With his memory erased after a terrible accident, Monk intends on hiding his condition and starting a new life by tackling a grisly murder case in which each new revelation leads him to the answers he seeks—but dreads to find.   A DANGEROUS MOURNING   Called upon to investigate the brutal murder of a blue-blooded young widow, Monk is plagued by both his lingering amnesia and an inept supervisor. But when nurse Hester Latterly offers her assistance, together they grope warily through the silence and shadows that obscure the aristocrat’s demise.   DEFEND AND BETRAY   After a brilliant military career, General Thaddeus Carlyon meets his death not on the battlefield but at a London dinner party. Although his wife confesses to the murder, Monk and Hester suspect deceit. With the trial only days away, they feverishly work to unravel the dark heart of the mystery.   Praise for Anne Perry and her William Monk series   “Perry’s Victorian mysteries are marvels.”—The New York Times Book Review   “There’s no one better at using words to paint a scene and then fill it with sounds and smells than Anne Perry.”—The Boston Globe   “[The] reigning monarch of the Victorian mystery.”—People   “Few mystery writers this side of Arthur Conan Doyle can evoke Victorian London with such relish for detail and mood.”—San Francisco Chronicle   “[A] master of crime fiction.”—The Baltimore Sun   “[Among] Perry’s strengths: memorable characters and an ability to evoke the Victorian era with the finely wrought detail of a miniaturist.”—The Wall Street Journal

    His Victoria is not only the formidable, demanding, capricious queen of popular imagination—she is also often shy, diffident, and vulnerable, prone to giggling fits and crying jags. Often censorious when confronted with her mother's moral lapses, she herself could be passionately sensual, emotional, and deeply sentimental. Ascending to the throne at age eighteen, Victoria ruled for sixty-four years—an astounding length for any world leader. During her reign, she dealt with conflicts ranging from royal quarrels to war in Crimea and rebellion in India. She saw monarchs fall, empires crumble, new continents explored, and England grow into a dominant global and industrial power. This personal history is a compelling look at the complex woman whom, until now, we only thought we knew.

    And before his death at age 73 in 1903, he would spend nearly two decades as Britain’s Prime Minister, single-mindedly driving the British Empire to extend its iron grip to five continents. This multiple award-winning biography sheds uncompromising light on Lord Salisbury’s troubled family life, his transformational experiences in Australia, India, and Africa, and his dogged pursuit of political power in the court of Queen Victoria.

    The year 2000 marked the 100th anniversary of the brilliant, controversial Irish poet and dramatist's death, and our Running Press Miniature Edition™ showcases his razor-sharp wit with quips and quotes culled from his books and plays, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest.

    From the moment she met him, she believed with all her heart that her adopted brother Freddy would one day be her husband. When he chooses to marry her sister instead, it breaks her heart, and she enters into a loveless marriage. It is only when her selfishness leads to an unforgivable accident that she realizes what she has lost—and by then, it may be too late.

    These photographs contributed to her legend during her lifetime and were prized by collectors after her death. This book presents an extraordinary collection of the most remarkable of these photographs.The portraits, which number around 400 and are now scattered in public and private collections around the world, are here itemized and analyzed for the first time. The authors take great care to place them in their social and cultural context.

    Fast? perhaps. Original? undoubtedly. Worth knowing? rather." Daring and dynamic, the 'new woman' came to represent the very spirit of the age. The stories in this anthology take up this phenomenon and examine society throughthe eyes of the new woman, as she encountered new choices in marriage, motherhood, work and love.Women Who Did charts a rebellion that was social, sexual and literary. It tells the stories of competing voices - of the men and women who entered into the fray of the fin de siècle, and were not afraid to confront, challenge or delight in the irrepressible New, in an irrepressibly new form, the short story.

    Published to coincide with the multimedia exhibition that opens at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and travels to the Walters Art Gallery and the Mint Museum of Art, this catalogue considers how urban, mercantile, Protestant America represented the Islamic world of the Middle East and North Africa in ways that say more about itself than the foreign culture.This gorgeously illustrated volume first looks at the use of Orientalist stereotypes by some of the country's most important high art painters of the nineteenth century: Frederic Edwin Church's treatment of the exotic terrain through a lens of deep religiosity; a more cosmopolitan reading of the harem girl by John Singer Sargent; the perfumed alternative to industrial capitalism conjured in the landscapes and market scenes of Samuel Colman and Louis Comfort Tiffany; and interpretations of the Orient as emancipatory by Ella Pell, the only major woman Orientalist. The book next traces the popularization of Orientalism in the decorative arts (including a few treasures from Olana, Church's Moorish-style home on the Hudson), on Broadway, and in Hollywood, as well as through advertising that linked consumer products with visual suggestions of exotic sexuality and through cultural objects, such as the Shriners' fez.The generous color plates show both an innocent romanticization of the Orient and a darker, heavily eroticized version of Oriental otherness. An excellent chronology and bibliography, in addition to expert essays by both Americanists and Islamicists, give context to absorbing images. Though a perfect companion for visitors to the exhibition, Noble Dreams, Wicked Pleasures is also for anyone seeking an uncommon take on the development of American self-understanding. Exhibition Schedule: ? The Sterling and Francine Clark Art InstituteWilliamstown, MassachusettsJune 11-September 4, 2000 The Walters Art GalleryBaltimore, MarylandOctober 1-December 10, 2000 The Mint Museum of ArtCharlotte, North CarolinaFebruary 3-April 22, 2001

    While Queen Victoria's supporters argued that her intense commitment to her private life made her the more fit to mother her people, her critics charged that it distracted her from her public responsibilities. Here, Nelson focuses particularly on the conflicting and powerful images of family life that Victorians produced in their fiction and nonfiction--that is, on how the Victorians themselves conceived of family, which continues both to influence and to help explain visions of family today.Drawing upon a wide variety of 19th-century fiction and nonfiction, Nelson examines the English Victorian family both as it was imagined and as it was experienced. For many Victorians, family was exalted to the status of secular religion, endowed with the power of fighting the contamination of unchecked commercialism or sexuality and holding out the promise of reforming humankind. Although in practice this ideal might have proven unattainable, the many detailed 19th-century descriptions of the outlook and behavior appropriate to fathers and mothers, sons and daughters, and other family members illustrate the extent of the pressure felt by members of this society to try to live up to the expectations of their culture. Defining family to include the extended family, the foster or adoptive family, and the stepfamily, Nelson considers different roles within the Victorian household in order to gauge the ambivalence and the social anxieties surrounding them--many of which continue to influence our notions of family today.

    "Anyone interested in Victorian poetry, women's writing, or nineteenth-century feminism will appreciate this extremely interesting volume by an important Victorian writer." -- Dorothy Mermin, Cornell University

    

    He survived Ireland’s Great Famine, only to squander uncommon opportunities for self-advancement. Having lost his job and clashed with priests and policemen, he moved to the city of Derry but never slipped the shadow of trouble. Three of his children died from disease and his wife fell drunk into the River Foyle and drowned. Dorian declined into alcohol-numbed poverty and died in an overcrowded slum in 1914. A unique document survived the tragedy of Dorian’s life. In 1890 he completed a "true historical narrative" of the social and cultural transformation of his home community. This narrative forms the most extensive lower-class account of the Great Famine. A moving account of the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, it invites comparison with the classic slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. Dorian achieves a degree of totality in his reconstruction of the world of the pre-Famine poor that is unparalleled in contemporary memoir or fiction. He describes their working and living conditions, sports and drinking, religious devotions and festivals. A sense of loss, closer to bereavement than nostalgia, is threaded through the text: it is a lament for the might have been — the future as imagined before the Famine — rather than the actual past. Dorian’s narrative was never published in his own lifetime and all but forgotten after the author’s death. First published in Ireland in August 2000, The Outer Edge of Ulster includes a scholarly introduction that traces the troubles that beset the author and locates the narrative in wider literary contexts. Appearing for the first time in America, this critically acclaimed book offers an intimate look at the everyday lives of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges.

    Hall, McClelland and Rendall demonstrate that the Second Reform Act was marked by controversy about the extension of the vote, new concepts of masculinity and the masculine voter, the beginnings of the women's suffrage movement, and a parallel debate about the meanings and forms of national belonging. Fascinating illustrations illuminate the argument, and a detailed chronology, biographical notes and a selected bibliography offer further support to the student reader.

    Classic Romantic fiction from the greatest Romantic writer of all time

    Until Henrietta realized that Lucien Vaslav, the tall, dark, and temptingly mysterious gypsy king, had taken her heart captive.Lucien couldn't refuse the blonde beauty with the sparkling eyes. He also couldn't ignore the fact that while she was running from a wedding, he was traveling towards his own arranged marriage. Yet Henrietta made him smile and laugh—and want her kisses. It wouldn't be long before he discovered just how much he was willing to risk to keep his "Lady" by his side...forever.

    In this volume you'll find an abundance of simple, practical knitting patterns, with an emphasis on socks, mittens, and other small accessories, as well as several lovely counterpane squares. Patterns are exact replicas of the premier needlework magazine from turn-of-the-century England. Each volume is filled with hundreds of vintage projects, illustrations, information on little-known techniques, fashion as it was in the late 1800s and brief histories of needlework.

    There have been many successful love anthologies before this one, but none so complete, timeless, and delightful, and none in such a beautifully designed format. This great little fat love anthology is chock-full of the best of everything, including:Stories and excerpts from novels and plays by such favorite authors as Jane Austen, E. E. Cummings, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and William ShakespeareLove letters of famous historical couples such as Winston and Clementine Churchill, Napoleon and Josephine, And Elizabeth Barrett and Robert BrowningLove poems by such renowned poets as Lord Byron, Robert Frost, William Butler Yeats, and Maya AngelouRecipes for aphrodisiac menus and treats to share with the one you love--including a Forgiveness Breakfast, Chocolate Truffles, and Luscious Lemon HeartsLyrics to some of the greatest love songs of our time, from Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under My Skin'' to Johnny Mercer's "Something's Gotta Give''More than 200 lavish illustrations, including 100 full-color, early twentieth-century images.There have been many successful love anthologies before this one, but none so complete, timeless, and delightful, and none so beautifully designed. This great little fat love anthology is chock-full of stories, poems, songs, letters, and the best recipes ever, including:* Poetry of William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Butler Yeats, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Nikki Giovanni, and many, many more!* The best romantic recipes, with his-and-her aphrodisiac dinner menus, a forgiveness breakfast, cookie valentines, and a heart-shaped strawberry meringue shortcake* Love letters from famous historical figures such as Winston Churchill, John and Abigail Adams, Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre . . . and many equally passionate, entertaining, and eloquent declarations* Love songs like "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Night and Day," "Our Love Is Here to Stay," and "I Only Have Eyes for You."Lavishly illustrated with nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century illustrations, this charming book will remind you of the simplicity, integrity, and importance of love.There have been many successful love anthologies before this one, but none so complete, timeless, and delightful, and none so beautifully designed. This great little fat love anthology is chock-full of stories, poems, songs, letters, and the best recipes ever, including:* Poetry of William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Butler Yeats, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, T. S. Eliot, e. e. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Nikki Giovanni, and many, many more!* The best romantic recipes, with his-and-her aphrodisiac dinner menus, a forgiveness breakfast, cookie valentines, and a heart-shaped strawberry meringue shortcake* Love letters from famous historical figures such as Winston Churchill, John and Abigail Adams, Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre . . . and many equally passionate, entertaining, and eloquent declarations* Love songs like "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Night and Day," "Our Love Is Here to Stay," and "I Only Have Eyes for You."Lavishly illustrated with nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century illustrations, this charming book will remind you of the simplicity, integrity, and importance of love.

    He championed the painter J. M. W. Turner, the poetry of Wordsworth, and Gothic architecture. He inspired Proust and Gandhi. Works like his incomparable Stones of Venice fathered a new generation of aesthetes, while his indictment of English industrialism in The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century fathered the ethical socialists who would strive to establish a new political order for the working man.Not only does this probing new biography celebrate the literary career that made Ruskin one of the most influential cultural figures of his day, it also illuminates the darker side of an emotionally unstable man whose obsessive desires thwarted his marriage to Effie Gray and later -- after the death of Rose La Touche, the young girl he consumingly loved -- drove him to extended bouts with madness. No passion, though, could dim the blazing creative energy of the intelligence that reimagined England's social destiny, as this estimable, crisply detailed volume shows.

    Assessing the cultural and literary history of the concept of the flaneur, the urban observer/writer traditionally gendered as masculine, the author advances critical space for the discussion of a female 'flaneuse, ' focused around a range of women writers from the 1880's to World War Two, including Amy Levy, Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Djuna Barnes, Anais Nin, Elizabeth Bowen and Doris Lessing.

    Ronald R. Thomas is especially concerned with the authority the literary detective manages to secure through the devices--fingerprinting, photography, lie detectors--and the way in which those devices relate to broader questions of cultural authority at decisive moments in the history of the genre.

    The quarrel began in the House of Commons during the debates of 1831-2 on parliamentary reform and was continued in the quarterly reviews. In this highly readable study, William Thomas offers a new perspective and insight into the quarrel and its ramifications, and provides a nuanced assessment of the protagonists and their work.

    But the Victorians attached unprecedented importance to domesticity, romanticizing the family in every medium from novels to government reports, to the point where actual families felt anxious and the public developed a fierce appetite for scandal. Here Karen Chase and Michael Levenson explore how intimacy became a spectacle and how this paradox energized Victorian culture between 1835 and 1865. They tell a story of a society continually perfecting the forms of private pleasure and yet forever finding its secrets exposed to view. The friction between the two conditions sparks insightful discussions of authority and sentiment, empire and middle-class politics.The book recovers neglected episodes of this mid-century drama: the adultery trial of Caroline Norton and the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne; the Bedchamber Crisis of the young Queen Victoria; the Bloomer craze of the 1850s; and Robert Kerr's influential treatise, celebrating the ideal of the English Gentleman's House. The literary representation of household life--in Dickens, Tennyson, Ellis, and Oliphant, among others--is placed in relation to such public spectacles as the Deceased Wife's Sister Bill of 1848, the controversy over divorce in the years 1854-1857, and the triumphant return of Florence Nightingale from the Crimea. These colorful incidents create a telling new portrait of Victorian family life, one that demands a fundamental rethinking of the relation between public and private spheres.