Author: Rebecca Barnhouse
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375858571
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Johanna is a serving girl to Dame Margery Kempe, a renowned medieval holy woman. Dame Margery feels the suffering the Virgin Mary felt for her son, but cares little for the misery she sees every day. When she announces that Johanna will accompany her on a pilgrimage to Rome, the suffering truly begins. After walking all day, Johanna must fetch water, wash clothes, and cook for the entire party of pilgrims. Then arguing breaks out between Dame Margery and the other travelers, and Johanna is caught in the middle. As the fighting escalates, Dame Margery turns her back on the whole group, including Johanna. Abandoned in a foreign land where she doesn't even speak the language, the young maidservant must find her own way to Rome. Inspired by the15th-century text, The Book of Margery Kempe, the first autobiography in English, Rebecca Barnhouse chronicles Johanna's painful journey through fear and anger and physical hardship to ultimate redemption. Fans of Karen Cushman and other medieval historical fiction will be spellbound.
The Book of the Maidservant
Author: Rebecca Barnhouse
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375858571
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Johanna is a serving girl to Dame Margery Kempe, a renowned medieval holy woman. Dame Margery feels the suffering the Virgin Mary felt for her son, but cares little for the misery she sees every day. When she announces that Johanna will accompany her on a pilgrimage to Rome, the suffering truly begins. After walking all day, Johanna must fetch water, wash clothes, and cook for the entire party of pilgrims. Then arguing breaks out between Dame Margery and the other travelers, and Johanna is caught in the middle. As the fighting escalates, Dame Margery turns her back on the whole group, including Johanna. Abandoned in a foreign land where she doesn't even speak the language, the young maidservant must find her own way to Rome. Inspired by the15th-century text, The Book of Margery Kempe, the first autobiography in English, Rebecca Barnhouse chronicles Johanna's painful journey through fear and anger and physical hardship to ultimate redemption. Fans of Karen Cushman and other medieval historical fiction will be spellbound.
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375858571
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Johanna is a serving girl to Dame Margery Kempe, a renowned medieval holy woman. Dame Margery feels the suffering the Virgin Mary felt for her son, but cares little for the misery she sees every day. When she announces that Johanna will accompany her on a pilgrimage to Rome, the suffering truly begins. After walking all day, Johanna must fetch water, wash clothes, and cook for the entire party of pilgrims. Then arguing breaks out between Dame Margery and the other travelers, and Johanna is caught in the middle. As the fighting escalates, Dame Margery turns her back on the whole group, including Johanna. Abandoned in a foreign land where she doesn't even speak the language, the young maidservant must find her own way to Rome. Inspired by the15th-century text, The Book of Margery Kempe, the first autobiography in English, Rebecca Barnhouse chronicles Johanna's painful journey through fear and anger and physical hardship to ultimate redemption. Fans of Karen Cushman and other medieval historical fiction will be spellbound.
Manservant and Maidservant
Author: Ivy Compton-Burnett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The Diary of a Maidservant
Author: Krishna Baldev Vaid
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Post-Independence Hindi literature is by and large dominated by the representations of urban, middle class life. Given this context, the focus of Krishna Baldev Vaid's The Diary of a Maidservant is unusual. While the setting is still the big city, the novel bridges the class-divide to delineate the life and thoughts of a young woman who earns a living as a casual household help. The story revolves around Shanti, a teenage maidservant. The generous and literate Mrs Varma gives Shanti a notebook to write in. Through this 'diary' Shanti gradually discovers all kinds of things about herself-impulses, dreams, contradictions. The same diary unfolds the forces an intelligent but poor girl has to contend with in burgeoning New Delhi. Shanti must cope with a family struggling to survive, predatory males, demanding mistresses, and a multitude of her own desires. Even the kindness of her middle-aged employers Biji and Newspaper Sahab-two people who idealistically set out to improve Shanti'slot in life-brings problems with it. Dedicated to hard-working women domestics, Krishna Baldev Vaid thrusts the reader directly into the complications of everyday relationships between masters and servants, and men and women. The Introduction to the volume has been written by Ashok Vajpeyi, a distinguished poet, critic, and editor. The novel, an absorbing read, and the analytically rich introduction by Professor Ashok Vajpeyi, a distinguished poet and academic, will appeal to students and scholars of literature in general and Indian literature in translation in particular, comparative literature, gender studies, cultural studies, as well as general readers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Post-Independence Hindi literature is by and large dominated by the representations of urban, middle class life. Given this context, the focus of Krishna Baldev Vaid's The Diary of a Maidservant is unusual. While the setting is still the big city, the novel bridges the class-divide to delineate the life and thoughts of a young woman who earns a living as a casual household help. The story revolves around Shanti, a teenage maidservant. The generous and literate Mrs Varma gives Shanti a notebook to write in. Through this 'diary' Shanti gradually discovers all kinds of things about herself-impulses, dreams, contradictions. The same diary unfolds the forces an intelligent but poor girl has to contend with in burgeoning New Delhi. Shanti must cope with a family struggling to survive, predatory males, demanding mistresses, and a multitude of her own desires. Even the kindness of her middle-aged employers Biji and Newspaper Sahab-two people who idealistically set out to improve Shanti'slot in life-brings problems with it. Dedicated to hard-working women domestics, Krishna Baldev Vaid thrusts the reader directly into the complications of everyday relationships between masters and servants, and men and women. The Introduction to the volume has been written by Ashok Vajpeyi, a distinguished poet, critic, and editor. The novel, an absorbing read, and the analytically rich introduction by Professor Ashok Vajpeyi, a distinguished poet and academic, will appeal to students and scholars of literature in general and Indian literature in translation in particular, comparative literature, gender studies, cultural studies, as well as general readers.
Foresinth
Author: David L. Birdsall
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055727933X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 055727933X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Brecht Collected Plays: 4
Author: Bertolt Brecht
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472538536
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930s Volume 4 of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as in Brecht's own life. Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in the Germany Brecht had to leave in 1933. The Trial of Lucullus, a starkly pacifist text originally written in response to a commission from Swedish radio, portrays the Roman general tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, unique in Brecht's work, consists of some thirty short scenes of life under the Nazis between 1933 and 1938, designed for use by groups in exile. Señora Carrara's Rifles is based on J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, but relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War. Also included are two one-act plays, Dansen and How Much is Your Iron?, minor works designed for amateurs in Scandinavia, where the Brechts lived till spring 1941. The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and John Willett, as well as Brecht's own notes on the texts.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472538536
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Now in paperback, the long-awaited volume of Brecht's classic plays from the 1930s Volume 4 of Brecht's Collected Plays contains works from the 1930s, straddling fateful years in German political and cultural history - as well as in Brecht's own life. Round Heads and Pointed Heads, based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, is a powerful political allegory on Nazi racial policy and conditions in the Germany Brecht had to leave in 1933. The Trial of Lucullus, a starkly pacifist text originally written in response to a commission from Swedish radio, portrays the Roman general tried by the Underworld for his military triumphs. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, unique in Brecht's work, consists of some thirty short scenes of life under the Nazis between 1933 and 1938, designed for use by groups in exile. Señora Carrara's Rifles is based on J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, but relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War. Also included are two one-act plays, Dansen and How Much is Your Iron?, minor works designed for amateurs in Scandinavia, where the Brechts lived till spring 1941. The volume includes an introduction and notes by Tom Kuhn and John Willett, as well as Brecht's own notes on the texts.
Heretics Or Daughters of Israel?
Author: Renée Levine Melammed
Publisher: Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile
ISBN: 9780195151671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Between 1391 and the end of the 15th century, numerous Spanish Jews converted to Christianity, most of them under duress. Before and after 1492, when the Jews were officially expelled from Spain, a significant number of these conversos maintained clandestine ties to Judaism, despite their outward conformity to Catholicism. Through the lens of the Inquisition's own records, this groundbreaking study focuses on the crypto-Jewish women of Castile, demonstrating their central role in the perpetuation of crypto-Jewish society in the absence of traditional Jewish institutions led by men. Renee Levine Melammed shows how many "conversas" acted with great courage and commitment to perpetuate their religious heritage, seeing themselves as true daughters of Israel. Her fascinating book sheds new light on the roles of women in the transmission of Jewish traditions and cultures.
Publisher: Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile
ISBN: 9780195151671
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Between 1391 and the end of the 15th century, numerous Spanish Jews converted to Christianity, most of them under duress. Before and after 1492, when the Jews were officially expelled from Spain, a significant number of these conversos maintained clandestine ties to Judaism, despite their outward conformity to Catholicism. Through the lens of the Inquisition's own records, this groundbreaking study focuses on the crypto-Jewish women of Castile, demonstrating their central role in the perpetuation of crypto-Jewish society in the absence of traditional Jewish institutions led by men. Renee Levine Melammed shows how many "conversas" acted with great courage and commitment to perpetuate their religious heritage, seeing themselves as true daughters of Israel. Her fascinating book sheds new light on the roles of women in the transmission of Jewish traditions and cultures.
Princess Reborn To Be A Queen
Author: Tao ErMi
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1636893546
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
The hatred of killing his father, the hatred of seizing the throne. How could Chu Nian He have known that his husband, who was grappling with his temples, would use her in every possible way! When he woke up again, he was actually fifteen years old? Protect her family, subdue her treacherous cousin, and step by step she tramples on all the people who used to bully her. As a female official who controlled the imperial government, she swore to never have feelings for anyone ever again! He was a victorious general who had taken down half of the mountain, but he was touched by her cold and resolute expression. He did not care why she was so cold. He only wanted to love and protect her for the rest of his life, marry her as a wife, and protect her until she was old!
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1636893546
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
The hatred of killing his father, the hatred of seizing the throne. How could Chu Nian He have known that his husband, who was grappling with his temples, would use her in every possible way! When he woke up again, he was actually fifteen years old? Protect her family, subdue her treacherous cousin, and step by step she tramples on all the people who used to bully her. As a female official who controlled the imperial government, she swore to never have feelings for anyone ever again! He was a victorious general who had taken down half of the mountain, but he was touched by her cold and resolute expression. He did not care why she was so cold. He only wanted to love and protect her for the rest of his life, marry her as a wife, and protect her until she was old!
Transmigration: Pastoral Cute Wife
Author: Luo Yu
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649555334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Although the CEO of a modern female food tycoon was able to travel all the way through the country, even if she didn't want to dress up in a wealthy family, she would at least be able to get food and drinks. But why was she able to open her eyes and see a small peasant's house with her family members, as well as a bunch of relatives who were trying to squeeze them out? In her previous life, as an orphan, she had never felt any kinship with anyone, but in this life, she had everything. In this life, she had everything, and in this life, she had everything.
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1649555334
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Although the CEO of a modern female food tycoon was able to travel all the way through the country, even if she didn't want to dress up in a wealthy family, she would at least be able to get food and drinks. But why was she able to open her eyes and see a small peasant's house with her family members, as well as a bunch of relatives who were trying to squeeze them out? In her previous life, as an orphan, she had never felt any kinship with anyone, but in this life, she had everything. In this life, she had everything, and in this life, she had everything.
Cold King's Hot Love
Author: Luo YiYi
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647573858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The foolish young miss of the General's Estate had returned after being reborn, bathed in fire! Do not do evil, not Madonna, people respect me, reverence, people offend me, kowtow. In this world, she would never let anyone humiliate her. She vowed to find a peerless expert to conspire with her family to abandon their daughter's rich and beautiful life.
Publisher: Funstory
ISBN: 1647573858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The foolish young miss of the General's Estate had returned after being reborn, bathed in fire! Do not do evil, not Madonna, people respect me, reverence, people offend me, kowtow. In this world, she would never let anyone humiliate her. She vowed to find a peerless expert to conspire with her family to abandon their daughter's rich and beautiful life.
Mine and Yours are Hers
Author: Ilan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004332456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
This book discusses the interaction between history, rabbinic literature and feminist studies. Recent approaches to rabbinic literature have overturned the traditional view of these writings and new literary methods were suggested, mostly denying them all historical value. But rabbinic literature constitutes the main source for the lives of Jews in Palestine and Babylonia during the late Roman period, and thus should not be totally rejected. This study suggests a new post-literary approach, i.e. it discusses the residue of the texts after these have been analyzed and dissected by literary critics. But mainly this is a book about women's history, adopting many assumptions of feminist criticism about the androcentric nature of all ancient texts, and approaches them with due suspicion. The Rabbis treated women differently from the way they treated men. This resulted in the former's marginalization and manipulation by the texts. On the other hand, however, it created an ironic situation whereby principles useful for the recovery of historical information on women, are useless when applied to men. This study describes such principles and demonstrates them with the help of many examples.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004332456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
This book discusses the interaction between history, rabbinic literature and feminist studies. Recent approaches to rabbinic literature have overturned the traditional view of these writings and new literary methods were suggested, mostly denying them all historical value. But rabbinic literature constitutes the main source for the lives of Jews in Palestine and Babylonia during the late Roman period, and thus should not be totally rejected. This study suggests a new post-literary approach, i.e. it discusses the residue of the texts after these have been analyzed and dissected by literary critics. But mainly this is a book about women's history, adopting many assumptions of feminist criticism about the androcentric nature of all ancient texts, and approaches them with due suspicion. The Rabbis treated women differently from the way they treated men. This resulted in the former's marginalization and manipulation by the texts. On the other hand, however, it created an ironic situation whereby principles useful for the recovery of historical information on women, are useless when applied to men. This study describes such principles and demonstrates them with the help of many examples.