Бумажные издания
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley
ISBN: 1461059739 Год издания: 2012 Язык: Английский This collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley
ISBN: 1618950363 Год издания: 2012 Язык: Английский Elizabeth Keckley's post-Civil War life story is part slave narrative, part gossip column, part Horatio Alger story. It blends autobiography with — is there a word to describe a biography that disparages its subject? Although Elizabeth Keckley lived longer as a slave than as modiste to First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, most of her engrossing autobiography is devoted to her White House years. The opening three chapters establish her as a woman to be reckoned with: the "school of slavery," as she calls her bondage, taught her to be fiercely self-reliant, persevering, and defiant, though more than one slavemaster tried to beat her into submission.…
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Произведения
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley
Оригинальное название: Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Язык: Английский An autobiographical narrative, BEHIND THE SCENES traces Elizabeth Keckley's life from her enslavement in Virginia and North Carolina to her time as seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln in the White House during Abraham Lincoln's administration. It was quite controversial at the time of its release–an uncompromising work that transgressed Victorian boundaries between public and private life, and lines of race, gender, and society.
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Аудиокниги
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Behind the Scenes - Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley
ISBN: 9781666524321 Год издания: 2022 Издательство: Dreamscape Media Язык: Английский Born in Virginia in 1818, Elizabeth Keckley grew up enslaved until she was able to purchase her and her son's freedom with money made from working as a seamstress. As she continued to perfect her craft, her styles caught the attention of the elite in Washington D.C. It wasn't until the day of Abraham Lincoln's inauguration that she crossed paths with Mary Todd Lincoln, who took Elizabeth on as her personal confidante and seamstress. Behind the Scenes not only offers an intimate look into the enslaved and free life of Elizabeth Keckley but also the lives of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln. At the time of publication, the lives of presidents…
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Электронные книги
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Behind The Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley
ISBN: 9788027223961 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: Musaicum Books Язык: Английский "Behind the Scenes" (1868) is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family of America, especially of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of Abraham Lincoln. After the assassination of President Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley the former slave turned confidant and dress maker of Mrs. Lincoln took it upon herself to provide financial support to her by writing this slave narrative. But in spite of Keckley's good intentions the publication of her life story spelled doom for her own career and her friendship with the Lincolns to an extent that all efforts were made to suppress and falsify it. Yet this book has survived all odds and has now become an…
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BEHIND THE SCENES – 30 Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley
ISBN: 9788026873730 Год издания: 2017 Издательство: e-artnow Язык: Английский