Penelope Tuson (29 results)

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Paperback with noticeably faded spine. Pages are clean and tight throughout. T. Used.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Paperback with slightly faded spine. Pages are clean, binding is sound, and text remains clear throughout. T. Used.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 341 pages; Description: 341 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Women social reformers --India. Women missionaries & Philanthropists --India. Summary: In the 30 years following 1857 a wealth of material written by women on India emerged. This anthology illustrates the progression of imperialist and feminist attitudes and includes the writings of Josephine Butler, Millicent Fawcet, Dorothea Beale, Mary Carpenter, Flora Annie Steel, Annette Ackroyd Beveridge, Florence Nightingale, Harriet Martineau and Annie Besant. These texts include evaluations of Indian social history and Indian women, while on a different level they provide an insight into the perspectives and cultural backgrounds of the writers themselves. 3 Kg.

hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good (+). First Edition. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and minor bump to upper rear corner. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with creasing to upper rear edge. 341pp. This anthology of women's writing about India in the second half of the 19th century illustrates the progression of imperialist and feminist attitudes from different women's perspectives. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 9.5 x 6.25 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Text clean and solid; light wear to dust jacket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 341 pages.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 341 pages; Description: 341 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Women social reformers --India. Women missionaries & Philanthropists --India. Summary: In the 30 years following 1857 a wealth of material written by women on India emerged. This anthology illustrates the progression of imperialist and feminist attitudes and includes the writings of Josephine Butler, Millicent Fawcet, Dorothea Beale, Mary Carpenter, Flora Annie Steel, Annette Ackroyd Beveridge, Florence Nightingale, Harriet Martineau and Annie Besant. These texts include evaluations of Indian social history and Indian women, while on a different level they provide an insight into the perspectives and cultural backgrounds of the writers themselves. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 96 pages. Marian Garvey. Penelope Bennett. Gail Low. O'ar Pali. Ruth O'Callaghan.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. owners bookplate on the front end paper illustrated 341 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is a Fine Copy of this book in black cloth with bright and sharp gilt title lettering to spine,in a Fine Dust-Jacket that has NO chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Not price clipped.This copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness and there is NO leaning or rolling to spine.8vo 266pp First Edition 1st Impression [2003].

Soft Cover. Condition: Good +. 1st Edition. Paperback. 189pp. 1st edition 1990. Spine faded, covers a little marked. A decent copy. (q7).

Hardcover. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large octavo x 341pp. Black and white illustrations. Brown cloth, gilt. Shelf wear to ends of spine. Brown pictorial dustwrapper not clipped. Shelf rubbing to ends of spine.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition paperback booklet in very good condition. Minor general wear to covers. 8vo. 21pp.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition edition. 224 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Large hardback in dustwrapper. 33 × 24.5cm, 368pp. The Arcadian Library in London holds one of the finest collections of writing by Western women travelling to the East. The books and manuscripts cover almost four centuries of travel and range from Mary Wortley Montagu's incomparable early eighteenth-century 'Turkish' letters to the publications of twentieth-century archaeologists, journalists, diplomatic wives and flamboyant adventurers. The best-known - for example Harriet Martineau, Lady Florentia Sale, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, Gertrude Bell and Lady Anne Blunt - are represented, alongside lesser-known European travellers such as the early Victorian writer Julia Pardoe and the Belgian-born Italian nationalist, Carla Serena. The feminist Mary Astell, on reading Mary Wortley Montagu's manuscript, commented that women could 'travel to better purpose' than men and could provide more accurate accounts of their cultural encounters. This book examines the question of whether or not women's writings reflect a special 'female gaze' and discusses the style and content of women's writing about the East and the ways in which writers negotiated and adapted their narratives to conform to their readers' expectations while often, at the same time, challenging contemporary gender roles. The subject matter is wide-ranging and eclectic. The writers' interests and opinions reflect their own cultural backgrounds but extend from conformist and unsympathetic to adventurous, subversive and open-minded. Often they were more able than male travellers to observe and appreciate cultural difference and they recorded their impressions with enthusiasm and genuine understanding. Many women travellers were also talented artists and their sketches, watercolours and photographs, reproduced extensively in this richly illustrated book, illuminate much of their writing. Condition: This copy is in very good condition, with just a little light wear to the wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 368 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 33 cm. Contents: Introduction ; 1. 'The Most Excellent Talents': Eighteenth-Century Journeys to the Seraglio ; 2. Beyond Istanbul: Desert Journeys and the Overland Route to India ; 3. From Kabul to the Crimea: Women, War and the 'Great Game' ; 4. 'Shaped by the East': Feminists and Revolutionaries in the mid-Nineteenth Century ; 5. The Queen's Daughters: Finding a Female Voice in the Age of Imperialism ; 6. Shifting Identities: Politics and Adventure on the Borderlands of Empire ; 7. Dancing to the Dig: Women and Archaeology before the First World War ; 8. Arabia Deserta: the Najd Journeys of Lady Anne Blunt and Gertrude Bell.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 368 pages. 13.25x10.25x1.75 inches. In Stock.

8 vols, 8vo (25.5 x 16.5 cm); 7 vols text and 1 map portfolio containing 12 large folding maps; publisher's original green cloth, gilt arms of Qatar to upper boards, gilt lettering to spines with red lettering pieces, top edges gilt, a fine set. An unrivalled collection of material revealing the history of Qatar from 1820 to 1960, focussing on primary documents charting the history of the peninsular from Qatar's first maritime treaty with Britain in 1820 up to the abdication of Ali bin Abdullah in 1960. Many of the documents within are published for the first time.

London: India Office. 1979. 4to. Original illustrated paperback; pp. xix, [3], 188, [12, plates and index]; wrappers a little rubbed; from the library of Louisa Montague-Jones, with her ownership inscription and 1980 invoice for the book stapled to the inside of front cover, a few underlinings in her hand.Very rare first edition, from the library of the American lady who pioneered Western tourism in the Gulf region in the 1970s. Indispensable for the historian and researcher of the region, this work details the political presence of the British Empire in the 19th and 20th century, and where to locate the relevant documents.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The lives of the Western women who lived, worked and travelled in Arabia in the first half of the 20th century have been largely ignored by historians. Penelope Tuson tells the stories of these women. Sometimes flamboyant and unconventional, sometimes conservative and conformist, all of them wanted in some way to be a part of British imperial life. Some were prepared to "play the game", others were not and could even be regarded as difficult and dangerous. "Playing the Game" explores how these women negotiated power and position in the Empire and how conventional female roles were defined by the masculine perspecitves and hierarchies of imperial authority, often with the collusion of the women themselves actively, but also sometimes despite their attempts to subvert the stereotypes. Penelope Tuson tells the stories of the Western women who lived, worked and travelled in Arabia in the first half of the 20th century. Sometimes flamboyant and unconventional, sometimes conservative and conformist, all of them wanted in some way to be a part of British imperial life. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The lives of the Western women who lived, worked and travelled in Arabia in the first half of the 20th century have been largely ignored by historians. Penelope Tuson tells the stories of these women. Sometimes flamboyant and unconventional, sometimes conservative and conformist, all of them wanted in some way to be a part of British imperial life. Some were prepared to "play the game", others were not and could even be regarded as difficult and dangerous. "Playing the Game" explores how these women negotiated power and position in the Empire and how conventional female roles were defined by the masculine perspecitves and hierarchies of imperial authority, often with the collusion of the women themselves actively, but also sometimes despite their attempts to subvert the stereotypes. Penelope Tuson tells the stories of the Western women who lived, worked and travelled in Arabia in the first half of the 20th century. Sometimes flamboyant and unconventional, sometimes conservative and conformist, all of them wanted in some way to be a part of British imperial life. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.