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Chaste, Silent & Obedient: English Books for Women, 1475-1640

Book by Suzanne W. Hull; Huntington Library, 1982

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Chastity In Literature, England--Imprints, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Fiction, Obedience In Literature, Silence In Literature, Women In Literature, Women--Conduct Of Life, Women--England--Books And Reading--History--16th Century, Women--England--Books And Reading--History--17th Century, Women--England--History--Renaissance, 1450-1600

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...in 1638 and 1639 English women were reading about...in The Compleat Woman and The Secretary...pains to provide women with English versions of many...assumption that women could read English...the first all-English dictionary, Cawdrey...
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Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s: Romantic Belongings

Book by Angela Keane; Cambridge University Press, 2000

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English Literature--18th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Nationalism In Literature, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History--18th Century, Romanticism--England--History--18th Century, Women And Literature--England--History--18th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...issue from the imaginations of women, whose materiaL participation...nationaL-state formation and EngLish Literary character throws into...which a smaLL seLection of EngLish women writers representative...beLonging and the discourses of EngLish nationhood which were circuLating...
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Sharpening Her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers

Book by Sidney L. Sondergard; Susquehanna University Press, 2002

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English Language--Early Modern, 1500-1700--Rhetoric, English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, English Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Feminism And Literature--Great Britain--History--16th Century, Feminism And Literature--Great Britain--History--17th Century, Sex Role In Literature, Violence In Literature, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--16th Century, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--17th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...violence in the writings of early modern English women is as often a response to patriarchal...the project of authorship, these women become subjects- and in Marjorie...much of the work of early modern English women writers. Its potential as...
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Women, Violence, and English Renaissance Literature: Essays Honoring Paul Jorgensen

Book by Linda Woodbridge, Sharon Beehler; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2003

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English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Rape In Literature, Violence In Literature, Women And Literature--England--History--16th Century, Women And Literature--England--History--17th Century, Women In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...marriage customs, as reported by English colonists, seemed to grant...women than was customary for English women. Helen Rountree in her...for men, and possibly for women. Consid- erable sexual freedom...both sexes outside marriage English accounts are vague about the...activity unlikely for a young woman after puberty. The imprecision...
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Women and Property in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel

Book by April London; Cambridge University Press, 1999

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English Fiction--18th Century--History And Criticism, Property In Literature, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--18th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1740 1860 Los...Feminist Companion to Literature in English. Women Writers from the Middle Ages to...Lives and the Eighteenth-Century English Novel Tampa: University of South...

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Journal Articles on: english women

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"Exemplify My Frailty": Representing English Women in 'De Casibus' Tragedy

Journal article by Paul Budra; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 74, 1995

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English literature, 1485-1603 (English Renaissance period)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Politics in literature--16th century, Women in politics--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...political power. The historical women are relegated to their own...both deceased, lamenting woman and living, recording man...both voice and text to the woman, and that text is history itself. As the women in these stories are dependent...Magistrates. Hellina was the English mother of Constantine the Great...
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Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature

Journal article by Sidney L. Sondergard; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

Women and Islam in Early Modern English Literature. by Sidney...Islam in Early Modern English Literature. Cambridge...condition of freeborn English women" (85). The fifth...vastly exceeded those of English women, to show how Manleys...
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Nancy L. Stockdale. Colonial Encounters among English and Palestinian Women 1800-1947

Journal article; Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 30, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Colonial Encounters among English and Palestinian Women 1800-1947 (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...Stockdale. Colonial Encounters among English and Palestinian Women 1800-1947. Nancy L. Stockdale. Colonial Encounters among English and Palestinian Women 1800...investigate unexplored areas of English encounters with Palestinians...
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Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric

Journal article by Elizabeth Harris Sagaser; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 57, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric. (Book)--Book reviews, Sharpening Her Pen: Strategies of Rhetorical Violence by Early Modern English Women Writers (Book)

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Hammons. Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early...canonical texts by early modern women, both Hammons and Sondergard...and seventeenth-century English society. Both authors are...the social order during the English Revolution was inextricably...ambitious, self-aggrandizing woman, speaking on her own authority...
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The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975

Journal article by Judith S. Lewis; Journal of Social History, Vol. 38, 2005

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Books--Book reviews, The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800-1975 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception, 1800...Lewis The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception...birth control, sexuality, or English women in the last two centuries. Judith...

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Magazine Articles on: english women

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English Women Marry Gay Men Because They Are Not Threatening as Husbands and Are Great as Friends

Magazine article by Mary Riddell; New Statesman, Vol. 128, February 5, 1999

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Bisexuality in marriage--United Kingdom, Gay fathers--Analysis, Married women--Case studies, United Kingdom--Social aspects

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...and emotional clutter. The English, through repression, realism...Tears all round. Only the English, it seems, have the knack...associates, such as Noel Coward. English women like gay men. As friends...to betray one with another woman. The gay spouse is a virtual...
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Women of the West

Magazine article by Christopher Ott; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 50, August 1998

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Boulder, Colorado--Galleries and museums, Women pioneers--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

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Women of the west by Christopher Ott IF PEOPLE...Not many know about the contributions of women to the founding of hospitals and schools throughout the West, or that settlers--women and men of many different cultural backgrounds...
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Women out of the Ordinary

Magazine article by Barbara Mujica; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 56, July 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Mujeres de ojos grandes (Book), Women with Big Eyes (Book)--Book reviews

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...vignettes, each featuring a woman protagonist. Identified as...parts of Latin America, these women have a lot in common with Mastrettas...Lovesick amp;#93;, the woman who sincerely adores two men...positive picture of Mexicos women. Most of her protagonists...version reads better than the English, which is at times rather...
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Women: A Strong Voice

Magazine article; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 44, March 1992

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Women--Conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.

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...Perera, Coordinator in the United States of the Woman and the Quincentennial Civil Association, "this...for the participation of the Iberian Peninsula woman, the American woman and women from different regions of the world in the commemoration...
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Women in Leadership for a Democratic Society

Magazine article by Gina Ochoa; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 63, May-June 2011

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Gender equality--Political aspects, Political reform--Demographic aspects, Women's associations--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Women's organizations--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Women--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Women--Societies, clubs, etc.

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Women in Leadership for a Democratic Society. by Gina Ochoa ILLUSTRATION OMITTED In early April, the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), with the support of the UN Women and of the Ibero-American General Secretariat, organized...

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Newspaper Articles on: english women

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Only Irish Women Binge Drink More Than the English

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 23, 2006

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Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Only Irish Women Binge Drink More Than the English. Byline: FIONA MACRAE WOMEN in...countries, found that 33 per cent of English women could be tagged binge drinkers...Steptoe also found that a quarter of English men binge-drink. However, this...
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Scott Free; Kristin Scott Thomas Has Always Specialised in Repressed English Women Trapped in Unhappy Marriages. Now She's Thrown Her Own Life into Turmoil, Lydia Slater Asks: Is the Ice Queen Thawing?

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), December 9, 2005

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Scott Thomas, Kristin, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...thoughts. Now I feel more English than French, she says. Though...built on portraying adulterous women (Random Hearts, Gosford Park, The Horse Whisperer, The English Patient). Why does she think...of a story thats not about a woman either having an affair or...love affair with all things English? Whatever she decides, it...
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Would You Ever Take Your Girlfriend to Watch This? Most Women Would Explode If You Suggested It, but the Owner of a New London Lapdancing Club Tells Simon English How He Plans to Change That

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 10, 2011

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Women--Planning

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...people to have a good time. For women to feel they can come with...the new club, he says, the women and their lockers are searched...with money and a consenting woman? Well, for one, Object...dancers, 70 per cent of whom are English says Warr, the usual job discrimination...cater for them." OK, but the women I see today are broadly similar...
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'Why All French Women Are Arrogant ... and English Women Are Romantics'; Jean Michel Jarre Has Sold Millions of Records but Is as Well-Known for His Liaisons with the World's Sexiest Women as for His Music. He Tells Olivia Cole about His Life and Many Loves

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 6, 2010

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Actors, Actresses, Parillaud, Anne, Rampling, Charlotte

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Women Are Arrogant ... and English Women Are Romantics; Jean...opinions on both French and English women. He has, as he says...until 1998. He thinks that English girls ("women", he corrects himself ) are...famous image of the French woman, sitting in her car, putting...
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Why Scots Are Too Scared to Have More Kids; Women Say They Want Big Families but Fears over Cash, Careers and Health Mean That, Unlike the English, Most Will Decide to Stop at Two

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), December 7, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Scared to Have More Kids; Women Say They Want Big Families...Mean That, Unlike the English, Most Will Decide to...neighbours, Scottish women leave longer gaps between...again wait longer than English women. In fact, fewer...or four children than English women. More Scottish...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: english women

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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the great age of the English novel realistic, thickly...the 1860s and 70s. A woman of great erudition and...supercivilized urges of men and women. Sensitivity and psychological...and many important English intellectuals of the...rise of fascism, and English policies of appeasement...
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Canadian Literature, English

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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CANADIAN LITERATURE, ENGLISH literary works produced in Canada and written in the English language. Early Canadian...and many writers have been women. Among the most prominent...from American colonial or English neoclassical literature...
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Herrick, Robert , English Poet

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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HERRICK, ROBERT , English poet 1591 1674, English poet, generally considered the greatest of the Cavalier poets...there until his death. Herrick never married, and the many women mentioned in his poems are probably imaginary. The bulk of...
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Langtry, Lillie

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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LANGTRY, LILLIE 1853 1929, English actress, b. Jersey, Channel Islands; known as the Jersey Lily. One of the first English women of elevated social rank to go on the stage, she made her debut...
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Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah (Sheridan)

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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...ELIZABETH SARAH (SHERIDAN) 1808 77, English author; granddaughter of Richard...she is best-remembered for English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century (1854...improvement of the status of married women in England...

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