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FANNY KEMBLE THE PASSIONATE VICTORIAN: Margaret Armstrong's Biography of the Brilliant and Lively Actress; a ..

... PASSIONATE VICTORIAN Margaret Armstrong's Biography of the Brilliant and Lively Actress; a Woman of Rare Versatility Who Fought Slavery By VERNON FANE TO label a period of sixty years with one epithet and to have one general opinion of the people who lived during ...

Published: Saturday 24 September 1938
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1590 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

THE SLAVE SHIP

... making a Scotsman the denouncer of slavery, as anyone who looks up the Edin burgh Review of a hundred years ago may see. Here is David Scott, shipped to Virginia after Culloden, sold on to a planta tion, escaping from slavery to become a slave-trader, enslaved ...

Published: Wednesday 02 September 1925
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 68 | Tags: Review 

THE OWL'S HOUSE

... whose fortunes' form the main part of the tale. Eli is a mighty smuggler, Ortho a horse- dealer, who is ultimately sold into slavery in Morocco. Ortho 's Moorish bride is as fierce a piece of femininity as recent fiction has pro duced and for serio-comic ...

Published: Wednesday 14 November 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 164 | Page: 76 | Tags: Review 

A Queen's Book

... allowed to affirm itself, to raise its head, to be independent, happy, and free nevertheless, in spite of struggles and slavery, it was not a people destined to disappear. It overcame every hardship, stood every misery, endured every subjugation, could ...

Published: Saturday 17 March 1917
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

Before the Crisis

... caught the Abolitionist fire, and its heroine, a young girl, the daughter of a Southern rector, brought up to believe that slavery is an institution designed by God. Adventures follow one another closely, and leave never a dull page until the two come together ...

Published: Wednesday 15 February 1905
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 229 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

WANTED-- A BLACK AFRICA: A Tempestuous Book

... its rolling back waters and held back by those who dream of future kingdoms of greed built on black and brown and yellow slavery. He pleads for a new independent African World State-- a Black Africa for the Africans, guided by organised civilisation ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1920
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 226 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

Miss King's Profession

... nom-de-guerre), she very widely, at the second opportunity, burnt her boats or rather, her manuscript in favour of domestic slavery as a Rector's wife. Thus both these young heroines (Hope, of The Opening Doer, and Miss King), though the first was a wise ...

Published: Wednesday 20 August 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

WANTED-- A BLACK AFRICA: A Tempestuous Book

... its rolling back waters and held back by those who dream of future kingdoms of greed built on black and brown and yellow slavery. He pleads for a new independent African World State-- a Black Africa for the Africans, guided by organised civilisation ...

Published: Saturday 18 September 1920
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 226 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review 

Imperial America

... discuss some economic question, to suggest that the quarrel between North and South was as much over the tariff as over the slavery question, to touch upon currency questions or the trustification of American industry. But these are mere incidents breaking ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1914
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 303 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR

... Brother, and the language of the people is Newspeak. There are some telling slogans to be seen War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, are speci mens, and love is known as sexcrime, It is all nightmarish but hideously logical. Let ...

Published: Wednesday 06 July 1949
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 326 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

LITERATURE OF THE WEEK: Some New Books: Bismarck

... Parliament unblushingly bought the votes of their constituents, and sold their own as unblushingly to the ministry. The social slavery of the labourers, kept alive, and only alive, by pauper and pauperising parish grants, was pitiless and piteous and more piteous ...

Published: Saturday 29 March 1919
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 960 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review