1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464510103321

Autore

Newell Aimee E.

Titolo

A stitch in time : the needlework of aging women in antebellum America / / Aimee E. Newell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, Ohio : , : Ohio University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8214-4475-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

746.46

Soggetti

Needlework - United States - History - 19th century

Quilting - United States - History - 19th century

Samplers - United States - History - 19th century

Older women - United States - Social conditions - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: The Physical Challenges of Needlework; 2: Growing Old Gracefully; 3: The Technological Reshaping of Antebellum Needlework; 4: I Give and Bequeath This Quilt; 5: Family Currency; 6: Biographical Needlework; 7: Threads of Life; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

and from the Quilters Guild of Dallas, Helena Hibbs Endowment Fund. ]]>



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391241803316

Autore

Diggs Dudley <1613-1643.>

Titolo

The unlavvfulnesse of subjects taking up armes against their soveraigne, in what case soever [[electronic resource] ] : Together with an answer to all objections scattered in their severall bookes. And a proofe, that notwithstanding such resistance as they plead for, were not damnable, yet the present warre made upon the King is so, because those cases, in which onely some men have dared to excuse it, are evidently not now; His Majesty fighting onely to preserve himselfe, and the rights of the subjects

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Oxford], : Printed [by Henry Hall], in the yeare 1643 [i.e. 1644]

Descrizione fisica

[2], 170 p

Soggetti

Government, Resistance to

Monarchy - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Attributed to Dudley Diggs.

Place of publication from Wing; printer's name from Madan.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "By Dr. Diggs Sr. Dud: Diggs sonne"; "January 15th"; "Oxon".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018