Forgotten women the writers

Forgotten Women

The women who shaped and were erased from our history.

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Scottish Women Writers

From a rich and crowded field, Eileen Dunlop has made a selection of writers whose books have stood the test of time, illustrating their diverse life

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Black Women Writers at Work

A critical collection of conversations with Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones and other Black women writers that changed the scope of Black lite

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Black Women Writers at Work

A critical collection of conversations with Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones and other Black women writers that changed the scope of Black lite

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Book of Awesome Women Writers

Author and educator M.J. Fievre, BS Ed, and bestselling author Becca Anderson have teamed up in The Book of Awesome Black Women. In it, they share an

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I Never Told Anybody

This classic guide by the trail-blazer of teaching poetry offers ideas and techniques that are useful at all age levels, as well as wonderful poems by his students. "...[Koch] has taken his thoughtful, giving, resourceful, and patient spirit to quite elderly and often infirm men and women, in obvious hopes of finding among them a similar responsiveness of mind and hear...

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In the Company of Radical Women Writers

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Forgotten Men and Fallen Women

Holly Allen explores popular and official narratives of forgotten manhood, fallen womanhood, and other social and moral archetypes during the Great De

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Forgotten Warriors

From the Amazons to the Ukraine conflict, women have always been on the front line of war: this is their surprising and heroic history.

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Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome

This book studies the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world together for the first time in a single volume, featuring ori

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Ancient Women Writers of Greece and Rome

This book studies the extant writings of major female authors from the Greco-Roman world together for the first time in a single volume, featuring ori

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Spanish Women Writers and Spain's Civil War

While literature inspired by the Spanish Civil War has been the subject of scholarship, women's literary production has not been studied as a body of

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Virginia Woolf and Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

The first comprehensive analysis of Virginia Woolf's literary biography.

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Football's Forgotten Legends

Lace up your boots and get ready for kick-off - it's time discover the true story of the Dick, Kerr Ladies football team, courageous pioneers of women

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Six Plays By Black and Asian Women Writers

A collection of plays for stage, screen and radio showing the vitality of Black and Asian writing in Britain.

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Forgotten Voices Of The Great War

Offers accounts from ordinary men and women who were there. This book features personal experiences of these soldiers, civilians, marines and medics f

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British Women Writers and the Reception of Ancient Egypt, 1840-1910

Focusing on British women writers' knowledge of ancient Egypt, Youngkin shows the oftentimes limited but pervasive representations of ancient Egyptian

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A World Apart and Other Stories. Czech Women Writers at the Fin de Siécle

Kniha přibližuje čtenáři vůbec první anglické překlady povídek doposud neprávem spíše opomíjených českých autorek přelomu 19. a 20. století.

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Merits of Women

Lost feminist classic from one of Renaissance Italy's most accomplished female writers

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They Fought in the Fields: The Women's Land Army

The story of a forgotten victory.

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A Darker Shade: New Stories of Body Horror from Women Writers - Joyce Carol Oates

<p> </p> <p>'Will burrow under your skin and live forever in your darkest dreams' BustJoyce Carol Oates assembles a spectacular cast to explore, subvert and reinvent one of horror's most visceral of subgenres. Focusing on distortions of the human body, the fifteen short stories of A Darker Shade will delight, disgust and shock you.From the metaphysical h...

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A World Apart and Other Stories. Czech Women Writers at the Fin de Siécle e-kniha

“It grew dark and a mist spread over the countryside like a curtain. We were at the Bohemian border. Customs control, shouting, the din of the station, and finally the train moved on with a monotonous drone.

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A World Apart and Other Stories - Czech Women Writers at the Fin de Siécle, 2. vydání - Kathleen Hayes

<p>Kniha překladatelky Kathleen Hayes přibližuje čtenáři vůbec první anglické překlady povídek doposud neprávem spíše opomíjených českých autorek přelomu 19. a 20. století. Soubor osmi povídek tak nespojuje pouze osoba překladatelky, ale i doba vzniku, počátek ženské emancipace na začátku 20. století. Zdařilost výběru povídek je podpořena precizním a čtivým překlade...

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Little Women - Alcottová Louisa May

Anotace: `I`m not afraid of storms, for I`m learning how to sail my ship.`Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo`s hand, cried over little Beth`s death, and dream...

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Things Remembered and Things Forgotten - Kyoko Nakajima

Anotace: 'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of her story, Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, a piece that illuminates, as if by throwing a switch, the l...

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The Women - Hannahová Kristin

Anotace: The journey of their lifetime . . .`Women can be heroes, too`. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances "Frankie" McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California`s idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the wor...

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The Women - Kristin Hannah

<p>The journey of their lifetime . . .'Women can be heroes, too'. When twenty-year-old nursing student, Frances "Frankie" McGrath, hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on California's idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 196...

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Little Women

The four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. As the four come of age and their distinct personalities develop, destiny has contrasting fortunes in store for them - in the form of marriage, career, European travel or fatal illness - but the bonds ...

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Women - neuveden

Anotace: Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told. Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women`s history - from early matriarchal societies through women`s suffrage, the Suffragette movement, 20th...

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Invisible Women

Anotace: Imagine a world where your phone is too big for your hand, where your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body, where in a car accident you are 47% more likely to be seriously injured, where every week the countless hours of work you do are not recognised or valued. If any of this sounds familiar, chances are that you're a woman. Invisible Wom...

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Introduction to the History of Women's Suffrage

In 1881, three writers and rights activists, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, came together to publish the first volu

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Liberia's Women Veterans

A highly original account of the Liberian civil wars and their aftermath, uncovering the forgotten voices of the conflictÂ’s female child soldiers.

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Women Writing Antiquity

Considers classical reception in the works of women writers of the long seventeenth century in France to demonstrate how their engagements with the li

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Romantic Women's Life Writing

Explores how the publication of womenÂ’s life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth cent

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Women Modernists and Fascism

Modernism both influenced and was fascinated by the rhetorical and aesthetic manifestations of fascism. In examining how four artists and writers repr

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Wild Irish Women

From patriots to pirates, warriors to writers, and mistresses to male impersonators, this bestselling book looks at the unorthodox lives of inspiring

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Red Detachment of Women

Writers talk about literature on the Singapore River. Distinct and displaced pasts meet. Individual encounters with a revolutionary ballet carry a gen

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Art, Theatre and Women's Suffrage

An overview of the artists, designers, actors, writers and directors involved in the movement to establish votes for women.

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New York Women of Wit in the Twentieth Century

Examines the work of pioneering female writers who used humor as an indirect form of social protest to challenge traditional gender norms and social e

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Women Our History - Lucy Worsleyová

<p>Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told. Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women's history - from early matriarchal societies through women's suffrage, the Suffragette movement, 20t...

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Little Women - Alcottová Louisa May

Anotace: The four March sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy - live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. The girls embark on a series of adventures and endure a number of unexpected misfortunes - experiences that allow their personalities to emerge: Meg sensible and outgoing, Jo literary and boy...

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Invisible Women - Perez Caroline Criado

<p>'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a monumental piece of research' Caitlin MoranImagine a world where...· Your phone is too big for your hand· Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body· In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured.If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you're a woman.Fro...

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Women Writing Jewish Modernity, 1919-1939

Rewrites Jewish literary modernity from the point of view of women. Focusing on works by interwar Hebrew and Yiddish writers, Allison Schachter illumi

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Psychoanalytic Explorations of What Women Want Today

In this book, international psychoanalytic writers address the question ‘What do Women Want Today?’ from a variety of lenses, bringing into focus th

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The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories - Fulton Bruce

Anotace: This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea`s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating war between North and South and the rapid, disorienting urbanization of later decades, The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories captu...

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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 - Shafak Elif

Anotace: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 `Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak`s haunting, beautiful and considered prose` Vanity Fair`Incredibly sensuous and poetic and evocative` Pandora Sykes`Richly uplifting... truly beautiful writing` Nicola Sturgeon`In the first minute follow...

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Tomas Nevinson - Marias Javier

Anotace: BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO GUARDIAN AND THE SPECTATOR The final novel from one of the greatest writers of the past half century`No-one nowadays writes prose like Javier Marias . . . If you`re already a fan, you`ll know what to expect and rejoice. If you`re not, what a treat you have in store` The HeraldTomas Nevinson, a retired MI6 agent, is working for ...

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Little Women, 1. vydání - Louisa May Alcott

<p>'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.' Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England The charming story of the March sisters, Little Women has been adored by generations. Readers have rooted for Laurie in his pursuit of Jo's hand, cried over little Beth's death...

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The Routledge Anthology of Women´s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Routledge Anthology of Women´s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers. Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, the collection situates women’s writing within, and also reframes the field’s male-defined and male-dominated traditions. This book is an im...

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The Routledge Anthology of Women´s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Routledge Anthology of Women´s Theatre Theory and Dramatic Criticism is the first wide-ranging anthology of theatre theory and dramatic criticism by women writers. Reproducing key primary documents contextualized by short essays, the collection situates women’s writing within, and also reframes the field’s male-defined and male-dominated traditions. This book is an im...

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Little Women, 1. vydání - Louisa May Alcott

Now a major movie starring directed by Greta Gerwig and starring Emma Watson and Maryl StreetThe four March sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy live in financial hardship in New England with their mother, while their father has been drafted to fight in the Civil War. The girls embark on a series of adventures and endure a number of unexpected misfortunes experiences that allow ...

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Diaspora Poetics and Homing in South Asian Women's Writing

This book looks at women writers from the South Asian region who negotiate Home from the vantage point of in-between space—defined through the mythic

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Dancing Lessons For The Advanced - Bohumil Hrabal

<p>Rake, drunkard, aesthete, gossip, raconteur extraordinaire: the narrator of Bohumil Hrabal's rambling, rambunctious masterpiece Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age is all these and more. Speaking to a group of sunbathing women who remind him of lovers past, this elderly roué tells the story of his life--or at least unburdens himself of a lifetime's worth of s...

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Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights (1784709735)

Kniha - autor Helen Lewis, 320 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Well-behaved women don't make history: difficult women do. Feminism's success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women, who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Helen Lewis argues that too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern se...

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Queens of the Abyss

This new anthology follows the instrumental contributions made by women writers to the weird tale, and revives the lost authors of the early pulp maga

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Flame and the Candle

This is the story of Mayo men and women active during the War of Independence and the Civil War, a story largely untold or forgotten. The myth that li

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Baby on the Fire Escape

An insightful and provocative exploration of the relationship between motherhood and art through the lives of women artists and writers

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Baby on the Fire Escape

An insightful and provocative exploration of the relationship between motherhood and art through the lives of women artists and writers

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In the Upper Country: LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024 - Kai Thomas

<p>WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD COSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023'Fresh and propulsive . . . a veneration of those whose tales are often forgotten' New York Times'A mesmerizing, lyrical testament to the power of storytelling' Atwood Gibson Writer's Trust Fi...

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My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird

An anthology of contemporary women's short fiction in translation, featuring work by emerging women writers from across Afghanistan.

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