Frances Andrews: 5 books

In 1274 the Council of Lyons decreed the end of various 'new orders' of Mendicants which had emerged during the great push for evangelism and poverty in the thirteenth-century Latin Church. The Franciscans and Dominicans were explicitly excluded, while the Carmelites and Austin friars were allowed...

Madison & Adams Press presents the Civil War Memories Series. This meticulous selection of the firsthand accounts, memoirs and diaries is specially comprised for Civil War enthusiasts and all people curious about the personal accounts and true life stories of the unknown soldiers, the well known...

Many citizens wrote diaries during the Civil War, but few did so as descriptively or poignantly as Eliza Fanny Andrews. Fanny was still living at home when the war broke out in 1861, living with a father who did not support the Confederacy while her three brothers fought for it. Fanny herself was...

The War-time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865 vividly describes Georgia during General Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea. It was written by a young Southern girl and thus from a Confederate viewpoint.

A breathtaking achievement this Concise Companion is a suitable crown to the astonishing production in African American literature and criticism that has swept over American literary studies in the last two decades. It offers an enormous range of writers-from Sojourner Truth to Frederick Douglass from...