Bøger af Mary Hammond

Mary Hammond examines the role of mercury in the life of Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and the creator of the mad Hatter. Many of us are aware that the phrase mad hatter's disease is another name for mercury poisoning, and we have wondered whether the mad Hatter suffered from mercury poisoning. The more important question, perhaps, is whether Lewis Carroll himself suffered from mercury poisoning. If you read this book, you may come to believe, as Hammond does, that Lewis Carroll's mad Hatter was based on a man he knew intimately well (himself), that it is tremendously likely he suffered from mercury poisoning, and that this was the cause of his many emotional and physical disabilities. Join Mary Hammond on a trip down the rabbit hole for an interesting and thought provoking look at the life of one of our most beloved historical figures.

Several years ago I discovered that I had excessively high mercury levels due to a higher than recommended amount of fish in my diet. I immediately began researching the issue to determine whether my high mercury levels might be behind some of the health issues I'd been having, and along the way I discovered something incredible. My life long shyness, anxiety, and embarrassment at being noticed, was beginning to dissipate. I was calmer in the presence of strangers, and I had increasing levels of self-confidence. I researched mercury and social anxiety as far back as I could, and what I discovered shook my world because I saw so much that could have changed my life if I had only known it. If you have anxiety issues and eat more than 2 servings of fish a week, I would like to show you the ways in which historical mercury use may be relevant to your modern day anxiety issues.

Vinettes selected from our lives, both before and after marriage. We hope this provides a little insight into how we got where we are. All of you are familiar with some of these stories, some are perhaps familiar with most, but none have heard them all. If reading this creates a moment of nostalgia that either brings a tear to your eye or joy in your heart, then perhaps this willhave been a worthwhile undertaking.

Between 1880 and 1914, England saw the emergence of an unprecedented range of literary forms from Modernism to the popular thriller. This book asks the following key questions: How did publishing and distribution practices influence reader choice? Who decided whether or not a book was a 'classic'?

Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.

As Mary Hammond observes in her wide-ranging publishing history of the novel, Great Expectations' life has extended far beyond the literary Anglophone world and owes a great deal to a particular moment in the mid-Victorian publishing industry. Her book features an exhaustive survey of the novel's different appearances in serial, book and dramatic f

Re-assessing generations of Dickens scholarship, the author covers the formative history of Great Expectations' early years, analyses the extent and significance of its global reach, and explores the ways in which it has functioned as literature and stage, TV, film and radio drama from its first appearance to the latest film version of 2012.