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Scottish Girls About Town

Author : Jenny Colgan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743498607
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Girls About Town written by Jenny Colgan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-02-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Clanswomen... International bestselling authors Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, and Muriel Gray lead off this dazzling collection of stories by popular and rising Scottish women authors. A sometimes wild, sometimes poignant romp through the lives of Scotswomen, Scottish Girls About Town revels in the universal hilarity and strife of being a girl! They're looking for something moor. In Jenny Colgan's "The Fringes," a hapless heroine heads to the Edinburgh "Fringe" -- a massive theatrical and musical festival -- for a night of her own disastrous drama. Isla Dewar offers up "In the Garden of Mrs. Pink," one woman's look back at her girlhood and the life lessons she learned from an eccentric neighbor. In Muriel Gray's "School-Gate Mums," a single mother with killer instincts settles the score with one of the mothers at her son's school. Whether they're racing their flatmates in a weight-loss contest, reconnecting with long-lost friends, or grappling with the men in their lives, these daughters of Scotland prove that no one can top their audacious spirit and Highland charm.

Scottish Girls about Town

Author : Isla Dewar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Girls about Town written by Isla Dewar and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scottish Girls about Town

Author : Ulverscroft Large Print Books
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843950752
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Girls about Town written by Ulverscroft Large Print Books and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a scintillating collection of stories from some of Scotland's best-loved women writers, who have joined forces with up-and-coming new stars...A high-powered businesswoman metes a devastating revenge on her cheating husband. A bored housewife contacts an old schoolfriend - with unexpected results. Two flabby flatmates race each other in a hilarious weight-loss contest. And a night at the Edinburgh Fringe goes disastrously wrong for Jenny Colgan's hapless heroine...These brand-new stories prove - if proof were needed - that Scottish girls are not to be messed with.

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Author : Simon & Schuster, Limited
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780743253055
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Girls about Town Header written by Simon & Schuster, Limited and published by . This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irish Girls About Town

Author : Maeve Binchy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780743457460
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Irish Girls About Town written by Maeve Binchy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-02 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from popular Irish women authors.

American Girls About Town

Author : Jennifer Weiner
Publisher : Gallery Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Girls About Town written by Jennifer Weiner and published by Gallery Books. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the U.S.A.... American gals are taking liberties -- and pursuing happiness on their own terms -- in this star-studded story collection featuring the nation's red-hot women writers. They've declared their independence! Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel" -- and the trouble with falling for an incognito Hollywood actor. Lauren Weisberger (The Devil Wears Prada) sends a single New Yorker on a backpacking trip halfway around the world -- where she sees her love life back home with new eyes -- in "The Bamboo Confessions." A harried mom with a hit novel crosses the pond in "My Great Brit Book Tour" by Adriana Trigiani (Lucia, Lucia), and turns a crumbling talk show appearance into a sweet success. Also uniting their talents in this free-spirited anthology are JULIANNA BAGGOTT • CINDY CHUPACK • LYNDA CURNYN • QUINN DALTON • LAUREN HENDERSON • JUDI HENDRICKS • GRETCHEN LASKAS • CLAIRE LaZEBNIK • CHRIS MANBY • SARAH MLYNOWSKI • MELISSA SENATE • JILL SMOLINSKI • NANCY SPARLING • LAURA WOLF

Scottish Women

Author : Esther Breitenbach
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748683402
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Women written by Esther Breitenbach and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sourcebook illustrating the experience of Scottish women from 1780-1914. Drawing on a wide range of source materials from across Scotland, this sourcebook provides new insights into women's attitudes to the society in which they lived, and how they negotiated their identities within private and public life.Organised in thematic chapters, it moves from the private and intimate experiences of sexuality, health and sickness to Scotswomen's migrations across the British empire, illustrating many facets of women's lives - domesticity and waged work, defiance of law and convention, religious faith and respectability, political action and public influence. A range of fascinating and rich source material sheds new light on the lives of women across Scotland throughout the long nineteenth century, demonstrating the pervasiveness of discourses of appropriate feminine behaviour, but also women's subversion of this. It raises challenging questions for researchers about the identification of women's voices, where these have been muted by class, religion, or ethnicity, while at the same time providing a methodology for uncovering these.

History of Scottish Women's Writing

Author : Douglas Gifford
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748672664
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book History of Scottish Women's Writing written by Douglas Gifford and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.

The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland

Author : Jane McDermid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135783381
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland written by Jane McDermid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The portrayal of Scotland as a particularly patriarchal society has traditionally had the effect of marginalizing Scottish women, both teachers and students, in both Scottish and British history. The Schooling of Working-Class Girls in Victorian Scotland examines and challenges this assumption and analyzes in detail the course of events which has led to a more enlightened system. Education was, and is, seen as integral to Scottish distinctiveness, but the Victorian period saw anxious debate about the impact of outside influences at a time when Scottish society seemed to be fracturing. This book examines the gender-blindness of the educational tradition, with its notion of the 'democratic intellect', testing the claim of superiority for the Scottish system, and questioning the assumption that Scottish women were either passive victims or willing dupes of a peculiarly patriarchal ideal. Considering the influences of the related ideologies of patriarchy and domesticity, and the crucial importance of the local and regional economic context, in focusing on female education, this book provides a much wider comparative study of Scottish society during a period of tremendous upheaval and a perceived crisis in national identity, in which women, as well as men, participated.

Fin & Rye & Fireflies

Author : Harry Cook
Publisher : Black & White Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1785303058
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Fin & Rye & Fireflies written by Harry Cook and published by Black & White Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH TEENAGE BOOK PRIZE 2022 Fin Whittle is sixteen and he likes guys. A fact which seems to be complicating his life. One minute Fin's kissing the godlike Jesse; the next he s been cruelly outed. His family's response? To up sticks in search of a 'fresh start'. A fresh start won't change the truth of who Fin is. Obviously. But it does introduce him to the best squad in town: kick-ass Poppy, her on-off girlfriend June and the super cute, super irresistible Rye. Fin soon has a serious crush. And Rye might just feel the same way. But Fin's parents aren't happy. If their son won't change his 'lifestyle', they ll force him onto the straight and narrow . . . by way of 'conversion therapy'. An outrageous plan is needed to face down the haters and to give Fin and Rye (and their fireflies) a chance at the happy-ever-after their story deserves . . . From moonlit meet-ups to vintage diners, pride parades to a passion for old vinyl, Fin & Rye & Fireflies is a gloriously upbeat tale of being true to yourself no matter what. 'A big-hearted queer romance' - Abdi Nazemian, author of Like a Love Story 'Charming. Sweet. Engaging. Important. Characters you will fall in love with and an author you will as well.' - Greg Howard, author of The Whispers 'All the Love, Simon feelings and then some. As cute and queer as it can get.' - Kai Spellmeier, YA Blogger

Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-century Scotland

Author : Katharine Glover
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843836815
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Elite Women and Polite Society in Eighteenth-century Scotland written by Katharine Glover and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women are shown to have played an important and very visible role in society at the time. Fashionable "polite" society of this period emphasised mixed-gender sociability and encouraged the visible participation of elite women in a series of urban, often public settings. Using a variety of sources (both men's and women's correspondence, accounts, bills, memoirs and other family papers), this book investigates the ways in which polite social practices and expectations influenced the experience of elite femininity in Scotland in the eighteenth century. It explores women's education and upbringing; their reading practices; the meanings of the social spaces and activities in which they engaged and how this fed over into the realm of politics; and the fashion for tourism at home and abroad. It also asks how elite women used polite social spaces and practices to extend their mental horizons and to form a sense of belonging to a public at a time when Scotland was among the most intellectually vibrant societies in Europe.

Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000

Author : W.W.J. Knox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000382389
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Women and Scottish Society, 1700–2000 written by W.W.J. Knox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to cover all the important aspects of a woman’s life in Scotland, examining how and why it changed over the last 300 years. It walks us through the day-to-day existence of Scottish women and in doing so covers areas such as family and household, education, work and politics, religion and sexuality, crime and punishment. While sensitive to the differences among women, regarding colour, class and sexuality, the book seeks to establish a close and reciprocal relationship between women’s history and gender history; the first delineating the struggles of women for parity with men in economic, legal and political spheres; the second, as means of unravelling the continuing ways in which power is unequally distributed within the home, the workplace and in institutions, and in contesting the male-centred narratives of the past.

Evolution of Scotland's Towns

Author : Patricia Dennison
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474409822
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Evolution of Scotland's Towns written by Patricia Dennison and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new analysis of mind/body unity, based on the philosophy of Spinoza.

Lives of Scottish Women

Author : William Knox
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626557
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Lives of Scottish Women written by William Knox and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the remarkable stories of ten women whose inspirational lives and struggles exemplify the concerns and problems that other women have faced throughout the last two centuries. Each is the subject of a chapter devoted to her particular story and the times in which she lived. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed great changes in women's position in Scotland, and yet little is known about the achievements of the Scottish women who were the main agents of these changes. In presenting the life stories of ten women, William Knox provides evidence of the huge contribution made by women to the shaping of modern Scotland. At the same time he shows how the life histories of individuals can reveal previously dark corners of historical understanding and allow a more nuanced picture of Scottish society as a whole. Subjects include Jane Welsh Carlyle, brilliantly gifted, but married to the wayward and demanding Thomas, Sophia Jex-Blake, Scotland's first female doctor, and Mary Slessor,

Gender in Scottish History Since 1700

Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748626395
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Gender in Scottish History Since 1700 written by Lynn Abrams and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish history is undergoing a renaissance. Everyone agrees that an understanding of our nation's history is integral to our experience of its present and the shaping of the future. But the story of Scotland's past is being told with little reference to gendered identities. Not only are women largely missing from these grand narratives, but men's experience has tended to be sublimated in intellectual, political and economic agendas. Neither femininities nor masculinities have been given much of a place in Scotland's past or in the process of nation-making. Gender in Scottish History offers a new perspective on Scotland's past since around 1700, viewing some of the main themes with a gendered perspective. It starts from the assumption that gender is integral to our understanding of the ways in which societies in the past were organised and that national histories have a tendency to be gender blind. Each chapter engages with one key theme from Scottish historiography, asking what happens when women are added to the story and how the story changes when the meanings of gendered understandings and assumptions are probed. Addressing politics, culture, religion, science, education, work, the family and identity, Gender in Scottish History proposes an alternative reading of the Scottish past which is both inclusive and recognisable.

Scotland Delineated. A Series of Views of the Principal Cities and Towns, Particulary Öf Edinburgh and Its Environs: of the Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Other Monastie Remains

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Author : John Parker Lawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Scotland Delineated. A Series of Views of the Principal Cities and Towns, Particulary Öf Edinburgh and Its Environs: of the Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Other Monastie Remains written by John Parker Lawson and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

Author : Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134774923
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Women in Eighteenth-Century Scotland written by Deborah Simonton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century looms large in the Scottish imagination. It is a century that saw the doubling of the population, rapid urbanisation, industrial growth, the political Union of 1707, the Jacobite Rebellions and the Enlightenment - events that were intrinsic to the creation of the modern nation and to putting Scotland on the international map. The impact of the era on modern Scotland can be seen in the numerous buildings named after the luminaries of the period - Adam Smith, David Hume, William Robertson - the endorsement of Robert Burns as the national poet/hero, the preservation of the Culloden battlefield as a tourist attraction, and the physical geographies of its major towns. Yet, while it is a century that remains central to modern constructions of national identity, it is a period associated with men. Until recently, the history of women in eighteenth-century Scotland, with perhaps the honourable exception of Flora McDonald, remained unwritten. Over the last decade however, research on women and gender in Scotland has flourished and we have an increasingly full picture of women's lives at all social levels across the century. As a result, this is an appropriate moment to reflect on what we know about Scottish women during the eighteenth century, to ask how their history affects the traditional narratives of the period, and to reflect on the implications for a national history of Scotland and Scottish identity. Divided into three sections, covering women's intimate, intellectual and public lives, this interdisciplinary volume offers articles on women's work, criminal activity, clothing, family, education, writing, travel and more. Applying tools from history, art anthropology, cultural studies, and English literature, it draws on a wide-range of sources, from the written to the visual, to highlight the diversity of women's experiences and to challenge current male-centric historiographies.