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  - 535 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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Teaching "Dear Mihia": Sentimentalism and Cross-Cultural Education in S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: A Child of the Forest
Journal article by Kara Mollis; MELUS, Vol. 33, 2008
Subjects: Callahan, S. Alice--Criticism and interpretation, Callahan, S. Alice--Works, Intercultural education--Portrayals, Multicultural education--Portrayals, Native American authors--Criticism and interpretation, Native American authors--Works, Native American writers--Criticism and interpretation, Native American writers--Works, Race relations--Portrayals, Sentimentality--Portrayals, Wynema, A Child of the Forest (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...literary tradition. Works Cited Adams, David Wallace. Education for...Meeting Grounds of Sentiment: S. Alice Callahans Wynema: A Child of...2001): 209-24. Callahan, S. Alice. Wynema: A Child of the Forest...Child of the Forest. 1891. By S. Alice Callahan. Ed. A. LaVonne Brown...
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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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magazine articles on: Adams Alice  - 274 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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Alice: Frou Frou Flip Flops
Magazine article by Kamaljit Kaur Dosanjh, Shelly Lucas; Social Studies Review, Vol. 48, Spring 2009
Subjects: Awards & honors, Cruelty to animals, Fund raising, Heroism & heroes, Learning, Performing arts, Social sciences, Students
...Luther King, Jr., Johnny Appleseed, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Jackie Robinson, Rosa Parks, Alice Paul, Susan B. Anthony, Davy Crockett, Abigail Adams, Jane Addams, Elizabeth Blackwell, Rachel Carson, Marie Curie, Sally Ride, Princess Diana, Oprah...
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Uncommon Man: John Adams's Operas Have Laid the Foundations of a Distinctively American Classical Tradition. but, outside Carnegie Hall, the United States Remains a Nation Profoundly Uncomfortable with High Culture, He Tells Ian Irvine
Magazine article by Ian Irvine; New Statesman, Vol. 138, February 23, 2009
Subjects: Adams, John (American composer)--Interviews, Composers--Interviews
...made me infamous," wrote John Adams in his memoir, Hallelujah Junction...brilliance of its libretto (by Alice Goodman) and its expressive...arts-and-culture RELATED ARTICLE: John Adams: the CV * 1947 Born in Massachusetts...collaboration with the poet Alice Goodman and the stage director...
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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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Jourdan, the Girl Found Just Two Years Ago in Primark, Crowned Model of 2008; Emotional: Jourdan Dunn Fought Back Tears of Joy as She Accepted Her Model of the Year Award in Westminster Fashion Parade: Guests Erin OConnor and Designer Gareth Pugh; Claudia Schiffer; Alice Dellal and Pixie Geldof; Jade Jagger; Singer Bryan Adams with Mick Jaggers Girlfriend and Fashion Designer LWren Scott
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 26, 2008
Subjects: Fashion design--Achievements and awards
...Westminster Fashion Parade: Guests Erin OConnor and Designer Gareth Pugh; Claudia Schiffer; Alice Dellal and Pixie Geldof; Jade Jagger; Singer Bryan Adams with Mick Jaggers Girlfriend and Fashion Designer LWren Scott. Byline: LAURA CRAIK JOURDAN...
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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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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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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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