The young women may have dabbled in fortune telling to ease their anxieties about their marriage prospects, which determined their futures along with their financial stability. The young women seem to “be on the same page for reasons that nobody really understands, even to this day,” Brown says. “This is not a society that ordinarily provides girls and young women with speaking roles.” One of the reasons that the Salem witch trials are “still very fascinating to people in the present day,” says Brown, is that 17th-century Puritan New England was a highly codified patriarchal society. By its close, 10 girls and young women claimed to be afflicted by witchcraft, resulting in the deaths of 20 people, one of whom was accidentally killed during torture. Thus began the Salem witch hunt, one of the stranger episodes in American history. By March 1, 1692, three women were accused of witchcraft: Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, an Indigenous woman from Barbados, who was enslaved by Parris. Parris’ 11-year-old niece, Abigail Williams, was beset by fits, followed by two others: 12-year-old Ann Putnam and 17-year-old Elizabeth Hubbard. Stranger still, the illness seemed to be contagious. The doctor watched her violent fits and suggested supernatural causes. Samuel Parris’ 9-year-old daughter, Betty, begins to exhibit strange symptoms. Brown, the David Boies Professor of History. “It begins in the house of a minister,” says Kathleen M.
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Tracing their heroic stories back to the very beginning, Chris Hamby, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on this issue, gives us a deeply troubling yet ultimately triumphant work that promises to do for Black Lung what Beth Macy did for the opioid epidemic. Indeed, these men and their families, with little access to education, legal resources, and other employment options, have long been fighting to wrench even modest compensation and medical costs from our nation's biggest mining interests-all to combat a disease that could have been eradicated years ago. Big coal companies-along with their allies in the legal and medical professions-have continually flouted the law and exposed miners to deadly amounts of coal dust, while also systematically denying benefits to miners who suffer and die because of their jobs. Since then, however, not much has changed. Decades have passed since black lung disease was recognized as a national disgrace and Congress was pushed to take legislative action. His face was regular and flat as the prairies it had sprung from-and as flat as the accent those prairies had spawned. I wondered if they were ever to meet, would they wrestle? Or perhaps they would be glad to finally get a good look at each other and embrace, two long lost brothers, rubbing noses like two Eskimo.Īs I sat across from him, I couldn’t help but wonder what else was out of balance with Mr. In it, he gritted his teeth, straining at his opponent, while his nipples went about their day behind their Lycra, imperious and affronting, mild and downcast. Krimm had been a boy wrestler, and his imbalance was clear in an especially sweaty shot. I’d seen them both on his “home page.” Mr. In contrast, the other nipple looked down, disappointed with itself, which I supposed it had a right to be. Krimm’s left nipple was noticeably larger than his right, surprised and staring, the eye of a belligerent rainbow trout. Other historians have dealt with Churchill's difficulties during this period, using the partial revelations of certain memoirs and private and public papers. Lukacs also investigates the mood of the British people, drawing on newspaper and Mass-Observation reports that show how the citizenry, though only partly informed about the dangers that faced them, nevertheless began to support Churchill's determination to stand fast. We see how the military disasters taking place on the Continent-particularly the plight of the nearly 400,000 British soldiers bottled up in Dunkirk-affected Churchill's fragile political situation, for he had been prime minister only a fortnight and was regarded as impetuous and hotheaded even by many of his own party. Lukacs takes us hour by hour into the critical unfolding of events at 10 Downing Street, where Churchill and the members of his cabinet were painfully considering their war responsibilities. The decisive importance of these five days is the focus of John Lukacs's magisterial new book. Perutz, New York Review of Books The days from May 24 to altered the course of the history of this century, as the members of the British War Cabinet debated whether to negotiate with Hitler or to continue what became known as the Second World War. but has transformed it into a memorable drama."-M.F. Washington Post Book World Bestseller "Customers are raving about Five Days in London." "Gripping. And I’ve spent a large part of the past week immersed in these stories of dance, family and dreams. I loved it so much I raced down to Borders to buy Skating Shoes (which is, fortunately, no longer out of print). Then, recently, I found a vintage edition of Theater Shoes on Etsy, and started reading it the day after it came in the mail. I found a copy of Dancing Shoes, under its original title of Wintle’s Wonders, for $1 at Brattle last fall, but had somehow never got around to reading it. (Then I saw the BBC film adaptation with Emma Watson, and loved it too.) Mary Noel Streatfeild, known as Noel Streatfeild, was an author best known and loved for her childrens books, including Ballet Shoes and Circus Shoes. It was several years before I picked up a used copy of Ballet Shoes in Oxford, and of course I loved it. I’d never heard of Streatfeild or the Shoe Books before I saw You’ve Got Mail (and watched poor Kathleen Kelly struggle to control her tears as she helped a bookseller at Fox Books find the right book for a customer). Although Skating Shoes is completely wonderful-but it’s out of print. They vow to make a name for themselves, but Petrova prefers planes. I’d start with Ballet Shoes first it’s my favorite. Three adopted sisters attend an acting & dancing school. Noel Streatfeild wrote Ballet Shoes and Skating Shoes and Theatre Shoes and Dancing Shoes. Women were allowed to teach – that was acceptable she could get an art degree as long as she minored in education at the college’s teaching institute. Then, hopefully, you realise that you can try.” Eventually, a college official helped her sort out a compromise. You learn later in life that maybe you’re not supposed to do this or that. “As a child you think you have the freedom to do what you want. “Art is what I wanted to do,” she says matter-of-factly. She wasn’t taking a stand, she just didn’t understand why they were telling her she couldn’t do art. When the bemused college administrators informed her she wouldn’t be able to attend, Ringgold refused to budge. It had never occurred to her that they were all white, and that it was a men-only college. Ringgold lived around the corner from the campus in Harlem, and used to “see the boys coming out of the subway and going up the hill to the college”. W hen Faith Ringgold graduated from high school in 1948 she headed to the City College of New York to sign up for an art degree. Nicole, a farmer's daughter from Rouen, marries a charming officer who promises comfort and security. Once in Quebec, Elisabeth quickly accepts baker Gilbert Beaumont, who wants a business partner as well as a wife. Despite their different backgrounds, Rose, Nicole, and Elisabeth all believe that marriage to a stranger is their best, perhaps only, chance of happiness. Each prospective bride has her reason for leaving-poverty, family rejection, a broken engagement. Their duty is to marry and bring forth a new generation of loyal citizens. They are known as the filles du roi, or "King's Daughters"-young women who leave prosperous France for an uncertain future across the Atlantic. Runyan masterfully blends fact and fiction to explore the founding of New France through the experiences of three young women who, in 1667, answer Louis XIV's call and journey to the Canadian colony. In her illuminating debut novel, Aimie K. His leading role in the war would seem reason enough, but the Assassin's master has much deeper motives.īrilliant but troubled Shallan strives along a parallel path. Among his prime targets is Highprince Dalinar, widely considered the power behind the Alethi throne. The Assassin, Szeth, is active again, murdering rulers all over the world of Roshar, using his baffling powers to thwart every bodyguard and elude all pursuers. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Įxpected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as the distinctly uncommon threat of the Assassin, all while secretly struggling to master remarkable new powers that are somehow linked to his honorspren, Syl. |