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Ordinary, extraordinary Jane Austen : the story of six novels, three notebooks, a writing box, and one clever girl
This picture book biography of one of the most beloved writers of all time pays tribute to an independent thinker who turned ordinary life into extraordinary stories and created a body of work that has delighted and inspired readers for generations.
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Names and Stories
\"Emilia Dilke\" (1840-1904) was known by several names, eventually becoming Lady Dilke - intellectual, feminist, author and President of the Women's Trade Union League. In investigating her life and work, this book examines the full spectrum of 19th-century British thought and custom.
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The life and loves of E. Nesbit : Victorian iconoclast, children's author, and creator of The railway children
\"Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) is considered the first modern writer for children and the inventor of the children's adventure story. In [this book], biographer Eleanor Fitzsimons uncovers the little-known details of her life, introducing readers to the Fabian Society cofounder and fabulous socialite who hosted legendary parties and had admirers by the dozen, including George Bernard Shaw\"--Publisher marketing.
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Outspoken Women
Studying a broader period than its contemporaries, this comprehensive study reveals a neglected tradition of British women's writing from the Victorian era to the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Outspoken Women brings together the many and varied non-fictional writings of British women on sexual attitudes and behaviour, beginning nearly a hundred years prior to the 'second wave' of feminism.
Commentators cover a broad range of perspectives and include Darwinists, sexologists, and campaigners against the spread of VD, as well as women writing about their own lives and experiences. Covering all aspects of the debate from marriage, female desire and pleasure, to lesbianism, prostitution, STDs, and sexual ignorance, Lesley A. Hall studies how the works of this era didn't just criticise male-defined mores and the 'dark side' of sex, but how they increasingly promoted the possibility of a brighter view and an informed understanding of the sexual life.
Hall's remarkable anthology is an engaging examination of this fascinating subject and it provides students and scholars with an invaluable source of primary material.
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Jane and Dorothy : a true tale of sense and sensibility : the lives of Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth
\"An intimate portrait of Jane Austen, Dorothy Wordsworth, and their world-- two women torn between revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, artistic creativity and emotional upheavals\"--Front jacket flap.
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Women Writing on the French Riviera
In Women Writing on the French Riviera Rosemary Lancaster examines the varied literary and artistic works of nine women visitors and their unique contributions to the cultural identity of the Riviera in its seminal rise to fame.
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Mary Shelley
When Mary Shelley was a little girl, she used to write stories beneath the trees in her garden. As an adult, Mary was inspired by this same imagination to create a ghost story, which became the famous novel: Frankenstein. This gripping book features stylish and quirky illustrations and extra facts at the back, including a biographical timeline with historical photos and a detailed profile of the novelist's life. -- Amazon.
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The Historical Austen
Selected byChoicemagazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Jane Austen, arguably the most beloved of all English novelists, has been regarded both as a feminist ahead of her time and as a social conservative whose satiric comedies work to regulate rather than to liberate. Such viewpoints, however, do not take sufficient stock of the historical Austen, whose writings, as William Galperin shows, were more properly oppositional rather than either disciplinary or subversive. Reading the history of her novels' reception through other histories-literary, aesthetic, and social-The Historical Austenis a major reassessment of Jane Austen's achievement as well as a corrective to the historical Austen that abides in literary scholarship. In contrast to interpretations that stress the conservative aspects of the realistic tradition that Austen helped to codify, Galperin takes his lead from Austen's contemporaries, who were struck by her detailed attention to the dynamism of everyday life. Noting how the very act of reading demarcates an horizon of possibility at variance with the imperatives of plot and narrative authority,The Historical Austensees Austen's development as operating in two registers. Although her writings appear to serve the interests of probability in representing \"things as they are,\" they remain, as her contemporaries dubbed them, histories of the present, where reality and the prospect of change are continually intertwined. In a series of readings of the six completed novels, in addition to the epistolaryLady Susanand the uncompletedSanditon, Galperin offers startling new interpretations of these texts, demonstrating the extraordinary awareness that Austen maintained not only with respect to her narrative practice-notably, free indirect discourse-but also with attention to the novel's function as a social and political instrument.
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A Brontèe encyclopedia
A Bronte Encyclopedia is a complete guide to the life and work of the most notable literary family of the nineteenth century. Comprising approximately 2000 alphabetically arranged entries, this authoritative volume: brings to light the significant people and places that influenced the Brontes' lives; defines and describes the Brontes' fictional characters and settings; incorporates original literary judgments and analyses of characters and motives; includes coverage of Charlotte's unfinished novels and her and Branwell's juvenile writings; and features a full range of illustrations.
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Paddling her own canoe
The only major scholarly study that examines E. Pauline Johnson?s diverse roles as a First Nations champion, New Woman, serious writer and performer, and Canadian nationalist.
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