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  • The Restoration Transposed

    Poetry, Place and History, 1660–1700

    by Gillian Wright ...
    This revisionist study of Restoration literature and culture demonstrates how important the decades between 1660 and 1700 were in transforming, enlarging and diversifying English-language poetry. Wright challenges the longstanding narrative of Restoration poetry as a male, urban, London-centric form obsessed with the contemporary, arguing persuasively that this schema omits crucial literary works ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Katherine Philips: Form, Reception, and Literary Contexts

    Edited by Marie-Louise Coolahan, Gillian Wright ...
    Series series Historical Women's Writing
    Katherine Philips (1632–1664) is widely regarded as a pioneering figure within English-language women’s literary history. Best known as a poet, she was also a skilled translator, letter writer and literary critic whose subjects ranged from friendship and retirement to politics and public life. Her poetry achieved a high reputation among coterie networks in London, Wales and Ireland during her ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Producing Women's Poetry, 1600–1730

    Text and Paratext, Manuscript and Print

    by Gillian Wright ...
    Producing Women's Poetry is the first specialist study to consider English-language poetry by women across the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Gillian Wright explores not only the forms and topics favoured by women, but also how their verse was enabled and shaped by their textual and biographical circumstances. She combines traditional literary and bibliographical approaches to address ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Mishti, the Mirzapuri Labrador

    Urf Mishti ke Karname

    by Gillian Wright ...
    As soon as the door opened a crack, Mishti’s nose appeared and then Mishti, pushing her way in, small and gold, straining on her lead with all her might. Behind her came a team of Mirzapuris. Mishti walked right past Gilly and right past Mark and across their flat straight to the water bowl, as if she already knew where it would be. Having lapped up a great deal of water, she pricked up her ears ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Chaplains in early modern England

    Patronage, literature and religion

    Edited by Hugh Adlington, Tom Lockwood, Gillian Wright ...
    Series series Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain
    Who were early modern chaplains and what did they do? Chaplains are well known to have been pivotal figures within early modern England, their activities ranging from more conventionally religious roles (conducting church services, offering spiritual advice and instruction) to a surprisingly wide array of literary functions (writing poetry, or acting as scribes and editors). Chaplains in early ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

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    Mishti, The Mirzapuri Labrador: Urf Mishti Ke Karname

    by Gillian Wright ...
    Narrated by Benaifer Mirza ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 6 min

    Mishti, a little golden labrador born in Mirzapur, on the banks of the Ganga, is adopted by two people from Delhi, called Gilly and Mark. It is the beginning of many adventures they will have as they learn to live together, and become a family. ©Speaking Tiger Publishing Pvt Ltd. ... Read more

    $4.10 USD

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    This is a true story and first began in Singapore. Many names and events have been altered to protect the identity of the individuals mentioned in this story. "When Sally was 9..." is part of a series that discusses abuse in an Asian society.Abuse, regardless of its forms, is a repressive situation where the victim is self-induced into a constant state of submission, sometimes, bearing little or ... Read more

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  • The Lives of Tudor Women

    by Elizabeth Norton ...
    The turbulent Tudor age never fails to capture the imagination. But what was it actually like to be a woman during this period? This was a time when death in infancy or during childbirth was rife; when marriage was usually a legal contract, not a matter for love, and the education of women was minimal at best. Yet the Tudor century was also dominated by powerful and characterful women in a way ... Read more

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  • The Parrot Who Thought She Was a Dog

    by Nancy Ellis-Bell ...
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  • The Voices of Morebath

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    In the fifty years between 1530 and 1580, England moved from being one of the most lavishly Catholic countries in Europe to being a Protestant nation, a land of whitewashed churches and antipapal preaching. What was the impact of this religious change in the countryside? And how did country people feel about the revolutionary upheavals that transformed their mental and material worlds under Henry ... Read more

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