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Ronald Pearsall (1927–2005)

Auteur de The Worm in the Bud

47+ oeuvres 758 utilisateurs 4 critiques 3 Favoris

A propos de l'auteur

Ronald Pearsall is a full-time book author and magazine and newspaper journalist. He lives in the south-west of England in a village near Bodmin Moor.

Comprend les noms: R Pearsall, Ronald Pearsall

Œuvres de Ronald Pearsall

The Worm in the Bud (1969) 172 exemplaires
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (1981) 37 exemplaires
Myths and Legends of Ireland (1996) 34 exemplaires
Introduction to Drawing (1990) 25 exemplaires
Introduction to Pastel and Acrylic (1990) 19 exemplaires
Introduction to Oil Painting (1990) 17 exemplaires
Painting Abstract Pictures (1991) 14 exemplaires
Edwardian Life and Leisure (1973) 13 exemplaires
Silver (Connoisseur's Guides) (1997) 13 exemplaires
Furniture (1997) 11 exemplaires
Practical Painting (1983) 11 exemplaires
Mysterious Places of the World (2000) 10 exemplaires
The Joy of Antiques (1988) 9 exemplaires
Collecting Mechanical Antiques (1973) 7 exemplaires
The Antique Furniture Almanac (1992) 5 exemplaires
Edwardian Popular Music (1975) 5 exemplaires
Victorian Sheet Music Covers (1972) 4 exemplaires
Collapse of Stout Party (1975) 3 exemplaires
Popular music of the twenties (1976) 3 exemplaires
TIDES OF WAR (1979) 3 exemplaires
Victorian Popular Music (1973) 3 exemplaires
Exorcism (1972) 2 exemplaires
The alchemists (1976) 2 exemplaires
The Possessed (1972) 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Vénus indienne (1889) — Introduction, quelques éditions95 exemplaires
A secret diary: the intimate memoirs (1972) — Directeur de publication — 1 exemplaire

Étiqueté

Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance
1927-10-20
Date de décès
2005-09-27
Sexe
male
Nationalité
UK
Lieux de résidence
Birmingham, England, UK (birth)
London, England, UK

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A lovely book containing images and descriptions of older dolls, including cloth and wax materials. While I do not collect these dolls, it was fun to sit back with a cup of tea and go through each beautiful page.
 
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Whisper1 | Jun 13, 2021 |
Being a treatise on English erotic and figure painting, sculpture, and photography during the late 19th century. The author is very insightful but highbrow and lowbrow are shoehorned together a little awkwardly, and the illustrations are adequate but hardly sumptuous.
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Big_Bang_Gorilla | May 23, 2011 |
I believe the author had a research problem in the writing of this book. In the Victorian Era it seems there was a lot more written by and about men than was written by and about women. He wrote a fair amount about public schools and homosexuality but little about women's schools and lesbianism. Of course, there was a great deal written about public schools and almost nothing written about women's few places of education.

Then there is the author's reliance on Kinsey's reports on human sexuality. Now I realize those reports were the only information available at the time, but the author uses them unquestioningly. And even if those reports were totally correct that is no reason to believe that Victorian statistics would have been just the same. To say that if Kinsey says sexuality now is so-and-so then Victorian sexuality was also so-and-so is very shaky reasoning.

If you read the book keep in mind that most of the source material was written by men and for men. The book made it plain that it was not a good time to be a woman. Women were caught in the constrictions of middle-class morality. For a woman to live her own life meant she was cast out by a society that had brainwashed her into a certain mode of conduct all her life. Even though some did it it was hard to do.

Finally, there is no bibliography in the book. The books he used for research are mentioned in the Notes and References but I think the lack of a separate bibliography is sheer laziness.

The book is worth reading and worth using as a reference but its faults must be kept in mind specially when considering statistics. But read it and decide for yourself. I think it will repay your time.
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xenchu | Mar 3, 2010 |
Not his best book by far, but good enough to hold your attention, Ronald Pearsall tells about the spiritualists and the theosophists without going into too much detail.
 
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GlenRalph | Jul 18, 2009 |

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Œuvres
47
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Membres
758
Popularité
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Évaluation
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ISBN
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