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  • Writing for Immortality

    Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America

    by Anne E. Boyd ...
    Before the Civil War, American writers such as Catharine Maria Sedgwick and Harriet Beecher Stowe had established authorship as a respectable profession for women. But though they had written some of the most popular and influential novels of the century, they accepted the taboo against female writers, regarding themselves as educators and businesswomen. During and after the Civil War, some women ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Life in a Medieval Monastery

    The Monks of Durham Cathedral

    by Anne Boyd ...
    A fascinating glimpse into the world of Medieval Monasticism.Durham Cathedral is one of the most complete sets of monastic buildings in Europe, housing clues to the life of a prominent and thriving medieval Benedictine community.Through its buildings, and the books, treasures and records housed within, the world of Durham’s monastic past comes alive once more, offering clues to the history of this ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Witness to Reconstruction

    Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894

    by Kathleen Diffley, Anne E. Boyd, Martin T. Buinicki, Annamaria Formichella Elsden, Janet Gabler-Hover, Caroline Gebhard, Michael Germana, Carolyn Hall, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, John Lowe0, Geraldine Murphy1, Kevin E. O'Donnell2, John H. Pearson3, Timothy Sweet4, Anthony Szczesiul5, Cheryl B. Torsney6 ...
    In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became one of the first northern observers to linger in the defeated states from Virginia to Florida. Born in New Hampshire in 1840 and raised in Ohio, she was the grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper and was gaining success as a writer when she departed in 1873 for St. Augustine. During the next six years, she made her way across the South ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy

    The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

    by Anne Boyd Rioux ...
    “[An] affectionate and perceptive tribute.”—Wendy Smith, Boston GlobeIn Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, Anne Boyd Rioux brings a fresh and engaging look at the circumstances leading Louisa May Alcott to write Little Women and why this beloved story of family and community ties set in the Civil War has resonated with audiences across time. ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pigments

    by Barbara H. Berrie, Karin Leonhard, Caroline Fowler, Ittai Weinryb, Anne Lafont, David Bomford, Carolyn E. Boyd, Quincy Ngan, Gabriela Siracusano0 ...
    Series series ART/WORK
    A concise illustrated history of one of art’s most important and elusive elementsOver the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate, and instruct. Charred bone, ground earth, stones, bugs, and blood were the first pigments. New pigments were manufactured by simple processes such as corrosion and calcination until the Industrial Revolution introduced colors outside the spectrum of ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Miss Grief

    And Other Stories

    by Constance Fenimore Woolson ...
    To celebrate her forthcoming biography of Constance Fenimore Woolson, Anne Boyd Rioux has selected the best of this classic writer's stories.Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894) was one of the few nineteenth-century women writers considered the equal of her male peers. Harper & Brothers was so enamored of her work that the firm agreed to publish whatever she could write. In this gathering, Rioux ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing for Canadian Practice

    by Wendy Austin, Cindy Ann Peternelj-Taylor, Diane Kunyk, Mary Ann Boyd ...
    Thoroughly written, extensively updated, and optimized for today’s evolving Canadian healthcare environment, Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing for Canadian Practice, 5th Edition, equips students with the fundamental knowledge and skills to effectively care for diverse populations in mental health nursing practice. This proven, approachable text instills a generalist-level mastery of mental ... Read more

    $126.89 USD

  • Little Women

    150th-Anniversary Annotated Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Louisa May Alcott, Anne Boyd Rioux ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    A beautiful new Deluxe Edition of Alcott's beloved novel, with a foreword by National Book Award-winning author and musician Patti Smith. Nominated as one of America’s most-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadLittle Women is recognized as one of the best-loved classic children's stories, transcending the boundaries of time and age, making it as popular with adults as it is with young ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Secret Histories

    A New Era in Constance Fenimore Woolson Scholarship

    by Lisa West, Etta Madden, Kristin M. Comment, Susan L. Roberson, Sidonia Serafini, Aaron J. Rovan, Kathryn McKee, Karen Tracey, John Lowe, Lisa Nais, Sharon Kennedy-Nolle, Katherine Barrett Swett, Heather Hartley, Edoarda Grego ...
    The eighteen essays in this volume explore Constance Fenimore Woolson’s prodigious range in period and genre as well as place, from the Great Lakes to the defeated South and across storied Europe to the Mediterranean. The whole of her professional life comes alive in this enlightening collection’s triptych.The first section, “A Writer’s Experiments,” reveals that Woolson’s play with familiar ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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    Rack, Ruin and Murder

    by Ann Granger ...
    Narrated by Judith Boyd ...
    Series series Campbell and Carter Mystery

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    The second murderous installment of the Campbell and Carter Mysteries.When old Monty discovers a dead body in his drawing room, it's up to Inspector Jess Campbell to get to the bottom of the mystery.Monty is a recluse, holed up in his crumbling manor house being generally unpleasant to everyone, even those relatives he actually likes. When his family and locals claim they've never seen the murder ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Constance Fenimore Woolson

    Portrait of a Lady Novelist

    by Anne Boyd Rioux ...
    "Biography at its best aims at resurrection. Anne Boyd Rioux has brought the novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson back to life for us. Hurrah!" —Robert D. Richardson, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning William James: In the Maelstrom of American ModernismConstance Fenimore Woolson (1840–1894), who contributed to Henry James’s conception of his heroine Isabelle Archer in The Portrait of a Lady, ... Read more

    $22.59 USD

  • Audiobook

    Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy

    The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters

    by Anne Boyd Rioux ...
    Narrated by Kimberly Farr ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 39 min

    Since its publication on September 30, 1868, Little Women has been one of America's favorite stories. While we now think of it as a girls' book, it was initially read by both boys and girls, men and women of all ages. Professor Anne Boyd Rioux, who read it in her twenties, tells us how Louisa May Alcott came to write the book and drew inspiration for her story from her own life. Its Civil War–era ... Read more

    Was $25.99 USD Now $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook