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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Keynote Jane Austen and the Brontës endure as the leading ladies of English literature, but why are these reclusive parsons' daughters the only ones we remember? Funny and fascinating, Shelley DeWees's nonfiction debut, Not Just Jane, revisits British history through the extraordinary lives and work of seven long-forgotten authoresses--and wonders why they, and so many others, faded into obscurity (and what we are missing because of it)"--
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Coaxed through a depression by her golden retriever, Adams, a psychologist and former English professor, was drawn to five women writers who relied on their dogs for emotional support. Flush distracted Elizabeth Barrett after her favorite brother's death. Formidable, eccentric Emily Bronte, who once savagely beat her fierce mastiff, Keeper, for sleeping on her bed, refused to sentimentalize the human-dog bond in Wuthering Heights. Carlo, a Newfoundland,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend, but the world's most celebrated female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove this wrong, thanks to their investigations into a wealth of surprising collaborations, such as the friendships between George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe or Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. Drawing on letters and diaries,...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
When she was a little girl, passing her summers in the heat of coastal Australia, Evie Wyld was captivated by sharks by their innate ruthlessness, stealth, and immeasurable power and they have never released their hold on her imagination. From the award-winning author of "All the Birds, Singing, "here is a deeply moving graphic memoir about family, love, loss, and the irresistible forces that, like sharks, course through life unseen, ready to emerge...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women. All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother's Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet,...
10) Beatrix Potter
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A brief biography of the British writer best known for her stories about a naughty little rabbit named Peter.
13) Women writers
Publisher
M. Cavendish
Pub. Date
1989
Description
An illustrated overview of the life and works of a selected number of important writers in the English language from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.