Mary Queen of Bees
Crippled in childhood, Mary Wesley, sister of John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church, speaks of the Wesley household in first-person narrative built on the facts of her life.Mary lived in a strict Christian family, one of 19 children, 10 of whom survived. Her mother, Susanna Wesley, imposed a regiment where not one child after a year old was heard to cry out. Her father, Samuel Wesley, a minister at Epworth, could not provide for his family, and spent time in debtor's prison. The family taunted Mary's awkwardness and showed little sympathy for her affliction.At one point Mary addresses her family from the outside. There go the ragged We…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4982-4250-9
- EAN: 9781498242509
- Produktnummer: 33654763
- Verlag: Resource Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 62 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D0.7 cm 224 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 224
Über den Autor
Diane Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College. Her 2014-17 books are Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education, Report to the Department of the Interior, One of Us, Ironic Witness, Uprising of Goats, The Collector of Bodies: Concern for Syria and the Middle East, and QWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM: The Keyboard Letters. Among her awards: two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Minnesota Book Award, an American Book Award and Willa Award from Women Writers of the West.
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