Women Authors category: 700 books
by Anna Lillios
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Anna Lillios's Crossing the Creek is the first book to examine the productive and complex relationship between these two major figures. Is there truth to the story that Hurston offered to work as Rawlings's maid? Why did Rawlings host a tea for Hurston in St. Augustine? In what ways did each write the...
Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel
Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader with subversive commentary on the cruelties and disappointments of life.
by Clementina Rosa Quenel, María Teresa Andruetto, Mempo Giardinelli
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 5, 2017
Si hay que decir en pocas palabras cuáles fueron los mundos de Clementina, pues básicamente señalo cuatro: la geografía y el arrasamiento del monte; la recuperación lexical y onomatopéyica de sus habitantes, seres solitarios y aislados; los sentimientos y en particular el amor como tema central;...
Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace
Explorations in Canadian Women’s Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
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Locking Up Letters
Julia Creet
Julia Creet’s poignant rumination “Locking Up Letters” considers the ethical implications of depositing her mother’s Holocaust letters in the archives. The place to which these papers are consigned, she notes, is important in order to honour and respect her mother’s complicated national histories.
Lessons in Taxidermy
A Compendium of Safety and Danger
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
-Punk Planet Books imprint has had a great deal of early success -- combining attractive packaging with a national network of engaged young people. -Author is very active in multiple publications and journals (see bio) for women, young parents, and punk subculture.
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism
Japanese and Western Literature, Art and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
Cultural Hybrids of (Post)Modernism starts from the premise that the literary-cultural milieu we live in is characteristically hybrid. To develop that premise, the present volume focuses on explaining the strong impact that Japanese culture, especially Japanese aesthetics, bore on Western intellectuals,...
Summary of The Girl on the Train
by Paula Hawkins | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Summary of The Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula Hawkins | Includes Analysis Preview: The Girl on the Train is a psychological thriller that tells the story of three women and how their lives intersect. Rachel Watson is an alcoholic. Rachel often drinks to excess and...
A World of Songs
Selected Poems, 1894–1921
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2019
Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period of half a century.Although this output included a chapbook and a full-length collection in...
Persuasion : Sense and Sensibility (Classic Novel)
(With Over 90 Illustrations and Audiobook Link)
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
This version contains 2 works of Jane Austen With over 90 Illustrations and Audiobook Link.
1 “Persuasion” Persuasion is the moving love story by Jane Austen. Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma and Persuasion is connected...
Emma : Love And Friendship (Classic Novel)
(With Over 80 Illustrations And Audiobook Link)
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
This version contains 2 works of Jane Austen With over 80 Illustrations and Audiobook Link.
1 “Emma” Emma is the timeless classic romance novel by Jane Austen. Emma is a novel about the perils of misconstrued romance. The novel was first published in December 1815. Austen explores...
Summary of Luckiest Girl Alive
by Jessica Knoll | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll | Includes Analysis Preview: Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll is a dark and gripping novel that reveals the traumatic past of TifAni FaNelli, a writer for a popular woman’s magazine. This book shows how the strong desire to belong...
Nudes
Poems, Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Nudes attempts to heal todays inequality and human rights issues in a creative way. Through poetry, women have been expressing the desires and dreams of their true selves. Nudes targets collective consciousness of immigrants, millennials, and military spouses and their daily struggle and place in a society.
by Louise Hathaway
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
I wrote this literary essay in graduate school the semester before I received my Masters Degree in English Literature. It is about marriage expectations in the Regency period as expressed in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It explores the different relationships between the sexes in the novel,...
Writing an Icon
Celebrity Culture and the Invention of Anaïs Nin
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Anaïs Nin, the diarist, novelist, and provocateur, occupied a singular space in twentieth-century culture, not only as a literary figure and voice of female sexual liberation but as a celebrity and symbol of shifting social mores in postwar America. Before Madonna and her many imitators, there was...