Women Authors category: 700 books
by Lynn Veach Sadler
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
With When Village with Village Comes to Parle, Dr. Lynn Veach Sadler presents over five dozen unique essays, articles, and vignettes covering an eclectic range of topics. Travel the world with Dr. Sadler and her husband as she details some of their adventures abroad. Experience a thought-provoking...
Her Name Was Charlotte Brontë - A Collection of Essays, Excerpts and Writings on the Famous Female Author
G. K . Chesterton , Virginia Woolfe, Mrs Gaskell, Mrs Oliphant and Others
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018
“Her Name Was Charlotte Brontë” is a collection of essays, excerpts and other assorted writings on the subject of Charlotte Brontë, her works and family. With writings from G. K . Chesterton , Virginia Woolf, Mrs Gaskell, Mrs Oliphant and others, this collection will appeal to lovers of English...
A Woman Young and Passionate - A Collection of Essays, Excerpts and Writings on Emily Brontë
John Cowper Powys, Virginia Woolfe, Mrs Gaskell, Arthur Symons and Others
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2018
A collection of essays, excerpts and assorted writing on the subject of Emily Brontë by such notable writers as John Cowper Powys, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Gaskell, and others. Emily Jane Brontë (1818 – 1848), also known under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, was an English poet and novelist best known for...
South by Southwest
Katherine Anne Porter and the Burden of Texas History
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
An interdisciplinary study of Katherine Anne Porter’s troubled relationship to her Texas origins and southern roots, South by Southwest offers a fresh look at this ever-relevant author.
Today, more than thirty years after her death, Katherine Anne Porter remains a fascinating figure. Critics...
Angela Carter and Surrealism
'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic'
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In 1972, Angela Carter translated Xavière Gauthier’s ground-breaking feminist critique of the surrealist movement, Surréalisme et sexualité (1971). Although the translation was never published, the project at once confirmed and consolidated Carter’s previous interest in surrealism, representation,...
by Virginia Woolf
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Art of Fiction" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer, and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century. During the interwar...
by Linda Janet Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
A Joyous Revolt: Toni Cade Bambara, Writer and Activist is the first-ever, full-length biography of a trailblazing artist who championed black women in her fiction as well as in her life. This incisive study provides a comprehensive treatment of Bambara's published and unpublished works, and it also...
by Constantine Bida
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1968
The Ukrainian national poetess Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913) has contributed greatly to the development of Ukrainian Modernism and its transition from Ukrainian ethnographic themes to subjects that were universal, historical and psychological. Breaking the thematic conventions of populist literature,...
The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass
L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
When it originally appeared, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly’s The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass was one of the first challenges to the idea that L.M. Montgomery’s books were unworthy of serious study. Examining all of Montgomery’s fiction, Epperly argues that Montgomery was much more than a master of...
Conceived in Modernism
The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Current debates about birth control can be surprisingly volatile, especially given the near-universal use of contraception among American and British women. Conceived in Modernism: The Aesthetics and Politics of Birth Control offers a new perspective on these debates by demonstrating that the political...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
"Who's Afraid of Edna O'Brien?" asks an early interviewer in Conversations with Edna O'Brien. With over fifty years of published novels, biographies, plays, telecasts, short stories, and more, it is hard not to be intimidated by her. An acclaimed and controversial Irish writer, O'Brien (b....
by Kenneth Cervelli
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2007
Dorothy Wordsworth has a unique place in literary studies. Notoriously self-effacing, she assiduously eschewed publication, yet in her lifetime, her journals inspired William to write some of his best-known poems. Memorably depicting daily life in a particular environment (most famously, Grasmere),...
Unbuttoning America
A Biography of "Peyton Place"
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Published in 1956, Peyton Place became a bestseller and a literary phenomenon. A lurid and gripping story of murder, incest, female desire, and social injustice, it was consumed as avidly by readers as it was condemned by critics and the clergy. Its author, Grace Metalious, a housewife who grew up...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Memorials of Harriet Martineau by Maria Weston Chapman was published in 1877 as volume three of Harriet Martineau’s Autobiography. While the triple-decker was a popular format of the era, the configuration of a two-volume autobiography authored by one and a one-volume biography written by another...