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Women's Letters

Author : Lisa Grunwald
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN 13 : 0307493334
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Women's Letters written by Lisa Grunwald and published by Dial Press Trade Paperback. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these women’s singular correspondences—often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washington’s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFK’s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a New York City firefighter, asking him, “Were you afraid?” The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in women’s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby. With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Women’s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who lived–and made–history. From the Hardcover edition.

English Women of Letters

Author : Julia Kavanagh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book English Women of Letters written by Julia Kavanagh and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Romantic Correspondence

Author : Mary A. Favret
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521604284
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Romantic Correspondence written by Mary A. Favret and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of correspondence in the Romantic period calls into question the common notion that letters are a particularly 'romantic', personal, and ultimately feminine form of writing.

Becoming a Woman of Letters

Author : Linda H. Peterson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400833256
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Woman of Letters written by Linda H. Peterson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. How did these women enter the literary profession; meet the demands of editors, publishers, booksellers, and reviewers; and achieve distinction as "women of letters"? Becoming a Woman of Letters examines the various ways women writers negotiated the market realities of authorship, and looks at the myths and models women writers constructed to elevate their place in the profession. Drawing from letters, contracts, and other archival material, Linda Peterson details the careers of various women authors from the Victorian period. Some, like Harriet Martineau, adopted the practices of their male counterparts and wrote for periodicals before producing a best seller; others, like Mary Howitt and Alice Meynell, began in literary partnerships with their husbands and pursued independent careers later in life; and yet others, like Charlotte Brontë, and her successors Charlotte Riddell and Mary Cholmondeley, wrote from obscure parsonages or isolated villages, hoping an acclaimed novel might spark a meteoric rise to fame. Peterson considers these women authors' successes and failures--the critical esteem that led to financial rewards and lasting reputations, as well as the initial successes undermined by publishing trends and pressures. Exploring the burgeoning print culture and the rise of new genres available to Victorian women authors, this book provides a comprehensive account of the flowering of literary professionalism in the nineteenth century.

The Other Eighteenth Century

Author : Robert W. Uphaus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Other Eighteenth Century written by Robert W. Uphaus and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of the works of 22 women authors aims to reclaim the tradition of women's writing in England during the period, and helps to restore this tradition to its rightful place in the present-day canon of late 17th- and 18th-century English literature.

Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters

Author : Julie D. Campbell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754667384
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (673 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Women and Transnational Communities of Letters written by Julie D. Campbell and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comparative and international approach to early modern women's writing, the essays gathered here focus on multiple literatures across Italy, France, England, and the Low Countries. Individual essays investigate women in diverse social classes and life stages, ranging from siblings and mothers to nuns to celebrated writers. The collection overall is invested in crossing geographic, linguistic, political, and religious borders and in exploring familial, political, and religious communities.

English Women of Letters

Author : Julia Kavanagh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Women of Letters written by Julia Kavanagh and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women of Letters

Author : Leonie Hannan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780719099427
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Women of Letters written by Leonie Hannan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new history of English women's intellectual worlds, using private letters as evidence of hidden networks of creative exchange. Through these personal epistles, it offers an interpretation of intellectual life in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries.

The Little Women Letters

Author : Gabrielle Donnelly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451617194
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Little Women Letters written by Gabrielle Donnelly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-05 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her older sister planning a wedding and her younger sister preparing to launch a career on the stage, Lulu can't help but feel like the failure of the Atwater family. Lulu loves her sisters dearly and wants nothing but the best for them, but she finds herself stuck in a rut. When her mother sends her to look for some old family recipes in the attic, she stumbles across a collection of letters written by her great-great-grandmother Josephine March. Jo writes in detail about every aspect of her life: her older sister Meg's new home and family; her younger sister Amy's many admirers; the family's shared grief over losing Beth; and her own feelings towards a handsome young German. As Lulu delves deeper into the lives of the March sisters, she finds solace and guidance, but can her great-great-grandmother help Lulu find a place in a world so different from the one Jo knew?--From publisher description.

English Women of Letters

Author : Julia Kavanagh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book English Women of Letters written by Julia Kavanagh and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Women of Letters

Author : Julia Kavanagh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330806319
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book English Women of Letters written by Julia Kavanagh and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches The explanatory preface which was given with "French Women of Letters" applies to "English Women of Letters" as well. Both are parts of one whole, conceived and written at the same time, and with the same object - namely, "to show how far, for the last two centuries and more, women have contributed to the formation of the modern novel in the two great literatures of modern times - the French and the English." I will not trouble my readers by repeating what I already said at some length on this subject, but I will remind them of what may have escaped their memory - that this selection includes none but long dead novelists, or amongst the recently departed, such as have already stood the test of all merit - time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

English Women in Life and Letters

Author : Margaret Phillips
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Women in Life and Letters written by Margaret Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Women to the World

Author : Elizabeth Filippouli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755626869
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book From Women to the World written by Elizabeth Filippouli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Independent Book of the Month Featured in Vogue Arabia Featured by Vanity Fair Acclaimed writer Elif Shafak writes a letter to Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand after the Christchurch attack. Actress Yasmine AlMassri pens a poem about war for her mother. Activist and TV presenter June Sarpong addresses designer Diane Von Furstenberg. These are a few of the moving and insightful letters that make up From Women to the World, a book by journalist, author and executive Elizabeth Filippouli, which brings together letters from a global group of accomplished women - politicians, royalty, actors, writers, activists and more – every one addressed to a woman who means something to each of them. The results are extraordinary, heartfelt letters to historical figures, mentors, family members or inspiring ordinary people. Each is based on these women's personal histories and experiences, drawing attention to social issues such as homelessness, war, LGBT activism, mental health care or the plight of international refugees. From Women to the World is more than a simple collection of letters - it is a book that shows a new model of leadership based on emotional intelligence and demonstrates how we have the wisdom to inspire, motivate and reinvent our world.

Untamed and Unabashed

Author : Regina Barreca
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814321362
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Untamed and Unabashed written by Regina Barreca and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Untamed and Unabashed, Regina Barreca, noted authority on women and humor, examines the use of humor in the works of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Elizabeth Bowen, Muriel Spark, and Fay Weldon. She analyzes the ways that each writer uses comedic devices, especially those involving language itself, and discusses the gendered basis of their humor, providing a provocative feminist perspective on gender and comedy. Each of the essays argues that conservative critics have misread and misunderstood the importance of humor in the works of these women authors, and that women's humor serves to explode conventions oppressive to women and to offer women readers a critique of, and an alternative perspective on, the dominant cultural ideologies that contain and oppress them. The book concludes that these authors strategically deployed humor, coded in forms that women readers-but not men readers-would recognize and understand, as a means of educating and empowering those women readers. Barreca asserts that much of women's comic play has to do with power and its systematic misappropriation, allowing women to gain perspective by ridiculing the implicit insanities of a patriarchal culture. Using detailed persuasive new readings of various works of each of her chosen authors, she shows how the straightjacket of conventional femininity is challenged, confronted, and finally, thrown off. This volume demonstrates that comedy can effectively channel anger and rebellion by first making them appear to be acceptable and temporary phenomena, and then by harnessing the released energies, rather than dispersing them. This kind of comedy, which is at the heart of Untamed and Unabashed, terrifies those who hold order dear. It should.

English Women of Letters

Author : Julia Kavanagh
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781358908873
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book English Women of Letters written by Julia Kavanagh and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700

Author : J. Daybell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598668
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Women's Letter Writing, 1450-1700 written by J. Daybell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early eighteen century. It is the first book to deal comprehensively with women's letter writing during the Late Medieval and Early Modern period and shows that this was a larger and more socially diversified area of female activity than has generally been assumed. The essays, contributed by many of the leading researchers active in the field, illustrate women's engagement in various activities, both literary and political, social and religious.

The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman

Author : John S. Hughes
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780872498402
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (984 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman written by John S. Hughes and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Sheffield's letters help us better understand the full range of behavior among women in the Victorian South & the limits of Southern womanhood near the end of the nineteenth century.