123 p. ; 23 cm
Topic: Women Writers
126 pages : 23 cm
Topic: Women writers
Part of the Yiddish Book Center's Online Lecture Series Lecture 1 – Breaking Silences Yiddish women writers have been known primarily as poets. Why? What is it about poetry or about Yiddish that has encouraged this view? What else did they write? Often, they wrote about the urge to speak, to be heard, to refuse others’ expectations of them. Lecture 2 – What’s Love Got to Do with It? Women’s writing about love is often—perhaps surprisingly—erotic, unsentimental, addressed to men,...
Topic: Women Writers
Yiddish Book
Topic: Women Writers
88 pages
Topic: Women writers
The Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media hosts readings by and about African women writers. This program was produced by Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV).
Topic: African women writers
LibriVox recording of Lost Man's Lane by Anna Katharine Green. Read in English by Mary Bard After several people apparently vanish into thin air while walking along the same country road, New York detective Mr Gryce calls on the skills of Miss Amelia Butterworth to help him solve this most puzzling crime. The author of Lost Man’s Lane, Anna Katharine Green, has been described as the first female American writer of detective stories. (summary by Mary Bard) For further information, including...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, women writers
LibriVox recording of Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton. Read in English by Kirsty Leishman Bush Studies is a short story collection published in London in 1902. Baynton presents a grimly realist view of bush life in Australia for women in colonial Australia. She wrote in response to Henry Lawson's romantic depiction of bush life during the same era. - Summary by Kirsty Leishman For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, australian women writers
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419 pages ; 18 cm
Topics: English fiction, Fiction -- Women writers
306p. ; 23 cm
Topics: Women Writers, Essays (various topics)
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The Maine Women Writers Collection is a special collection of published and unpublished works by or about Maine women. Director Jennifer Tuttle explained the importance of the collection and highlighted some of its material. Sponsor: C-SPAN | Local Content Vehicle
Topics: Maine Women Writers Collection, Television Program
Source: Comcast Cable
LibriVox recording of The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary. Read in English by a full cast. The Tragedy of Mariam (1613) is the first original drama written in English by a woman. Elizabeth Cary drew on Jewish histories by Josephus to create a closet drama (written to be read, rather than performed live) about Mariam, the second wife of Herod the Great. At the beginning of the play, Mariam believes that Herod has been killed by Octavius, and struggles with how to respond. On the one hand,...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, tragedy, herod, women writers
1 online resource (19 unnumbered pages) :
Topics: Yiddish language -- Texts, Yiddish language, Women Writers
Author Gayle Green: Women Writers and Social Change
Topic: Author Gayle Green: Women Writers and Social Change
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Aug 31, 2010
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Gristwood, Sarah
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Bibliography: p. vii-x
Topics: Diaries, Diaries in English Women writers, 1764-1980 - Anthologies
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Topics: English poetry, Poetry in English Women writers, 1945- - Anthologies
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Rasco, Rita Rose
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262 pages ; 22 cm
Topics: Women writers, Ranch life -- Texas, Children's stories, Ranch life, Texas
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Burford, Barbara; Pearse, Gabriela; Nichols, Grace, 1950-; Kay, Jackie
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Originally published, 1984
Topics: English poetry, Poetry in English Negro women writers 1945- -Anthologies
LibriVox recording of The Getting of Wisdom by Henry Handel Richardson. Read in English by kirstyl Henry Handel Richardson was the pseudonym of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, a writer who was born in 1870 to a reasonably well-off family which later fell on hard times. The author's family lived in various Victorian towns and from the age of 13 to 17 Richardson attended boarding school at the Presbyterian Ladies' College in Melbourne, Victoria. It's this experience that feeds directly into...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, literature, fiction, australia, teen-young-adult, women writers
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Arkin, Marian, 1943-; Shollar, Barbara
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Includes bibliographies and indexes
Topics: Literature, Écrits de femmes, Anthologies, Literatura, Anthologie, Frauenliteratur, Literature...
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Jodełka, Joanna, 1973- author
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284 pages ; 21 cm
Topics: Women writers -- Fiction, Psychiatric clinics -- Fiction, Detective and mystery stories,...
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Sep 27, 2011
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Tate, Claudia
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Originally published, New York , Continuum, 1983
Topics: American literature, English literature American negro women writers 1900-1985 Critical studies
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Topics: English literature -- Women authors, English literature -- England -- Bristol, English literature...
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Chester, Laura
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Topics: Erotic literature, American, American literature, Women, English literature Women writers, 1945- -...
Interview with poet,May Sarton at her home.
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Topics: interview, people, literature, poetry, arts, Maine, New England, May Sarton, gardening, women...
Holly Prado reads from her manuscript "Signs" and discusses her poetry in a program hosted and produced by Alvaro Cardona-Hine. Prado was born in 1938, grew up in Nebraska and Michigan, graduated from Albion College in Michigan and moved to Los Angeles shortly thereafter. Edited by Petrie Mason.
Topics: Women writers, Prado, Holly., Poetry., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
LibriVox recording of The Vertical City by Fannie Hurst. Read in English by Lisa Reichert. As the city above soars gloriously skyward, the denizens of the city writhe in its dirty underbelly. The Vertical City is a collection of six short stories by Fannie Hurst (American). Each story, tells in gritty, dramatic style, of ugly inner city tragedy: unwed mothers, women doing what they need to do in order to escape poverty, or loneliness… A mother can literally give her life in the attempt to...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, women authors, women writers, women's issues, american women, american short...
Alvaro Cardona-Hine introduces poet Rosella Pace, who reads from her own work. Her reading is interspersed with conversation between Pace and the host. Rosella Pace is from Minnesota, studied at University of Minnesota, and has been published in Poetry Review Tampa, Euphoria, and Monument.
Topics: Women writers, Pace, Rosella., Poetry., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Deena Metzger reads selections her book of poems "Dark milk" (Los Angeles: Momentum Press, 1978) and an excerpt from her novel "Flying" (unpublished) and discusses her work with Everett Frost. The poems she reads are Daphne -- Dawn -- Apricot poem -- Marketing -- Little league women -- Cows -- Dalila -- Oasis.
Topics: Women writers, Metzger, Deena., Poetry., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Barbara Hughes reads from and comments on her poetry in a program produced and hosted by Alvaro Cardona-Hine. She reads from two different poetry manuscripts, the first of which is untitled, the second tentatively titled "Not called anything." Hughes was born in Connecticut, graduated from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, and teaches English as a second language in Los Angeles.
Topics: Women writers, Hughes, Barbara, Poetry., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
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Topics: English literature -- Women authors, Literature -- Collections, English literature British women...
Marge Piercy, poet and novelist, reads her poems and talks about poetry. She announces she has four books of poetry: Breaking Camp, Hard Loving, To Be of Use, and Living in the Open (at press now); and three novels: Going Down Fast (about urban renewal in Chicago), Dance Eagle to Sleep (60s youth movement) and Small Changes (10 years in life of two women friends). Reads and comments on her poems and on poetry. Poems read include "A Work of Artifice," "To Be of Use,"...
Topics: American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Piercy, Marge., Women poets, Women writers
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
The Arab world and its literature is a collection of literal expressions of revolutionary and reformative ideals, aimed at justice, equality and liberty claimed by a group of countries under one canopy called the Arab world. The common themes of the Arab writers were struggles related to migration, economic, political and social suppression due to Colonialism and female subjugation ingrained in their cultural practices and religious interpretations. With the radical changes in the social and...
Topics: Arab Women Writers, Fadia Faqir, Pillars of Salt, Feminist Consciousness, Colonial and Patriarchal...
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xvii, 925 pages ; 24 cm
Topics: Literature -- Collections, English literature -- Women authors, English literature British women...
Part one of a documentary on Virginia Woolf, her work, and her life, based on the letters, diaries, and published works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, in an original production for KPFK by Maureen McIlroy. Madness, love and death are among the themes traced through Virginia Woolf’s life into her novels. The KPFK Folio description offers this quote from Woolf, “I wrote…having reeled across the pages with some moments of such intensity and intoxication that I seemed only to stumble after my...
Topics: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941., Women writers, Biography, American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
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Benstock, Shari, 1944-
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Originally published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 1986
Topics: Literature, Exile's writings, Women, France Paris Western literatures Expatriate women writers,...
Author Kay Boyle (February 19, 1902 – December 27, 1992) talks with Eleanor Sully and reads from her own work. Boyle talks about her life and work, Huey Newton, the black movement, the strike at San Francisco State College, her students, and Dr. Hayakawa. She reads her short story "Black Boy" and a long poem, "Testament For My Students." Recorded at Kay Boyle's home in San Francisco.
Topics: Boyle, Kay, 1902-1992, Authorship., Women writers, American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Part one of a documentary on Virginia Woolf, her work, and her life, based on the letters, diaries, and published works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, in an original production for KPFK by Maureen McIlroy. Madness, love and death are among the themes traced through Virginia Woolf’s life into her novels. The KPFK Folio description offers this quote from Woolf, “I wrote…having reeled across the pages with some moments of such intensity and intoxication that I seemed only to stumble after my...
Topics: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941., Women writers, Biography, American Women Making History and Culture:...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
Poet and feminist Susan Griffin reads from her book of prose, "Woman and Nature: the roaring inside her" (Harper & Row, 1978). Griffin reads the sections Prologue, Gravity, The garden, Consequences (What always returns), The lion in the den of the prophets, Vision, and Erosion. The reading was recorded in November 1978 at Cody's Books in Berkeley, California. Produced by Alan Soldofsky with the assistance of Mark Jaqua and the KPFA production workshop.
Topics: Women writers, Ecofeminism, Griffin, Susan., Soldofsky, Alan., American Women Making History and...
Source: http://pacificaradioarchives.org/american-women-making-history-and-culture-1963-1982
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xvi,331p. ; 20 cm
Topics: Ghost stories, English, English fiction -- Women authors, Ghost short stories in English Women...
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Plimpton, George
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"The interviews in this collection are selected from Writers at work, series 1-8, published by Viking Penguin Inc."--Title page verso
Topics: Women authors, Authors, Literature, Modern, Literature, Women and literature, Authorship, English...
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Green, Jen, 1955-; Lefanu, Sarah, 1953-
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Topics: Science fiction, English, Short stories, English, Science fiction short stories in English Women...
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xii, 251 p. ; 25 cm
Topics: Women -- Diaries, Women authors -- Biography, Women, Women authors, Diaries in English Women...
Interview with Toni Morrison conducted by Bob Buckeye
Topics: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Middlebury College, Morrison, Toni, Interviews, African American...
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Translator and Yiddish literary scholar Anita Norich and Yiddish Book Center director of translation initiatives Mindl Cohen join The Shmooze this week to talk about their respective, recently published articles about women's writing in Yiddish, "Translating and Teaching Yiddish Prose by Women" and "The Feminine Ending: On Women's Writing in Yiddish, Now Available in English." Over the course of our conversation, we talk about where and how the works of these Yiddish women...
Topics: Anita Norich, Mindl (Madeleine) Cohen, Yiddish women writers, The Shmooze, Yiddish Book Center's...
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xxvi, 152p
Topics: Short stories, English -- Women authors, English fiction -- 20th century, Short stories in English...
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Topics: Short stories, English -- Women authors, English fiction -- 20th century, Short stories in English...
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Partnow, Elaine; Alexander, Claudia B
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Topics: General, Social Science, Sociology, Women, Quotations, English, Femmes, Citations anglaises,...
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Topics: Belizean fiction (English) -- Women writers, Short stories, Belizean (English), Women -- Belize --...
Editors Eitan Kensky and Sadie Gold-Shapiro sit down to talk about a special "Pakn Treger Translation Issue" devoted to writing by women. This collection includes works of poetry, prose poetry, fiction, and memoir. We learn about the writers, the genres, and how this collection helps to address the relative scarcity of translations of Yiddish women writers. Episode 0156 August 27, 2017 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts
Topics: Eitan Kensky, Sadie Gold Shapiro, Yiddish writers, women writers in translation, Lisa Newman,...
