Mrs. Seton, Foundress of the American Sisters of Charity

Mrs. Seton, Foundress of the American Sisters of Charity
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Publisher : Farrar Straus Giroux
Total Pages : 544
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015004420579
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Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Mrs. Seton, Foundress of the American Sisters of Charity by : Joseph I. Dirvin

Biography of Elizabeth Bayley Seton, 1774-1821, who spent her childhood in New York City during the Revolutionary War and founded the first native sisterhood in America.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

Elizabeth Ann Seton
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Publisher : Paulist Press
Total Pages : 146
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ISBN-10 : 0809166925
ISBN-13 : 9780809166923
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Elizabeth Ann Seton by : Julie Walters

A fictionalized young adult biography of Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821), New York socialite, wife, mother, convert and foundress of the American Sisters of Charity and the first U.S.-born saint.Ages 11 and up.

Miss Seeton Undercover

Miss Seeton Undercover
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Publisher : Berkley
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 0425144054
ISBN-13 : 9780425144053
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Miss Seeton Undercover by : Hamilton Crane

Television crews rarely come to Plummergen, but a special show on British food wants to feature the rare Plummergen Peculiar apple. While the villagers vie for their place in the spotlight, thieves take advantage of the confusion to purloin a few antiques . . . and a man's life. They have met their match in Miss Seeton, however.

Katherine

Katherine
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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages : 609
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ISBN-10 : 9780544222885
ISBN-13 : 0544222881
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis Katherine by : Anya Seton

John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Chaucer's sister-in-law, fall in love in the 14th century.

Foxfire

Foxfire
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Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9780547941905
ISBN-13 : 0547941900
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Foxfire by : Anya Seton

Anya Seton’s Foxfire makes the desert Southwest of the Great Depression come alive in all its rich strangeness and passion-filled glory. Amanda Lawrence, a charming, sheltered New York socialite, falls in love with Jonathan Dartland, a part-Apache mining engineer who belongs to the vastness of the Arizona desert. Amanda responds to his strength and self-reliance, but has nothing and nobody to guide her when she follows him to the grim town of Lodestone. “Not many authors succeed so well as Mrs. Seton in combining adventure and romance in a modern setting. Above all it is the driving and relentless pursuit of a treasure which keeps the people and the episodes at pitch throughout.” — Library Journal

A Room of One's Own

A Room of One's Own
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Publisher : Modernista
Total Pages : 111
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ISBN-10 : 9789180949507
ISBN-13 : 9180949509
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis A Room of One's Own by : Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf's playful exploration of a satirical »Oxbridge« became one of the world's most groundbreaking writings on women, writing, fiction, and gender. A Room of One's Own [1929] can be read as one or as six different essays, narrated from an intimate first-person perspective. Actual history blends with narrative and memoir. But perhaps most revolutionary was its address: the book is written by a woman for women. Male readers are compelled to read through women's eyes in a total inversion of the traditional male gaze. VIRGINIA WOOLF [1882–1941] was an English author. With novels like Jacob’s Room [1922], Mrs Dalloway [1925], To the Lighthouse [1927], and Orlando [1928], she became a leading figure of modernism and is considered one of the most important English-language authors of the 20th century. As a thinker, with essays like A Room of One’s Own [1929], Woolf has influenced the women’s movement in many countries.

Portrait of a Director

Portrait of a Director
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Publisher : Penguin Books India
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 014302972X
ISBN-13 : 9780143029724
Rating : 4/5 (2X Downloads)

Synopsis Portrait of a Director by : Marie Seton

Satyajit Ray was India's first film-maker to gain international recognition as a master of the medium, and today he continues to be regarded as one of the world's finest directors of all time. This book looks at his work.

Western Daughters in Eastern Lands

Western Daughters in Eastern Lands
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9780313097294
ISBN-13 : 0313097291
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Western Daughters in Eastern Lands by : Rosemary Seton

This book provides a compelling narrative history of the experiences and achievements of female British missionaries in China, India, and Africa during the 19th century and first half of the 20th century—the first such account available. Despite the fact that by the early 20th century female missionaries began to outnumber their male counterparts, there are few publications that document the contributions of women to the missionary movement against a backdrop of civil unrest, famine, and war. Western Daughters in Eastern Lands: British Missionary Women in Asia provides accurate and insightful information to rectify this glaring omission. In this book, author Rosemary Seton draws upon memoirs, letters, diaries, and mission records to create a unique and fascinating history of the British women whose sense of vocation took them to the East. As most British missionary women of this period were Anglicans, Baptists, Congregationalists, and Methodists, the focus is upon Protestant missionaries; Catholics are also included, however. Through these sources, a clear picture of women missionaries emerges: their social background and motivation; their lives on the mission-field and their place in mission hierarchies; their selection and training; and their educational, evangelical, and medical work. The book concludes with an assessment of their achievements and impact on foreign societies.

Miss Seton's Sonata

Miss Seton's Sonata
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Publisher : Zebra Books
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0821775928
ISBN-13 : 9780821775929
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Miss Seton's Sonata by : Meredith Bond

The Marquis of Merrick lives only for the memory of his dead wife. When he finds the beautiful Teresa Seton at his piano, she brings back feelings he thought were lost forever. Original.