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Letter, 1848 May 23, Locust Grove, to George Winter, Logansport
No full textHandwritten letter
From: Jane Winter, Locust Grove, May 23, 1848
To: George Winter, Logansport
ALS, 3 p. (one sheet, folded) (also over-written at right angles on two pages)Scolds George Winter for taking ten months to acknowledge her last letters, sounding quite angry with him. Hopes he will eventually complete the miniatures he has been promising her for years. Their winter has been dull, mainly spent with the music pupils. News of family and friends, including the businss situations of Husten, Edwin, and William, and the health and children of Emma and Mathilda, sickness in Tom's family, her own health, Ann Maria's health and young son. Eliza has had her son, and they are living with her father (John), and her husband still cannot visit them. Robert's exhibit did not do well in New Orleans; they are now in St. Louis. News of other family, and deaths of various friends. Notation on address side: received May 30, 1848; answered June 17 and August 14, 1848
Letter, 1847 June 10, Locust Grove, to George Winter, Logansport, Ind.
No full textHandwritten letter
From: Jane Winter, Locust Grove, June 10, 1847
To: George Winter, Logansport
ALS, 4 p. (plus two pages, superimposed at right angles, in
two directions) (one sheet, folded)Regrets that she has not been able to send him "The Spotted Fawn," as he requested. She and Ann have begun taking pupils again to defray the expenses of furnishing Ann's house. Robert "and the boys" stayed with them over the winter, mounting their exhibit at a nearby church, and then had great success in Nashville (at .50 a ticket) and are now in Philadelphia. Further discussion of the character of the other "boys." She is amazed at the recent changes in the family: marriages of Emma and Ann Maria [Ann's daughters?], and the birth of their sons; Charles' move to Canada, their own new house. The story of John's daughter Eliza and her rift with her husband, with whom she is not now living. Other family news. Notation on address side: received June 18, 1847; answered March 6, 1848
Letter, 1847 July 25, Locust Grove, to George Winter, Logansport, Ind.
No full textHandwritten letter
From: Jane Winter, Locust Grove, July 25, 1847
To: George Winter, Logansport
ALS, 4 p. (one sheet, folded)Glad to hear of the return to health of G.W.'s family and that he is thinking of relocating Would like to visit him, but is committed to teaching her music pupils and cannot affort to travel. She has seen John recently, and "the Indian scene" is hanging nicely framed, but will return it to G.W. if he wishes. John had planned to sell it to pay for a headstone for Fred [another brother?]. John tried to get a divorce for his daughter, but the court refused him. She has left her husband who has tried to see her, but John will not let him. Eliza has written him a letter setting stringent conditions under which she would see him. Charles is doing well in Canada. Other family news. Notation on address side: received August 4, 1847, answered March 6 and March 12, 1848
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
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
Get PDFHamilton, 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
2016: Jane Spivey Gilchrist
No full textJane Spivey Gilchrist was a featured writer at the 2016 Lions In Winter literary festival
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
Living with locally advanced rectal cancer: an exploration of the everydayness of living with rectal cancer
No full textAdvances in treatment and prolonged survival times mean that increasingly individuals are living with advanced cancer, yet services remain disease orientated. This thesis has documented the process of undertaking a longitudinal qualitative study to explore the everydayness of living with locally advanced rectal cancer. The study has identified how this can influence individual’s day to day lives when the focus of care moves away from cure, but prior to the transition to ‘end of life’ care. The aim was to obtain data in which to situate local service development based on those aspects which were accorded primacy by the participants.This interpretive study used a longitudinal qualitative approach which was informed by phenomenology. The philosophical works of Heidegger, Merleau Ponty and Van Manen were influential in this work which involved ten participants, with locally advanced rectal cancer. Successive interviews with ten individuals were undertaken over a two year period. The 38 interviews were analysed using a combination of frameworks offered by Miles and Huberman and Saldana. Individuals during much of this time concentrated on maintaining normality in their everyday lives. The drive for stasis and focus on day to day living allowed the individual to remain in the present and distance a future which was associated with illness and annihilation. Crucial to this was the ability to self-manage. This allowed space to create a self-definition of health. Uncertainty during this time was life affirming. Avoiding those who may challenge this, was desirable for as long as possible. As illness progressed there was an inverse relationship between the ‘boundness’ of the body and the ‘boundness’ of the individual.Insights from this study raise the need for further research and exploration of alternative models of supportive care whilst focusing on the wellness of individuals and self-management within their daily lives
Politicising stardom: Jane Fonda, IPC Films and Hollywood, 1977-1982
No full textPhDThis thesis is an empirical analysis of Jane Fonda’s films, stardom, and political activism during the most commercially successful period of her career. At the outset, Fonda’s early stardom is situated in relation to contemporaneous moral and political ideologies in the United States and how she functioned as both an agent and symbol of these ideologies. Her anti-war activism in the early-1970s constituted the apex of Fonda’s radicalisation and the nadir of her popular appeal; a central question of this thesis, therefore, is how her stardom was rehabilitated for the American mainstream to the point of becoming Hollywood’s most bankable actress.
As the star and producer of IPC Films, Fonda developed political projects using commercial formats, namely Coming Home (1978), The China Syndrome (1979), Nine to Five (1980), and Rollover (1981). The final IPC film, On Golden Pond (1981), signalled an ideological breach in this political strategy by favouring a familial spectacle, and duly outperformed its predecessors significantly. The first and last chapters of this work provide historical parameters for IPC in Fonda’s career, while the remaining chapters are structured by the conceptual and political aspects of each IPC project. Julia (1977) is discussed as an IPC prototype through its dramatisation of political consciousness. Coming Home, The China Syndrome, Nine to Five, and Rollover all exhibit this motif whereas On Golden Pond employs melodramatic nostalgia. Often discussed reductively as a star symbolising change, this thesis instead uses archival and published sources to analyse Fonda’s individual agency in historical context, as well as the cultural and political impact of her stardom. The IPC enterprise provided cinematic apparatus for Fonda’s political recuperation within the American mainstream, which, more broadly, harboured significance for the nation’s conservative resurgence at the end of the 1970s
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