June Rose
Autore di Elizabeth Fry
Opere di June Rose
The perfect gentleman : the remarkable life of Dr James Miranda Barry, the woman who served as an officer in the… (1977) 16 copie
For the Sake of the Children: Inside Dr.Barnardo's - 120 Years of Caring for Children (1987) 4 copie
Jacob Epstein, Boundary Gallery 1 copia
YEAR 'ROUND CRAFTS FOR CHILDREN 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
Utenti
Recensioni
Modigliani: The Pure Bohemian di June Rose
Well researched and balanced presentation.
"The value of this splendid new biography is that it enables us to get to know her better than ever before" "In this perceptive biography......June Rose removes [Fry] from her pedestal to show her as she really was: complex, contradictory, but courageously defying the conventions of her age"
During her lifetime this remarkable woman aroused hostility as well as admiration. Quakers found her worldliness disquieting; not of her fellow penal reformers approved of her unorthodox ways and the irregular authority conferred upon her and her lady prison visitors; her family felt neglected. Elizabeth Fry herself was tortured throughout her life by self-doubt and anxiety, torn between the opposing demands of her family, her religion and her public, and disturbed by her own attraction to the high life.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Utenti
- 271
- Popolarità
- #85,376
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 11
- ISBN
- 24
- Lingue
- 2