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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A remarkable work about women writers in the Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period and brings us in close to four women who were committed to their craft before there was any possibility of "a room of one's own." In a sparkling and engaging narrative of everyday life in Shakespearean England, Ramie Targoff carries us from the sumptuous coronation of Queen Elizabeth in the mid 16th century into the private lives of four women...
Publisher
Unbound
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Perspective on women's writing about the natural world. There has, in recent years, been an explosion of writing about place, landscape and the natural world. But within this blossoming of interest, women's voices have remained very much in the minority. In Women on Nature, Katharine Norbury has sifted through the pages of women's fiction, poetry, household planners, gardening diaries and recipe books to show the multitude of ways in which they have...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The words of its writers are part of the texture of Dublin, an invisible counterpart to the bricks and pavement we see around us. Beyond the ever- present footsteps of James Joyce's characters, Leopold Bloom or Stephen Dedalus, around the city centre, an ordinary-looking residential street overlooking Dublin Bay, for instance, presents the house where Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney lived for many years; a few blocks away is the house where another...
Author
Publisher
Oneworld
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literature 'Essential reading.' Claire Tomalin Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. From the fourteenth century through to the present day, women who write have been understood as mad, undisciplined or dangerous. Female writers have always...
Author
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
When we look at the landscape, what do we see? Do we experience the view over a valley or dappled sunlight on a path in the same way as those who were there before us? We have altered the countryside in innumerable ways over the last thousand years, and never more so than in the last hundred. How are these changes reflected in - and affected by - art and literature?0English landscape painting is often said to be an 18th-century invention. But when...
Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Laboring Mothers merges and expands on two feminist dialogues to create a novel transatlantic cultural history of eighteenth-century working motherhood. Addressing both historical women and representations of a "type," the book demonstrates how ideas about the public sphere and maternity interacted to create systems of power and privilege among working mothers"--
90) February house
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This volume presents the story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers--and the country's best-known burlesque performer--in a house in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before America entered the war. In spite of the sheer intensity, the house was for its...
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