![]() ![]() Publication date 2010 Topics Medborgarrätt - Förenta staterna, Sexualitet - kropp - kvinnobilden, Afro-amerikanska kvinnor, Sexuella övergrepp, Rape - Political aspects - Southern States - History, African American women - Civil rights - Alabama - History, Southern States - Race relations - History - 20th century, Civil rights movements - History, Southern States, Alabama, African American women - Violence against - Alabama - History - 20th century, African American women - Civil rights - Alabama - History - 20th century, Civil rights movements - Southern States - History - 20th century, Rape - Political aspects - Southern States - History - 20th century, Civil rights movements, Race relations, African American women - Civil rights, African American women - Violence against, Våld - våldtäkt - etnicitet - relationer, Mänskliga rättigheter - Medborgarrättsrörelsen - svarta - feminism - kvinnohistoria - Förenta staterna - 1900-talet Publisher New York : Alfred A. ![]()
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What Really Went Down Behind the Scenes of FocusĮver since the post-production days of the 2015 romance crime drama Focus, the tabloids were having a field day with the fact that Margot Robbie and Will Smith, the two leads of the film, had skipped the wrap party post-shoot and instead spent the night in Smith’s trailer. ![]() These hostilities were then added to the already growing list of reasons why the Bad Moms actress hated Margot Robbie after the 2020 announcement of Jada Smith’s four and a half years long “entanglement” with the R&B rapper, August Alsina. Blonde hair on white women just triggers me.”Īlthough she elaborated on that by claiming it was because of her being bullied and teased by girls during her childhood about her skin and hair, many also commented that it could be an indirect reference to her hostility toward Margot Robbie. “I have to admit I’m guilty to that to a certain degree because I do have my own biases, specifically to blonde women. But those comments were quickly forgotten when 3 years later, Jada Smith commented on Red Table Talk that she harbored a racial bias toward white women with blonde hair, The Bad Boys actor has a famously open marriage and it was further established when Jada Smith defended her husband’s public comments of appreciation for Robbie in 2015. ![]() ![]() 3,000 copies of Dracula were sent to bookstores on, and although reviews were mixed, Stoker's mother Charlotte wrote to him: "My dear, it is splendid, a thousand miles beyond anything you have written before, and I feel certain will place you very high in the writers of the day-the story and style being deeply sensational, exciting and interesting. Stoker's letter confirms and expands a print run, likely a program or souvenir relating to a theatrical production.Īccording to Bram Stoker's son Noel, the genesis of Dracula was a terrifying dream about a vampire king rising from his tomb, brought on by eating too much lobster. The letters from both authors included in the lot relate to their publishing activity. ![]() When Stoker proposed that he dedicate the book to his "dear friend Hommy-Beg," he wrote to Caine that "if the book is ever worth remembering it will be well understood what is meant" (23 February 1897). Bram Stoker first met the wildly popular novelist Hall Caine through their mutual friend Henry Irving. ![]() The first issue is without the advertisement for Stoker's The Shoulder of Shasta on page the present is the variant with 8-page publisher's catalogue at end and the main body of text printed on uncoated wove paper. ![]() London: Archibald Constable, 1897.įirst edition, first issue, with correspondence from Bram Stoker and from the book's dedicatee "Hommy-Beg," aka Hall Caine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Because the author is such an expert linguist who is exceedingly comfortable in her field, she is able to step back to see the entire Roman world. What they failed to do was establish a policy of succession, instead leaving it to luck, improvisation, plots, and, usually, violence. Beard writes of the reformers who fed the people and instituted laws of compensation for abuse. However, they continued to conquer peoples, took slaves and bounty, and made their men part of the army and, eventually, citizens. As the author points out, they didn’t even have maps. The rulers of Rome never planned a land grab to build an empire. The author provides a broad overview of how events from the rape of Lucretia to Caracalla’s granting of citizenship to everyone (except slaves) strengthened and eventually weakened the empire. ![]() This is no simple chronological biography of rulers. As in her previous illuminating works, she is no myth builder she is a scholar who reaches down-to-earth conclusions based on her years of dedication to her subject. More importantly, she sorts the many myths from history. ![]() Laughter in Ancient Rome: On Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up, 2014, etc.) writes fascinatingly about how Rome grew and sustained its position. The acclaimed classicist delivers a massive history of ancient Rome, which “continues to underpin Western culture and politics, what we write and how we see the world, and our place in it.”īeard (Classics/Cambridge Univ. ![]() |