Poetry Books by William Barnes

William Barnes Books, William Barnes poetry book British Roots of Maryland Families Authors: Robert William Barnes
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Published Date: 1999
Categories: Reference
Contains information on nearly 500 individuals or families whose descendants came to Maryland before 1800.

William Barnes Books, William Barnes poetry book Notes on Ancient Britain and the Britons Authors: William Barnes
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Published Date: 2010-09
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

William Barnes Books, William Barnes poetry book Post-closet Masculinities in Early Modern England Authors: Andrew William Barnes
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published Date: 2009
Categories: Literary Criticism
This title argues for a theory of male subjectivity that subordinates questions of desire beneath the historical imperatives that inform those desires.

William Barnes Books, William Barnes poetry book Views of Labour and Gold Authors: William Barnes
Publisher: BiblioBazaar, LLC
Published Date: 2009-02
Categories: History
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

William Barnes Books, William Barnes poetry book Recollections of William Barnes Authors: William Barnes
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published Date: 2012-06-22
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A combined and indexed edition of "Recollections of Sixty Years in Methuen" and "Recollections of Civil War," historical addressed read before the Methuen Historical Society in 1905. William Barnes was born on March 15, 1834, in Orford, NH; his family moved to Methuen when he was 11 years old. At 27 years old, Barnes a married man with 4 children, joined the 1st Massachusetts Heavy Artillery and fought in ten battles in a span of three months during the civil war. He worked in a Methuen hat factory for over thirty years, and as janitor of the new Nevins Memorial Library for eighteen years after that. He wrote these essays shortly after his retirement in 1905. William Barnes died tragically in a fall at the Odd Fellows building, on February 5, 1913. His recollections of Methuen are an integral part of all Methuen historical research.

William Barnes Books, William Barnes poetry book Colonial Families of Maryland Authors: Robert William Barnes
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published Date: 2007
Categories: Reference
The main purpose of this work is to chronicle and categorize the life experiences of 519 persons who entered Maryland as indentured servants or, to a lesser extent, as convicts forcibly transported. The text itself is composed of solidly researched sketches of Maryland servants and convicts and their descendants, including 84 that are traced to the third generation or beyond. Lest genealogists conclude that this work is a mere recitation of statistics, we hasten to add that the text itself is composed of solidly researched sketches of Maryland servants and convicts and their descendants, including 102 that are traced to the third generation or beyond. If your Maryland ancestor is among the following, rest assured that you will be working from the most we know about them to date:

William Barnes Books, William Barnes poetry book Complete Poems of William Barnes Authors: William Barnes, T. L. Burton, K. K. Ruthven
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published Date: 2013-12
Categories: History
The first of a three-volume edition of the complete poetry of nineteenth-century dialect poet William Barnes, this volume contains a critical edition of Barnes's Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1844).



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