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This book examines the pictorial representation of women in Great Britain both before and during the First World War. It focuses in particular on imagery related to suffrage movements, recruitment campaigns connected to the war, advertising, and Modernist art movements including Vorticism. This investigation not only considers the image as a whole, but also assesses tropes and constructs as objects contained within, both literal and metaphoric...

Georgina Williams was born in a Canadian reformatory in New Brunswick, where she was virtually a slave for years before making her daring escape at 18. This is a harrowing and true story -- presented by Pemmican in its only authorized edition -- that also marks the beginning of hope for a young woman.

This book examines the pictorial representation of women in Great Britain both before and during the First World War. It focuses in particular on imagery related to suffrage movements, recruitment campaigns connected to the war, advertising, and Modernist art movements including Vorticism. This investigation not only considers the image as a whole, but also assesses tropes and constructs as objects contained within, both literal and metaphoric...

CHILDREN HAVE NO HEARTSThis is one of the darkest pages in the histories of Canada and the Roman Catholic Church. Welcome to St. Michael's Laundry, a world of systemic physical and mental abuse, torture, sexual abuse by priests and nuns, where children work shoulder-to-shoulder with criminals and the criminally insane in deplorable conditions behind locked doors. But it is also a story of innocence and undying human spirit.-Ross KentnerDelcina...

Propaganda and Hogarth’s ‘Line of Beauty’ in the First World War assesses the literal and metaphoric connotations of movement in William Hogarth’s eighteenth-century theory of a ‘line of beauty’, and subsequently employs it as a mechanism by which the visual propaganda of this era can be innovatively explored. Hogarth’s belief that this line epitomises not only movement, but movement at its most beautiful, creates conditions of possibili...

Book One. Delcina's Tears. describes the long painful years of slavery. the total lack of education and the isolation of eighteen years without ever seeing the outside of that reformatory. It describes living, sleeping, eating and working in the same rooms with her mother but neither one knowing their relationship to each other. Her Crime? Being born' At age eighteen she escaped this wretched entombment by leaping from an unbarred second story...

Whispering Wild Fire is the fourth book in the series of true stories beginning with:Delcina's TearsBeyond the WallsRehearsals in MadnessIt is set in northern Ontario in the city of Sudbury and the villages of Gogama, Stackpool, Coniston and Chelmsford. My charge of 'Attempted Murder' in Toronto (see Beyond the Walls) was dropped by the perceptive judge who had heard the Crown's case. Released with conditions, I left Toronto.Whispering Wild Fi...

Troubles in Toronto "Rehearsals in Madness", Book Three, follows "Beyond the Walls" and "Delcina's Tears". "Rehearsals" tells the story of Georgina's four years in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Expecting a new life she fled New Brunswick with her pimp (Beyond the Walls). She still suffered the effects of long-term childhood institutional violence. She spiraled downward into a life of slum-despair, jail and suicide attempts. Surrounded by alcoholis...