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Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction City and town life Fiction England Fiction Great Britain Social life and customs 19th century Fiction Married people Fiction Scholars Fiction Social reformers Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction Women painters Fiction Young women FictionSheehan, Jacqueline.
Summary: A historical novel based on the life of Sojourner Truth, telling of her life as a slave, her efforts to reunite her family after being freed, and her call by God to speak out against slavery and in favor of women's rights.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHEEliot, George
Summary: One of the great works of 19th-century England as well as one of the masterpieces of English fiction, this novel is set in the Midlands, 1830-32, in the fictitious town of Middlemarch. It is concerned with the blighted marriage of a young idealistic woman, but also presents a vivid portrait of England during the Georgian era.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD Fiction Eliot 2011Peckham, Scarlett
Summary: "An activist painter of radicals and harlots, Cornelia Ludgate dismisses love and marriage as threats to freedom. But when an inheritance gives her the chance to fund the cause of women's rights--on the condition she must wed--she is forced to reveal a secret: she's already married. To a man she hasn't seen for twenty years. Oh ... and her husband is a duke. A horse breeder with a clandestine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023