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M o t h e r s a n d S o n s : a H i s t o r y (2011)
M o t h e r s a n d S o n s : a H i s t o r y
M a r g a r e t L . K i n g
Introduction: Mothers and Sons in History
In 1622, like other pregnant women of her day, Elizabeth Joscelin purchased her shroud in preparation for childbirth. At the same time, believing that there was "some good office I might do for my child more than only bring it forth," 1 she wrote a small book for the son or daughter alive in her womb: "I write not to the world, but to own childe, who it may be, will more profit by a few weake Dalassena instructions coming from a dead mother … than by farre better from much more learned…." 2 More than any jewels or riches she could bestow, she wrote, this was her legacywealth was beside the point: "No, I neuer aimed at so poore an inheritance for thee, as the whole world." 3 Joscelin died, as she had feared, only a few days after giving birth. Her legacy to her unborn child serves as a message to us, conveying the urgency of one mother's determination to imprint herself upon history and on her progeny.
This book is about that urgency: a mother's desire to convey to her child what matters to her -and particularly to her son, for daughters are another matter, as will be s
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Émile Reynaud, Theodore Roosevelt, Lucille Ricksen, Raoul Barré, Carl Edouarde, Pat Sullivan, Joaquín Xaudaró, Louis Glackens, Calvin Coolidge, Winsor McCay, Émile Cohl, Georges Méliès, Bob Rothberg, Robert Johnson, E.C. Segar, Fred Spencer, Amedee J. Van Beuren, Benjamin Rabier, Charles Mintz, Otis Harlan, Norman Spencer, Guido Seeber, Eddie Collins, Earl Hurd, Barnett Parker, J. Stuart Blackton, Frank Churchill, Kent Rogers, Count Cutelli, Willard Bowsky, Seitarō Kitayama, Lucille La Verne, Franklin D. Roosevelt, O'Galop, Scotty Mattraw, Charles Bowers, Gus Wickie, Herman Bing, Mahatma Gandhi, Grace Huntington, James Baskett, Pat Powers, Nicolai Shutorev, Robert Storm Petersen, Frank Morgan, Buddy Clark, Leon Schlesinger, Dink Trout, Frank Graham, Harry Hemsley, Larry Grey, Rollin Hamilton, Sam Cobean, William Randolph Hearst, Curly Howard, Gregory La Cava, Fred Brunish, Fred Moore, Hank Williams, Harry E. Lang, Milt Gross, Billy Murray, Moroni Olsen, Bill Nolan, Annette Mills, Pierre Levegh, Perce Pearce, Carmen Miranda, Shemp Howard, Christian Rub, Johnny Murray, Bela Lugosi, William Pennell, Cecil Surry, Erdman Penner, Floyd Buckley, Humphrey Bogart, Ben Hardaway, Ned Sparks, John Brown, Kay Nielsen, Norm Ferguson, Bob Amsberry, Ted Sears,
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