ADAMS, ALICE

1926–99, American novelist, b. Fredericksburg, Va. Her deftly wry and witty fiction concerns 20th-century domestic and professional life, and usually concentrates on the lives of women in various stages of transition. Adams wrote a total of 11 novels, including Careless Love (1966), Superior Women (1984), Caroline's Daughters (1991), Almost Perfect (1993) and A Southern Exposure (1995) and its sequel, the posthumously published After the War (2000). Adams is also noted for her short stories, collected in such volumes as To See You Again (1982), The Last Lovely City (1999), and the posthumous anthology The Stories of Alice Adams (2002).

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Alice Adams
Book by Booth Tarkington, Arthur William Brown; Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921
Subjects: Fiction
ALICE ADAMS "'You better be given' some of these berries the eye so they'll ask you to dance.'" ALICE ADAMS BY BOOTH TARKINGTON AUTHOR OF PENROD...you wouldn't give it to him'" 394 ALICE ADAMS ALICE ADAMS CHAPTER I THE patient...
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The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson
Book by Shirley A. Leckie, Alice Kirk Grierson; University of Nebraska Press, 1989
Subjects: Frontier And Pioneer Life--West (U.S.), Grierson, Alice Kirk--1828-1888--Correspondence, Officers' Spouses--West (U.S.)--Correspondence, United States--Army--Military Life--History--19th Century, West (U.S.)--History--1860-1890
...WESTERN FRONTIER The Correspondence of ALICE KIRK GRIERSON Edited by SHIRLEY...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Grierson, Alice Kirk, 1828-1888. The colonels lady on the western frontier: the correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson / edited by Shirley A. Leckie...
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The Ironies of Progress: Henry Adams and the American Dream
Book by William Wasserstrom; Southern Illinois University Press, 1984
Subjects: Adams, Henry--1838-1918--Knowledge--America, American Literature--History And Criticism, Myth In Literature, National Characteristics, American, In Literature, Progress In Literature, United States--Civilization
THE IRONIES OF PROGRESS Henry Adams and the American Dream WILLIAM WASSERSTROM...Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 -- Criticism and interpretation...V Notes on Electricity: Henry Adams, Eugene ONeill 100...
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Maude Adams: An Intimate Portrait
Book by Phyllis Robbins; Putnam, 1956
Subjects: Adams, Maude--1872-1953
...Minister"; and to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sunday Pictures , for the photograph by Mr. Arthur Witmanof Miss Adams rehearsing Alice in Wonderland at Stephens College.I am grateful for permission given me to print the following letters: to...
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Critical Essays on Alice Walker
Book by Ikenna Dieke; Greenwood Press, 1999
Subjects: African Americans In Literature, Poetry, Walker, Alice--1944---Criticism And Interpretation, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century
Critical Essays on Alice Walker Critical Essays on Alice Walker Edited by Ikenna Dieke Contributions in Afro-American...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Critical essays on Alice Walker / edited by Ikenna Dieke. p. cm.-- Contributions...
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journal articles on: Adams Alice  - 477 results

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Subjectivity and the Aesthetics of National Identity in Gertrude Stein's "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas."
Journal article by Phoebe Stein Davis; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 45, 1999
Subjects: Stein, Gertrude--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...the story of her coupling with Alice to an American audience.(26...Rousseau and Goethe, Henry Adams and Henry Miller, but...figurative" (156). Although both Adams and Stein resist a unified...presentation of herself through Alice, not as a "patchwork" of past...
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Travel Experience in the Formation of Leadership: John Quincy Adams, Frederick Douglass and Jane Addams
Journal article by James B. Hunt; Journal of Leadership Studies, Vol. 7, 2000
Subjects: Adams, John Quincy--Conduct of life, Addams, Jane--Conduct of life, Douglass, Frederick--Conduct of life, Leadership--Models, Travel--Psychological aspects
...colleagues included Florence Kelly, Alice Hamilton, Julia Lathrop, Alzina...Frederick Douglass and John Quincy Adams. In summary, what these three...Paterson, NJ: Littlefield, Adams, 1960, 147-155; Jean Piaget...Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams, A Public Life, A Private Life...
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Maternal Iconography and Nation Building in Alice Cary's 'Mrs. Walden's Confidant.'
Journal article by Thomas H. Fick; Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 25, 1997
Subjects: Cary, Alice--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Competition (Psychology)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Motherhood--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Nationalism and literature--19th century
...Introduction," Clovernook Sketches and Other Stories, by Alice Cary (New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1987), p. xxix...Columbia Univ. Press, 1995), pp. 3-43, especially pp. 33-43; Adams is quoted in Martin, p. 37, (22) Henry Ward Beecher, "A July...
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Alice Arden's Freedom and the Suspended Moment of 'Arden of Faversham
Journal article by Julie R. Schutzman; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 36, 1996
Subjects: Adultery--Portrayals, depictions, etc., English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600, Housewives--Portrayals, depictions, etc., The Tragedy of Master Arden of Faversham (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...economic power and social status of women in this period, see Alice Clark, Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century (1919...most famous of all Elizabethan domestic tragedies," Henry Hitch Adams defines domestic as "dealing with personal and family relationships...
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An Artists' Home: Gender and the Santa Fe Culture Center Controversy
Journal article by Flannery Burke; Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 46, 2004
Subjects: Austin, Mary Hunter, Civilization--History, Culture--History, Dodge, Mabel, Henderson, Alice Corbin, Hewett, Edgar L., New Mexico--History
...Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992), 146-51. (46.) Alice Corbin Henderson, ed., The Turquoise Trail: An Anthology of...Harpers Magazine, March 1922, 414. (52.) Mary Austin in Ansel Adams and Mary Austin, Taos Pueblo (San Francisco: Grabhorn Press...
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magazine articles on: Adams Alice  - 248 results

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Where Are They Now? {Harper Lee * Richard Adams * Richard Bach * S.E. Hinton * Leonard Stern * Rod McKuen * James Finn Garner * Norton Juster * Bel Kaufman Donald J. Sobol * Nicholas Meyer * Judith Rossner * Erich Segal * Judith Guest}
Magazine article by Adam Langer; Book, July 2003
Subjects: Adams, Richard--Works, Authors, American--Reports, Bach, Richard--Works, Encyclopedia Brown (Book), Garner, James Finn--Works, Guest, Judith--Works, Hinton, S.E.--Works, Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Book), Juster, Norton--Works, Kaufman, Bel--Works, Lee, Harper--Works, Listen to the Warm (Book), Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Book), Love Story (Book), Mad Libs (Book), McKuen, Rod--Works, Meyer, Nicholas--Works, Ordinary People (Book), Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (Book), Rossner, Judith--Works, Segal, Erich--Works, Sobol, Donald J.--Works, Stern, Leonard--Works, The Outsiders (Book), The Phantom Tollbooth (Book), The Seven Per-Cent Solution (Book), To Kill a Mockingbird (Book), Up the Down Staircase (Book), Watership Down (Book)
...they now? {Harper Lee * Richard Adams * Richard Bach * S.E. Hinton...lives with her older sister, Alice, a lawyer, and New York City...allowed for this idyllic life, Adams says he cant explain its continued...Thats not quite as good as Alice Sebolds The Lovely Bones, which...
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Dick (Nixon) Heads
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 273, October 1, 2001
Subjects: Adams, John--Works, Caricatures and cartoons--Criticism and interpretation, Caricatures--Criticism and interpretation, Cartoons--Criticism and interpretation, Goodman, Alice--Works, Guston, Philip--Criticism and interpretation, James, Henry--Authorship, Kramer, Hilton--Criticism and interpretation, Nixon in China (Opera)--Criticism and interpretation, Nixon, Richard M.--Portrayals, Painting (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Painting--Criticism and interpretation, Poor Richard (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Whistler, James McNeill--Criticism and interpretation
...organized to tell a story--has its subject and something of its tone in common with the 1987 opera Nixon in China, by John Adams and Alice Goodman. If someone were inspired to compose an opera Guston in Woodstock--the upstate New York village to which Guston...
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Sculpting Human Form: Cast Bronze
Magazine article; School Arts, Vol. 103, September 2003
Subjects: American artists--Works, Art, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Freedman (Sculpture)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ward, John Quincy Adams--Works
...5/8 x 7 1/8 (49 x 37 x 18 cm). Gift of Alice Keys Hollister and Mary Eva Keys, 1921...of slavery, The Freedman by John Quincy Adams Ward is widely believed to be the first...Born in Urbana, Ohio in 1830, John Quincy Adams Ward first hoped to become a physician...
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Making Waves: An Opera Based on the Infamous Hijacking of a Cruise Liner 15 Year Ago Dares to Give Voice to the Terrorists. Peter Conrad on the Production the US Refuses to Stage
Magazine article by Peter Conrad; New Statesman, Vol. 131, January 14, 2002
Subjects: Adams, John--Works, Klinghoffer, Leon--Crimes against, Operas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Death of Kilnghoffer (Opera)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Victims of terrorism--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...the same librettist, the poet Alice Goodman -- was rawer, angrier...killed each other on the streets; Adams and Goodman were excoriated...After the initial fuss," Adams told me when we met in Vancouver...brassy cataclysm. It should feel, Adams said in 1991, "like being in...
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The Only Reason You Want to Got to Heaven Is That You Have Been Driven out of Your Mind
Magazine article by Alice Walker; The Humanist, Vol. 57, September 1997
Subjects: African American religious groups--Religious aspects, African Americans--Religious aspects, Christianity--Social aspects, Nature worship--Analysis, Race--Religious aspects
...turned in his wife to God, as if she had forced him to eat the fruit rather than simply offered him a bite? Would they have said Adams behavior reminded them of a man who got a woman pregnant and then blamed the woman for tempting him to have intercourse, thereby...
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Adams' Left Turn Is Right Move
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 4, 2003
...Woman In a Black Dress." The glam metal of "1974" begs comparisons to Kiss and Alice Cooper, while "So Alive" captures the epic swagger of early U2 and ends with Mr. Adams doing his best Jeff Buckley falsetto. The influence that most infuses "Rock...
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MARK ADAMS at the Movies: CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR.. CLOSER (15) Jude and Julia Fail to Light Up the Screen
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), January 16, 2005
Subjects: Roberts, Julia
...Light Up the Screen. Byline: MARK ADAMS THE STARS: Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie...photographer Anna (Roberts), stripper Alice (Portman) and dermatologist Larry (Owen...lives intermingle as Dan initially romances Alice before becoming obsessed with Anna. Larry...
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Sellars, Adams Pair in Return to Lyric
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 14, 2007
Subjects: Sellars, Peter, Sound recordings
...was on the drawing board. That operas text was written by poet Alice Goodman, who also wrote the libretto for "The Death of Klinghoffer." Sellars has been librettist for his other three subsequent Adams collaborations, "El Nino," Doctor Atomic" and "A Flowering Tree...
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Julie Madly Deeply; Julie Christie Was the Face of Sixties Hollywood until She Became a Recluse. Now She's Back with a Vengeance and Here Talks to Tim Adams about Anxiety, Ageing, Drugs, Love and Her New Film
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 12, 2007
Subjects: Motion pictures, Movies
...Anxiety, Ageing, Drugs, Love and Her New Film. Byline: TIM ADAMS The great frustration of Julie Christies life is that her face...is adapted from a story, The Bear Came Over The Mountain, by Alice Munro. In it, the husband of Christies character, Fiona, watches...
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Salt - the Sinners and the Saints; Most of the Salt We Consume Is Hidden in Processed Foods. Alice Hart-Davis Identifies the Supermarket Bad Guys
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), April 19, 2005
...Hart-Davis Identifies the Supermarket Bad Guys. Byline: ALICE HART-DAVIS THE recent news that Kelloggs has reduced the level...wafer-thin honey-roast ham: 3g per 100g/0.4g per slice. Geo Adams cocktail sausages: 0.3g salt per sausage. Cheese: McLelland...
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encyclopedia articles on: Adams Alice  - 4 results

 
 
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Adams, Alice
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ADAMS, ALICE 1926 99, American novelist, b. Fredericksburg, Va. Her deftly wry and...Last Lovely City (1999), and the posthumous anthology The Stories of Alice Adams (2002). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press...
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Tarkington, Booth
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1927), made up of Turmoil (1915), The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; Pulitzer Prize), and The Midlander (1923). Alice Adams (1921; Pulitzer Prize), considered by some his best novel, tells of the frustrated ambitions of a romantic lower-middle-class...
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Hepburn, Katharine
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981). Among her other outstanding films are Little Women (1933), Alice Adams (1935), Stage Door (1937), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The African Queen (1951), The Rainmaker (1956), Long Days...
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American Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The literature of the 1980s and 90s also encompasses the work of African-American (e.g., Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison , Alice Walker , and Gloria Naylor), Latino (e.g., Oscar Hijuelos, Rudolfo Anaya, and Sandra Cisneros), Native American (e.g., Louise...


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