Country Girl

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316230367
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis Country Girl by : Edna O'Brien

Download or read book Country Girl written by Edna O'Brien and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl brings us face-to-face with a life of high drama and contemplation. Starting with O'Brien's birth in a grand but deteriorating house in Ireland, her story moves through convent school to elopement, divorce, single-motherhood, the wild parties of the '60s in London, and encounters with Hollywood giants, pop stars, and literary titans. There is love and unrequited love, and the glamour of trips to America as a celebrated writer and the guest of Jackie Onassis and Hillary Clinton. Country Girl is a rich and heady accounting of the events, people, emotions, and landscape that have imprinted upon and enhanced one lifetime.

Jane Grey Swisshelm

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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807875880
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Jane Grey Swisshelm written by Sylvia D. Hoffert and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman. While she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, she publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior, limited her political and economic opportunities, and attempted to silence her voice. As the owner and editor of newspapers in Pittsburgh; St. Cloud, Minnesota; and Washington, D.C.; and as one of the founders of the Minnesota Republican Party, Swisshelm negotiated a significant place for herself in the male-dominated world of commerce, journalism, and politics. How she accomplished this feat; what expressive devices she used; what social, economic, and political tensions resulted from her efforts; and how those tensions were resolved are the central questions examined in this biography. Sylvia Hoffert arranges the book topically, rather than chronologically, to include Swisshelm in the broader issues of the day, such as women's involvement in politics and religion, their role in the workplace, and marriage. Rescuing this prominent feminist from obscurity, Hoffert shows how Swisshelm laid the groundwork for the "New Woman" of the turn of the century.

The Country Girls

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780228015
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis The Country Girls by : Edna O'Brien

Download or read book The Country Girls written by Edna O'Brien and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic title in Edna O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy - the first volume It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend Baba are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings in a wider world; of discovering love and luxury and liquor and above all, fun. With bawdy innocence, shrewd for all their inexperience, the girls romp their way through convent school to the bright lights of Dublin - where Caithleen finds that suave, idealised lovers rarely survive the real world. 'She is one of our bravest and best novelists' Irish Times 'O'Brien rises like a lark in the clear air, she sings as she flies' Literary Review 'One of the greatest writers in the English-speaking world' New York Times Book Review

In the Country of Women

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 164622020X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book In the Country of Women written by Susan Straight and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR's Best Books of the Year “Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emphasis on the women’s stories . . . The aftereffect of all these disparate stories juxtaposed in a single epic is remarkable. Its resonance lingers for days after reading.” —San Francisco Chronicle In the Country of Women is a valuable social history and a personal narrative that reads like a love song to America and indomitable women. In inland Southern California, near the desert and the Mexican border, Susan Straight, a self–proclaimed book nerd, and Dwayne Sims, an African American basketball player, started dating in high school. After college, they married and drove to Amherst, Massachusetts, where Straight met her teacher and mentor, James Baldwin, who encouraged her to write. Once back in Riverside, at driveway barbecues and fish fries with the large, close–knit Sims family, Straight—and eventually her three daughters—heard for decades the stories of Dwayne’s female ancestors. Some women escaped violence in post–slavery Tennessee, some escaped murder in Jim Crow Mississippi, and some fled abusive men. Straight’s mother–in–law, Alberta Sims, is the descendant at the heart of this memoir. Susan’s family, too, reflects the hardship and resilience of women pushing onward—from Switzerland, Canada, and the Colorado Rockies to California. A Pakistani word, biraderi, is one Straight uses to define a complex system of kinship and clan—those who become your family. An entire community helped raise her daughters. Of her three girls, now grown and working in museums and the entertainment industry, Straight writes, “The daughters of our ancestors carry in their blood at least three continents. We are not about borders. We are about love and survival.” “Certain books give off the sense that you won’t want them to end, so splendid the writing, so lyrical the stories. Such is the case with Southern California novelist Susan Straight’s new memoir, In the Country of Women . . . Her vibrant pages are filled with people of churned–together blood culled from scattered immigrants and native peoples, indomitable women and their babies. Yet they never succumb . . . Straight gives us permission to remember what went before with passion and attachment.” ––Los Angeles Times

A Southern Woman of Letters

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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570034404
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (344 download)

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Book Synopsis A Southern Woman of Letters by : Augusta Jane Evans

Download or read book A Southern Woman of Letters written by Augusta Jane Evans and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilson 1835-1909) is little known now, but was one of the most popular authors of the 19th century, with most of her nine novels becoming best sellers. Sexton (writing, Morehead State U.) selects and annotates letters to her friends, among them well known literary and political figures, that illuminate her life and times. With this volume, the series expands from the 19th to encompass the 20th as well. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Home Is Not a Country

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Publisher : Make Me a World
ISBN 13 : 0593177088
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Book Synopsis Home Is Not a Country by : Safia Elhillo

Download or read book Home Is Not a Country written by Safia Elhillo and published by Make Me a World. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD “Nothing short of magic.” —Elizabeth Acevedo, New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X From the acclaimed poet featured on Forbes Africa’s “30 Under 30” list, this powerful novel-in-verse captures one girl, caught between cultures, on an unexpected journey to face the ephemeral girl she might have been. Woven through with moments of lyrical beauty, this is a tender meditation on family, belonging, and home. my mother meant to name me for her favorite flower its sweetness garlands made for pretty girls i imagine her yasmeen bright & alive & i ache to have been born her instead Nima wishes she were someone else. She doesn’t feel understood by her mother, who grew up in a different land. She doesn’t feel accepted in her suburban town; yet somehow, she isn't different enough to belong elsewhere. Her best friend, Haitham, is the only person with whom she can truly be herself. Until she can't, and suddenly her only refuge is gone. As the ground is pulled out from under her, Nima must grapple with the phantom of a life not chosen—the name her parents meant to give her at birth—Yasmeen. But that other name, that other girl, might be more real than Nima knows. And the life Nima wishes were someone else's. . . is one she will need to fight for with a fierceness she never knew she possessed.

Code Girls

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Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316352551
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Code Girls written by Liza Mundy and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.

Letters From the People

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Publisher : The Endangered History Project
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters From the People written by Ralph E. Shaffer and published by The Endangered History Project. This book was released on 2020-11-14 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1881, Los Angeles was a rough, frontier community more in touch with the past than the future. The city had two dailies, the Herald and the Express, and the founding of the Times drew only modest attention. Then, in 1882, Harrison Gray Otis launched a formal column, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. Hundreds of letter writers used the column to call attention to the matters they thought should be the immediate concern of all Angelenos. While historians have recorded the euphoria of skyrocketing real estate prices, mass migration from the east, the Americanization of the city, and the growth of specific industries and institutions, life in Los Angeles can only be fully understood by examining the concerns of its citizens. The topics discussed reveal a Los Angeles that was occupied with concerns that still divide us today: education, crime, unequal justice, immigration, the treatment of minorities, women's rights, health care, transit, water, the river, lack of infrastructure, and government's negative effect on the business climate. Derived from more than 2,000 letters to the editor, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE is an in-depth anthology supplemented with much historical data about the writers and events that shaped early Los Angeles on the eve of its explosive growth.

The Women of the Copper Country

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Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 1982109580
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis The Women of the Copper Country by : Mary Doria Russell

Download or read book The Women of the Copper Country written by Mary Doria Russell and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Sparrow comes an inspiring historical novel about “America’s Joan of Arc” Annie Clements—the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper mining company in the world. In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She’s spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries—and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself, and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. In Annie’s hands lie the miners’ fortunes and their health, her husband’s wrath over her growing independence, and her own reputation as she faces the threat of prison and discovers a forbidden love. On her fierce quest for justice, Annie will discover just how much she is willing to sacrifice for her own independence and the families of Calumet. From one of the most versatile writers in contemporary fiction, this novel is an authentic and moving historical portrait of the lives of the men and women of the early 20th century labor movement, and of a turbulent, violent political landscape that may feel startlingly relevant to today.

Sport and American Society

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317997778
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Book Synopsis Sport and American Society by : Mark Dyreson

Download or read book Sport and American Society written by Mark Dyreson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport, this collection of provocative essays explores the many faces of sport in America. Drawing upon insights from anthropology, history, philosophy and sociology and with reference throughout to politics and economics, the contributors outline the story of how American sport has contributed to a climate of insularity, exceptionalism and imperialism, from a symbolic rejection of British rule and British sports to the current status of all-American sports such as baseball and basketball in the face of globalization.

Letters from India

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Letters from India written by Emily Eden and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ohio cultivator

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Beatrix Potter's Letters

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0723268843
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Beatrix Potter's Letters written by Beatrix Potter and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beatrix Potter was a very private person, yet, luckily for us, she was a prolific letter writer. Through her own words to friends, working colleagues and children we can discover the observant, energetic, affectionate and humorous personality she kept hidden from her public. Her life covers a period of immense social change. The restricted existence of a dutiful Victorian daughter, the background against which she first wrote the story of Peter Rabbit, was very different from that of war-time England where she continued to pioneer countryside conservation until her death.

The Delineator

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Delineator written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A select collection of the original Love Letters of several eminent persons ... now living, printed from genuine manuscripts. To which are subjoin'd poems by eminent ladies, particularly Mrs. Barber, Mrs Behn, Miss Carter, etc. [Edited by G. Gaylove.]

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Total Pages : 168 pages
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Book Synopsis A select collection of the original Love Letters of several eminent persons ... now living, printed from genuine manuscripts. To which are subjoin'd poems by eminent ladies, particularly Mrs. Barber, Mrs Behn, Miss Carter, etc. [Edited by G. Gaylove.] by : G. GAYLOVE (pseud.)

Download or read book A select collection of the original Love Letters of several eminent persons ... now living, printed from genuine manuscripts. To which are subjoin'd poems by eminent ladies, particularly Mrs. Barber, Mrs Behn, Miss Carter, etc. [Edited by G. Gaylove.] written by G. GAYLOVE (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1755 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199230633
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by : Mary Wollstonecraft

Download or read book Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark written by Mary Wollstonecraft and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is both an arresting travel book and a personal memoir. In it Wollstonecraft describes the sublime landscape and the events and people she encounters. This edition includes reviews, additional letters, and documents on the background to the journey.

The Ohio Cultivator

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (942 download)

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Download or read book The Ohio Cultivator written by Michael B. Bateham and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: