Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell 1818-1889 by Carole Oles

Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell 1818-1889 by Carole Oles

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Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell 1818-1889 by Carole Oles

Table of Contents:

At The Vatican Observatory
The Charlestown Enterprise Exclusive On Maria, 1884
The Civil War Suspends More Fruitful Enterprise
Crossing The Atlantic, This Request
A Diary Of Mechanical Difficulties: Hair
Dr. Asa Gray Eats Crow
Dream
Dream
Dream
En Route To Rome With The Hawthornes
Father Dies
From The Letters That Sister Phebe Burned
Harriet Hosmer Of Watertown, Massachusetts
In Rome
An Invitation
Letter To Dr. Avery
Maria Mitchell In The Great Beyond With Marilyn Monroe
Maria's Ghost Addresses Hawthorne Concerning Chapter Five.
Maria's Ghost Considers Interpretation By Freud
Maria's Ghost Considers The Reappearance
Maria's Ghost Contemplates Her Preservers
Maria's Ghost Haunts Phyllis Schlafly
Matthew Vassar Reads His Morning Mail, Or, Intemperate
Matthew Vassar's Soul Lifts Off
Meeting Hawthorne
Miss Mitchell's Comet
Mother Falls Ill
News From Florence: The Cholera
Observing Halley's Comet, 1835
Partial Eclipse
Remember The Sister Of William
Rough Passage
The Single Life: Maria's Ghost Confides
Stagefright
Study With Professor Mitchell
The Total Eclipse Of The Sun
Travelling South, 1857
A Visit To The Paris Morgue
The Words Of The Trespasser Closely Veiled

Carole Simmons Oles is a native of New York City. Her poems have appeared in Prarie Schooner, Ploughshares, the New England Reviews/Bread Loaf Quarterly, and Poetry. Her previous poetry collections are The Loneliness Factor, Quarry, and Night Watches: Inventions of the Life of Maria Mitchell. Oles has received many awards, including, for The Deed, the 1990 Virginia Prize for Poetry.
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ISBN 13 9780914086574
ISBN 10 091408657X
Title Night Watches: Inventions on the Life of Maria Mitchell 1818-1889
Author Carole Oles
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Alicejamesbooks
Year published 1985-01-01
Number of pages 70
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.