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Okanagan pioneers Thomas Ellis and Edgar Dewdney
No full textL-R: Thomas Ellis, Edgar Dewdney, ?. From Provincial Archive
Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.
No full textPhDEating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what
they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who
they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour.
In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating
in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food
and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of
cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and
control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically.
My discussion centres on the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing,
Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory,
sociology, anthropology, Foucault, Bakhtin and others, the thesis aims to
construct an interdisciplinary perspective which both resists reductive
interpretations and emphasises the centrality, complexity and diversity of food
and eating in literature in our culture.
I begin with an examination of the ambiguities of maternal feeding and
nurturing, moving on to explore the links between appetite, eating and sexuality.
I explore cannibalism and vampirism as manifestations of oppression, but also as
indicating insatiable emptiness and transgressive appetite. The body itself is
crucial, and my argument considers the paradox of not eating as
control/enslavement, also tracing self-starvation as a positive route towards
wholeness and connection. The last part of my argument focuses on social
eating, examining conventions, rituals and food itself in connection with power
relations, and finally considers how we might truly speak of food and eating in
the context of society as a whole
Letter from Thomas Ellis to Alden Partridge, May 1835
No full textThomas Ellis writes from Richmond, Virginia, to Alden Partridge in Norwich, Vermont, on 9 May 1835 regarding a request for Partridge to deliver a lecture on a course of military tactics in Richmond; a postscript, dated 18 May 1835, was added to the letter by John T. Winn, who had opened the letter thinking it related to a different matter and then forwarded it to Partridge; Winn's message includes a note related to "the arms" and a petition made to the Governor of Virginia.Transcription by Raymond Bouchard. Transcriptions may be subject to error
Postcard Written by Thomas Ellis to the Bryant College Service Club Dated August 4, 1942
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4 August 1942
Sirs:
I wish to thank you very much for your club’s very unexpected and welcome gift of cigarettes.
Your club is certainly doing a splendid job in remembering the Alumnus now in the service. My congratulations to you and all the members for a continued success.
My correct address is: Hq VI Army Corps Providence, R.I. G-3
T/Sgt. Thomas Ellis [Transcription ends
Federal P.M.G. Gibson, who is facing the fact that the Austn. telegraph system is thoroughly bad and considering what to do about it [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscriptions bot. c.; Percy Deane collection.; Published in the Bulletin.; R8475
E.B. Corser, Nat. M.H.R. for Wide Bay, Queensland [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription bot. c.; Inscription in another hand: With his wonderful whiskers shown.; Published in the Bulletin.; Percy Deane Collection.; R8485
J.A.M. Elder of Melbourne, the merchant who has been appointed Commissioner for Australia in U.S.A. [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription bot. c.; Percy Deane Collection.; R8483
W.L. Parsons, who defeated Moses Gabb for the Angas seat [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription bot. c.; Inscription continues: He is the smallest member in the Fed. lower house.; Percy Deane Collection.; Published in the Bulletin.; R8479
J. Scullin, M.H.R. for Yarra who moved the censure motion on the government for its transactions with BAWRA [i.e. British Australian Wool Realisation Association] [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription bot. c.; Percy Deane Collection.; Published in the Bulletin.; R8477
Jos. Francis, nat. [i.e. national] M.L.A. for Moreton, Q. [picture] /
No full textTitle from inscription bot.c.; Percy Deane Collection.; Published in the Bulletin.; R8482
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