Gathers poems, essays, and selections from letters, novels, and journals of nineteen British women authors, and includes a brief profile of each writer

A veteran New York City cop recounts his one-man war against crime as former of head of New York's Public Morals Division, describing the city's drug dens, sex shops, and organized crime. Reprint. K.

Product Description: This book, collecting the views of ten leading scholars and experts in the field, focuses on the questions raised by the increasing role of labour law over the last 20 years; both from the perspective of unions and workers and that of the government...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together for the first time all the known poems of English writer Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825), a once esteemed but long neglected figure whose career spanned the Age of Sensibility and the Romantic Era. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft have collected 170 of her poems, including twenty-three previously unpublished and eleven conjectural attributions...read more

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Product Description: The Conspiracy chronicles the monumental struggles of an innocent priest, Monsignor William McCarthy, falsely accused in 2003 of molesting two young sisters more than 23 years earlier. On the eve of his retirement from a stellar career as a priest and pastor, for the next five tortuous years, he was the victim of an anonymous complaint that was accepted as true by his bishop and friend of 40 years...read more

Product Description: Much has been written about Thrale, friend and hostess of Samuel Johnson, but this is the first study to focus on Piozzi as the writer. In his narrative of her life, McCarthy draws on a large body of published and unpublished sources to map Piozzi's literary development, define her literary identity, and evaluate her achievement...read more

Product Description: Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, these new essays survey Barbauld’s writing from early to late: her versatility as a stylist, her poetry, her books for children, her political writing, her performance as editor and reviewer...read more