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Book Women of Urania

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  • Author : Amanda Wallace
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2019-01-09
  • ISBN : 9781793455079
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Women of Urania written by Amanda Wallace and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best foot fetish saga on the net is back!After Rachel's outstanding achievement followed by the capture and defeat of the enemy King Jamal and his crew, Laurie, queen of Urania becomes empress of Esperia, country that was formerly ruled by Jamal. In spite of Jamal's outrageous behaviour prior to his capture, Laurie does not decide to kill him however, she decides to teach him and his innocent citizens the proper manner to deal with Uranian women. Esperia becomes a place of fun and relax for the free Uranian women and every single citizen is made a slave and auctioned together with his/her possessions . The Esperians are forced to increas their production in order to increase the Uranian revenues and are forced to endure the hardest conditions, being allowed only a ration of daily bread. In addition, Laurie decided to humiliate the Esperians even further by imposing a religion of which she was the only goddess, therefore, she ordered the construction of golden temples and statues dedicated to her.Meantime, before she decides to leave Esperia, she wants to make sure that her orders are followed and moves in the Esperian castle for six months in which she trains the former king Jamal to please her as her own personal slave.As this story contains femdom, foot worship, humiliation, mind control and degradation, the recommended audience is an adult only one. Happy New year!Amanda

Book Urania s Daughters

Download or read book Urania s Daughters written by Roger C. Schlobin and published by Millefleurs. This book was released on 1983 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Urania

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  • Author : Giulia Bigolina
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2005-01-03
  • ISBN : 9780226048772
  • Pages : 208 pages

Download or read book Urania written by Giulia Bigolina and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005-01-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, Urania: A Romance provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation. The first known prose romance written by a woman in Italian, Bigolina's Urania centers on the monomaniacal love of a female character falling into melancholy when her beloved leaves her for a more beautiful woman. A tale that includes many of the conventions that would later become standards of the genre—cross-dressing, travel, epic skirmishes, and daring deeds—Urania also contains the earliest treatise on the worth of women. Also included in this volume, the novella Giulia Camposampiero is the only extant part of a probable longer narrative written in the style of the Decameron. While employing some of those same gender and role reversals as Urania, including the privileging of heroic constancy in both men and women, it chronicles the tribulations that a couple undergoes until their secret marriage is publicly recognized.

Book Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women

Download or read book Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women written by Jenny Hartley and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An account of Charles Dickens' work with destitute girls and young women in mid-eighteenth century London. With support from the millionairess Angela Burdett Coutts, he established a 'safe' house for young women in Shepherd's Bush where they were taken from lives of prostitution and crime and trained for useful employment."--Borders website.

Book Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth s Urania

Download or read book Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth s Urania written by Rahel Orgis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative Structure and Reader Formation in Lady Mary Wroth’s Urania offers the first systematic formal and thematic analysis of Wroth’s Urania in its historical context and explores the structural means by which Wroth fashions her readership. The book thus has a dual focus, at once on narrative art and reader formation. It makes two original claims, the first being that the Urania is not the unorganized accumulation of stories critics have tended to present it as, but a work of sophisticated narrative structures i.e. a complex text in a positive sense. These structures are revealed by means of a circumspect narratological analysis of the formal and thematic patterns that organise the Urania. Such an analysis furthers our understanding of the reading strategies that Wroth encourages. The second claim is, then, that through the careful structuring of her text Wroth seeks to create her own ideal readership. More precisely, the formal and thematic structures of the Urania engage with readers’ expectations, inviting them to reflect on prominent thematic issues and respond to the text as what early modern prefaces term "good" readers. Combining narratological methods with a generic perspective and taking into account the work of book historians on early modern reading practices, this monograph provides a new approach to the Urania, supplementing the typically gender- or (auto)biographically-oriented interpretations of the romance. Moreover, it contributes to the study of early modern (prose) narrative and romance and exemplifies how historically contextualised narratological analysis may yield new insights and profit research on reading strategies.

Book The Countess of Montgomery s Urania  abridged

Download or read book The Countess of Montgomery s Urania abridged written by Lady Mary Wroth and published by Medieval and Renaissance Texts. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first romance written by an Englishwoman, Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania is a literary tour de force in its own right. As the niece of Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Wroth was ideally situated as an observer and reporter of the social, literary, and political milieu of her time. This abridged modern-spelling edition, with a useful introduction and index of characters, makes this work newly accessible to general readers, students, and scholars.

Book Among the Fallen

Download or read book Among the Fallen written by Virginia Frances Schwartz and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imprisoned for crimes she didn't commit, sixteen-year-old Orpha accepts an unusual invitation to live in a Victorian home for fallen women-- and finds new hope. Though haunted by nightmarish flashbacks and withering in the miserable conditions of Tothill prison, an infamous Victorian workhouse, Orpha perseveres, doing what she can to befriend and protect the other girls imprisoned alongside her. She doesn't speak about what happened-- no one would listen. No one would believe her. But then a mysterious letter arrives, offering her a place at Urania cottage. This experimental home aims to rehabilitate so-called fallen women-- many of them victims of sexual abuse, suffering not only the trauma of their experiences, but the blame and loss of reputation and livelihood. It sounds too good to be true-- but with nowhere else to go, Orpha decides to take her chance. Soon she discovers her unknown savior is none other than Charles Dickens, whose writing deals extensively with the plight of the lower class, and whose friendship and guidance offers Orpha a new way to express herself. With the support of the other women of Urania and the promise of a real future, Orpha will have to confront the darkest parts of her past-- and let go of her secrets. This atmospheric historical novel, full of heartbreakingly real characters whose lives are all too believable, celebrates the strength and resilience of young women throughout history. Virginia Frances' Schwartz's powerful prose, structured to echo Dickens' serialized style, illuminates an era of startling inequality and extreme poverty. Fans of Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever 1793, Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, and Katherine Paterson's Lyddie will enjoy this riveting title. Named to the Amelia Bloomer book List A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Nominated for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction

Book Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance

Download or read book Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance written by Helen Hackett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the progress of Renaissance romance from a genre addressed to women as readers to a genre written by women. Exploring this crucial transitional period, Helen Hackett examines the work of a diverse range of writers from Lyly, Rich and Greene to Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare. Her book culminates in an analysis of Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621), the first romance written by a woman, and considers the developing representation of female heroism and selfhood, especially the adaptation of saintly roles to secular and even erotic purposes.

Book Kissing the Wild Woman

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  • Author : Christopher Nissen
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1442643404
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book Kissing the Wild Woman written by Christopher Nissen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giulia Bigolina's (ca. 1516-ca. 1569) Urania (ca. 1552) is the oldest known prose romance to have been written by an Italian woman. In Kissing the Wild Woman, Christopher Nissen explores the unique aesthetic vision and innovative narrative features of Bigolina's greatest surviving work, in which she fashioned a new type of narrative that combined elements of the romance and the novella and included a polemical treatise on the moral implications of portraiture and the role of women in the arts. Demonstrating that Bigolina challenged cultural authority by rejecting the prevailing views of both painting and literature, Nissen discusses Bigolina's suggestion that painting constituted an ineffectual, even immoral mode of self-promotion for women in relation to the views of the contemporary writer Pietro Aretino and the painter Titian. Kissing the Wild Woman's analysis of this little-known work adds a new dimension to the study of Renaissance aesthetics in relation to art history, Renaissance thought, women's studies, and Italian literature.

Book The Feast of the Goat

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  • Author : Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2002-11-09
  • ISBN : 9780312420277
  • Pages : 420 pages

Download or read book The Feast of the Goat written by Mario Vargas Llosa and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-11-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.

Book The First Part of The Countess of Montgomery s Urania

Download or read book The First Part of The Countess of Montgomery s Urania written by Lady Mary Wroth and published by Iter Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Mary Wroth composed her prose romance "Urania" at the height of the Jacobean debates concerning the nature and status of women. Personal experiences, her own and those of her friends, had made Wroth very much aware of how little voice women had in determining htheirown destinies or even choosing their life partners.

Book The Memory Arts in Renaissance England

Download or read book The Memory Arts in Renaissance England written by William E. Engel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthology of a selection of early modern works on memory.

Book The Empire of Femdom Arises

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  • Author : C. L. Northbridge
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-07-11
  • ISBN : 9781520260273
  • Pages : 85 pages

Download or read book The Empire of Femdom Arises written by C. L. Northbridge and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, and others in the same series, takes place in a future where humanity has moved beyond the confines of the Earth and has started colonising other worlds, both in our solar system and around nearby stars.On one of these worlds, a planet called Hera, a group of female supremacists manage to gain control of the colonisation expedition and its colonies early on. Under their rule, the human colonists on Hera build a society based on female domination. In their society, only women can be citizens, and all men are slaves - indeed the word "male" is considered synonymous with slave among the Herans.This book, the first in the series, tells the story of how this world came about, seen through the eyes of some of the Heran colonists.The book also contain additional background information on Hera and the society that develops there.For mature readers only. This is a Femdom themed book containing descriptions of males being brutally whipped and caned, subjected to bondage and humiliation, and reduced to slavery in a world of absolute female dominance.

Book Changing The Subject

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  • Author : Naomi Miller
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2021-10-21
  • ISBN : 0813185165
  • Pages : 441 pages

Download or read book Changing The Subject written by Naomi Miller and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587-1653) wrote the first sonnet sequence in English by a woman, one of the first plays by a woman, and the first published work of fiction by an Englishwoman. Yet, despite her status as a member of the distinguished Sidney family, Wroth met with disgrace at court for her authorship of a prose romance, which was adjudged an inappropriate endeavor for a woman and was forcibly withdrawn from publication. Only recently has recognition of Wroth's historical and literary importance been signaled by the publication of the first modern edition of her romance, The Countess of Mountgomeries Urania. Naomi Miller offers an illuminating study of this significant early modern woman writer. Using multiple critical/theoretical perspectives, including French feminism, new historicism, and cultural materialism, she examines gender in Wroth's time. Moving beyond the emphasis on victimization that shaped many previous studies, she considers the range of strategies devised by women writers of the period to establish voices for themselves. Where previous critics have viewed Wroth primarily in relation to her male literary predecessors in the Sidney family, Miller explores Wroth's engagement with a variety of discourses, reading her in relation to a broad range of English and continental authors, both male and female, from Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare to Aemilia Lanier, Elizabeth Cary, and Marguerite de Navarre. She also contextualizes Wroth's writing in relation to a variety of nonliterary texts of the period, both political and domestic. Thanks to Miller's sensitive readings, Wroth's writings provide a lens through which to view gender relations in the early modern period.

Book Urania

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  • Author : Giulia Bigolina
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2007-11-01
  • ISBN : 0226048799
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book Urania written by Giulia Bigolina and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, Urania: A Romance provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation. The first known prose romance written by a woman in Italian, Bigolina's Urania centers on the monomaniacal love of a female character falling into melancholy when her beloved leaves her for a more beautiful woman. A tale that includes many of the conventions that would later become standards of the genre—cross-dressing, travel, epic skirmishes, and daring deeds—Urania also contains the earliest treatise on the worth of women. Also included in this volume, the novella Giulia Camposampiero is the only extant part of a probable longer narrative written in the style of the Decameron. While employing some of those same gender and role reversals as Urania, including the privileging of heroic constancy in both men and women, it chronicles the tribulations that a couple undergoes until their secret marriage is publicly recognized.

Book The Unforgotten Sisters

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  • Author : Gabriella Bernardi
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2016-03-14
  • ISBN : 3319261274
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book The Unforgotten Sisters written by Gabriella Bernardi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking inspiration from Siv Cedering’s poem in the form of a fictional letter from Caroline Herschel that refers to “my long, lost sisters, forgotten in the books that record our science”, this book tells the lives of twenty-five female scientists, with specific attention to astronomers and mathematicians. Each of the presented biographies is organized as a kind of "personal file" which sets the biographee’s life in its historical context, documents her main works, highlights some curious facts, and records citations about her. The selected figures are among the most representative of this neglected world, including such luminaries as Hypatia of Alexandra, Hildegard of Bingen, Elisabetha Hevelius, and Maria Gaetana Agnesi. They span a period of about 4000 years, from En HeduAnna, the Akkadian princess, who was one of the first recognized female astronomers, to the dawn of the era of modern astronomy with Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville. The book will be of interest to all who wish to learn more about the women from antiquity to the nineteenth century who played such key roles in the history of astronomy and science despite living and working in largely male-dominated worlds.

Book Just Anger

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  • Author : Gwynne Kennedy
  • Publisher : SIU Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780809322619
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Just Anger written by Gwynne Kennedy and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although women's anger is often dismissed as irrational in both eras, for instance, in the early modern era women were thought to become angry more often and more easily than men due to their inherent physiological, intellectual, and moral inferiority.".