Women Authors
epub |eng | 2020-01-17 | Author:Martha Ackmann

* Charles Thompson lived with the Stearns family from the time he was fifteen until his marriage. He worked as a “choreboy” for the family and later as custodian at ...
( Category: Poetry February 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-04 | Author:Thomas Travisano

Here is a coast; here is a harbor; here, after a meager diet of horizon, is some scenery: impractically shaped and—who knows?—self-pitying mountains, sad and harsh beneath their frivolous greenery, ...
( Category: Women Authors February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-22 | Author:Janine Barchas

CHAPTER 4 SELLING WITH PAINTINGS A Curious History of the Cheap Prestige Reprint The most ubiquitous visual marker of modern literary prestige—the signal that a book is a weighty literary ...
( Category: Victorian February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-22 | Author:Brooke Warner

Outer Critics We cannot minimize the power of outer critics’ messages when we’re talking about inner critics, in part because a lot of us still have in our lives the ...
( Category: Women Authors February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-03 | Author:Helen Taylor

Killer Women and Cozy Crime As I’ve discussed in relation to romance and erotica, in recent years the issue of violence against women has become a major moral, political, and ...
( Category: History of Books February 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-18 | Author:Zora Neale Hurston

Sweat It was eleven o’clock of a Spring night in Florida. It was Sunday. Any other night, Delia Jones would have been in bed for two hours at this time. ...
( Category: African February 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-06-03 | Author:Elsa Mendoza [Mendoza, Elsa]

ATTACHMENTS We love our things What it offers us Our success and dreams How it excites us Our relationships How it satisfies us Our created self-image How people praise us ...
( Category: Essays February 16,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-11-30 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

On Saturday afternoon, a large placard with corrected spelling announced the opening of the zoo. It hung from the branches of the jack-fruit tree. Children were allowed in free but ...
( Category: Women Authors February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

Up at Sisters Bazaar A few years ago I spent a couple of summers up at Sisters Bazaar, at the farthest extremity of Mussoorie’s Landour cantonment—an area as yet untouched ...
( Category: Women Authors February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2017-01-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

THE DUENNA Marie Belloc Lowndes I Laura Delacourt, after a long and gallant defence of what those who formed the old-fashioned world to which she belonged would have called her ...
( Category: Women Authors February 14,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-12-31 | Author:Ruskin Bond [Bond, Ruskin]

Voting at Fosterganj I am standing under the deodars, waiting for a taxi. Devilal, one of the candidates in the civic election, is offering free rides to all his supporters, ...
( Category: Women Authors February 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-13 | Author:Johnson, Barbara [Johnson, Barbara]

CHAPTER FOUR Lord Byron Byron was a commercial success and a famous figure in English Romanticism. But his fame as the “Byronic hero” was more biographical than textual, more mythical ...
( Category: European February 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Fiona Stafford [Stafford, Fiona]

MANSFIELD PARK AND EMMA 1813–15 The intensity of Jane Austen’s preoccupation with her writing cannot be overstated. Although her nephew’s recollections conjure up a picture of the modest aunt quickly ...
( Category: Women Authors January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-22 | Author:Margaret R. Higonnet

“My Seared Vision! My Crippled Strength!“ Jane Eyre appears to be the epitome of the family romance: the orphan child, raised in a hostile counterfamily, freed imaginatively to dream of ...
( Category: Feminist January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-10 | Author:Susan Fraiman

BLU’S HANGING: DOMESTICITY UNDER THE HOUSE Blu’s Hanging is the story of a working-class Japanese American family on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Unlike our previous two texts, it opens ...
( Category: Feminist January 19,2020 )