Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925163629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Weekly, nicknamed The Newspaper, cleans the houses on Claremont Street, spreading the neighbourhood gossip as she works. No one knows or cares where Weekly goes in her spare time, or what she dreams of at night - no one, that is, until Nastasya discovers her secret.
The Newspaper of Claremont Street
Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925163629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Weekly, nicknamed The Newspaper, cleans the houses on Claremont Street, spreading the neighbourhood gossip as she works. No one knows or cares where Weekly goes in her spare time, or what she dreams of at night - no one, that is, until Nastasya discovers her secret.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925163629
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Weekly, nicknamed The Newspaper, cleans the houses on Claremont Street, spreading the neighbourhood gossip as she works. No one knows or cares where Weekly goes in her spare time, or what she dreams of at night - no one, that is, until Nastasya discovers her secret.
Milk and Honey
Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher: Fremantle Arts Center Press
ISBN: 9781863680172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
A self-absorbed young musician comes as a pupil-boarder to the house of an 'old European' family. Gradually his life is taken over and consumed, seemingly, by dark, mysterious forces within as much as outside himself. Milk and Honey is a strangely haunting novel. While much of what we have come to expect and admire in Elizabeth Jolley's work is powerfully present - vivid and diverse characters, pathos, humour and acute perceptions of people and their situations - it is in many ways quite unlike anything she has previously written. A work of gothic proportions, Milk and Honeyis an astonishing tapestry of character and incident that surprises and yet never fails to convince.
Publisher: Fremantle Arts Center Press
ISBN: 9781863680172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
A self-absorbed young musician comes as a pupil-boarder to the house of an 'old European' family. Gradually his life is taken over and consumed, seemingly, by dark, mysterious forces within as much as outside himself. Milk and Honey is a strangely haunting novel. While much of what we have come to expect and admire in Elizabeth Jolley's work is powerfully present - vivid and diverse characters, pathos, humour and acute perceptions of people and their situations - it is in many ways quite unlike anything she has previously written. A work of gothic proportions, Milk and Honeyis an astonishing tapestry of character and incident that surprises and yet never fails to convince.
Elizabeth Jolley's The Newspaper of Claremont Street
Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780868193748
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780868193748
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
Palomino
Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780702219481
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Elizabeth Jolley's first novel is an unusual, haunting story of the deep relationship between two women, set against the solitude, beauty and harshness of the West Australian landscape.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780702219481
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Elizabeth Jolley's first novel is an unusual, haunting story of the deep relationship between two women, set against the solitude, beauty and harshness of the West Australian landscape.
Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801887054
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.
Over My Dead Body
Author: Dave Warner
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1925816877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Cryogenicist Dr Georgette Watson has mastered the art of bringing frozen hamsters back to life. Now what she really needs is a body to confirm her technique can save human lives. Meanwhile, in New York City, winter is closing in, and there's a killer on the loose, slaying strangers who seem to have nothing in common. Is it simple good fortune that Georgette, who freelances for the NYPD, suddenly finds herself in the company of the greatest detective of all time? And will Sherlock Holmes be able to save Dr Watson in a world that has changed drastically in 200 years, even if human nature has not?
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1925816877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Cryogenicist Dr Georgette Watson has mastered the art of bringing frozen hamsters back to life. Now what she really needs is a body to confirm her technique can save human lives. Meanwhile, in New York City, winter is closing in, and there's a killer on the loose, slaying strangers who seem to have nothing in common. Is it simple good fortune that Georgette, who freelances for the NYPD, suddenly finds herself in the company of the greatest detective of all time? And will Sherlock Holmes be able to save Dr Watson in a world that has changed drastically in 200 years, even if human nature has not?
The Newspaper of Claremont Street
Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1921888873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
This is the story of an old cleaning woman—known as “Weekly” or “The Newspaper” to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she works—who dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present. This new edition of a contemporary classic reintroduces this very popular and distinctive character.
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1921888873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
This is the story of an old cleaning woman—known as “Weekly” or “The Newspaper” to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she works—who dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present. This new edition of a contemporary classic reintroduces this very popular and distinctive character.
Doom Creek
Author: Alan Carter
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1760990035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared, is out of hiding and looking forward to a quiet life. But gold fever is creating ill-feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks in the form of trigger-happy Americans preparing for Doomsday by building a bolthole at the top of the South Island.As tensions simmer in the Wakamarina valley, Nick finds himself working on a cold-case murder and investigating a scandal-plagued religious sect. When local and international events reach fever pitch, Chester finds himself up against an evil that knows no borders.
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1760990035
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Sergeant Nick Chester has dodged the Geordie gangsters he once feared, is out of hiding and looking forward to a quiet life. But gold fever is creating ill-feeling between prospectors, and a new threat lurks in the form of trigger-happy Americans preparing for Doomsday by building a bolthole at the top of the South Island.As tensions simmer in the Wakamarina valley, Nick finds himself working on a cold-case murder and investigating a scandal-plagued religious sect. When local and international events reach fever pitch, Chester finds himself up against an evil that knows no borders.
Woman in a Lampshade
Author: Elizabeth Jolley
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 0140156313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In this masterly collection of stories, Elizabeth Jolley has created a splendid array of characters, all of whom fail to achieve the expected. Her stories are sometimes slyly comic, sometimes disturbing – but always they are written with a delicacy and compassion as moving as the characters themselves.
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 0140156313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
In this masterly collection of stories, Elizabeth Jolley has created a splendid array of characters, all of whom fail to achieve the expected. Her stories are sometimes slyly comic, sometimes disturbing – but always they are written with a delicacy and compassion as moving as the characters themselves.
Out of Time
Author: Steve Hawke
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1925815293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Anne and Joe have at long last found the sweet spot in their relationship &– theyhave overcome conflict and difficulties and the challenges of growing towardsold age together, and now appreciate each other's company, a great sex life, andare looking forward to what retirement brings. But inexplicably, Joe &– a giftedarchitect &– finds himself losing things, making miscalculations and blankingout parts of his day.
Publisher: Fremantle Press
ISBN: 1925815293
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Anne and Joe have at long last found the sweet spot in their relationship &– theyhave overcome conflict and difficulties and the challenges of growing towardsold age together, and now appreciate each other's company, a great sex life, andare looking forward to what retirement brings. But inexplicably, Joe &– a giftedarchitect &– finds himself losing things, making miscalculations and blankingout parts of his day.