Author: Wendy J. Dunn
Publisher: Wendy J Dunn
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The Duty of Daughters
Author: Wendy J. Dunn
Publisher: Wendy J Dunn
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Publisher: Wendy J Dunn
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters; With Reflections on Female Conduct, in the More Important Duties of Life
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387303300
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387303300
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Falling Pomegranate Seeds
Author: Wendy J. Dunn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648715207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Told through the point of view of her tutor, Beatriz Galindo, Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters shines a light on the forces shaping Catalina of Aragon during her childhood and the years leading up to the leaving of her homeland, and the court of her mother, Queen Isabel of Castile.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780648715207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Told through the point of view of her tutor, Beatriz Galindo, Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters shines a light on the forces shaping Catalina of Aragon during her childhood and the years leading up to the leaving of her homeland, and the court of her mother, Queen Isabel of Castile.
Gather the Daughters
Author: Jennie Melamed
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316463671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers -- chosen male descendants of the original ten -- are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires. The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly -- they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers' hands and their mothers' despair. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others. Born leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing. Gather the Daughters is a smoldering debut; dark and energetic, compulsively readable, Melamed's novel announces her as an unforgettable new voice in fiction.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316463671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical society of ancestor worship, controlled breeding, and the strict rationing of knowledge and history. Only the Wanderers -- chosen male descendants of the original ten -- are allowed to cross to the wastelands, where they scavenge for detritus among the still-smoldering fires. The daughters of these men are wives-in-training. At the first sign of puberty, they face their Summer of Fruition, a ritualistic season that drags them from adolescence to matrimony. They have children, who have children, and when they are no longer useful, they take their final draught and die. But in the summer, the younger children reign supreme. With the adults indoors and the pubescent in Fruition, the children live wildly -- they fight over food and shelter, free of their fathers' hands and their mothers' despair. And it is at the end of one summer that little Caitlin Jacob sees something so horrifying, so contradictory to the laws of the island, that she must share it with the others. Born leader Janey Solomon steps up to seek the truth. At seventeen years old, Janey is so unwilling to become a woman, she is slowly starving herself to death. Trying urgently now to unravel the mysteries of the island and what lies beyond, before her own demise, she attempts to lead an uprising of the girls that may be their undoing. Gather the Daughters is a smoldering debut; dark and energetic, compulsively readable, Melamed's novel announces her as an unforgettable new voice in fiction.
Daughters of Ruin
Author: K. D. Castner
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481436651
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
As a war begins, four princesses of enemy kingdoms who were raised as sisters must decide where their loyalties lie: to their kingdoms, or to each other.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481436651
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
As a war begins, four princesses of enemy kingdoms who were raised as sisters must decide where their loyalties lie: to their kingdoms, or to each other.
The Bad Daughter
Author: Julie Hilden
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565121850
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The author explains why, while she was a law student at Harvard and Yale, she chose not to desert the ailing mother she never loved and recounts her ultimately unsuccessful struggle to divorce herself from her difficult past. 15,000 first printing.
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 9781565121850
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The author explains why, while she was a law student at Harvard and Yale, she chose not to desert the ailing mother she never loved and recounts her ultimately unsuccessful struggle to divorce herself from her difficult past. 15,000 first printing.
The Little Virtues
Author: Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628729023
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize. "A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart.' — The New York Times Book Review
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628729023
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes of the loss of a friend, Cesare Pavese; or what is inexpugnable of World War II; or the Abruzzi, where she and her first husband lived in forced residence under Fascist rule; or the importance of silence in our society; or her vocation as a writer; or even a pair of worn-out shoes, Ginzburg brings to her reflections the wisdom of a survivor and the spare, wry, and poetically resonant style her readers have come to recognize. "A glowing light of modern Italian literature . . . Ginzburg's magic is the utter simplicity of her prose, suddenly illuminated by one word that makes a lightning streak of a plain phrase. . . . As direct and clean as if it were carved in stone, it yet speaks thoughts of the heart.' — The New York Times Book Review
Falling Pomegranate Seeds
Author: Wendy J Dunn
Publisher: Poesy Quill
ISBN: 9780648715238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
María de Salinas writes a letter to her daughter Katherine, the duchess of Suffolk. A letter telling of her life: a life intertwined with her friend and cousin Catalina of Aragon.
Publisher: Poesy Quill
ISBN: 9780648715238
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
María de Salinas writes a letter to her daughter Katherine, the duchess of Suffolk. A letter telling of her life: a life intertwined with her friend and cousin Catalina of Aragon.
Daughters of God
Author: M. Russell Ballard
Publisher: Deseret Book
ISBN: 9781606410431
Category : Motherhood
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
"Daughters of God" presents three of Elder Ballard's classic messages to and about women, accented with inspirational images. If you've ever wondered how women fit into God's plan, how He feels about them, and what He needs them to do and to be, this book has answers.
Publisher: Deseret Book
ISBN: 9781606410431
Category : Motherhood
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
"Daughters of God" presents three of Elder Ballard's classic messages to and about women, accented with inspirational images. If you've ever wondered how women fit into God's plan, how He feels about them, and what He needs them to do and to be, this book has answers.
Dixie's Daughters
Author: Karen L. Cox
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813063892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books on the Confederates’ Lost Cause Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South—all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox traces the history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause. In this edition, with a new preface, Cox acknowledges the deadly riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, showing why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure. The Daughters, as UDC members were popularly known, were daughters of the Confederate generation. While southern women had long been leaders in efforts to memorialize the Confederacy, UDC members made the Lost Cause a movement about vindication as well as memorialization. They erected monuments, monitored history for "truthfulness," and sought to educate coming generations of white southerners about an idyllic past and a just cause—states' rights. Soldiers' and widows' homes, perpetuation of the mythology of the antebellum South, and pro-southern textbooks in the region's white public schools were all integral to their mission of creating the New South in the image of the Old. UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, in which states' rights and white supremacy remained intact. To the extent they were successful, the Daughters helped to preserve and perpetuate an agenda for the New South that included maintaining the social status quo. Placing the organization's activities in the context of the postwar and Progressive-Era South, Cox describes in detail the UDC's origins and early development, its efforts to collect and preserve manuscripts and artifacts and to build monuments, and its later role in the peace movement and World War I. This remarkable history of the organization presents a portrait of two generations of southern women whose efforts helped shape the social and political culture of the New South. It also offers a new historical perspective on the subject of Confederate memory and the role southern women played in its development.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813063892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Wall Street Journal’s Five Best Books on the Confederates’ Lost Cause Southern Association for Women Historians Julia Cherry Spruill Prize Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South—all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen Cox traces the history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause. In this edition, with a new preface, Cox acknowledges the deadly riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, showing why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure. The Daughters, as UDC members were popularly known, were daughters of the Confederate generation. While southern women had long been leaders in efforts to memorialize the Confederacy, UDC members made the Lost Cause a movement about vindication as well as memorialization. They erected monuments, monitored history for "truthfulness," and sought to educate coming generations of white southerners about an idyllic past and a just cause—states' rights. Soldiers' and widows' homes, perpetuation of the mythology of the antebellum South, and pro-southern textbooks in the region's white public schools were all integral to their mission of creating the New South in the image of the Old. UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, in which states' rights and white supremacy remained intact. To the extent they were successful, the Daughters helped to preserve and perpetuate an agenda for the New South that included maintaining the social status quo. Placing the organization's activities in the context of the postwar and Progressive-Era South, Cox describes in detail the UDC's origins and early development, its efforts to collect and preserve manuscripts and artifacts and to build monuments, and its later role in the peace movement and World War I. This remarkable history of the organization presents a portrait of two generations of southern women whose efforts helped shape the social and political culture of the New South. It also offers a new historical perspective on the subject of Confederate memory and the role southern women played in its development.