights Community Gardens
Jazz Tales from Jazz Legends: Oral Histories from the Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College
No full textDistills an oral history project that began in 1995 under the auspices of the Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College in Clinton N.Y. Excerpts drawn from 325 one-on-one sessions conducted for the Archive are organized into categories including first-hand accounts of life on the road, inspiration, race and jazz, improvisation, and work inside the studios. Interviewees quoted in the book include icons in jazz world such as Joe Williams, Dave and Iola Brubeck, Jon Hendricks, Steve Allen, and Marian McPartland. Stories from unsung sidemen offer a rare perspective on the life and times of jazz artists who balance the love of music with the sacrifice inherent in the jazz lifestyle. The author provides informative commentary with personal insights into the accomplishments and personalities of over one hundred jazz artists.
209 pages with 13 black and white illustrationshttps://digitalcommons.hamilton.edu/books/1066/thumbnail.jp
The attitudes of Lady Emma Hamilton
No full text'The Attitudes of Lady Emma Hamilton' public programs events took the form of three life drawing classes held at the R.D. Milns Antiquities Museum during 2014. The series was inspired by the life of Lady Emma Hamilton, the wife of Lord Hamilton, English Ambassador to Naples. While living in Naples, Emma imitated poses on Lord Hamilton’s collection of Ancient Southern Italian vases, so that men and women on their 'Grand Tour' of Italy could sketch her in these poses. Attendees learnt about these vases, the figures on them, and Emma and Lord Hamilton, and were encouraged to draw the life models also imitating these poses
Emma Hamilton
No full textBook synopsis: Emma Hamilton (1765-1815) epitomized the classic tale of an eighteenth century woman's rise from poverty to fame and riches using nothing but beauty and feminine guile
Emma Williams Ellis
No full textPhotograph of Emma Williams Ellis, the "only full blood Mexican Kickapoo in the United States.
Hamilton, Catherine Jane [pseud. Retlaw Spring] (1841–1935), author and journalist
No full textHamilton, Catherine Jane [pseud. Retlaw Spring] (1841-1935), author and journalist, was born on 25 January 1841 at Kilmersdon, Somerset, where she was baptized on 12 April 1841, the younger of two daughters of Richard Hamilton (1805?-1859), vicar of Kilmersdon, and his wife Charlotte, née Cooper (1809-1882), the fifth daughter of William Cooper, of Queens County, Ireland. She was of Irish heritage on both sides. Her father belonged to a military family with roots in Strabane (county Tyrone) - his father, John Hamilton, and her father’s four older brothers were all officers in the Fifth Foot – and was a graduate of Trinity College Dublin. He had been a bright scholar with an aptitude for languages, and as a preacher was praised for his powerful sermons and his ability to bring the Bible to life for his parishioners
A&Q Presents: November 13, 2013
No full textDoran Larson teaches courses in prison writing, the history of the novel, 20th-century American literature, and creative writing. He has published articles on Herman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, Henry James and popular film. Since November of 2006, he has taught a creative writing course inside a maximum-security state prison. Larson\u27s essays on prison writing and prison issues have been published in College Literature, Radical Teacher, English Language Notes and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is the editor of two forthcoming volumes: The Beautiful Prison, a special issue of the legal journal Studies in Law, Politics, and Society; and Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America. He is also the author of two novels, The Big Deal (Bantam, 1985), and Marginalia (Permanent, 1997). Larson\u27s stories have appeared in The Iowa Review, Boulevard, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and Best American Short Stories. The Iowa Review published his novella, Syzygy, in 1998. He has also published travel writing, magazine features, and paid op-eds.
Emma Laperruque \u2714 is a senior fellow and an interdisciplinary major, even though she often pretends to still be a creative writing major as a brazen excuse to show up at department events and eat lemon bars. For her final year at school, Emma is writing an instructive, narrative cookbook, which will teach young adults the basics of home cooking. When not recipe-testing for her fellowship, Emma recipe-tests for her blog, Dourmet (at Dourmet.com). And on the ever-rare occasion that she\u27s doing something unrelated to food, Emma likes to memorize Kanye West lyrics in preparation for a concert in November, and run around in ridiculous neon outfits in preparation for a marathon in March
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