Britain and the Narration of Travel in the Nineteenth Century: Texts, Images, Objects

Interrogating the multiple ways in which travel was narrated and mediated, by and in response to, nineteenth-century British travelers, this interdisciplinary collection examines to what extent these accounts drew on and developed existing tropes of travel. The three sections take up personal and intimate narratives that were not necessarily designed for public consumption, tales intended for a popular audience, and accounts that were more clearly linked with discourses and institutions of power, such as imperial processes of conquest and governance. Some narratives focus on the things the travelers carried, such as souvenirs from the battlefields of Britain’s imperial wars, while others show the complexity of Victorian dreams of the exotic. Still others offer a disapproving glimpse of Victorian mores through the eyes of indigenous peoples in contrast to the imperialist vision of British explorers. Swiss hotel registers, guest books, and guidebooks offer insights into the history of tourism, while new photographic technologies, the development of the telegraph system, and train travel transformed the visual, audial, and even the conjugal experience of travel. The contributors attend to issues of gender and ethnicity in essays on women travelers, South African travel narratives, and accounts of China during the Opium Wars, and analyze the influence of fictional travel narratives. Taken together, these essays show how these multiple narratives circulated, cross-fertilised, and reacted to one another to produce new narratives, new objects, and new modes of travel.

Literature & Fiction

Hill, Kate

British & Irish

Routledge

"Cassoulet is the culinary equivalent of turning straw into gold." -Kate Hill 
 From an authority on cassoulet and French charcuterie comes a collection of recipes, lore, and personal stories highlighting one of France's most celebrated, and controversial, dishes: the cassoulet. Imagine sitting around a table with selected good friends, approved family members, plenty of wine and a huge cassoulet, piping hot from the oven. With this book in hand, this fantasy is within reach. 
 Author Kate Hill, who runs charcuterie programs and courses at her home and school in France, the Kitchen-at-Camont, writes like a good friend helping you out over the phone as you attempt something just slightly beyond your culinary comfort level. Hill covers every detail that goes into cooking an authentic cassoulet, from the cooking vessel to the essential ingredients (beans, meat, and broth), to the cooking and serving of the finished dish. In addition to an in-depth recipe for classic cassoulet from Hill's town of Camont, she also indulges us with an all-duck cassoulet, a quicker pork-and-beans version and much more.

Cassoulet, A French Obsession

Rancho Gordo Press

Women and museums, 1850–1914: Modernity and the gendering of knowledge (Gender in History)

This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing domestic objects and domestic regimes of value, as well as by making museums more welcoming to children, and even by stressing the importance of housekeeping at the museum. At the same time, women sought 'masculine' careers in science and curatorship, but found such aspirations hard to achieve; their contribution tended to be kept within clear, feminised areas. The book will be of interest to those working on gender, culture, or museums in the period. It sheds new light on women's material culture and material strategies, education and professional careers, and leisure practices. It will form an important historical context for those working in contemporary museum studies.

Reference

Manchester University Press

Conquer the challenges faced as a woman pursuing financial independence and prosperity In The Female Investor: Creating Wealth, Security, and Freedom through Property, celebrated property and finance experts Nicola McDougall and Kate Hill deliver a practical and approachable guide for women of all ages as they navigate the world of property investing. You'll learn how to build equity and wealth in the property market and achieve financial independence, all while overcoming the gender-based salary deficit and balancing the demands of family and work. You'll discover invaluable advice on: <ul> <li>How to get started with property investing, regardless of what stage of life you're in</li> <li>How to protect your assets in the event of a relationship breakdown and handle "the talk" with your partner when you decide it's time to join financial forces</li> <li>New strategies and trends for achieving financial independence, like rentvesting and co-buying</li> </ul> The Female Investor is an essential read for young women just starting out in the workforce, long-time professionals returning to work after caring for a child, and any other woman trying their best to overcome the financial disadvantages faced by women everywhere. It also belongs in the libraries of anyone else who seeks to support the women in their lives.

The Female Investor: #1 Award Winner: Creating Wealth, Security, and Freedom through Property

Business & Money

McDougall, Nicola

Real Estate

wiley

The nineteenth century witnessed a flowering of museums in towns and cities across Britain. As well as providing a focus for collections of artifacts and a place of educational recreation, this work argues that municipal museums had a further, social role. In a situation of rapid urban growth, allied to social and cultural changes on a scale hitherto unknown, it was inevitable that traditional class and social hierarchies would come under enormous pressure. As a result, urban elites began to look to new methods of controlling and defining the urban environment. One such manifestation of this was the growth of the public museum. In earlier centuries museums were the preserve of learned and respectable minority, yet by the end of the nineteenth century one of the principal rationales of museums was the education, or 'improvement', of the working classes. In the control of museums too there was a corresponding shift away from private aristocratic leadership, toward a middle-class civic directorship and a growing professional body of curators. This work is in part a study of the creation of professional authority and autonomy by museum curators. More importantly though, it is about the stablization of middle-class identities by the end of the nineteenth century around new hierarchies of cultural capital. Public museums were an important factor in constructing the identity and authority of certain groups with access to, and control over, them. By examining urban identities through the cultural lens of the municipal museum, we are able to reconsider and better understand the subtleties of nineteenth-century urban society.

Culture and Class in English Public Museums, 1850-1914 (Historical Urban Studies Series)

History

World

Charming Annie By Arianna Hart As Major Annie Forbes heads home from her shift as a nurse at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the last thing she expects is to be running for her life. With the help of Mason "Mace" O'Keefe, an injured helicopter pilot, Annie must find a way to save the hospital from being blown up by a fanatic terrorist group. As the danger heats up, the attraction between Mace and Annie does as well. Now they just have to survive long enough to see if their smoldering attraction is just adrenaline or something more. His Sister's Kiss By Kate Hill After surviving captivity in a Vietnam prison camp, Master Sergeant Abraham Marley Forbes longs more than ever for a loving family life. It's a dream he doubts will ever come true, until a promise to a deceased friend sends him straight into the arms of the one woman who can fulfill his deepest desires. Major Pleasure By Denise A Agnew He's got the military command. . . Army Special Forces Major Blayne Forbes has always desired Jemma Teagan, but knows she's off limits for a casual relationship. The last thing he wants is involvement with a forever kind of woman. Jemma's desire for the diamond-in-the-rough soldier has never faded, and when he tumbles into her arms, the tough guy sends her heart rate into orbit. She doesn't want to love a man destined for danger, until he challenges her to a display of hardware she can't resist.

By Honor Bound

Agnew, Denise A.

Hart, Arianna

Erotica

Elloras Cave Pub Inc

Horsemen - Captive Stallion By Kate Hill For years Susana and Moor have buried their attraction to one another. Susana, a human healer, is much younger than the shapeshifting Horseman who is also her best friend's foster father. In their minds, anything more than friendship is unacceptable—until they experience the legendary dream sharing that binds a Horseman to his destined mate. With Moor's help, Susana overcomes her fear of flying to ride her lover in the most famous endurance race in the world. Their happiness seems as fated as their love. Then Moor's life is endangered, and Susana must risk everything to save him.

Captive Stallion

A Matter of Duty By Elizabeth Jewell Sequel to A Matter of Faces in the Shifting Faces anthology. A little over two years ago, Piper met Trey, a shapeshifter, who impersonated her dead boyfriend and then led her on the adventure of a lifetime. Along the way, they fell in love. Now Trey is required to father children to sustain the race. Piper knew this day would come, but she's not prepared to face Nadia, the shapeshifter woman first in line to have Trey's babies. She's even less prepared to consider the possibility of having a child, herself, knowing it's impossible with Trey. But Nadia's husband is human.and that's when things get really complicated. Shadow-Time Lover By R. Casteel A man by day and a beast by night, Filip has roamed the mountains of Romania for longer than he wants to remember. To break the witch's curse and set him free, a virgin's blood must be shed upon the Rock of Sacrifice. Zolona is the last of her father's daughters to remain a virgin and the last hope for removing the curse from the land. Her courage must hold when face to face with the beast. Enter into a medieval world of lords and ladies, witch's curses, deceit and lies. Where death stalks the night, and the future is laid on the altar for a desperate chance for happiness. Silver Cuffs By Kate Hill Entrepreneur Pierce Durant is a scoundrel in every sense of the word. With plans to bulldoze a mansion belonging to a hero of the American Revolution, he doesn't hesitate in making brash advances on a member of the local historical society trying to save the house. Tabatha Lane isn't a woman lured by wealth and handsome looks, especially if the man has no caring in his heart. Whittle House is more than just a house filled with antiques. It holds the spirits of a courageous man-wolf and the woman who loved him. Like the Patriot who owned it, Whittle House will not go down without a fight!

Forever Midnight

Stewart, Elizabeth

Casteel, R.

Book 4 in the Horsemen series. Just before the winter holiday called Unity Feast begins, Phillipa is called to deliver an urgent message to a neighboring village. On her way home, she is knocked unconscious but awakens safe in a forest cabin. Her rescuer is a Horseman with elfish blue eyes and a coat as pure as freshly fallen snow. Exquisitely handsome and breathtakingly virile, he wants to claim her as his mate and for the first time in her life Phillipa has no desire to resist. Recovering from a near-fatal flight, Luther has been living in self-proclaimed exile. To him, a Fighting Carrier who lost his entire Gathering party is no longer fit to lead. His solitude is shattered by the arrival of a woman who sets his soul on fire. Enveloped by Phillipa's soft, warm curves and hungry for her kisses, he finds pleasure in her that all Horsemen wish for. Unfortunately she won't rest until she convinces him to face the truth about that tragic flight and take his place among the greatest Horsemen warriors in the world.

Winter Stallion

Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.

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Britain and the Narration of Travel in the Nineteenth Century: Texts, Images, Objects

Cassoulet, A French Obsession

Women and museums, 1850–1914: Modernity and the gendering of knowledge (Gender in History)

The Female Investor: #1 Award Winner: Creating Wealth, Security, and Freedom through Property

Culture and Class in English Public Museums, 1850-1914 (Historical Urban Studies Series)

Culture and Class in English Public Museums, 1850-1914 (Historical Urban Studies Series)

By Honor Bound

Captive Stallion

Forever Midnight

Winter Stallion