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Two Make Magic is the story of the twin sisters Elli and Idi, who come from an old family of witches. A story of sisterhood, friendship and family with a magic touch.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2021Old Fortunatus
By Thomas Dekker
by David McInnis
With its fantasy of magical travel and inexhaustible riches, Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus is the quintessential early modern journeying play. The adventures of Fortunatus and his sons, aided by a magical purse and wishing-hat, offers the period's most overt celebration of the pleasures of travel, as well as a sustained critique of the dangers of intemperance and prodigality. Written following a period of financial difficulty for Dekker, the play is also notable for its fascination with the symbolic, mercantile and ethical uses of gold. This Revels Plays edition is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Old Fortunatus. It offers scholarly discussion of the play's performance and textual history, including attention to the German version printed and performed in the early seventeenth century. It provides a long overdue critical reappraisal of this unjustly neglected play.
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Business, Economics & LawDecember 2020Women before the court
Law and patriarchy in the Anglo-American world, 1600–1800
by Lindsay R. Moore
Women before the court offers an innovative, comparative approach to the study of women's legal rights during a formative period of Anglo-American history. It traces how colonists transplanted English legal institutions to America, examines the remarkable depth of women's legal knowledge and shows how the law increasingly undermined patriarchal relationships between parents and children, masters and servants, husbands and wives. The book will be of interest to scholars of Britain and colonial America, and to laypeople interested in how women in the past navigated and negotiated the structures of authority that governed them. It is packed with fascinating stories that women related to the courts in cases ranging from murder and abuse to debt and estate litigation. Ultimately, it makes a remarkable contribution to our understandings of law, power and gender in the early modern world.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2026Women in exile in early modern Europe and the Americas
by Linda Levy Peck, Adrianna E. Bakos
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Family & home stories (Children's/YA)February 1905Little Women
by Louise May Alcott
Little Women "has been read as a romance or as a quest, or both. It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth", but also "as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well".[6]:34 According to Sarah Elbert, Alcott created a new form of literature, one that took elements from Romantic children's fiction and combined it with others from sentimental novels, resulting in a totally new format. Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the "All-American girl" and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2021Catholic nuns and sisters in a secular age
Britain, 1945–90
by Carmen M. Mangion
This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. It draws on archival materials and a remarkable set of eighty interviews to place Catholic sisters and nuns at the heart of the turbulent 1960s, integrating their story of social change into a larger British and international one. Shedding new light on how religious bodies engaged in modernisation, it addresses themes such as the Modern Girl and youth culture, '1968', generational discourse, post-war modernity, the voluntary sector and the women's movement. Women religious were at the forefront of the Roman Catholic Church's movement of adaptation and renewal towards the world. This volume tells their stories in their own words.
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2019Old Fortunatus
By Thomas Dekker
by Richard Dutton, David McInnis
With its fantasy of magical travel and inexhaustible riches, Thomas Dekker's Old Fortunatus is the quintessential early modern journeying play. The adventures of Fortunatus and his sons, aided by a magical purse and wishing-hat, offers the period's most overt celebration of the pleasures of travel, as well as a sustained critique of the dangers of intemperance and prodigality. Written following a period of financial difficulty for Dekker, the play is also notable for its fascination with the symbolic, mercantile and ethical uses of gold. This Revels Plays edition is the first fully annotated, single-volume critical edition of Old Fortunatus. It offers scholarly discussion of the play's performance and textual history, including attention to the German version printed and performed in the early seventeenth century. It provides a long overdue critical reappraisal of this unjustly neglected play.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2011Women of the right spirit
Paid organisers of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), 1904–18
by Krista Cowman, Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie
This book is the first investigation on how official organizers built and sustained the national militant campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union between 1903 and 1918. Whilst the overall policy of the Union was devised by an ever-decreasing circle of women, centred around the mother-daughter team of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, much of its actual activity, including its more extreme militant actions such as arson, was devised and implemented by these organizers who worked in the provinces and in London. Women of the right spirit reveals organizers to be a diverse bunch of women, whose class backgrounds ranged from the aristocratic to the extremely impoverished. It describes the ways in which they were recruited and deployed, and the work they undertook throughout Britain. The exhausting pace of their itinerant life is revealed as well as the occasions when organizers fell out with their employers or their own branches. Taking the story of the WSPU's workers up to the end of the First World War, it considers what directions they took when votes for women became a reality. The book will appeal to academics, postgraduates and undergraduates with an interest in women's history, as well as a more general readership wishing to understand the extent of support for the votes for women campaign and the mechanisms through which it organized. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2026Rethinking right-wing women
Gender and the Conservative Party, 1880s to the present
by Clarisse Berthezène, Julie Gottlieb
Rethinking Right-Wing Women explores the institutional structures for and the representations, mobilisation, and the political careers of women in the British Conservative Party since the late 19th century. From the Primrose League (est.1883) to Women2Win (est.2005), the party has exploited women's political commitment and their social power from the grass-roots to the heights of the establishment. Yet, although it is the party that extended the equal franchise, had the first woman MP to sit Parliament, and produced the first two women Prime Ministers, the UK Conservative Party has developed political roles for women that jar with feminist and progressive agendas. Conservative women have tended to be more concerned about the fulfilment of women's duties than the realisation of women's rights. This book tackles the ambivalences between women's politicisation and women's emancipation in the history of Britain's most electorally successful and hegemonic political party.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJuly 2013A Trick to Catch the Old One
By Thomas Middleton
by David Bevington, Paul Mulholland, Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay, Helen Ostovich
This is the first single volume edition of A Trick to Catch the Old One for many decades. This edition presents a thoroughly reconsidered text based on collation of all known copies of the 1608 quarto (including material unnoticed by earlier editors). Textual analysis draws on detailed internal investigation and the printer's wider practice to propose that relatively improvisational procedures and a paper quota governed A Trick's printing operations. Discovery of an overlooked record revises the date of court performance to 1 January 1607, with implications for the play's early history. Critical discussion freshly examines the play's multi-layered ironic texture in relation to such issues as the status of women, marriage's relation to prostitution and vice versa, and the contemporary marriage market. And the Courtesan receives special attention in the context of this overarching ironic scheme. An extensive stage history explores original staging and documents revivals to 2011. The commentary is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive of all modern editions. ;
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March 2025Old Soul
Roman | Manche Fotos fangen einen Moment ein. Dieses fängt deine Seele | Mystery meets Horror | Gänsehaut pur zu Halloween
by Susan Barker, Volker Oldenburg
»Dieser Roman wird dich bis in deine Träume verfolgen.« Claire Fuller In Osaka verpassen Jake und Mariko ihren Flug. Sie kennen sich nicht, aber entdecken beim Abendessen eine verstörende Gemeinsamkeit: sowohl Jakes beste Freundin als auch Marikos Zwillingsbruder starben unter den gleichen unheimlichen Umständen. 6.000 Meilen voneinander entfernt. Beide sind in den Tagen vor ihrem Tod einer mysteriösen Fotografin begegnet. Die hinter sich her eine Spur von brutalen, erschreckend ähnlichen Todesfällen zieht und die von Japan nach Berlin, von London in die glühenden Weiten der amerikanischen Badlands führt. Jake folgt dieser Spur. Und er trifft auf die, die zurückgelassen wurden: verwirrt, ungläubig und doch fest überzeugt von dem, was sie gesehen haben. Gezeichnet von einem Grauen, das viel tiefer geht als der Tod. Ihre Geschichten führen Jake in die Wüste New Mexikos – zu einem Showdown, der tief ins Mark trifft. Old Soul rührt an unsere panische Angst davor, dass das Leben endet, mit einem subtilen, beklemmenden Horror, der in der Dunkelheit seine wirkliche Form annimmt und uns Seite um Seite von innen auffrisst.
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December 2019Cats. Old Possums Katzenbuch
by T. S. Eliot
Hier schnurren, maunzen tanzen die Katzen … T. S. Eliots Old Possums Katzenbuch gelangte als Musical zum Welterfolg. Seit fast 40 Jahren wird Cats ununterbrochen gespielt; es ist das erfolgreichste Musical aller Zeiten – und wird nun mit internationaler Starbesetzung verfilmt. Selbst Katzenliebhaber verfasste Eliot diese heiteren und fantsievollen Verse einst für seine Patenkinder. Doch Grimmtiger, Rem Tem Trecker, Alt Deuteronium und Pus wurden unsterblich und verzaubern Groß und Klein bis heute.
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The ArtsMarch 2013Women, the arts and globalization
Eccentric experience
by Marsha Meskimmon, Amelia Jones, Dorothy C. Rowe, Dorothy Rowe, Marsha Meskimmon
Women, the arts and globalization: Eccentric experience is the first anthology to bring transnational feminist theory and criticism together with women's art practices to discuss the connections between aesthetics, gender and identity in a global world. The essays in Women, the Arts and Globalization demonstrate that women in the arts are rarely positioned at the centre of the art market, and the movement of women globally (as travelers or migrants, empowered artists/scholars or exiled practitioners), rarely corresponds with the dominant models of global exchange. Rather, contemporary women's art practices provide a fascinating instance of women's eccentric experiences of the myriad effects of globalization. Bringing scholarly essays on gender, art and globalization together with interviews and autobiographical accounts of personal experiences, the diversity of the book is relevant to artists, art historians, feminist theorists and humanities scholars interested in the impact of globalization on culture in the broadest sense. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2026Translating hell
Vernacular theology and apocrypha in the medieval North Sea
by Stephen C. E. Hopkins
In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of early Christians, who used it to sort out who belonged within the faith. This book explores how hell became a place for literary experiments with local challenges in theology and identity. Following the reception and transformations of two popular hell apocrypha, it argues that they served as this role because of their liminal textual authority. As noncanonical scriptures, apocrypha afforded medieval writers space to revise their hells (since they were not actually scripture), while also encouraging readers to revere those experiments as valid (since they seemed like scripture). The book brings together adaptations from early medieval England, Iceland, Ireland, and Wales, placing the early vernacular theologies of the North Sea in comparative conversation.
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July 2020Der Schatz im Silbersee. Ein Abenteuer mit Winnetou und Old Shatterhand
by May, Karl; Loeffelbein, Christian
Klassiker für starke Jungs Im Wilden Westen verbreiten der Rote Colonel und seine Bande Angst und Schrecken. Sie sind auf dem Weg zum Silbersee. Denn in seinen Tiefen soll ein sagenumwobener Schatz verborgen sein. Auch Winnetou und Old Shatterhand zieht es zum Silbersee. Werden sie ihr Ziel vor den Schurken erreichen? Wer wird das Rätsel um den versunkenen Schatz lösen? Ein Abenteuer mit Winnetou und Old Shatterhand - nach dem berühmten Roman von Karl May, kindgerecht geschrieben und leicht zu lesen für Kinder ab 7/8 Jahren Indianer und Abenteurer - Klassiker einfach lesen Der Titel ist auf Antolin.de gelistet. Im Arena Verlag ist von Karl May außerdem erschienen: 978-3-401-71713-5 - Winnetou
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2001Women, scholarship and criticism c.1790–1900
Gender and knowledge
by Joan Bellamy, Anne Laurence, Gill Perry, Susan Williams
Brings together the varied artistic, critical and cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between 1790-1900, many of whom are little known in the canonical histories of the period. Questions the concepts of 'scholarship', 'criticism' and 'artist' across the different disciplines. Women discussed include authors (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sydney Morgan and Anna Jameson) actresses ( Elizabeth Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Mary Robinson) critics ( Margaret Oliphant and Mary Cowden Clarke) historians (Agnes Strickland, Lucy Aikin, Mary Anne Everett Green, Elizabeth Cooper and Lucy Toulmin Smith) as well as the writers and readers of Women's magazines, educationalists and translators. Makes a significant and original contribution to the development of gender studies by extending the frontiers of existing knowledge and research. ;
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September 2025Liberated Pleasure. A workbook for Women
by Julia Sparmann
Far too often, everyday stress, pressure to perform or inner blockages spoil our enjoyment of the most beautiful thing in the world: our female sexuality. How can we free ourselves from firmly internalized taboos? What little tricks can we use to get our sex life back on track and keep the imagination in our head running successfully?Experienced sex therapist Julia Sparmann not only offers surprising solutions to typical problems such as loss of libido, communication difficulties or orgasm problems. She also encourages women to deal confidently with their sexuality and develop a positive body image.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureMarch 1905The First Book of Farming
by Charles L. Goodrich
This book is a result of the author's search for these facts and truths as a student and farmer and his endeavor as a teacher to present them in a simple manner to others. The object in presenting the book to the general public is the hope that it may be of assistance to farmers, students and teachers, in their search for the fundamental truths and principles of farming.
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June 1952Old Possums Katzenbuch
Englisch und deutsch
by Seidel Annemarie, T. S. Eliot, Erich Kästner, Werner Peterich, Friedrich Podszus, Rudolf Alexander Schröder, Peter Suhrkamp, Siegfried Unseld, Nora Wydenbruck, Carl Zuckmayer, Edward Gorey
T. S. Eliot, geboren 1888 in St. Louis/Missouri, gestorben 1965 in London, ist einer der bedeutendsten Dichter des 20. Jahrhunderts. Siegfried Unseld wurde am 28. September 1924 in Ulm geboren und starb am 26. Oktober 2002 in Frankfurt am Main. Nach dem Abitur wurde er im Zweiten Weltkrieg zum Kriegsdienst einberufen und war drei Jahre lang, bis 1945, als Marinefunker im Einsatz. Nach seiner Rückkehr absolvierte er beim Ulmer Aegis Verlag eine Lehre als Verlagskaufmann. 1947 erhielt er durch die Vermittlung von Professor Weischedel die erstrebte Zulassung an der Universität Tübingen und studierte dort Germanistik, Philosophie, Nationalökonomie, Völkerrecht, Bibliothekswissenschaften und Sinologie. Seinen Lebensunterhalt bestritt Unseld als Werkstudent. Bis 1950 arbeitete er im Verlag J. C. B. Mohr in Tübingen. 1951 promovierte er mit einer Dissertation über Hermann Hesse zum Dr. phil. 1952 trat er in den Suhrkamp Verlag ein, wurde 1958 Gesellschafter der Suhrkamp Verlag KG und übernahm nach dem Tod Peter Suhrkamps die Verlagsleitung. Neben seiner beruflichen Tätigkeit besuchte er 1955 das von Henry Kissinger geleitete Internationale Seminar der Harvard Universität in Cambridge/Mass. (USA). Unseld führte die Verlage Suhrkamp und Insel und den 1981 von ihm gegründeten Deutschen Klassiker Verlag bis zu seinem Tod im Jahr 2002.
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2015Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550–1700
1550–1700
by Edited by Victoria Brownlee and Laura Gallagher
At once pervasive and marginal, appealing and repellent, exemplary and atypical, the women of the Bible provoke an assortment of readings across early modern literature. Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 draws attention to the complex ways in which biblical women's narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes. Considering a confessionally diverse range of writers, working across a variety of genres, this volume reveals how women from the Old and New Testaments exhibit an ideological power that frequently exceeds, both in scope and substance, their associated scriptural records. The essays explore how the Bible's women are fluidly negotiated and diversely redeployed to offer (conflicting) comment on issues including female authority, speech and sexuality, and in discussions of doctrine, confessional politics, exploration and grief. As it explores the rich ideological currency of the Bible's women in early modern culture, this volume demonstrates that the Bible's women are persistently difficult to evade. ;
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June 2018
Der Schatz im Silbersee. Ein Abenteuer mit Winnetou und Old Shatterhand
Der Bücherbär. Klassiker für Erstleser
by May, Karl
Eine Bande von Schurken verbreiten Angst und Schrecken. Sie sind auf dem Weg zum Silbersee. Denn in seinen Tiefen soll ein sagenumwobener Schatz verborgen sein. Auch Winnetou, Old Shatterhand und ihre Freunde zieht es zum Silbersee. Werden sie ihr Ziel vor dem Roten Colonel und seiner Bande erreichen? Wer wird das Rätsel um den versunkenen Schatz lösen? Der Klassiker von Karl May in einer altersgerechten Nacherzählung von Christian Loeffelbein.
