The Resource Scandal and survival in nineteenth-century Scotland : the life of Jane Cumming, Frances B. Singh, (electronic resource)
Scandal and survival in nineteenth-century Scotland : the life of Jane Cumming, Frances B. Singh, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- PROVISIONAL-- FOR FORECASTING PURPOSES ONLY Her Scottish father put her in an institution in Calcutta when she was small. Guilt made her Highland gentry grandfather send for her, but he considered her an encumbrance and boarded her in Elgin. When she was an adolescent, her grandmother enrolled her in an Edinburgh boarding school where she developed a crush on one teacher and received harsh rebukes from the other. Brushed off by the former and chastised by the latter, she retaliated by alleging that they were sexually intimate. The teachers sued for libel; in the case that ensued, she was seen through sexist and racist lenses, constructed as an Other. While the case was still going on, she was married to a Presbyterian minister. If the idea was that he would tame her and make her conformable as other household Janes, the plan failed. He turned out to be a womanizer and Jane took revenge on him by reporting his unchaste behavior to his fellow ministers. Later she made a laughingstock of him by joining another church. Posthumously, she became a mean show-stopping character in a play by Lillian Hellman. Such was the life of Jane Cumming, the biracial woman whose recovered story is the subject of this biography. Spanning three continents and more than two centuries and based on archival research, The Encumbrance offers a sympathetic portrait of the protagonist, seeing her as a resilient figure who, when threatened by figures of authority, took arms against her sea of troubles so as to oppose and end them.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxxviii, 318 pages)
- Contents
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- Placing Jane
- Educating Jane (1)
- Educating Jane (2)
- Jane and the Lords of the Law (1)
- Jane and the Lords of the Law (2)
- Jane and William Tulloch
- Jane, posthumously
- Conclusion: Assessing Jane
- Isbn
- 9781580469555
- Label
- Scandal and survival in nineteenth-century Scotland : the life of Jane Cumming
- Title
- Scandal and survival in nineteenth-century Scotland
- Title remainder
- the life of Jane Cumming
- Statement of responsibility
- Frances B. Singh
- Subject
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- Divorced women -- Scotland -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Racially mixed women -- Scotland -- Biography
- Racially mixed women -- Scotland -- Social conditions | History -- 19th century
- Cumming, Jane, 1795 or 1796-1844
- Trials (Libel) -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century
- Scotland -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- PROVISIONAL-- FOR FORECASTING PURPOSES ONLY Her Scottish father put her in an institution in Calcutta when she was small. Guilt made her Highland gentry grandfather send for her, but he considered her an encumbrance and boarded her in Elgin. When she was an adolescent, her grandmother enrolled her in an Edinburgh boarding school where she developed a crush on one teacher and received harsh rebukes from the other. Brushed off by the former and chastised by the latter, she retaliated by alleging that they were sexually intimate. The teachers sued for libel; in the case that ensued, she was seen through sexist and racist lenses, constructed as an Other. While the case was still going on, she was married to a Presbyterian minister. If the idea was that he would tame her and make her conformable as other household Janes, the plan failed. He turned out to be a womanizer and Jane took revenge on him by reporting his unchaste behavior to his fellow ministers. Later she made a laughingstock of him by joining another church. Posthumously, she became a mean show-stopping character in a play by Lillian Hellman. Such was the life of Jane Cumming, the biracial woman whose recovered story is the subject of this biography. Spanning three continents and more than two centuries and based on archival research, The Encumbrance offers a sympathetic portrait of the protagonist, seeing her as a resilient figure who, when threatened by figures of authority, took arms against her sea of troubles so as to oppose and end them.--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1947-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Singh, Frances B.
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
- Series statement
- Cambridge Histories online
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Cumming, Jane
- Racially mixed women
- Racially mixed women
- Trials (Libel)
- Divorced women
- Scotland
- Label
- Scandal and survival in nineteenth-century Scotland : the life of Jane Cumming, Frances B. Singh, (electronic resource)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Placing Jane -- Educating Jane (1) -- Educating Jane (2) -- Jane and the Lords of the Law (1) -- Jane and the Lords of the Law (2) -- Jane and William Tulloch -- Jane, posthumously -- Conclusion: Assessing Jane
- Control code
- CR9781787444850
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxxviii, 318 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781580469555
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1143391267
- Label
- Scandal and survival in nineteenth-century Scotland : the life of Jane Cumming, Frances B. Singh, (electronic resource)
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Placing Jane -- Educating Jane (1) -- Educating Jane (2) -- Jane and the Lords of the Law (1) -- Jane and the Lords of the Law (2) -- Jane and William Tulloch -- Jane, posthumously -- Conclusion: Assessing Jane
- Control code
- CR9781787444850
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xxxviii, 318 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781580469555
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital, PDF file(s).
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1143391267
Subject
- Divorced women -- Scotland -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Racially mixed women -- Scotland -- Biography
- Racially mixed women -- Scotland -- Social conditions | History -- 19th century
- Cumming, Jane, 1795 or 1796-1844
- Trials (Libel) -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century
- Scotland -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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