Stories
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Autistic togetherness during lockdown
While lockdown has presented autistic people with greater challenges than life pre-COVID, many have found strength and comfort in the situation. Autistic writer and performer Kate Fox explains how.
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Seeking the hoarder in literature
As she strives to deepen her understanding of hoarding, Georgie Evans turns to books. But depictions of hoards and hoarders are few and often sparse, except in one surprising place.
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When parenting brings a paradigm shift
There were no indications during her pregnancy that Carol Nahra’s son would have severe, life-threatening disabilities. Here she describes the stages on her journey from shock to love and beyond.
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The Key to Memory: Follow your nose
Elissavet Ntoulia explores what a pair of pomanders can tell us about how and why we remember.
Catalogue
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Misers, shrews, and polygamists : sexuality and male-female relations in eighteenth-century Chinese fiction / Keith McMahon.
McMahon, Keith.Date: 1995- Books
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The second part of the history of the London clubs. Particularly, the Farting Club, the No-Nos'd Club, the Misers Club, the Atheistical Club. With a comical relation of the devil in a bear skin.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: 1720?]- Books
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An essay on death-bed-charity, Exemplify'd in the Life of Mr. Thomas Guy, Late Bookseller in Lombard-Street, Madam Jane Nicholas, Of St. Albans. And Mr. Francis Bancroft, Late of London Draper: Proving that great Misers giving large Donatives to the Poor in their last Wills is no Charity, To which is added the last Will of Mr. Francis Bancroft. Now publish'd as a necessary Appendix to the Hazards of a Death-Bed-Repentance, of which the Tenth Edition was lately Published.
Dunton, John, 1659-1733.Date: 1728- Books
The book of misers : a translation of al-Bukhalāʼ / Abū ʻUthmān ibn Baḥr al-Jāḥiẓ.
Jāḥiẓ, -868 or 869.Date: 1997- Books
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Nuptial dialogues and debates: or, an useful prospect of the felicities and discomforts of a marry'd life, Incident to all Degrees, from the Throne to the Cottage. Containing Many great Examples of Love, Piety, Prudence, Justice, and all the excellent Virtues, that largely contribute to the true Happiness of Wedlock. Drawn from the Lives of our own Princes, Nobility, and other Quality, in Prosperity and Adversity. Also the fantastical Humours of all Fops, Coquets, Bullies, Jilts, sond Fools, and Wantons: old Fumblers, barren Ladies, Misers, parsimonious Wives, Ninnies, Sluts and Termagants; drunken Husbands, toping Gossips, schismatical Precisians, and devout Hypocrites of all Sorts. Digested into serious, merry, and satyrical poems, wherein both Sexes, in all Stations, are reminded of their Duty, and taught how to be happy in a Matrimonial State. In two volumes. By Edward Ward, Author of the London Spy.
Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.Date: M.DCC.LIX. [1759]