Books written by Mary Ellen Snodgrass

Our Town: Notes

... Prelude Pride and Prejudice The Prince The Prince and the The Red and the Black Red Badge of Courage Red Pony Return of the Native Richard II Richard III Rise of Silas Lapham Robinson Crusoe Roman Classics Romeo and Juliet Scarlet ...
The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations

conspiracy to kidnap William Craft from the United States Hotel in Boston on October 22, 1850. To protect Ellen Craft from such connivance, Susan Hilliard hid the slave in her Boston residence. Ellen began studying upholstery with a ...
Gary Paulsen: A Companion to the Young Adult Literature

McFarland Companions to Young Adult Literature American novelist Gary Paulsen is best known for his young adult fiction, including bestsellers Nightjohn, Soldier's Heart, and Woods Runner.
World Clothing and Fashion: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Social Influence

Craft. and. Fashion. In the twelfth century, crusaders brought fans from the Middle East back to Europe. In the 1400s, Italian ladies chose fans of peacock plumes for their luxurious sweep and vivid colors.
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

The author Laura ESQUIVEL applies the same form of matriarchal history in Like Water for Chocolate (1989), which records the damage to women by a family tradition requiring the daughter, Tita de la Garza, to abjure marriage and personal ...
Peter Carey: A Literary Companion

Michael Fitzgerald, a critic for Time magazine, exults that “Carey turns Dickens upside down. And upside down, Australia is on top of the world” (Fitzgerald, 1997, 82). A similar take on home turf in My Life as a Fake (2003) stretches ...
August Wilson: A Literary Companion

According to Sharon Fitzgerald, “Community life represented [to Wilson] a dynamic fusion of struggles, secrets, fantasies, and strengths” (Fitzgerald, p. ¡4). Content in an intergenerational milieu, he spent his days chain-smoking, ...
Kaye Gibbons: A Literary Companion

Some months later, in a review of two biographies of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gibbons congratulated herself for avoiding the dependencies and dangerous living of writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
Brian Friel: A Literary Companion

Without a clear motivation for lawbreaking, the trio of malefactors compiles a miscellany of grievances based on Adrian “Skinner” Fitzgerald's homelessness, Michael Joseph Hegarty's political ideals, and Elizabeth “Lily” Marigold ...
Lee Smith: A Literary Companion

During the multiple hospitalizations of artist Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald at Highland Hospital in Guests on Earth, she receives treatment for schizophrenia that allows her to dance and paint and pursue introspection.
Lee Smith: A Literary Companion

This literary companion surveys the works of Lee Smith, a Southern author lauded for her autobiographical familiarity with Appalachian settings and characters.
Settlers of the American West: The Lives of 231 Notable Pioneers

... Reading, Pearson ... Harvey Saburo (1867–1943) Tonami, Japan (1885) Hayashi, Matsu K. (1877–1972) Honshu, Japan (1896) Holmes, Julia Archibald (1838–1887) Emporia, KS (1858) Isbell, Olive Mann (1824–1899) Greenbush, IL (1846) Lee, ...
Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature

The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce. ... In a melodramatic moment, the speaker, author Bradley Pearson, summarizes in Gothic terms the passion that inflames him while kissing Julian Belling: “Phantoms were bred from this touch.
Marion Zimmer Bradley: A Companion to the Young Adult Literature

New York: Facts on File, 2013. Davin, Eric Leif. Partners in Wonder. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. Davis-Secord, Jonathan. Joinings: Compound Words in Old English Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016. Dixon, Joy.
American Colonial Women and Their Art: A Chronological Encyclopedia

1746 Widowed Quaker minister, teacher, diarist, and autobiographer Elizabeth Sampson Sullivan Ashbridge of Cheshire, England, compiled Some Account of the Fore-Part of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge. While she lived in Pennsylvania, ...
Encyclopedia of Kitchen History

Cheesefigured in several episodes in American history, beginning witha 1,450pound cheese presented by the women of Cheshire, Massachusetts, to President Thomas Jefferson. A second giftthe sizeof a carriage wheel from thesame county, ...
World Food: An Encyclopedia of History, Culture and Social Influence from Hunter Gatherers to the Age of Globalization

Into the Iron Age at Cheshire, East Anglia, Salinae, Teeside, Tyneside, and Worcestershire, British salt making provided granular currency through grueling labor. History provides scenarios in which slaves turned salt into cash.
Civil Disobedience: An Encyclopedic History of Dissidence in the United States

... Occupation(s), Age, Birthplace David Darrow, soldier, missionary, 30, Norwalk, CT Hezekiah Hammond, farmer, 47, Woodstock, CT Calvin Harlow, minister John Hocknell, landowner, 57, Cheshire, England William Lee, blacksmith, 40, ...
Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature

Left motherless in toddlerhood, she lived in Knutsford, Cheshire, with Hannah Lumb, a maternalaunt, who educated hernieceathome. At age 12 Gaskell advancedtothe Byerley sisters' boarding academy in Warwickshire.
Encyclopedia of the Literature of Empire

Isabella Lucy Bird (1831–1904) of Tattenhall, Cheshire, became one of the 19th century's most respected travel writers. Surveying the indigenous Ainu of Japan in Unbeaten Tracks in Japan (1880), Bird declares the Japanese imperial ...