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Title: Philip Ayres, Prince of the Church, Patrick Francis Moran, 1830-1911.(Book review)
Author: Anne Cunningham
Publication: Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2008
Publisher: Australian Catholic Historical Society
Volume: 29Page: 66(2)

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Title: Van Gogh visto por Bacon. (Arte).(exposición de obras de los pintores Vincent Van Gogh y Francis Bacon; Arles, Francia)(TT: Van Gogh through Bacon's eyes. (Art).)(TA: exhibit of works by painters Vincent Van Gogh, Francis Bacon; Arles, France)
Author: Anne Marie Mergier
Publication: Proceso (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2002
Publisher: CISA Comunicacion e Informacion, S.A. de C.V.
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[2 Book Gift Set] "Spiritual Notes to Myself" is the long awaited sequel to the runaway bestseller "Notes to Myself", by Hugh Prather. A spiritual self-help author Prather, decided here to update "Notes to Myself" with a more mature wisdom that takes the self lightly, and gently laughs at the ego's demands. This fresh and sometimes humorous book touches briefly on issues such as gossip, money, marriage, parenting, prayer, and death, with thoughtfulness and humorous practicality. "In the Golden Eye of the Sun" includes two sections. The first section is about 70 pages, which includes over one hundred poems and prose from different wisdom traditions and authors, including Rumi, Thoreau, the Upanishads, the Bible, and many more. The second section includes an appendix of 75 sun deities from a wide variety of religious traditions. The reader will find both of these compilations a source of insight, inspiration, and calm. [New York Times] ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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A drop of kindness in an ocean of misery
Imagine that you are an educated, early-19th century British woman who marries a cultured, wealthy, charming Philadelphia bluestocking and lives a happy and refined life and has two daughters and THEN you learn that your husband's great wealth, passed down through generations, comes from several slave plantations in Georgia.Next imagine that your husband, who wants to check out his property, takes you and the girls to Georgia for a few months.The trip to Georgia is, to the modern eye, a nightmare, but I think it probably represents the travel experience of the time.This journey, however, is as nothing compared to the 4 or so months spent on the various Butler plantations.

This book is not so much a journal, per se, as a collection of letters Fanny wrote to her friend Margaret, describing the land, customs, food, daily life, etc., of the plantations.But above all what Fanny reports on is slavery.She is horrified at what she sees all around her, and with the eye of a documentary filmmaker she records what she learns and experiences---the work in the fields, the diet, the family structure, the economics of the plantation system, the clothing, the illnesses and injuries, the medical care, the conversations, the rewards and punishments.Fanny can't escape from her belief that the Butler slaves are human beings, and the slaves, responding to the tiniest drop of Fanny's kindness in their great ocean of misery, quickly come to believe she is an angel sent by God.

Fanny's letters fueled the flames of the antislavery movement both in the U.S. and in England.Articulate and highly descriptive, her writings were widely published.

This is a can't-put-it-down book--------even if you think you know all about the evils of slavery.Highly, highly recommended.

I wrote a play about her in 1948.
I'm delighted at all the attention NOW being paid to Fanny Kemble.I was in an acting class at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1948 when the teacher asked one of us to write a nineteenth century play, since there were few to choose for our acting class.So I stumbled across her name in "All This and Heaven, Too" and wrote a drama about her life on the plantation and all the slavery conditions.Now, I'm 81, and books are piling up about her.I got my information from a FIRST EDITION of this "Journal" which my grandfather had acquired soon after it appeared, around the Civil War.It kept England from joining the Confederate side.

A Valuable Contributuion to Civil War History
I came across Fanny Kemble during a chance visit to a Georgia plantation on the Altamaha River, near Butler Island, where Fanny wrote her journal. An acclaimed Shakespearean actress born into a theatrical family, she had been touring America with her father when she met Pierce Butler, a wealthy member of Philadelphia society with possessions in the South. He courted her with such persistence that she finally agreed to give up her career and marry him. (Needless to say, Philadelphia society did not smile upon the union.) After the birth of two daughters, she persuaded Pierce to take her and the children to Butler Island, where she learned firsthand about the source of the family's wealth: hundreds of slaves worked in the rice paddies on Butler Island and in the cotton fields on St. Simon's Island, where the prized long-fiber Sea Island cotton was grown.

Fanny had been in contact with New England abolitionists and was well aware of the slave problem; but she was unprepared for the appalling conditions she found in the slave quarters, in the fields, and especially in the infirmary. She prevailed on her husband to mitigate the harsh rules imposed by the overseer, procured blankets for the infirmary and sewing material for the women; taught them to make clothes and take care of their babies; and even tried to teach some of them to read - which was, of course, frowned upon. She found that some of the slaves were skilled craftsmen and suggested that they should be paid for their work like any artisan.

An accomplished horsewoman and energetic walker, she also learned to row a boat so she could explore, unchaperoned, the coastal waterways. Her unconventional, spirited life style drew reprimands from her husband, but earned her the respect and admiration of the slaves.

The journal she kept on Butler Island gives a lively account of her daily routine. For those who imagine the lives of southern plantation owners along the lines of Hollywood movies, this book provides a healthy dose of reality. With an outsider's keen and critical eye, she chronicled her own involvement in a dark chapter of American history. She did not publish the journal until 1863, when she was divorced from Pierce and had returned to England. It came out just before the battle of Gettysburg and may have influenced public opinion in England which had been drifting toward favoring the South.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more