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Pioneer interviews, Willis Eugene Robison
No full textTypescript of answers by Willis Eugene Robison of Hinckley, Utah for a questionnaire filled out for Utah Works Progress Administration\u27s "Pioneer personal history" survey. He was born in Illinois in 1854, and came with his family to Utah that year. They settled at Fillmore, Utah. Typed by Mary Lyman Reeve of Hinckley, January 22, 193
Phil Robison Oral History Interview
No full textOral history interview by Mary Heers with Phil Robison. Topics include: His participation in tennis and basketball in high school; His participation in track at BYU; His cousin, Clarence Robison, being a member of the 1948 USA 5,000-meter team at the Olympics in London; Growing up in Fillmore; His grandfather\u27s service as territorial senator and contributions to the territorial building in Fillmore; Becoming a teacher after graduating from BYU and his thirty-eight year career in education and coaching; Being drafted into the Army during WWII; Enjoying athletics and his participation in boxing, baseball, basketball during his military service; Being sick with Tularemia when his group was shipped out to the Philippine Islands and after his recovery being sent to Fort Custer, Michigan for military police training; Working as military police during the invasion of Normandy; His experience crossing the Panama Canal; Military service in European and Pacific campaigns; Enjoying dancing after his return to the U.S.; His grandaughter winning a World Championship for ballroom dancing while attending UVU; Enjoying coaching and helping athletes; Meeting his future wife while attending a dance at BYU; Marriage and children, and his wife\u27s occasional work as his substitute teacher.Mr. Philip Robison was born in Fillmore, Utah, in 1923. He was involved in track and field at BYU. He made a lifetime of athletics, trying out for professional baseball teams and being recruited by basketball teams. He served in the military police during World War II, and was there for the Invasion of Normandy. He tells some stories of his experiences in World War II, and talks about his love of dance. He was a teacher for his entire career, and was a coach along with that
Darrell "Pinky" Robison with his wife, Mary, 1992-1995
No full textImages of Darrell "Pinky" Robison, a ski racer in the 1950s, and other ski racers of the time
Mrs. Jessie Robison, and Mrs. Mary Folster
No full textMrs. Jessie Robison, left, glad to see Mrs. Mary Folster, back on the job at Southwestern Bell\u27s long-distance switchboard.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/28269/thumbnail.jp
Tell Me: 30 Stories
No full textBy Mary Robison Counterpoint Press (Paperback, $14.00, ISBN: 1582432589, 10/2002) Thirty brief, sharply delineated short stories written over three decades by Robison (Days) chronicle emotional dislocation with witty dispassion. Robison’s characters, usually members of middle-class families, are often pictured grappling with the redefinition of roles, such as the teenaged star-gazing narrator of “An Amateur’s Guide to the Night” and her pill-popping single mother who pass for sisters and go on double-dates together. Or the newly idle Helen of “Independence Day,” recently returned to her father’s grand lakeside house in Ohio, who halfheartedly resists the pressure of her estranged husband, Terry, to get on with her life. Epiphanies are of less interest to Robison than rendering the shimmering immediacy of situation: “I could be getting married soon. The fellow is no Adonis,” establishes straightaway the art teacher of “In Jewel,” whose engagement means a way out of the dead-end eponymous miner town she’s always lived in. Robison locates her fairly comfortable characters anywhere from Beverly Hills (“Smoke”) to Ophelia, Ohio (“While Home”), to Washington, D.C. (“Smart”); they are waiting for rides in the rain or for babies to be born or for life, simply, to go on. And in every story her characters make valiant, hit-or-miss attempts to connect with one another. The brevity of these tales sometimes leaves the reader hanging, especially since their author delights in oblique details and non sequiturs. Yet nothing is superfluous, and in the spare sadness of Robison’s prose entire lives are presented. As the fiancée of “In Jewel” concludes, “All that I’ve ever owned or had is right out here for you to examine.” Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. (from Publishers Weekly)https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1319/thumbnail.jp
Women's life writing 1760-1830 : spiritual selves, sexual characters, and revolutionary subjects
No full textPhDThis thesis uses print and manuscript sources to analyse and interpret women's life
writing at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries. I
explore printed works by Catharine Phillips, Mary Dudley, Priscilla Hannah Gurney,
Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Steele, Mary Robinson, Helen Maria Williams, Mary
Wollstonecraft, Grace Dalrymple Elliott, and Charlotte West and discuss the
manuscripts of Mary Fletcher, Mary Tooth, Sarah Ryan, and Elizabeth Fox. Of these
sources, five have never been analysed in the critical literature and six have received
little attention. Considered as a group, this large corpus of texts offers new insights
into the personal and political implications of different models of female selfhood and
social being.
In chapter one, I compare the religious identities presented in the spiritual
autobiographies of Quakers and Methodists. For these women, religious identification
provides a powerful sense of social belonging and enables public participation.
However, it may also lead to a loss of self in the demand for religious conformity and
self-abnegation. In chapter two, I consider the life writing of late eighteenth-century
courtesans. These women adapt available models of femininity and female authorship
in order to establish themselves as socially connected subjects. However, their
narratives also reveal that dependence on the sexual and literary marketplace puts
female selfhood under pressure. In chapter three, I explore the eyewitness accounts of
British women in the French Revolution. I argue that, for these writers, connecting
personal identity to political history is an enabling source of self-definition but it also
exposes them to the risks of self-fragmentation.
In my focus on the social function of women's life writing, I present an alternative to
the traditional alignment of the eighteenth-century autobiographical subject with the
autonomous self of individualism. These narratives allow us to reconsider the
productive and problematic dialectic between personal expression and representative
selfhood, self-authorship and collective narratives, and individualism and social
being. They suggest that women's life writing has the potential to be both the self-expression
of a unique heroine and the self-inscription of a politicised subject
Letter from Mary Garvey, Irish immigrant, to her mother, October 24, 1850
No full textMary Garvey, an Irish immigrant, was the servant of Rescarrick Moore Smith, a Hightstown businessman and New Jersey State Treasurer. This letter was dictated to and transcribed by Smith's daughter, Mary Elizabeth. In this letter to her mother in Ireland, Garvey asks after various family members and friends. She asks her mother many time to consider leaving the "poor state of Ireland" to emigrate to America. She also discusses her work duties, wages, and social life
Why Did I Ever
No full textBy Mary Robison Counterpoint (Hardcover, $23.00, ISBN: 1582430608, 10/2001) In her first novel in a decade, Robison, a writer with switchblade wit, unveils the helter-skelter consciousness of Money Breton. The cynical veteran of three marriages and the mother of two screwed-up adult children, Money, still a man-magnet, is a Hollywood script doctor who commutes from a small town somewhere outside New Orleans. When she isn\u27t pretending to work, she holds surreal conversations with the Deaf Lady, trades insults with two persistent suitors, frets over her missing cat, and takes out her fear and anger on household objects. Money\u27s gay son, Paulie, has been tortured and raped and is currently in police custody. Mev, Money\u27s lawyer daughter, is struggling with a methadone habit. Crazy with worry and embroiled in the maddening revision of an idiotic script about Bigfoot, Money riffs with a caustic yet deadpan humor not unlike that of Lynda Barry on men, movies, traffic, airlines, and life in general in 572 terse, numbered, and jabbing paragraphs. Robison\u27s incandescent soliloquy on the absurdity of existence hones fiction to a new and exhilarating measure of sharpness. ―Donna Seaman. Booklist. Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1456/thumbnail.jp
A more comprehensive and commanding delineation: Mary Shelley's narrative strategy in Frankenstein
No full textThis thesis argues that the first edition of Frankenstein challenges conventional reading by employing what Simpson in Irony and Authority in Romantic Poetry calls Romantic irony, where the absence of a stable 'metacomment' precludes an authoritative reading. The novel hints at such readings but prevents them. The insights offered by Tropp's Mary Shelley's Monster, Baldick's In Frankenstein's Shadow, Poovey's The Proper Lady and the woman writer and Swingle's, 'Frankenstein's Monster and its Relatives: Problems of Knowledge in English Romanticism' are considered, but none recognises the full implications of the instability deriving from multiple first- person narratives. Clemit's The Godwinian Navel acknowledges the novel's indeterminacy, but reads a specific ideological purpose in it. Paradise Last provides a language to describe the relationship between the monster and Frankenstein, but proves too unstable to fix identity or establish moral value. Similarly, Necessity ultimately fails to provide a stable explanation in terms of cause and effect. The status of nature shifts between foreground and background, never allowing final definition. These uncertainties destabilise knowledge which is compromised by its provisional nature: no authoritative reading is possible, yet the novel has narrative coherence. The reader is encouraged to try to develop a reading the structure prevents. The radical nature of the first edition is highlighted by comparison with the 1831 edition, which removes much of the ambivalence and gives the novel a clearer morality. The novel challenges conventional methods of deriving authority by disturbing the reader's orthodox orientation in the world around him' (Simpson) in order to afford 'a point of view to the imagination for the delineation of human passions more comprehensive and commanding than any which the ordinary relations of existing events can yield' (Mary Shelley)
The marriage of Philip of Habsburg and Mary Tudor and anti-Spanish sentiment in England : political economies and culture, 1553-1557.
No full textPhDThis thesis examines the early part of Mary I's reign, focusing on her marriage to
Philip of Habsburg and the marginalisation of their co-monarchy in Tudor historiography.
By looking at the diplomatic background and political opposition in England, I interrogate
the notion that anti-Spanish sentiment was a central cause of the Wyatt rebellion, arguing that
instead its aetiology lay in female sovereignty and the constitutional uncertainties produced
by it. Dynasticism tended to alienate power from familiar, local and territorial sources of
political authority. Infant mortality and the vicissitudes of the marriage market in this context
threatened discrete 'national' identities with an incipient imperialist internationalism. I analyse
in detail the marriage contract and 'Act declaring that the regal power of this realm is in the
Queen's Majesty', using them as evidence to show that anxieties about property rights were
not related to the repudiation of the Supremacy, repeal of Henrician legislation and return of
papal jurisdiction. The staging of the wedding harped on Philip's inferior status, inverting that
which the marriage ceremony rehearsed. The Castilian writing of England as a romance of
chivalry sublimated a sexual licence which repeated the fears played upon by exiled
polemicists that the kingdom had been transformed into the feminised subject of Spanish
male authority. Anti-Spanish propaganda did not reflect popular xenophobia. It was literate
and sophisticated, related to sectarian struggle and engaged with theories of justifiable
disobedience. Finally, I treat the joint royal London Entry and representations of Philip and
Mary welcoming his assumption of authority in relation to both England and his new quee
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