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Small Photograph Album
No full textSmall tooled leather photograph album which belonged to Mary M. Seburn. The photographs are listed:
1. Hannah Ann Seburn (nee Forbes)
2. Mr. & Mrs. Happell
3. Nina & George Happell
4. Mary Ellwood
5. Mary Ellwood (Mrs. L. Shriner)
6. Mr. & Mrs. Jacob and Hannah Seburn
7. Mr. & Mrs. J. Armstrong
8. Elisha Lorree, Sally Seburn Mrs. E. Loree
9. H. & Luke Hasketter & Uncle
10. Lorenzo Seburn
11. Hamilton Seburn
12. Mrs. James Law
13. Master George law
14. [Cyrus Nunn?] - tintype
15. Sam Hopkins - tintype
16. Sam Johnston
17. Joe Baxter [speckling]
18. Joseph Garner
19. Elizabeth Garner (nee Seburn)
20. Clara, Mary & Will Eastwood - tintype
21. Mathew Seburn
22. EMPTY
23. Almer Garner - tintype
24. Minerva Seburn (Brady)
25. Mary M. Seburn
26. Hamilton Seburn
27. Mary Ellwood
28. Ellen J. Hart
29. Etta Seburn
30. Moses Brady [some damage to photo]
31. Murray Brady
32. Margaret Seburn Lorree & Sarah (Sally Seburn)
33. Sam Hopkins [some colouration added to photo]
34. Jacob Hixon
35. William Hixon
36. Hannah Ann Seburn (nee Forbes)
37. Mr. & Mrs. Peter Hoover
38 - 47 EMPTY
48. Evelyn Garner - tintype
49. Cyrus Nunn - tintype
50. Phoebe Dennis Parker - tintyp
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
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)
Biography of Mary Jane Oliver
No full textTypescript of a sketch biography about Mary Jane (Oliver) Barlow, who came came from England around 1851 and with her husband, Oswald Barlow, helped to settle Saint George. Author unknown, but copied on January 13, 1937 by Virginia M. Lee of the Federal Writers Project, WPA, at Ogden, Uta
The 'true use of reading' : Sarah Fielding and mid eighteenth-century literary strategies.
No full textPhDThe aim of this thesis is to explore, by examining her life and
works, how Sarah Fielding (1710-68) established her identity as an author.
The definition of her role involves her notions of the functions of
writing and reading.
Sarah Fielding attempts to invite readers to form a sense of ties
by tacit understanding of her messages. As she believes that a work
of literature is produced through collaboration between the writer and
the reader, it is an important task in her view to show her attentiveness
toward reading practice. In her consideration of reading, she has two
distinct, even opposite views of her audience: on the one hand a familiar
and limited circle of readers with shared moral and cultural values and
on the other potential readers among the unknown mass of people. The
dual targets direct her to devise various strategies. She tries to
appeal to those who can endorse and appreciate her moral values as well
as her learning. Her writings and letters testify that she is sensitive
to the demands of the literary market, trying to lead the taste of readers
by inventing new forms.
The thesis opens with an overview of Sarah Fielding's career,
followed by a consideration of her critical attention to the roles of
reading. I go on to examine the narrative structures and strategies
she deploys, with a particular emphasis on her use of the epistolary
method. The following chapter deals with her attention to the reading
of the moral message tangibly embodied in her educational writing. It
is followed by an analysis of the activity which earned her a reputation
as a learned woman. Various as the forms of her works are, they invariably
reflect her attempt to balance herself between the two demands of
inventiveness and familiarity
Correspondence to Mary Ann Smith From Whitney M. Young Jr., March 21, 1960
No full textCorrespondence from Whitney M. Young Jr., Dean at the Atlanta University School of Social Work, to Mary Ann Smith discussing an upcoming documentary by Edward R. Murrow of the National Broadcasting Company. The documentary is on Atlanta, and the show's director is requesting to meet Mary Ann Smith at the dean's office. 2 pages
"In this moment of alarm and peril": Female Education, Religion and Politics In the Late Eighteenth Century, With special reference to Catharine Macaulay and Hannah More
No full textPhDCatharine Macaulay and Hannah More are conventionally represented as
ideological opposites. Through an analysis which centres on their writings, this
thesis critically examines that representation, and more broadly explores
contemporary perceptions of the roles of women of the middling sort in the late
eighteenth century. It argues that revolution, particularly the French Revolution,
created a climate wherein the duties of women became the subject of increasing
debate. The discussion challenges and builds upon recent work on women's
writing and history, by examining how and why the role of women changed at this
time. This work is concerned with contemporary representations of women, and
concentrates on analysis of primary texts and archival material over a wide range
of genres, including educational treatises, plays, popular tracts, political pamphlets,
historical writing and newspapers - the latter proving a major resource.
Following a critical introduction, the thesis falls into four chapters. Chapter one
discusses the reputation, critical reception and public fame of Macaulay and More,
thereby providing insights into contemporary sexual and social politics. Women
were considered arbiters of morals and manners - believed to play a vital role in
ensuring social stability - and the second chapter examines how the threat of
revolution led to increasing anxiety and debate about the nature of female
education. The third and fourth chapters discuss religion and politics respectively,
and argue that beliefs about the interdependency of Church and State, together with
the feminization of religion, legitimized women's involvement in politics and
enlarged their sphere of influence.
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The conclusion argues that the political and religious climate provided
opportunities for women to reassess and redefine their roles; while often remaining
within parameters defined by commonly held perceptions of femininity, they
politicized the domestic, extended female agency, and elevated the status of
women
Harmony and discord within the English ‘counter-culture’, 1965-1975, with particular reference to the ‘rock operas’ Hair, Godspell, Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar
No full textPhDThis thesis considers the discrete, historically-specific theatrical and musical sub-genre of ‘Rock Opera’ as a lens through which to examine the cultural, political and social changes that are widely assumed to have characterised ‘The Sixties’ in Britain. The musical and dramatic texts, creation and production of Hair (1967), Tommy (1969), Godspell (1971), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and other neglected ‘Rock Operas’ of the period are analysed. Their great popularity with ‘mainstream’ audiences is considered and contrasted with the overwhelmingly negative and often internally contradictory reaction towards them from the English ‘counter-culture’. This examination offers new insights into both the ‘counter-culture’ and the ‘mainstream’ against which it claimed to define and differentiate itself.
The four ‘Rock Operas’, two of which are based upon Christian scriptures, are considered as narratives of spiritual quest. The relationship between the often controversial quests for re-defined forms of faith and the apparently precipitous ‘secularization’ and ‘de-Christianization’ of British society during the 1960s and 1970s is considered.
The thesis therefore analyses the ‘Rock Operas’ as significant, enlightening prisms through which to view many of the profound societal debates – over ‘faith’ and ‘belief’ in the widest senses, sexuality, the Vietnam war, generational conflict, drugs and ‘spiritual enlightenment’, and race – which were, to some considerable extent, elevated onto the national, political agenda by the activities of the broadly-defined ‘counter-culture’. It considers subsequent representations of the ‘counter-culture’ as the root of a contested but enduring popular legacy of ‘The Sixties' as a period of profound cultural change
Modelling the IEEE 802.11 wireless MAC layer under heterogeneous VoIP traffic to evaluate and dimension QoE
No full textPhDAs computers become more popular in the home and workplace, sharing resources and
Internet access locally is a necessity. The simplest method of choice is by deploying a
Wireless Local Area Network; they are inexpensive, easy to configure and require
minimal infrastructure. The wireless local area network of choice is the IEEE 802.11
standard; IEEE 802.11, however, is now being implemented on larger scales outside of
the original scope of usage. The realistic usage spans from small scale home solutions to
commercial ‘hot spots,’ providing access within medium size areas such as cafés, and
more recently blanket coverage in metropolitan. Due to increasing Internet availability
and faster network access, in both wireless and wired, the concept of using such
networks for real-time services such as internet telephony is also becoming popular.
IEEE 802.11 wireless access is shared with many clients on a single channel and there are
three non-overlapping channels available. As more stations communicate on a single
channel there is increased contention resulting in longer delays due to the backoff
overhead of the IEEE 802.11 protocol and hence loss and delay variation; not desirable
for time critical traffic.
Simulation of such networks demands super-computing resource, particularly where
there are over a dozen clients on a given. Fortunately, the author has access to the UK’s
super computers and therefore a clear motivation to develop a state of the art analytical
model with the required resources to validate. The goal was to develop an analytical
model to deal with realistic IEEE 802.11 deployments and derive results without the
need for super computers.
A network analytical model is derived to model the characteristics of the IEEE 802.11
protocol from a given scenario, including the number of clients and the traffic load of
each. The model is augmented from an existing published saturated case, where each
client is assumed to always have traffic to transmit. The nature of the analytical model is
to allow stations to have a variable load, which is achieved by modifying the existing
models and then to allow stations to operate with different traffic profiles. The different
traffic profiles, for each station, is achieved by using the augmented model state machine
per station and distributing the probabilities to each station’s state machine accordingly.
To address the gap between the analytical models medium access delay and standard
network metrics which include the effects of buffering traffic, a queueing model is
identified and augmented which transforms the medium access delay into standard
network metrics; delay, loss and jitter. A Quality of Experience framework, for both
computational and analytical results, is investigated to allow the results to be represented
as user perception scores and the acceptable voice call carrying capacity found. To find
the acceptable call carrying capacity, the ITU-T G.107 E-Model is employed which can
be used to give each client a perception rating in terms of user satisfaction.
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With the use of a novel framework, benchmarking results show that there is potential to
maximise the number of calls carried by the network with an acceptable user perception
rating. Dimensioning of the network is undertaken, again compared with simulation
from the super computers, to highlight the usefulness of the analytical model and
framework and provides recommendations for network configurations, particularly for
the latest Wireless Multimedia extensions available in IEEE 802.11.
Dimensioning shows an overall increase of acceptable capacity of 43%; from 7 to 10 bidirectional
calls per Access Point by using a tuned transmission opportunity to allow
each station to send 4 packets per transmission. It is found that, although the accuracy
of the results from the analytical model is not precise, the model achieves a 1 in 13,000
speed up compared to simulation. Results show that the point of maximum calls comes
close to simulation with the analytical model and framework and can be used as a guide
to configure the network. Alternatively, for specific capacity figures, the model can be
used to home-in on the optimal region for further experiments and therefore achievable
with standard computational resource, i.e. desktop machines
Mary Ann Cox Index: Royal Society Collection
No full textBurton-Wood: in a series of letters, by a lady (Mrs. - Cox nee Wight), London (printed for the author by H.D.Steel) 1783, vol.11
(octovo vol, leather bound)
Enclosed: note The book Burtonwood was written by the mother of
Mary Ann Cox who ran the first coach from Hobart to Launceston.
It was passed on to me by her grand-daughter Miss Dora Clerk of Malahide.
I also am a grand-daughter of Mrs. Cox. Joan Harvey
(John Edward Cox m. Mary Ann Halls
V.D.L. 1821 J.E.C. started Hobart-Launceston coach) - (note - Mrs.
Harvey's identification of the author of the volume was based on family
tradition although not confirmed - no details are known of John Edward
Cox's parents)
Poems by C(harles) Best c 1847 - 1849
Includes poems to Miss Wilmot (Georgiana Wilmot, - Mrs. C. Butler)
and Mary Wilmot.
Enclosed: note by Joan Harvey
Article on Mrs. Mary Ann Cox 1950.
A pioneer career woman (on coach service between Hobart - Launceston)
from "Woman's Day" Aug. 21, 1950 (news clipping)
R.S. 14
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