| | 41 | Author: | Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 | Add | | | Title: | Woman's Half-Century of Evolution  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE status of woman in the United States fifty years ago, the
progressive steps by which it has been improved, present
conditions, future probabilities—in fact, a resume of the great
movement in which Elizabeth Cady Stanton has been the central
figure through two generations—this is the subject assigned me to
consider in the brief space of one magazine article! | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 43 | Author: | Arnold, Edwin Lester Linden, d. 1935. | Add | | | Title: | Gulliver of Mars | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | DARE I say it? Dare I say that I, a plain, prosaic
lieutenant in the republican service have done the incredible
things here set out for the love of a woman—for a chimera
in female shape; for a pale, vapid ghost of woman-loveliness?
At times I tell myself I dare not: that you will laugh, and
cast me aside as a fabricator; and then again I pick up
my pen and collect the scattered pages, for I must write
it—the pallid splendour of that thing I loved, and won, and
lost is ever before me, and will not be forgotten. The tumult
of the struggle into which that vision led me still
throbs in my mind, the soft, lisping voices of the planet
I ransacked for its sake and the roar of the destruction
which followed me back from the quest drowns all other
sounds in my ears! I must and will write—it relieves me;
read and believe as you list. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 44 | Author: | Ascham, Roger, 1515-1568 | Add | | | Title: | The Scholemaster / Roger Ascham | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AFter the childe hath learned perfitlie the eight partes of
speach, let him then learne the right ioyning togither of
substantiues with adiectiues, the nowne with the verbe, the
relatiue with the antecedent. And in learninge farther hys
Syntaxis, by mine aduice, he shall not vse the common order
in common scholes, for making of latines: wherby, the childe
Cic. de // commonlie learneth, first, an euill choice of wordes,
Cla. or. // (and right choice of wordes, saith Cæsar, is the
foundation of eloquence) than, a wrong placing
of wordes: and lastlie, an ill framing of the sentence, with
a peruerse iudgement, both of wordes and sentences. These
Making of // faultes, taking once roote in yougthe, be neuer, or
Lattines // hardlie, pluckt away in age. Moreouer, there is
marreth // no one thing, that hath more, either dulled the
Children. // wittes, or taken awaye the will of children from
learning, then the care they haue, to satisfie their masters, in
making of latines. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 45 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | The Conversion of Ah Lew Sing | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AH LEW SING was the proprietor of a vegetable garden between the stock yard
and the rail-road bridge, on the farther side of the Summerfield canal. He was the
lankest, obliquest-eyed celestial that ever combined an expression of childlike
innocence with the appearance of having fallen into a state of permanent
disrepair, an outward seeming that much belied the inner man. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 46 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | The Last Antelope | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THERE were seven notches in the juniper by the Lone Tree
Spring for the seven seasons that Little Pete had summered there,
feeding his flocks in the hollow of the Ceriso. The first time of
coming he had struck his axe into the trunk meaning to make
firewood, but thought better of it, and thereafter chipped it in
sheer friendliness, as one claps an old acquaintance, for by the
time the flock has worked up the treeless windy stretch from the
Little Antelope to the Ceriso, even a lone juniper has a friendly
look. And Little Pete was a friendly man, though shy of demeanor,
so that with the best will in the world for wagging his tongue, he
could scarcely pass the time of day with good countenance; the soul
of a jolly companion with the front and bearing of one of his own
sheep. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 48 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | Jimville: A Bret Harte Town | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN Mr. Harte found himself with a fresh palette and his
particular local color fading from the West, he did what he
considered the only safe thing, and carried his young impression
away to be worked on untroubled by any newer fact. He should have
gone to Jimville. There he would have found cast up on the ore-ribbed hills the bleached timbers of more tales, and better ones. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 49 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | The Little Coyote | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WITHOUT doubt a man's son is his son, whether the law has
spoken or no, and that the Little Coyote was the son of Moresco was
known to all Maverick and the Campoodie beyond it. In the course
of time it became known to the Little Coyote. His mother was
Choyita, who swept and mended for Moresco in the room behind the
store, which was all his home. In those days Choyita was young,
light of foot, and pretty,—very pretty for a Piute. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 50 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | Agua Dulce | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE Los Angeles special got in so late that day that if the driver
of the Mojave stage had not, from having once gone to school to me,
acquired the habit of minding what I said, I should never have made
it. I hailed it from the station, and he swung the four about in
the wide street as the wind swept me toward the racked old coach in
a blinding whirl of dust. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 51 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | The Mother of Felipe | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THAT triangular portion of the great Mojave desert lying south of the
curve of the Sierra Nevadas, where those mountains unite with the coast hills is
known as Antelope Valley. A big, barren, windy country, rising from the level of
the desert in long, undulating slopes that face abruptly toward the mountains. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 52 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | Frustrate | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I KNOW that I am a disappointed woman and that nobody cares at all
about it, not even Henry; and if anybody thought of it, it would
only be to think it ridiculous. It is ridiculous, too, with my
waist, and not knowing how to do my hair or anything. I look at
Henry sometimes of evenings, when he has his feet on the fender,
and wonder if he has the least idea how disappointed I am. I even
have days of wondering if Henry isn't disappointed, too. He might
be disappointed in himself, which would be even more dreadful; but
I don't suppose we shall ever find out about each other. It is
part of my disappointment that Henry has never seemed to want to
find out. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 54 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | The Hoodoo of the Minnietta | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SOUTH by east from the leprous shore of Owens Lake, untangling the
network of trails that lead toward the lava flanks of Coso, one
comes at last to the Minnietta, a crumbling tunnel, a ruined
smelter, and a row of sun-warped dwellings in a narrow gully faced
by tall, skeleton-white cliffs. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 55 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | The White Hour | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN it was told Mono John that a daughter was born to him, he
named her after the most admirable white woman he knew, Eva Lee
Matheson, teacher of the Tres Pinos school. He named her by ear,
so that the child came to be called Evaly. Later, when she went to
school, and understood that children must be known by their
father's names, she called herself Evaly John. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 59 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Add | | | Title: | Mahala Joe | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the campoodie of Three Pines, which you probably know
better by its Spanish name of Tres Pinos, there is an Indian, well
thought of among his own people, who goes about wearing a woman's
dress, and is known as Mahala Joe. He should be about fifty years
old by this time, and has a quiet, kindly face. Sometimes he tucks
up the skirt of his woman's dress over a pair of blue overalls when
he has a man's work to do, but at feasts and dances he wears a
ribbon around his waist and a handkerchief on his head as the other
mahalas do. He is much looked to because of his knowledge of white
people and their ways, and if it were not for the lines of deep
sadness that fall in his face when at rest, one might forget that
the woman's gear is the badge of an all but intolerable shame. At
least it was so used by the Paiutes, but when you have read this
full and true account of how it was first put on, you may not think
it so. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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