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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “norma clarke”
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  • Ambitious Heights

    Writing, Friendship, Love – The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle

    by Norma Clarke ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women and Writing
    How did the Victorian woman cope with the image of herself as a writer?What were the constraints on female friendships in a world centred on the pre-eminence of the husband?How significant for an ambitious woman were her politics about men?At the heart of this book, originally published in 1990, is a friendship between two women: Jane Carlyle and the novelist Geraldine Jewsbury. But it was a ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Brothers of the Quill

    Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street

    by Norma Clarke ...
    Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England in 1756 a penniless Irishman. He toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street—already a synonym for impoverished hack writers—before he became one of literary London’s most celebrated authors. Norma Clarke tells the extraordinary story of this destitute scribbler turned gentleman of letters as it unfolds in the early days of commercial publishing, when ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Dr Johnson's Women

    by Norma Clarke ...
    Dr Johnson's friendships with the leading women writers of the day was an important feature of his life and theirs. He was willing to treat women as intellectual equals and to promote their careers: something ignored by his main biographer, James Boswell. Dr Johnson's Women investigates the lives and writings of six leading female authors Johnson knew well: Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Lennox, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters

    by Norma Clarke ...
    If Aphra Benn is widely regarded as the first important woman writer in English, who was the second? In literary history, the eighteenth century belongs to men: Pope and Swift, Richardson and Fielding. Asked to name a woman, even the specialist stumbles. Jane Austen? She didn't publish until 1811. Aphra Benn herself? She died in 1869.The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters tells the remarkable ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

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    The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 05 February 1896 (Unabridged)

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    by et al. Cleveland Moffet ...
    Narrated by Ted Tijerina, Norma Clark, Eric Yarbrough, Wendy Locke ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 6 min

    Crackle open a forgotten relic: The Black Cat, February 1896. This unearthed issue of the vintage literary magazine chills with six tales of the strange and unsettling. Unravel "The Mysterious Card" with a man haunted by a cryptic message. Peer into the uncanny with a sharpshooter who saves a battleship with his extraordinary vision. Feel the icy grip of the supernatural in a tale of a wife ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Political Pioneer of the Press

    Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice

    by Lori Amber Roessner, Jodi L. Rightler-McDaniels, Chandra D. Snell Clark, Norma Fay Green, Joe Hayden, Jinx C. Broussard, Kris DuRocher, Patricia A. Schechter0, R.J. Vogt1, Kathy Roberts Forde2 ...
    Series series Women in American Political History
    Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the 1970s Wells-Barnett’s life, career, and legacy were relegated to the footnotes of history. Beginning with the posthumously published ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

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    by Abigail Williams ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    "A lively survey…her research and insights make us conscious of how we, today, use books."—John Sutherland, The New York Times Book ReviewTwo centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainment and an integral component of domestic social life. In this fascinating and vivid history, Abigail Williams explores the ways in which ... Read more

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  • A Room Of One's Own

    The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Series Book 23 - The Virginia Woolf Library
    Why is it that men, and not women, have always had power, wealth, and fame? Woolf cites the two keys to freedom: fixed income and one’s own room. Foreword by Mary Gordon. ... Read more

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  • Not Just Jane

    Rediscovering Seven Amazing Women Writers Who Transformed British Literature

    by Shelley DeWees ...
    “Not Just Jane restores seven of England’s most fascinating and subversive literary voices to their rightful places in history. Shelley DeWees tells each woman writer’s story with wit, passion, and an astute understanding of the society in which she lived and wrote.”**—**Dr. Amanda Foreman, New York Times bestselling author of Georgiana: Duchess of DevonshireJane Austen and the Brontës endure as ... Read more

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  • The Mysterious Mistress

    The Life and Legend of Jane Shore

    by Margaret Crosland ...
    Jane Shore often gets just a byline in history. We know her name, and that she was the mistress of a king. But who was this woman caputred for the stage by Shakespeare in Richard III, fictionalised by Jean Plaidy and others? Where did she come from? And how was it that having been mistress to the most powerful man in the land, she ended her years in prison and poverty?Jane Shore was born into a ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of Charles Dickens

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    Winner, Plutarch Award for Best Biography: A "marvelous exploration" of Dickens's life and how it shaped his extraordinarily popular novels ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).An exceedingly rare talent and great orator, slight of build with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Charles Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at ... Read more

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  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

    by Janet Todd ...
    'Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time' New York Times'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet of the erotic ... Read more

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