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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 

Lady Hester Stanhope

... and to suppress human sacrifice, and to abolish slavery, and to do good in general to her poor, ignorant savages until they could stand it no longer and they rose up and killed her and re-established slavery and all the good old pre- Yarlove customs. As ...

Published: Tuesday 31 July 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1145 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

HORROR IN ABYSSINIA: The Man They Burnt Alive--And a New Volume of Science for Children

... people. They are hemmed in at every side their lives are lived as prisoners not because of lack or climate, or despotism or slavery, but by their own mental barriers which rule every single motive, act or word. Cruelty to animals is prodigious here. Certainly ...

The Literary Lounger: Utopias

... know_ Machines. was based on slavery. Aristotle defended it on the grounds that some men are born to be slaves. Indeed, the system seems to be justified by its results until we remember that other communities have tolerated slavery without producing a fine ...

Published: Wednesday 17 February 1932
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2332 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

The Cinema: Two Rebukes

... This child has been bought and is being sold into what would appear to be conditions of slavery in the cotton industry, and on the train which conveys her into slavery are her two brothers, who are both victims of economic conditions. The child is assaulted ...

Published: Wednesday 28 October 1931
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1281 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

Characters in Four Countries:

... that can be said for the Soviet regime is that it has freed the peasant and the worker from slavery to sex, by easy marriage and easy divorce, and from slavery to religion, by abolishing the Deity. The Bystander Book Shelf Noel Streatfeild Noel Streatfeild's ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1223 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: Ronald Firbank

... century of slavery in Brazil, seen (as it were) through the red and angry eyes of a macaw, a very long-lived bird and, like the slaves, a captive but happily, treated more humanely than they. If any one has lingering doubts as to whether slavery may not ...

Published: Wednesday 30 May 1934
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1852 | Page: 58 | Tags: Review 

TIBET--THE GUESSWORK LAND OF THE FUTURE

... industrialised civilisation, change the ingrained habits of the people, their methods of thought, their oxlike acceptance of slavery to the priest hood Would it teach the male peasant continence or the woman the value of virtue As to the ingrained habits ...

A Question of Time: Murder by Mental Arithmetic

... Paris, and then the Argentine would have aroused the suspicions of an under-housemaid. But Betty had never heard of White Slavery. The third act is a duet for the two detectives, who do everything except reconstruct the crime, or comment upon the fact ...

Published: Wednesday 22 February 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 704 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

COMEDY: THEATRES OF THE WEEK

... Mr. Reginald Tate, the Captain, a vivid character, vacillating between jealousy of his wife, assertion of authority, and slavery to the bottle. Mr. Tate portrayed these phases with rare acumen. Generally, the play impressed the audience deeply. It was ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1933
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 983 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

... the West Indies, only to be sold into slavery on his arrival there. The man who was to be the most feared pirate on all that coast had, even as a boy, remarkable initiative. Within five years, the period of his slavery, he had become indispensable to his ...

Published: Saturday 13 February 1937
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2146 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review