Charlotte Gordon: 9 books
Romantic Outlaws
The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SEATTLE TIMES
This groundbreaking dual biography brings to life a pioneering English feminist and the daughter she never knew. Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley have each been the subject of numerous...
by Mary Shelley, Charlotte Gordon
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
For the bicentennial of its first publication, Mary Shelley’s original 1818 text, introduced by National Book Critics Circle award-winner Charlotte Gordon. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
2018 marks the bicentennial of Mary Shelley’s seminal...
The Woman Who Named God
Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
The saga of Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar is the tale of origin for all three monotheistic faiths. Abraham must choose between two wives who have borne him two sons. One wife and son will share in his wealth and status, while the other two are exiled into the desert. Long a cornerstone of Western anxiety,...
Mistress Bradstreet
The Untold Life of America's First Poet
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
Though her work is a staple of anthologies of American poetry, Anne Bradstreet has never before been the subject of an accessible, full-scale biography for a general audience. Anne Bradstreet is known for her poem, "To My Dear and Loving Husband," among others, and through John Berryman's...
Lynn Williams
Mother, Lover, Friend
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Lynn Williams is a single Mother of four she has a loving family,great parents, and life long friends. She found herself with two men in her life, one was the love she always craved for, tall and handsome rich in every way possible. The other tall handsome and the father of her children. All her life...
Of Gratitude & Happiness - The Thanksgiving Storybook
60+ Holiday Tales & Poems: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, The Genesis of the Doughnut Club, The Purple Dress, Thankful, The Kingdom Of Greedy, The Night before Thanksgiving, The Master of the Harvest…
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2018
Enjoy this meticulously edited collection, dedicated to the holiday of gratefulness and forgiveness: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy Maud Montgomery) The Genesis of the Doughnut Club (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O....
A New Deal for the Humanities
Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
Many in higher education fear that the humanities are facing a crisis. But even if the rhetoric about “crisis” is overblown, humanities departments do face increasing pressure from administrators, politicians, parents, and students. In A New Deal for the Humanities, Gordon Hutner and Feisal G....
The Motherhood Business
Consumption, Communication, and Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The Motherhood Business is a piercing collection of ten original essays that reveal the rhetoric of the motherhood industry. Focusing on the consumer life of mothers and the emerging entrepreneurship associated with motherhood, the collection considers how different forms of privilege (class, race,...
Islam and Christianity on the Edge
Talking Points in Christian-Muslim Relations into the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
The relationship between Christianity and Islam is complex. This collection of essays by scholars and human rights activists engages with some of the most pressing issues in Christian-Muslim relations, addressing matters of theology, the encounter between civilisations and inter-religious affairs....