Samuel Baskett, growing up in a Dorset rectory, wants to save lives, not souls. Mary Cockram, looking after her animals on the family farm, longs to travel the world. Spanning nearly 60 years of the eighteenth century, Searching for Samuel Baskett is a sweeping family saga, chronicling the lives of the Baskett and Cockram families, their friends, and servants. It tells of their loves and losses, their joys, and tragedies. When Samuel sets up as surgeon, apothecary and 'man-midwife' in the Dorset town of Wareham, he goes against all the accepted practices of the time. He attends births, encourages mothers to breast-feed their babies and tries to convince his patients to give up their old traditional remedies for fits and fevers. The novel covers many issues still relevant today - vaccination, slavery, and the role of women in society. Samuel meets a local farmer, Benjamin Jesty, who used matter from cowpox to inoculate his family, years before Jenner. And Mary sets up a school for girls, providing lessons in mathematics and 'natural philosophy'. Samuel Baskett's signature inside an old 1766 dictionary inspired Rosemary Allen to investigate further. The family trees she built up from Dorset parish records form the skeletal structure of the novel; she just had to put flesh on the bones in the form of a fictional narrative.

Searching for Samuel Baskett

Literature & Fiction

Allen, Rosemary

Genre Fiction

Austin Macauley

Acquiring writing skills is made interesting and informative in this highly interactive book. Nursery rhymes, myths, legends, fairytales and fables will interest your students and bring them into the natural rhythm, flow, rhyme and picturesque language of the text. By using these genres which appeal to young minds, this book enables you to introduce the structure of language through text that is appealing. All of the reproducible worksheets focus on individual skills along with opportunities to analyze passages and practice the skills. Also in this series are Grammar Skills, Grades 4-5 and Grammar Skills, Grades 6- 8.

Grammar Skills, Grades 2-3

Education & Teaching

Gordon, Rachel

Jones, Toni

Schools & Teaching

Didax Educational Resources

Acquiring writing skills is made interesting and informative in this highly interactive book. All of the reproducible worksheets focus on individual skills along with opportunities to analyze passages and practice the skills. Students will work through a wide range of English grammar concepts, both in isolation, and in the context of text. Concepts covered include verb usage, sentence structure, punctuation, plurals, adjective, conjunctions and much more. Pages contain explanation and a variety of activities and the book includes teachers notes and answers. Also in this series are Grammar Skills, Grades 2-3 and Grammar Skills, Grades 4- 5.

Grammar Skills, Grades 6-8

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Listening to Brahms

Matador

Grammar Skills: Workbook Bk. 1

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Prim-Ed Publishing

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