![]() ![]() ![]() In the final chapter of 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia, James Boyce makes his main argument that with a little bit of state intervention, the land hungry capitalists who forced open the frontiers beyond NSW could have been restrained. Thirty years later and the rapid and violent destruction of the Aboriginal peoples of Victoria was almost complete.īut could Australia have been colonised less brutally? Was there a gentler, less genocidal way to dispossess Aboriginal people in 1835? Seven years later, border police, mounted police and native police were actively enforcing the brutal acquisition of Aboriginal lands. A year later the British government had endorsed their plan. 1835: The founding of Melbourne and the conquest of Australiaġ835 was the year that Tasmanian pastoralists, hungry to expand their wealth through seizure of new lands, launched their project to colonise Melbourne (then called Port Phillip). ![]()
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The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811-12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. ![]() ![]() ![]() The one thing he never would’ve imagined was that it would lead him into the arms of a man―and not just any man―the striking, never-takes-no-for-an-answer Logan Mitchell. The gorgeous, headstrong bartender he’d sat across from only months ago has taken a tight hold of his heart, and Logan is discovering that it’s time to let go.Īfter years of placing his dreams on hold for his family, Tate has finally chosen to do what makes him happy and follow his heart. ![]() ![]() It’s an armor he thought was impenetrable―until he met Tate Morrison. 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About the Book The social minefields of Westchester County's most privileged middle school girls drive the page-turning action of this third installment of this addictive series, set in New York City's most elite suburban county. ![]() ![]() As much cannot be said for “Henderson the Rain King,” which is an unsuccessful experiment, noble in purpose but dismal in result. ![]() But rhapsodic, tedious and stupefying as “Augie” often was, it was also intermittently funny and spangled with examples of Mr. The first person by a narrator a trifle touched in the head. The comic extravaganza about the absurdities and trials of modern life was also written in Saul Bellow is a talented and ambitious writer best known for his “The Adventures of Augie March,” which was published six years ago. He is the hero and narrator of “Henderson the Rain King,” a peculiar, prolix Henderson was a champion sufferer, a fabulously strong giant of a man with a sentimental heart and no common sense whatever. Raising pigs, learning to play the violin, doing hard physical labor on his estate near Danbury-nothing could soothe his tedium Henderson was “moody, rough, tyrannical and probably His incessant follies, his alcoholism (he was often drunk before lunch) and his mordant discontent were more than he could bear. ![]() EUGENE HENDERSON, a multimillionaire by trade and a pathetic, swaggering clown by nature, reached an imaginary point of no return when he wasĥ5 years old and felt that he had to go to Africa. ![]() ![]() FebruBooks of the Times By ORVILLE PRESCOTT Henderson the Rain King By Saul Bellow ![]() ![]() It was the most improbably wise move any aristocrat has ever made. Impulsively, he invited Paxton to be head gardener at Chatsworth. The duke was hard of hearing and appreciated clarity of speech. The duke took an instant shine to Paxton, not so much, it appears, because Paxton showed any particular genius as because he spoke in a strong, clear voice. There one day he fell into conversation with the Duke of Devonshire, who owned neighbouring Chiswick House and rather a lot of the rest of the British Isles– some two hundred thousand acres of productive countryside spread beneath seven great stately homes. Born into a poor farming family in Bedfordshire in 1803, he was sent out to work as an apprentice gardener at the age of fourteen he so distinguished himself that within six years he was running an experimental arboretum at the new and prestigious Horticultural Society (soon to become the Royal Horticultural Society) in West London – a startlingly responsible job form someone who was really still just a boy. I adored this book and keep inserting trivia from it into daily conversation but, of all the amazing characters Bryson profiles, Paxton was by far my favourite. ![]() Reviewing my notes on books I have yet to review (an increasingly staggering number), I came along this delightful description of Joseph Paxton from At Home by Bill Bryson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What if when we got to the front of the line, we said I need to buy some candy. There’s a spike in COVID and they’re seeing hundreds or thousands of people a day. “I’d say, well, especially now, during the holidays, I think about cashiers, they’re going through such a difficult time, right? We all have holiday stress, we might convey it to them. I’m bringing over food, I’m shoveling your driveway, I’m going to come over and take your son with us because we’re going to the zoo for the day.’ Just having people step up and doing that made a huge difference.”Īronson also suggested helping out someone who you don’t know because it can lead to a sense of interconnectedness with others. Just being seen and having people say, ‘here’s what I’m going to do for you. They don’t know if you want to talk about it. “It can be awkward for people, they want to do something, but they don’t know if they should reach out. ![]() ![]() In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves. First published 01 September 2017 38786 Anita and Me 3 Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. Meera Syal MBE (born Feroza Syal 27 June 1961 in Essington, near Wolverhampton) is a British Indian comedienne, writer, playwright, singer, journalist and actress. ![]() For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, 5) Arthur Conan Doyle. You are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal Books by Meera Syal The Hound of the Baskervill. Offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. It follows the life of nine-year-old Meena Kumar, the daughter of Indian immigrants, as she attempts to define her personal identity, marked by her Indian background and the small-town, English society in which she grows up. Institution ( see List), you should be able to access the LE onĬampus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we Meera Syal’s novel Anita and Me is set in the fictional English village of Tollington in the 1970s. ![]() If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing ![]() ![]() ![]() While the boats were actually in Norwegian coastal waters they were fairly safe because each looked just like the hundreds of other legitimate fishing boats. An excellent website commemorates their achievements and failures. The boats carried spies, radios, munitions and supplies to the Norwegian Resistance and brought out refugees and Norwegians whom the Gestapo was after. During WWII Howarth was in the British navy and helped operate what was called “The Shetland Bus.” That was the name the Norwegians gave the small fleet of Norwegian fishing boats that the British operated from the Shetland Islands during WWII. He wrote an excellent history of Trafalgar, another of Waterloo and many others. He was British and predominantly a military historian. ![]() ![]() I re-read last week The Shetland Bus, a book by David Howarth, one of my favorite non- fiction writers. ![]() |