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...Cabin changed all that. It was the first great American bestseller. In its initial year in print it sold 300,000 copies, and eventually more than 3 million American readers bought the book. Worldwide, sales ran to something like 10 million in 40 languages. In this plain but informative portrait, Biographer Gerson notes that Author Stowe never visited the Deep South before the Civil War. Most of her knowledge of slavery was gleaned from former slaves whom she met while she was living in Cincinnati (one of the busiest stops on the Underground Railway), though she did visit a working...
...Midsummer Night's Dream. Presented by the Open Door Theater at the Pinebank Art Center, outdoors on the Jamaicaway in Jamaica Plain. Performances Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets...
...Midsummer Night's Dream. Presented by the Open Door Theater at the Pinebank Art Center, outdoors on the Jamaicaway in Jamaica Plain. Performances Thursday through Saturday at 7 p.m. Tickets...
...Devil's Disciple, Shaw's misogyny is in plain view; the two leading female characters are depicted mainly as obstacles to the fulfillment of worthwhile male goals. While Martha Farrar as Mrs. Dudgeon satisfactorily avoids caricaturing the crotchety old woman, Wendy Fulton is less successful as Judith Anderson...
...work habits. Occasionally men would continue with their older work-habits knowing it led to their impoverishment. But Gutman is interested in the tensions industrialization created for these older lifestyles when they were faced with inevitable change. An one of his tentative conclusions is that while "suffering and plain poverty cut deeply into these ethnic working class worlds...Family, class and ethnic ties did not dissolve easily...