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Tracing her family history from 1816, the author provides a
fascinating account of five generations of missions activity.
Covers the founding of the WEC mission organisation, and
missionaries in sucessive generations of the family: Royal Wilder,
Robert Wilder, Grace Hoyte (nee Wilder), Elizabeth Goldsmith (nee
Hoyte), Ruth Valerio (nee Goldsmith).
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Choices (Paperback)
Martin Goldsmith, Elizabeth Goldsmith
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R347
Discovery Miles 3 470
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Choosing a job? Considering a marriage? Facing a major decision?
This book is packed with good advice that makes sense of the
different ways God guides - the Bible, wisdom, circumstances, and
inner peace just to name a few. Find out what it takes to get the
right guidance and how to make decisions in the will of God.
The story of God's faithfulness in the life of Elizabeth Goldsmith.
Brought up by missionary parents in China, and losing her mother
during five years separation by the war, Elizabeth Goldsmith's
childhood years gave her many opportunities to begin to see God's
faithfulness in action.
The Mancini Sisters, Marie and Hortense, were born in Rome, brought
to the court of Louis XIV of France, and strategically married off
by their uncle, Cardinal Mazarin, to secure his political power
base. Such was the life of many young women of the age: they had no
independent status under the law and were entirely a part of their
husband's property once married. Marie and Hortense, however, had
other ambitions in mind altogether. Miserable in their marriages
and determined to live independently, they abandoned their husbands
in secret and began lives of extraordinary daring on the run and in
the public eye. The beguiling sisters quickly won the affections of
noblemen and kings alike. Their flight became popular fodder for
salon conversation and tabloids, and was closely followed by
seventeenth-century European society. The Countess of Grignan
remarked that they were traveling"like two heroines out of a
novel." Others gossiped that they"were roaming the countryside in
pursuit of wandering lovers." Their scandalous behaviour-
disguising themselves as men, gambling, and publicly disputing with
their husbands- served as more than just entertainment. It sparked
discussions across Europe concerning the legal rights of husbands
over their wives.Elizabeth Goldsmith's vibrant biography of the
Mancini sisters- drawn from personal papers of the players involved
and the tabloids of the time- illuminates the lives of two
pioneering free spirits who were feminists long before the word
existed.
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