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How Celia Changed Her Mind and Selected Stories
Rose Terry Cooke
Häftad, 1986
447 kr
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This anthology of fiction by Rose Terry Cooke contains eleven stories, drawn together for the first time in one volume, that reflect the whole spectrum of Cooke's career from the 1850s to the 1890s. It restores to American literature the work of a writer highly admired in her own day and …
Stories from the Country of Lost Borders by Mary Austin
Häftad, 1987
447 kr
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Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain (1903) and Lost Borders (1909), both set in the California desert, make intimate connections between animals, people, and the land they inhabit. For Austin, the two indispensable conditions of her fiction were that the region must enter the story "as another …
Alternative Alcott
Av Louisa May Alcott, Elaine Showalter
Häftad, 1988
494 kr
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The discovery in recent years of Louisa May Alcott's pseudonymous sensation stories has made readers and scholars increasingly aware of her accomplishments beyond her most famous novel, Little Women, one of the great international best-sellers of all time. What has been recovered throws new light …
Hidden Hand
Or, Capitola the Madcap by E. D. E. N. Southworth
Häftad, 1988
510 kr
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E.D.E.N. Southworth was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century and her Capitola Black, or Black Cap - a cross-dressing, adventure-seeking girl-woman - was so well-loved that the book was serialized three times between 1859 and 1888 and was dramatized in forty …
'the Lamplighter' by Maria Susanna Cummins
Av Nina Baym
Häftad, 1988
503 kr
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The Lamplighter was the first novel by twenty-seven-year-old Maria Susanna Cummins. It propelled her into a prominence that continued until her early death at the age of thirty-nine. A novel of female development, The Lamplighter is a woman's version of the quest story. Its heroine, Gerty, comes on …
"the Amber Gods" and Other Stories by Harriet Prescott Spofford
Häftad, 1989
447 kr
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A widely held vision of nineteenth-century American women is of lives lived in naive, domestic peace-the girls of Little Women making do until father comes home from the war. Nothing could be less true of Harriet Prescott Spofford's stories. In fact, her editor at the Atlantic Monthly at first …
'a New Home, Who Will Follow?' by Caroline Kirkland
Häftad, 1990
466 kr
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Set in the frontier of Michigan int he 1830s, A New Home is the first realistic portrayal of western village life in the United States. Based on Caroline Kirkland's own experiences - and written from a woman's perspective - it narrates with a keen eye and wit the absorbing story of the …
Moods
Av Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Elbert
Häftad, 1991
503 kr
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Moods, Louisa May Alcott's first novel was published in 1864, four years before the best-selling Little Women. The novel unconventionally presents a "little woman," a true-hearted abolitionist spinster, and a fallen Cuban beauty, their lives intersecting in Alcott's first major depiction of the …
Essential Margaret Fuller by Margaret Fuller
Häftad, 1992
503 kr
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The leading feminist intellectual of her day, Margaret Fuller has been remembered for her groundbreaking work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, which recharted the gender roles of nineteenth-century men and women. In this new collection, the full range of her literary career is represented from her …
American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 1992
495 kr
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This publication marks the first time in a hundred years that a wide range of nineteenth-century American women's poetry has been accessible to the general public in a single volume. Included are the humorous parodies of Phoebe Cary and Mary Weston Fordham and the stirring abolitionist poems of …
Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fanny Fern
Häftad, 1986
473 kr
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When Ruth Hall was originally published in 1855, it caused a sensation. In it, Fanny Fern (Sara Payson Willis Parton) portrays a mid-nineteenth-century woman who realizes the American Dream solely on her own becoming the incarnation of the American individualist-regarded at that time as a role …
Hope Leslie
Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts
Av Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Mary Kelley
Häftad, 1987
505 kr
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Hope Leslie (1827), set in the seventeenth-century New England, is a novel that forced readers to confront the consequences of the Puritans’ subjugation and displacement of the indigenous Indian population at a time when contemporaries were demanding still more land from the Cherokees, the …
