A Voyager Out

By Katherine Frank, Frank., Katherine, FRANK,Katherine

Map on lining papers. A biography of the Victorian explorergeographer, scientist, and author of travel books on West Africa

Emily Brontë: A Chainless Soul

By Katherine Frank, FRANK,Katherine

Katherine Frank. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 285-[293])

A Chainless Soul: A Life Of Emily Bronte

By Katherine Frank, FRANK,Katherine

We are so accustomed to thinking of the Bronte story as a Yorkshire saga, one permeated by the 'Spirit of the Moors', that we tend to forget that it actually began somewhere else: in County Down, N...

Passage To Egypt: The Life Of Lucie Duff Gordon

By Katherine Frank, FRANK,Katherine

In 1862 Lucie Duff Gordon reluctantly bid farewell to her life at the center of London society and sailed to Egypt, where she fell in love with the land and the culture. One hundred and twenty-six...

A Chainless Soul

By Katherine Frank, FRANK,Katherine

“A fine retelling of the Brontës’ story . . . It does much to throw light on the achievement of one of the greatest geniuses of nineteenth-century literature.”—The New York Times Book Review In thi...

Voyager Out: Life Of Mary Kingsley

By Katherine Frank, FRANK,Katherine

G-Strings And Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars And Male Desire

By Katherine Frank, FRANK,Katherine

Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton-a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs-anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider's account of the...

G-Strings And Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars And Male Desire

By Katherine Frank, FRANK,Katherine

Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton—a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs—anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider’s account of the...

Crusoe

By Katherine Frank, FRANK,Katherine

The biography of a book and its hero: the story of Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe.January 1719. A man sits at a table, writing. Nearly sixty ye...

Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage To Egypt

By Katherine Frank, FRANK,Katherine, Lucie Austin Duff-Gordon

Lucie Duff Gordon was a world apart from her Victorian counterparts. An intellectual, traveller, writer and progressive social commentator, she and her husband led a bohemian, eccentric and highly...