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Jane Skellie Sinclair
No full textJane Skellie Sinclair served as librarian at Michigan Agricultural College from 1889 to 1891 as one of the college\u2019s first female staff members. Sinclair died in 1898
Progressive Chicago : Upton Sinclair, Jane Addams, and social reform literature
No full textDuring the period between 1890 and 1920, the United States was transformed from a largely agricultural and rural nation to one that was industrial and urban, and it wrestled with social problems concerning race, gender, and immigration. Progressivism emerged out of this context. By the turn of the century, a newly radicalized and resolute middle class launched an epic program of reforms, aiming to solve America’s social, economic, and political problems. Chicago became an important center of progressive activity. By the close of the nineteenth century, the city was home to businessmen who had achieved unprecedented levels of wealth. Meanwhile, Chicago’s numerous poor endured squalid conditions. The discrepancy between the promises made by the city and the lives lived by many of its inhabitants was depicted by progressive authors, including Upton Sinclair in his novel The Jungle (1906) and Jane Addams in her memoir Twenty Years at Hull House (1910). This chapter examines Chicago’s longer history of civic unrest going back to the Haymarket affair of 1886 and beyond, and it shows how Sinclair and Addams in different ways challenged Americans to come together with renewed moral purpos
Author Jane Knuth At Creighton University
No full textCreighton University Collaborative Ministry invited author Jane Knuth to talk about her book "Thrift Store Saints: Meeting Jesus 25 Cents at a Time". Her book and talk were full of stories about her experiences working at a Saint Vincent DePaul thrift store in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Jane was delightful and everybody really enjoyed her visit
Interviews with Dova Wolfe Williams, Mildred McMullen, June Sinclair, Beulah V. White, Florence Mallott and Ima Van Natter
No full textInterviews with Dova Wolfe Williams, Mildred McMullen, June Sinclair, Beulah V. White, Florence Mallott, Irma Van Natter and Ezra G. Reese. 00:00:01 - Introduction, Dova Wolfe Williams on June 15, 1962 by Norma Sinclair at Norton, KS 00:00:23 - Signs and superstitions 00:02:37 - Folk beliefs 00:04:32 - Weather wisdom 00:05:52 - Cures and remedies 00:08:07 - Superstitions 00:08:34 - Poetry from an autograph book from the early 1900s 00:16:40 - Superstitions and proverbs 00:21:10 - Introduction, Mildred McMullen Green of Norton, KS on June 16-17, 1962 by Norma Sinclair 00:21:32 - Ballad from her Masters Thesis, The Prairie Sings , The Cork Leg 00:25:07 - Spirit of the Plains Based on the experience of her grandmother, Belinda Webber 00:30:49 - Introduction, June Sinclair of Wichita, KS by Norma Sinclair 00:31:09 - Little Moron jokes 00:32:47 - Sentimental songs sung at funerals for children. Two Little Hands 00:34:07 - Introduction, Beulah V. Murphy White of Bonner Springs, KS on April 16, 1965 by Mary Jane Tague. 00:34:45 - Folk lore and sayings 00:36:01 - History of Pat and Mike Jokes 00:37:59 - Music of the area 00:38:52 - Last line of a song about a blind girl, They Tell me Father . . . , vocal 00:39:21 - Last line of a song about a prince and a princess, I could not help but love him , vocal 00:40:30 - Partial song about a girl who sought help in a barroom, She\u27s only a maiden . . . , vocal 00:40:58 - Railroad songs 00:42:02 - Introduction, Florence Mallott of Edwardsville, KS on April 18, 1965 by Mary Jane Tague 00:42:26 - Story and song about a Black boy writing a song for his love interest (racist language) 00:43:37 - Introduction, Irma Van Natter of Carl Junction, MO on April 27, 1965 by Mary Jane Tague. 00:43:59 - Song, Tell me father , vocal 00:46:53 - Song, Down By the Weeping Willow , vocal 00:49:41 - Song, Put My Little Shoes Away , vocal 00:52:31 - Introduction, Ezra G. Reese by Irma Natter 00:52:37 - Biographical information and early life 00:53:48 - Salvation Army Song, Roll the Ole\u27 Chariots , vocal 00:55:30 - Pat and Mike jokes 01:01:22 - Big Rock Candy Mountain read by a womanhttps://scholars.fhsu.edu/sackett/1097/thumbnail.jp
The Americans
No full textGift of Dr. Mary Jane Esplen.Piano [instrumentation]B flat [key]Piano [tempo]Gordon Sinclair (photograph) [illustration]Monologue ; music traditional [form/genre]No publisher's advertisement [note]Written and broadcast by Gordon Sinclair on CFRB, Toronto - Canada June 5th 1973 [note]A monologue inside music sheet [note
Jane Arnold interviews short story author Sylvia Watanabe
No full textShort story author Sylvia Watanabe talks about why she moved from Hawaii to Michigan, her book "Talking To The Dead", and her novel in process. Watanabe is interviewed by librarian Jane Arnold for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
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
Edges of the mind : psychic margins and the modernist aesthetic in Vernon Lee, Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, Dion Fortune and Jane Harrison.
No full textPhDThe question 'Where does she begin and I end, asked in Virginia Woolf's The Years, voices a modernist
concern with the limits of self-identity and related questions of egoism and altruism. In this thesis I argue
that this concern is informed by a pre-history of thinking about selfhood, psychic boundaries and the
spiritual mainly ignored by readings of modernism which map the psyche via psychoanalysis, or Freud's
'discovery of the unconscious'. Our thinking about the self has become colonised by the literary doctrines of
better known canonical figures of the modernist period, generating a way of thinking about the limits of the
psyche which is both literally and metaphorically circumscribed. A reading of more eccentric discourses
explicitly engaged in negotiating the boundaries of individuality can provide a history of the psychic
underpinnings to the modernist conception of the self. The representation of marginal states of
consciousness, or epiphanic moments, is crucial to the literature of modernism: interpretation of these altered
states, or edges, can be refigured through readings of Vernon Lee, Evelyn Underhill, May Sinclair, Dion
Fortune and Jane Harrison: five women writing between 1880-1930 for whom pre-Freudian forms of
dissolution and challenge to self-unity are palpably present in the form of telepathy, subliminal selves,
oceanic consciousness and internal multiplicity. In addition to writing non-fictional texts which variously
explore the psychological, philosophical, ethical, spiritual and occult implications of the modernist position,
each of these women, excepting the classical scholar Jane Harrison, also wrote fiction. The aesthetic
questions of modernism dovetail into the theoretical arguments of the writers in this thesis, inviting a
different reading of its psychological sub-text and to suggest that where 'stream-of-consciousness' is
stylistically indispensable, the 'oceanic', as counterpart, thematically haunts the modernist aestheti
'The ceasing from the sorrow of divided life: may Sinclair’s women, texts and contexts (1910-1923)
No full textThis thesis explores May Sinclair's female protagonists in her Modernist texts, 1910-1923. 1 look at how Sinclair's work bears witness to her scene of writing and offer an analysis that places Sinclair, most centrally, in a dialogue with contemporary literary, psychoanalytical, and cultural influences.1 draw upon a wealth of unpublished material, medical archives and journals, newspapers, propaganda, novels of fellow female writers, and other artefacts of the day. By appraising these works together, the critical distinction between Modernism and the topical issues of early twentieth century Britain is seen to dissolve, and Sinclair’s writing emerges as an important oeuvre for reading the life of the modem woman. Women’s fiction of the period typically searches for autonomy and agency. However, as 1 show, the desire for radical social change is problematic and often in conflict with the prescribed code of an idealised, fixed female identity. Through an exploration and development of her own concept of sublimation, Sinclair confronts these complex ideological structures in her engagement with the position of women in her fiction. She places her women in a variety of situations—from the tightly knit, domestic home to the unfettered, open terrain of wild landscapes—and analyses the forces that hold women back or set them free. In my study of Sinclair's Modernist texts, 1 argue that Sinclair urges for psychic freedom for women from their cramped, repressive conditions; this is achieved through sublimation
The light of the eye : doctrine, piety and reform in the works of Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen
No full textBibliography: leaves 376-401.This thesis investigates the ways in which three eighteenth-century writers, Bishop Thomas Sherlock, Hannah More and Jane Austen embody orthodox Anglican doctrine according to their individual perceptions of the enlightening properties of Protestant Christianity. After situating them in their respective gender, literary and ecclesiastical contexts, I examine some of their key doctrines and analyse excerpts from their works. My selection of passages from Sherlock's works is fairly comprehensive, but in the case of More and Austen, where there is already a formidable body of literary criticism, it is more selective. Thus, I focus on doctrine in More's tracts, Strictures on the System of Female Education, An Essay on St Paul and most especially Coelebs in Search of a Wife and in the case of Austen, on her prayers and select passages from Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. I conclude that, although diverse in their particular kind of Anglicanism (High, Evangelical and Median) and in their choice of genre, transparency or obscurity (anonymity and pseudonymity) and the various narratological strategies some of them invoke to circumvent certain taboos, Sherlock, More and Austen champion the same central orthodox doctrines, defend them against current alternatives to orthodoxy such as Latitudinarianism, Deism and various forms of Freethinking, and promote similar moral and ecclesiastical reforms. However, indirectly (through female characters who resist male representation or control) the women writers subject their ostensibly authorially-endorsed male narrators/characters to scrutiny and sometimes (when the males objectify the women) subversion
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