Discover the stories of twelve women who “heard the call” to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey.
When she was enslaved, Clara watched as her husband and……続きを見る
The Lady and Her Monsters by Roseanne Motillo brings to life the fascinating times, startling science, and real-life horrors behind Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Montillo recounts……続きを見る
The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Musso……続きを見る
In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the cityーa wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire ……続きを見る
“[A] remarkable biography….Moorehead deftly wields periods detail…to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics.”
ーVogue
From acclaimed biogr……続きを見る
Antislavery white clergy and their congregations. Radicalized abolitionist women. African Americans committed to ending slavery through constitutional political action. These diverse groups attribut……続きを見る
"Dramatic, heartbreaking and sweeping in scope." ーWall Street Journal
The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter returns with the "moving finale" (The Economist) of her Resistance Quartetーthe power……続きを見る
著者：Ann-Janine Morey
出版社： Penn State University Press
発売日： 2014年08月22日
Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic lifeーfamily, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and loveーa……続きを見る
This book examines the marriages of British peers to American women within the context of the opening up of London and New York society and the growing competitiveness for high social status. In Lon……続きを見る
