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Books on: women authors

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Mary Shelley: Author of "Frankenstein"

Book by Elizabeth Nitchie; Greenwood Press, 1970

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Frankenstein (Fictitious Character), Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft--1797-1851, Women Authors, English--19th Century--Biography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

mented caustically. The village woman on whose hands Elizabeth Raby was left...is no proof of his having money." The woman without husband or other natural protectors...different situation. The Rights and Wrongs of Women were sharply outlined in Marys mind...she said, "to vindicate the rights of women, I have ever befriended women when oppressed...
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Male Authors, Female Readers: Representation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature

Book by Anne Clark Bartlett; Cornell University Press, 1995

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Authorship--Sex Differences, Devotional Literature, English (Middle)--Male Authors--History And Criticism, English Prose Literature--Middle English, 1100-1500--History And Criticism, Mimesis In Literature, Subjectivity In Literature, Women And Literature--England--History, Women--Books And Reading--England--History, Women--England--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500, Women--Prayer-Books And Devotions--English--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...inescapably inscribed." 6 For medieval women, the devotional text could not have been...known misogynist representations of Woman in devotional texts for female audiences...particular relevance to late medieval English women readers. The purpose stated by the authors of Middle English devotional literature...
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Jewish Women Fiction Writers

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1998

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American Fiction--Jewish Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Fiction--Jewish Authors--History And Criticism, American Fiction--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography, American Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Authors, American--20th Century--Biography, Jewish Authors--United States--Biography, Jewish Women In Literature, Jewish Women--United States--Intellectual Life, Jews In Literature, Judaism And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Women And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Women Authors, American--Biography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...introduction by Harold Bloom. p. cm. Women writers of English and their...1. American fiction Jewish authors History and criticism. 2. Women and literature United States...century. 3. American fiction Women authors History and criticism...
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Women Writers of Spain: An Annotated Bio-Bibliographical Guide

Book by Carolyn L. Galerstein, Kathleen McNerney; Greenwood Press, 1986

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Catalan Literature--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography, Galician Literature--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography, Spanish Literature--Women Authors--Bio-Bibliography

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...comprehensive list of Spanish women authors of the twentieth...new information on the author or the work, or a more...There are a number of authors studied by Serrano y...for more information. Women Writers of Spain: An...contribution made by each author and her work to the...literary work of an author is summarized and analyzed...commenting upon the authors presentation of the...
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Women Memoirists - Vol. 2

Book by Harold Bloom; Chelsea House, 1998

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American Prose Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Autobiography--Women Authors, English Prose Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women Authors, American--Biography--History And Criticism, Women Authors, English--Biography--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...ISBN 0-7910-4655-9 v. 2 : pbk. 1. American prose literature Women authors History and criticism. 2. English prose literature Women authors History and criticism. 3. Women authors, American Biography History and criticism. 4. Women authors...

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Journal Articles on: women authors

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American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869

Journal article by Thomas Lilly; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 24, 2007

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American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Women, Money, and the Law: Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Gender, and the Courts (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...elegantly handles women writers negotiation...insights regarding the authors she examines and...as a "model" author, as facets of...circumstances in which authors encountered the...helped to define women as economically...American Renaissance Woman," Warren excoriates...159, 165). Women, Money, and the...not a particular author can rise above...Gilman and other authors discussed in Women...
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Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by British and American Women Authors, 1865-1935

Journal article; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 25, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Kindred Hands: Letters on Writing by British and American Women Authors, 1865-1935 (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Writing by British and American Women Authors, 1865-1935. Kindred...readers, reviewers, and other authors. As the volumes editors...creative expression" as the authors "used letters to help create...their writing" (5). Each authors letters are introduced by a...bond with Evans as a fellow author, while George V. Griffith...
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Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors

Journal article by Kathleen Zamboni Mccormick; MELUS, Vol. 28, 2003

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Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Contemporary Italian American Women Authors. by Kathleen Zamboni...between Italian American authors and the work of other...yet these are not mere author studies. Rather, Giunta...relationships among each author, her characters, and...reading Italian American authors, but that by writing...
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The Author Was a Woman? the Issue of Essentialism in "The Book of J."

Journal article by Tela C. Zasloff; Women and Language, Vol. 17, 1994

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Authorship--Social aspects, Sexism in literature--Analysis, Women authors--Research

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...decided that J was a woman, he had chosen Jacob as the biblical authors "self-representation...equivocal hero" than Js women, who are unequivocally...the conception of a woman author. Tamar, the ancestor...argument that J is a woman is challenged persuasively...contemporary of the biblical author E, or, as Alter himself...assumedly male biblical authors also champion women, or that J has heroes...
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Subjects, Objects, Authors: The Portraiture of Women in Giulia Bigolina's Urania

Journal article by Christopher K. Nissen; Italian Culture, Vol. 18, 2000

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Authors, Italian--Social aspects, Bigolina, Giulia--Criticism and interpretation, Books--Criticism and interpretation, Italian literature--Social aspects, Italian writers--Social aspects, Love stories--Criticism and interpretation, Popular romances--Criticism and interpretation, Urania (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation, Women--Portrayals

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Subjects, Objects, Authors: The Portraiture of Women in Giulia Bigolinas Urania...claimed a special status for women as readers and narrators of...Giulia Bigolina, the only woman to have achieved any renown...damore and the defense of women. By any estimation, Bigolina...Bigolina gives to her own role as author and creator of her fictions...

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Magazine Articles on: women authors

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And God Made Me a Woman: Nicaraguan Author Gioconda Belli Intertwines the Erotic, the Poetic, and the Political with a Non-Conformist Feminine Voice

Magazine article by Adriana Herrera; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 61, November 2009

Subjects:

Authors, Nicaraguan--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, Nicaraguan--Influence, Belli, Gioconda--Criticism and interpretation, Belli, Gioconda--Influence, Feminist criticism, Feminist literary criticism, Nicaraguan writers--Criticism and interpretation, Nicaraguan writers--Influence, Women poets--Criticism and interpretation, Women poets--Influence

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...century nun and the Nicaraguan author. Sor Juana was the greatest...Dario, but no one expected a woman to write transcendent verse...kinship with transgressor women from creation myths and human...experience of being born a woman in Nicaragua and of growing...revolution. Men were allowed; women were not. Saying "no" to...on the list of suspicious authors," since Latin Americans...
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Troubadour of the American West: An Exemplar of the Frontier Life He Wrote about, Author Louis L'Amour Celebrated the Honorable Individualism of the Men and Women Who Settled the American West

Magazine article by William Norman Grigg; The New American, Vol. 21, March 21, 2005

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American culture--Portrayals, Authors--Biography, Authors--Works, L'Amour, Louis--Biography, L'Amour, Louis--Works, Writers--Biography, Writers--Works

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...Frontier Life He Wrote about, Author Louis LAmour Celebrated the...Individualism of the Men and Women Who Settled the American West...characters are strong-willed women who can take care of themselves...in his study of the men and women who tamed the American West...
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Cpp Disabling Women, Authors of Report Say

Magazine article by Penni Mitchell; Herizons, Vol. 14, Spring 2001

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Canada, Discrimination, Employee benefits, Employment, Handicapped people, International, Sex discrimination, Sexism, Unemployment, Women

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Cpp Disabling Women, Authors of Report Say by Penni Mitchell CPP Disabling Women, Authors of Report Say (WINNIPEG)The system of...benefits under the Canada Pension Plan is unfair to women with disabilities, according to a report commissioned...
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Cpp Disabling Women, Authors of Report Say

Magazine article by Penni Mitchell; Herizons, Vol. 14, Spring 2001

Subjects:

Canada Pension Plan, Doe, Tanis M, Employment, Handicapped people, Kimpson, Sally, Laws & regulations, Pension funds, Women

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Cpp Disabling Women, Authors of Report Say by Penni Mitchell (WINNIPEG...the Canada Pension Plan is unfair to women with disabilities, according to a report commissioned by Status of Women Canada. The reports authors, Tanis...
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Attorney, Author Sack Advises Women on Sexual Harassment

Magazine article by Jennifer G. Hickey; Insight on the News, Vol. 14, May 11, 1998

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Sack, Steven Mitchell--Authorship, Sex discrimination against women--Laws, regulations, etc., The Working Woman's Legal Survival Guide (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Attorney, author Sack advises women on sexual harassment by Jennifer...some of the answers. He is author of the recently publisher book...millions and millions of women are not being compensated fairly...studies indicate that the typical woman earns 71 cents to every dollar...

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Newspaper Articles on: women authors

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Wake-Up Call to Women in Abusive Relationships; Author Warns Mental Abuse Is More Damning Than Physical Torture

Newspaper article; Sunshine Coast Daily (Maroochydore, Australia), February 15, 2010

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Domestic violence, Family violence, Torture, Women

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

Wake-Up Call to Women in Abusive Relationships; Author Warns Mental Abuse Is More Damning Than...turn to for help? As brave Australian woman Jennifer Hepburn can testify, you do...extensive research and interviews with women all over Australia, Jennifer not only...
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Authors Remind Women about Welfare

Newspaper article; The Daily Mercury (Mackay, Australia), September 3, 2011

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Women, Women's health, Women--Health aspects

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

Authors Remind Women about Welfare...authors of Like Chocolate for Women, Kim Morrison and Fleur Whelligan...inspirational presentation to Mackay women at Femnasium Health and Fitness...Their book Like Chocolate for Women is a Cpounds sterlingdip into bookCyen so a busy time poor woman can open the book to any page...
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'Most Women Don't Remotely Care How Their Car's Sprockets Work' Welsh Author's Guide to Handling Motoring Hassles

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 27, 2009

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Women

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

Most Women Dont Remotely Care How Their Cars Sprockets Work Welsh Authors Guide to Handling Motoring...showroom is enough to fill a woman with dread is likely these...of chauvinism. But a Welsh author is only too happy to admit that women could do with a helping hand...an essential read for every woman who loves her car but hates...
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EVERY WOMAN NEEDS a Hot Tub and Chocolate'; ' Can These Really Be the Words of Naomi Wolf, the Controversial US Feminist and Author Who Excoriated the Fashion and Beauty Industries for Exploiting Women in the Beauty Myth? Well, Yes.But as Louette Harding Discovers, Becoming 'Gentler' Doesn't Mean That Wolf's Old Fire Has Gone out Photograph M Van Hattem

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 16, 2006

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Feminism, Wolf, Naomi, Women

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

EVERY WOMAN NEEDS a Hot Tub and Chocolate...Controversial US Feminist and Author Who Excoriated the Fashion...Beauty Industries for Exploiting Women in the Beauty Myth? Well...be painted as a sad, lonely woman. She fills the cottage with...an educational institute for women in New York State where she...
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HOW I PAID THE PRICEFOR BEING A STAY-AT-HOME MOTHER; Having Championed the Homemaker in the Face of Women's Liberation 25 Years Ago, Author Terry Martin Hekker, above, Now Says That She Was Wrong, and That Women Need to Put Themselves, Not Their Marriages, First

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 9, 2006

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Women

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

...Liberation 25 Years Ago, Author Terry Martin Hekker...Was Wrong, and That Women Need to Put Themselves...age of the liberated woman. I wrote it from my...come from a long line of women, I wrote, most of them...were many other confused women of my age and circumstance...that could happen to a woman. I was wrong. No jilted...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: women authors

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Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...of John Stuart Mills On the Subjugation of Women into Danish (1869), he completely excluded women authors from his canon-setting work Men of the...and B. Nolin (1976); P. Dahlerup, Women of the Modern Breakthrough (1984...
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Canadian Literature, English

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...included William Kirby , author of The Golden Dog (1877...and Sir Gilbert Parker , author of The Seats of the Mighty...many writers have been women. Among the most prominent authors have been Lucy M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables...
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Hale, Sarah Josepha (Buell)

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

HALE, SARAH JOSEPHA (BUELL) 1788 1879, American author, editor, and feminist, b. near Newport, N.H. In 1828...fashions and manners of her day. Mrs. Hale cultivated female authors and constantly urged the higher education of women. She also advocated a national Thanksgiving holiday. Her...Poems for Our Children (1830). See O. W. Burt, First Woman Editor (1960...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...tragedies, which emphasize women characters and psychological...bombastic heroic dramas by such authors as John Dryden and Thomas Otway...the lives of minorities and women. Beginning with Lorraine Hansberry...century. Feminist and other women-centered themes dramatized...
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Children's Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...in 1765 by John Newbery , an English author and bookseller. Newbery was the first...in the sober, uplifting books of such authors as Thomas Day , Mary Sherwood, and Maria...depicted in Louisa May Alcott s Little Women (1868), whereas Mark Twain s Adventures...increasing attention. Among the many authors pursuing these themes, Verna Aardema...

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