Download or read book The Adventure of the Cantankerous Old Lady written by Grant Allen and published by . This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cantankerous Old Lady flared up. 'Yes, and have my jewel-case stolen! Or find she was an English girl without one word of German. Or nurse her on the boat when I want to give my undivided attention to my own misfortunes. No, Amelia, I call it positively unkind of you to suggest such a thing. You're so unsympathetic! I put my foot down there. I will not take any temporary person.'

Download or read book The Old Lady s Adventures written by Lizzy Clarke and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about having adventures with dragons, fairies, and elves of the magical fantasy. It is about stepping into another world of imagination where dreams and wishes come true. Also, it is about leaning on our friends for support and guidance and keeping each other safe in the light of danger and when things go wrong and being positive each and every day.

Download or read book Investigating Women written by David Skene-Melvin and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet some fascinating females: Jennie Baxer, 1890s journalist and world traveller Nelvana of the Northern Lights, created for comic book-starved Canadians during the Second World War the 60s’ Eve Adam, the "Rock Hit of Prague," whose methods violate all the "rules" for detective books and, very much of the 1990s, vampire detective Vicki Nelson, whose beat is Toronto’s Queen Street West As well as the fifteen investigating women in the book, Skene-Melvin’s introduction describes hundreds of female sleuths and their creators in an in-depth analysis of women detective fiction by Canadians. You will recognize many of the writers included in Investigating Women: Grant Allen, Robert Barr, Marisa De Franceschi, Adrian Dingle, Katherine V. Forrest, Hulbert Footner, Maurice Gagnon, Margaret Haffner, Joan Hall Hovey, Tanya Huff, Medora Sale, Josef Skvorecky, and Betsy Struthers. For each of the selections a brief note sets the story; bibliographies help readers find other books by the authors featured in Investigating Women.

Download or read book Miss Cayley s Adventures written by Grant Allen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Miss Cayley's Adventures, penned by Grant Allen, is a charming novel that follows the escapades of the resourceful Miss Cayley. Allen's narrative combines wit, adventure, and mystery, creating a delightful story that showcases the agency and intelligence of its female protagonist. This book offers readers a captivating blend of suspense, humor, and unconventional twists as Miss Cayley navigates a world full of intrigue and unexpected challenges."

Download or read book The True Women Influencers of the Past written by Willa Cather and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 19661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you the world's iconic women characters in fiction and the real-life heroines in this power-packed meticulously edited and formatted collection: Fiction: Camilla (Fanny Burney) Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov) Hester (Margaret Oliphant) Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Davis) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) Wives and Daughter (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen) Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen) The Story of a Baby (Ethel Sybil Turner) New Amazonia (Elizabeth Corbett) A Daughter of the Land (Gene Stratton-Porter) The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland) My Ántonia (Willa Cather) The Song of the Lark (Willa Cather) The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) Sisters (Ada Cambridge) Hagar (Mary Johnston) Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley) The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie) Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf) Parnassus on Wheels (Christopher Morley) The Job (Sinclair Lewis) Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale) The Rainbow (D. H. Lawrence) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Fanny Herself (Edna Ferber) So Big (Edna Ferber)... Memoirs: Madame Vigée Lebrun Jane Austen Caroline Herschel Mrs. Seacole Elizabeth Cady Stanton My Own Story (Emmeline Pankhurst) Mother Jones Margaret Sanger Helen Keller Biographies: Lucretia Sappho Aspasia of Cyrus Portia Octavia Cleopatra Mariamne Julia Domna Zenobia Valeria Hypatia The Lady Rowena Roswitha the Nun Marie de France Laura de Sade Joan of Arc Catharine of Arragon Anne Boleyn Margaret Roper Mary, Queen of Scots The Pocahontas Queen Anne Maria Theresa Marie Antoinette Florence Nightingale Maria Mitchell Harriet Tubman Madame de Stael…

Download or read book Miss Cayley s Adventures written by Grant Allen and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime written by Michael Sims and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully wicked new anthology from the editor of The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime It is the Victorian era and society is both entranced by and fearful of that suspicious character known as the New Woman. She rides those new- fangled bicycles and doesn't like to be told what to do. And, in crime fiction, such female detectives as Loveday Brooke, Dorcas Dene, and Lady Molly of Scotland Yard are out there shadowing suspects, crawling through secret passages, fingerprinting corpses, and sometimes committing a lesser crime in order to solve a murder. In The Penguin Book of Victorian Women in Crime, Michael Sims has brought together all of the era's great crime-fighting females- plus a few choice crooks, including Four Square Jane and the Sorceress of the Strand.

Download or read book The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger written by Jess Nevins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a broad array of historical and literary sources, this book presents an unprecedented detailed history of the superhero and its development across the course of human history. How has the concept of the superhero developed over time? How has humanity's idealization of heroes with superhuman powers changed across millennia—and what superhero themes remain constant? Why does the idea of a superhero remain so powerful and relevant in the modern context, when our real-life technological capabilities arguably surpass the imagined superpowers of superheroes of the past? The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger: The 4,000-Year History of the Superhero is the first complete history of superheroes that thoroughly traces the development of superheroes, from their beginning in 2100 B.C.E. with the Epic of Gilgamesh to their fully entrenched status in modern pop culture and the comic book and graphic novel worlds. The book documents how the two modern superhero archetypes—the Costumed Avengers and the superhuman Supermen—can be traced back more than two centuries; turns a critical, evaluative eye upon the post-Superman history of the superhero; and shows how modern superheroes were created and influenced by sources as various as Egyptian poems, biblical heroes, medieval epics, Elizabethan urban legends, Jacobean masques, Gothic novels, dime novels, the Molly Maguires, the Ku Klux Klan, and pulp magazines. This work serves undergraduate or graduate students writing papers, professors or independent scholars, and anyone interested in learning about superheroes.

Download or read book Railways and Culture in Britain written by Ian Carter and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 19th-century steam railway epitomized modernity's relentlessly onrushing advance. Ian Carter delves into the cultural impact of the train. Why, for example, did Britain possess no great railway novel? He compares fiction and images by canonical British figures (Turner, Dickens, Arnold Bennett) with selected French and Russian competitors: Tolstoy, Zola, Monet, Manet. He argues that while high cultural work on the British steam railway is thin, British popular culture did not ignore it. Detailed discussions of comic fiction, crime fiction, and cartoons reveal a popular fascination with railways tumbling from vast (and hitherto unexplored) stores of critically overlooked genres.

Download or read book ICONIC WOMEN Novels Biographies Memoirs written by Willa Cather and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 14428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents to you the world's iconic women characters in fiction and the real-life heroines in this power-packed meticulously edited and formatted collection:_x000D_ Fiction:_x000D_ Camilla (Fanny Burney)_x000D_ Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft)_x000D_ Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)_x000D_ Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)_x000D_ The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)_x000D_ Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov)_x000D_ Hester (Margaret Oliphant)_x000D_ Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Davis)_x000D_ Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)_x000D_ The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)_x000D_ Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)_x000D_ Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)_x000D_ Wives and Daughter (Elizabeth Gaskell)_x000D_ The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)_x000D_ A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)_x000D_ The Awakening (Kate Chopin)_x000D_ The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen)_x000D_ Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen)_x000D_ The Story of a Baby (Ethel Sybil Turner)_x000D_ New Amazonia (Elizabeth Corbett)_x000D_ A Daughter of the Land (Gene Stratton-Porter)_x000D_ The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland)_x000D_ My Ántonia (Willa Cather)_x000D_ The Song of the Lark (Willa Cather)_x000D_ The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)_x000D_ Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)_x000D_ Sisters (Ada Cambridge)_x000D_ Hagar (Mary Johnston)_x000D_ Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley)_x000D_ The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie)_x000D_ Voyage Out (Virginia Woolf)_x000D_ Parnassus on Wheels (Christopher Morley)_x000D_ The Job (Sinclair Lewis)_x000D_ Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale)_x000D_ The Rainbow (D. H. Lawrence)_x000D_ The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim)_x000D_ Fanny Herself (Edna Ferber)_x000D_ So Big (Edna Ferber)..._x000D_ Memoirs:_x000D_ Madame Vigée Lebrun _x000D_ Jane Austen _x000D_ Caroline Herschel _x000D_ Mrs. Seacole _x000D_ Elizabeth Cady Stanton_x000D_ My Own Story (Emmeline Pankhurst)_x000D_ Mother Jones_x000D_ Margaret Sanger_x000D_ Helen Keller_x000D_ Biographies:_x000D_ Lucretia_x000D_ Sappho_x000D_ Aspasia of Cyrus_x000D_ Portia_x000D_ Octavia_x000D_ Cleopatra_x000D_ Mariamne_x000D_ Julia Domna_x000D_ Zenobia_x000D_ Valeria_x000D_ Hypatia_x000D_ The Lady Rowena_x000D_ Roswitha the Nun_x000D_ Marie de France_x000D_ Laura de Sade_x000D_ Joan of Arc _x000D_ Catharine of Arragon_x000D_ Anne Boleyn_x000D_ Margaret Roper_x000D_ Mary, Queen of Scots_x000D_ The Pocahontas _x000D_ Queen Anne_x000D_ Maria Theresa_x000D_ Marie Antoinette_x000D_ Florence Nightingale _x000D_ Maria Mitchell _x000D_ Harriet Tubman_x000D_ Madame de Stael…

Download or read book The Greatest Feminist Classics in One Volume written by Henrik Ibsen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-12 with total page 14224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited collection of feminist masterpieces - from fictional protagonists who influenced generations of young women to the real heroines of the past, their life stories and their legacy. Fiction: Camilla (Fanny Burney) Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov) Hester (Margaret Oliphant) Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Davis) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen) Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen) New Amazonia (Elizabeth Corbett) A Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter) The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland) My Ántonia (Willa Cather) The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) Summer (Edith Wharton) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) Sisters (Ada Cambridge) Hagar (Mary Johnston) Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley) The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie) To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale) Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) Emily of New Moon (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Memoirs: Madame Vigée Lebrun Jane Austen Caroline Herschel Mrs. Seacole Elizabeth Cady Stanton Emmeline Pankhurst Biographies: Lucretia Sappho Aspasia of Cyrus Portia Octavia Cleopatra Julia Domna Zenobia Valeria Hypatia Roswitha the Nun Marie de France Mechthild of Magdeburg Joan of Arc Catharine of Arragon Anne Boleyn Queen Elizabeth Mary, Queen of Scots Queen Anne Maria Theresa Marie Antoinette Madame de Stael Augustina Saragoza Charlotte Brontë Florence Nightingale Harriet Tubman

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Download or read book Gender Technology and the New Woman written by Lena WA¥nggren and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines late nineteenth-century feminism in relation to technologies of the time, marking the crucial role of technology in social and literary struggles for equality. The New Woman, the fin de siecle cultural archetype of early feminism, became the focal figure for key nineteenth-century debates concerning issues such as gender and sexuality, evolution and degeneration, science, empire and modernity. While the New Woman is located in the debates concerning the 'crisis in gender' or 'sexual anarchy' of the time, the period also saw an upsurge of new technologies of communication, transport and medicine. As this monograph demonstrates, literature of the time is inevitably caught up in this technological modernity: technologies such as the typewriter, the bicycle, and medical technologies, through literary texts come to work as freedom machines, as harbingers of female emancipation.

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Download or read book Grant Allen written by Terence Rodgers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848-1899) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. This collection offers a valuable analytical and bibliographical resource for the exploration of the man and his work. Grant Allen was a prolific novelist, essayist, and man of letters, who is best remembered today for his The Woman Who Did (1895), which gained fame and notoriety almost overnight through its exploration of female independence and sexuality outside marriage, precipitating rabid denunciations of the ’new woman.’ Allen engaged with a span of literary and cultural concerns in the late-Victorian period that extended beyond gender politics, however; equally important was his sustained intervention in debates about Darwinism, Spencerism, and evolution, on which subjects he was recognized as an authority and as the foremost popularizer alongside T. H. Huxley and Benjamin Kidd. Not only did Allen’s work link the literary and the scientific, it traversed the boundaries between elite and popular culture, demonstrating their interconnectedness. This was notable in his travel and environmental writings and in his experiments in orientalist and detective fiction, fantasy, and science fiction. The contributors to this collection approach the figure of Allen from diverse fields within Victorian studies, showing him to be a late-Victorian innovator but also an example of fin-de-siècle modernity. Grant Allen: Literature and Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle revisits the richly variegated profile of one of the most intriguing and significant polymaths of the turn of the century, recognizing his contribution to and influence on the key modernizing debates of the period.

Download or read book The Essential Feminist Collection 60 Powerful Classics in One Volume written by Henrik Ibsen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 14223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Feminist Collection 60 Powerful Classics in One Volume' is a seminal anthology that encapsulates the multifaceted nature of feminist literary expression across two centuries. This collection traverses a vast landscape of literary styles from the penetrating realism of Henrik Ibsen to the nuanced social commentary of Charlotte Brontë, and the pioneering environmentalism of Gene Stratton-Porter. It underscores the incredible diversity and significant impact of feminist literature, showcasing standout pieces that have fundamentally shifted the cultural and literary discourse surrounding gender, society, and human rights. The range of narratives, from novels and essays to speeches and letters, provides a comprehensive view of the feminist literary canon, highlighting the enduring relevance of its themes. The contributing authors and editors, coming from varied backgrounds, epochs, and disciplines, bring together a rich tapestry of perspectives that reflect the historical, cultural, and literary movements of their times. From the enlightened essays of Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill to the poignant novels of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, each contributor has played a pivotal role in shaping the contours of feminist thought. The anthology serves not only as a literary collection but as a dynamic conversation among some of the most influential feminist voices, examining the intersectionality of gender, class, and race, and advocating for social and political reform. 'The Essential Feminist Collection 60 Powerful Classics in One Volume' is an indispensable resource for readers seeking to delve into the depths of feminist literature. It offers an unparalleled opportunity to engage with the works of trailblazing authors who have articulated the struggles, aspirations, and triumphs of women across generations. This anthology is recommended for its educational value, its breadth of insights, and the rich dialogue it fosters between the diverse authors' works. Readers are invited to explore this comprehensive collection, which serves not only as a testament to the progress of feminist thought but also as an inspiration for ongoing advocacy and discourse in the quest for gender equality.

Download or read book The Essential Feminist Classics written by Henrik Ibsen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 14217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this unique collection of feminist masterpieces - from fictional protagonists who influenced generations of young women to the real heroines of the past, their life stories and their legacy. Fiction: Camilla (Fanny Burney) Maria; Or, The Wrongs of Woman (Mary Wollstonecraft) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Lady Macbeth of the Mzinsk District (Nikolai Leskov) Hester (Margaret Oliphant) Life in the Iron Mills (Rebecca Davis) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James) Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell) The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) Herland (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen) Hedda Gabler (Henrik Ibsen) The Awakening (Kate Chopin) The Woman Who Did (Grant Allen) Miss Cayley's Adventures (Grant Allen) New Amazonia (Elizabeth Corbett) A Girl of the Limberlost (Gene Stratton-Porter) The Iron Woman (Margaret Deland) My Ántonia (Willa Cather) The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton) Summer (Edith Wharton) Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser) Sisters (Ada Cambridge) Hagar (Mary Johnston) Samantha on the Woman Question (Marietta Holley) The Precipice (Elia Wilkinson Peattie) To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) Miss Lulu Bett (Zona Gale) Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence) The Enchanted April (Elizabeth von Arnim) Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell) Emily of New Moon (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Memoirs: Madame Vigée Lebrun Jane Austen Caroline Herschel Mrs. Seacole Elizabeth Cady Stanton Emmeline Pankhurst Biographies: Lucretia Sappho Aspasia of Cyrus Portia Octavia Cleopatra Julia Domna Zenobia Valeria Hypatia Roswitha the Nun Marie de France Mechthild of Magdeburg Joan of Arc Catharine of Arragon Anne Boleyn Queen Elizabeth Mary, Queen of Scots Queen Anne Maria Theresa Marie Antoinette Madame de Stael Augustina Saragoza Charlotte Brontë Florence Nightingale Harriet Tubman