“amanda tester snyder”

AMANDA SNYDER (1894-1980) was a prominent Pacific Northwest painter for more than forty years. She worked in every medium and her subjects were diverse-portraits, birds, clowns, still lifes, landscapes, abstracts. Her formal training was brief. She took a few courses at the Portland Art Museum, and ... More

Katherine Snyder's study explores the significance of the bachelor narrator, a prevalent but little recognized figure in premodernist and modernist fiction by male authors, including Hawthorne, James, Conrad, Ford, and Fitzgerald. Snyder demonstrates that bachelors functioned in cultural and literar... More

Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was various... More

What was the life of an eighteenth-century British genteel woman like? This lively book, based on letters, diaries, and account books of over one hundred middle class women, transforms our understanding of the position of women in Georgian England."(Vickery) has found a gold mine in the realm of wom... More