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Norma Clarke
At the heart of this book, first published in 1990, is a friendship between two women: Jane Carlyle and the novelist Geraldine Jewsbury. It was a difficult friendship, and in…
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This work explores Dr Johnson’s relationships with six remarkable and successful female authors: Elizabeth Carter; Hannah More; Charlotte Lennox; Hester Thrale; Fanney Burney; and Elizabeth Montagu. These women’s characters and…
Families are places of love, care, and fun; also of anger, anxiety, and quarrels. Not Speaking tells the story of a Greek matriarch, Rena, and her English children in post-war…
Following a chronological line beginning at the start of the 18th century, this is a study of writers such as Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Hester Chapone and Joanna Baillie. The author…
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Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England a penniless Irishman and toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street. Norma Clarke tells how this destitute scribbler became one of literary London’s…
Tom and his little brother are to be page boys. As if that weren’t enough, they have to wear purple frilly shirts, shoes with silver buckles and white tights. A…
Moving portraits of eighteen women hailing from Texas and Mexico who revolutionized their worlds
This collection of texts casts a light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of ethics. The essays address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities of modern ethical…
Until the 1970s, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931)-like so many prominent women in journalism and politics-was a forgotten figure in American culture. This edited volume takes a fresh look at this…
This work supports PK-12 teachers to independently multiculturally adapt existing curriculum, to create new multicultural curriculum differentiated by content areas and grade levels, and by providing ample examples of what…
