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Spinster

Author : Kate Bolick
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0385347146
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Spinster written by Kate Bolick and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book “Whom to marry, and when will it happen—these two questions define every woman’s existence.” So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experiences as a starting point, journalist and cultural critic Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered, passionately lived life, weaving together the past and present to examine why she—along with over 100 million American women, whose ranks keep growing—remains unmarried. This unprecedented demographic shift, Bolick explains, is the logical outcome of hundreds of years of change that has neither been fully understood, nor appreciated. Spinster introduces a cast of pioneering women from the last century whose genius, tenacity, and flair for drama have emboldened Bolick to fashion her life on her own terms: columnist Neith Boyce, essayist Maeve Brennan, social visionary Charlotte Perkins Gilman, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, and novelist Edith Wharton. By animating their unconventional ideas and choices, Bolick shows us that contemporary debates about settling down, and having it all, are timeless—the crucible upon which all thoughtful women have tried for centuries to forge a good life. Intellectually substantial and deeply personal, Spinster is both an unreservedly inquisitive memoir and a broader cultural exploration that asks us to acknowledge the opportunities within ourselves to live authentically. Bolick offers us a way back into our own lives—a chance to see those splendid years when we were young and unencumbered, or middle-aged and finally left to our own devices, for what they really are: unbounded and our own to savor.

The Merry Spinster

Author : Daniel M. Lavery
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1250113423
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Merry Spinster written by Daniel M. Lavery and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Mallory Ortberg comes a collection of darkly mischievous stories based on classic fairy tales. Adapted from the beloved "Children's Stories Made Horrific" series, "The Merry Spinster" takes up the trademark wit that endeared Ortberg to readers of both The Toast and the best-selling debut Texts From Jane Eyre. The feature has become among the most popular on the site, with each entry bringing in tens of thousands of views, as the stories proved a perfect vehicle for Ortberg's eye for deconstruction and destabilization. Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, The Merry Spinster updates traditional children's stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror, emotional clarity, and a keen sense of feminist mischief. Readers of The Toast will instantly recognize Ortberg's boisterous good humor and uber-nerd swagger: those new to Ortberg's oeuvre will delight in this collection's unique spin on fiction, where something a bit mischievous and unsettling is always at work just beneath the surface. Unfalteringly faithful to its beloved source material, The Merry Spinster also illuminates the unsuspected, and frequently, alarming emotional complexities at play in the stories we tell ourselves, and each other, as we tuck ourselves in for the night. Bed time will never be the same.

Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities

Author : Naomi Braun Rosenthal
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791489434
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Spinster Tales and Womanly Possibilities written by Naomi Braun Rosenthal and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spinster, once a ubiquitous figure in American popular culture, has all but vanished from the scene. Intrigued by the fact that her disappearance seems to have gone unnoticed, Naomi Braun Rosenthal traces the spinster's life and demise by using stories from the Ladies' Home Journal (from 1890, 1913, and 1933), along with Hollywood films from the 1940s and 1950s, such as It's a Wonderful Life; Now, Voyager; and Summertime, among others. Originally invoked as a symbol of female independence a hundred years ago, when marriage and career were considered to be incompatible choices for women, spinsterhood was advocated as an alternate path by some and viewed as a threat to family life by others. Today, there are few traces of the spinster's existence—the options open to women have dramatically changed—but we continue to grapple with concerns about women's desires and "the future of the family."

Household Stories from the Collection of Grimm Brothers

Author : Jacob Grimm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Household Stories from the Collection of Grimm Brothers written by Jacob Grimm and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spinster Book

Author : Myrtle Reed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spinster Book written by Myrtle Reed and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Merry Lives of Spinsters

Author : Rebecca Connolly
Publisher : Phase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781943048533
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book The Merry Lives of Spinsters written by Rebecca Connolly and published by Phase Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinster is as spinster does... Georgiana Allen is a spinster and everybody knows it. She also happens to be one of the writers for the Spinster Chronicles, and everybody knows that as well. She's accepted her lot in life, and, along with the other spinsters in her circle, takes great pride in the articles she writes and the influence she has. Then Captain Anthony Sterling infiltrates their group, and her life, and Georgie impossibly begins to hope once more. Tony Sterling had no idea what to expect when he agreed to break up the Spinsters for his cousin, but he certainly did not expect Georgie Allen. From the very first meeting, she upends everything he thought a spinster would be, and her beauty and wit keeps him on edge in thrilling ways. The more he gets to know the Spinsters, the less he wants to break them up. And the more he wants Georgie in his life. Permanently.

The Spinster and the Prophet

Author : Brian Mckillop
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551996219
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Spinster and the Prophet written by Brian Mckillop and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the UBC Medal for Biography and shortlisted for the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize. The prolific novelist and social prophet H.G. Wells had a way with words, and usually he had his way with women. That is, until he encountered the feisty Toronto spinster Florence Deeks. In 1925 Miss Deeks launched a $500,000 lawsuit against Wells, claiming that in an act of "literary piracy," Wells had somehow come to use her manuscript history of the world in the writing of his international bestseller The Outline of History , a work still in print today. Thus began one of the most sensational and extraordinary cases in Anglo-Canadian publishing and legal history. In this riveting literary whodunit, A.B. McKillop unfolds the parallel stories of two Edwardian figures and the ambition to capture the sweep of history that possessed them both: H.G. Wells was the celebrated writer of autobiographical fiction and futuristic fantasy who, at the end of the Great War, preached the need for a global world order. Florence Deeks was a modest teacher and amateur student of history who intended to correct traditional scholarship's neglect by writing an account of civilization that stressed the contributions of women. Her manuscript was submitted to the venerable Macmillan Company in Canada but was rejected and never published. Wells's opus, completed in an astonishingly short period, was released by the same firm in North America the year following. As the mystery deepens and new evidence is revealed, it seems that the verdict of the courts in Deeks vs Wells may not be that of history. The cast of characters is as intriguing as it is wide in Canada, the United States, and England: renowned publishers and editors, eminent lawyers and judges, leading journalists and all-seeing office secretaries. Not all, it turns out, merited their reputations. Above all, the tale embraces the lives of the philandering Mr. Wells, his wife, and his mistresses, and the scarcely noted Miss Florence Deeks, her family, her life's work, and her search for justice.

A Spinster's Story

Author : Mary Ann Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book A Spinster's Story written by Mary Ann Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Spinster's Story

Author : Mary A. Fisher
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752577096
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book A Spinster's Story written by Mary A. Fisher and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Thirty-Two Going on Spinster

Author : Becky Monson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781481128346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (283 download)

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Download or read book Thirty-Two Going on Spinster written by Becky Monson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julia Dorning's life is turned upside down when there is a new hire at work, her instant crush on Jared nudges her to make some changes in her boring spinster life. After she has revamped her life, is she strong enough to overcome any changes that might come her way?

The Old Engagement: a Spinster's Story

Author : Julia Day
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Engagement: a Spinster's Story written by Julia Day and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Spinster for Hire

Author : Julia Story
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944585396
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Spinster for Hire written by Julia Story and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. Funny and fiery, this second collection will restore your faith in the power of small stories to shift our minds to bigger knowing. Says Emily Kendal Frey, "The voice here is friends with its sadness and yet we are yanked, with fierce exultance, up and through joy, too. Mashed and battered, held and protected, these words are life, and a life that asks, 'What harms us more than our hope?'" "Cinematic, darkly funny, & seductively sad--watching Julia Story cut these twisty, glinting shapes out of silence is like watching a kirigami artist summon a life-size funnel cloud out of a single sheet of paper. SPINSTER FOR HIRE is sublime--so full of finely-tuned truth, it practically levitates."--Karyna McGlynn "SPINSTER FOR HIRE is an antidote to modern noise--a long, late-night walk that leaves us wondering how we got here. Against a backdrop of existential isolation, Story points out constellations. Maybe they mean something, and if not, these poems shepherd us through the mystery."--Rob McDonald

Spiders & Spinsters

Author : Marta Weigle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Spiders & Spinsters written by Marta Weigle and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiders & Spinsters weaves a tapestry of voices and images--folk, popular, tribal, ancient and contemporary, by women and men, scholars and critics, psychologists and artists--to show how women have fared in classical Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, and indigenous American mythologies. It is a rich sourcebook of goddesses, guides, maidens, crones, heroines, matriarchs, gossips, and those who have portrayed and interpreted them. Hailed as 'wonderful, as well as useful' (Baltimore Sun) and 'a welcome addition to the field of mythology' (Choice), Spiders & Spinsters is a valuable resource for students and scholars in mythology, anthropology, literature, art, psychology, religion, and women studies. It also speaks to creative artists of all kinds and to general readers with interests in story, ritual, dreams and gender.

Spinster Sister

Author : Elise Marion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781956003727
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Spinster Sister written by Elise Marion and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He never thought to wed for love. He never anticipated her. Welcome to book 1 in the new and exciting series from bestselling author Elise Marion. Helena Montgomery is left to care for her siblings after the deaths of her parents. Buried under a pile of debt, she has no choice but to join her friends in a dangerous scheme. Moonlighting as a masked highwayman is a sure way to end up facing the hangman, but there is nothing Helena wouldn't do for those she loves. Besides, she only intends to continue her illegal activities until her sister's first season yields an advantageous marriage. Lord Sebastian Radcliffe doesn't want a wife, but must select one to secure his family legacy. The young, beautiful Harriett Montgomery seems like the perfect choice-yet Sebastian finds himself drawn instead to her elder sister. He never expected to marry for love, yet the vivacious Helena quickly burrows her way past his stony façade and straight into his heart. He thinks her a high-handed shrew; she thinks him a self-righteous bore. Yet, passion kindles between this unlikely pair, leaving them hopeful that the futures they once thought impossible might be within reach. However, the damaging secret of Helena's crimes hangs over her head, forcing her to keep Sebastian at arm's length. Despite her best efforts, she is unable to deny the depth of her feelings. When the truth is exposed, will Helena lose the man she has come to love? Lawless Ladies Spinster Sister Willful Widow Beguiling Belle Mysterious Maiden Femme Fatale

The Spinster

Author : Tess Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781951621353
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book The Spinster written by Tess Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her love died on a battlefield. He carries a torch for a woman he's never met. Can the tragic death of a soldier entwine the souls of two strangers? Colorado, 1920. Josephine Barnes wrote every day to her beloved fiancé battling in the trenches of the Great War. Devastated when he's killed in action, she vows never to marry and buries her grief in the construction of the town's first library. But she's left breathless when she receives a request from a gracious gentleman to visit and return the letters containing her declarations of desire. Philip Baker survived the war but returned home burdened with a distressing secret. Though he knows it's wrong, he can't stop reading through the beautiful sentiments left among his slain comrade's possessions. Plagued by guilt, he's unable to resist connecting with the extraordinary woman who captured his heart with her words. When Josephine invites Philip to join her gregarious family for the holidays, she's torn by her loyalty to a ghost and her growing feelings for the gallant man. And as Philip prepares to risk everything by telling her the truth about her dead fiancé, he fears he could crush Josephine's blossoming happiness forever. Will they break free from their painful pasts to embrace a passion meant to be? The Spinster is the second book in the heartwarming Emerson Pass historical romance series. If you like staunch heroines, emotional backdrops, and sweeping family sagas, then you'll adore Tess Thompson's wholesome tale. Buy The Spinster to read between the lines of destiny today!

A Spinster's Story

Author : Mary Ann Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A Spinster's Story written by Mary Ann Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Spinster's Story

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780461232295
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book A Spinster's Story written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: