Women Authors category: 700 books

OUVRAGE BILINGUE ! Lorsque l'une des plus grandes essayistes de son temps met en lumière son activité de critique au sein d'un ouvrage s'intéressant à des romanciers, des poètes, dramaturges et essayistes célèbres aussi bien qu'à des écrivains, diaristes ou biographes obscurs, voire...

Mari, Our Little Norwegian Cousin written by Mary Hazelton Wade. Published in 1903. Fifth Impression, June, 1908 Sixth Impression, March, 1910

Margaret Atwood enjoys a unique prominence in Canadian letters. With over thirty books to her credit, in genres ranging from children's writing to dystopic novels, she is as creatively diverse as she is internationally acclaimed. Her success, however, has been double-edged: the very popularity that...

Objects we traditionally regard as "mere" imitations of the human—dolls, automata, puppets—proliferated in eighteenth-century England's rapidly expanding market culture. During the same period, there arose a literary genre called "the novel" that turned the experience of life...

This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft—generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement—by shedding light on her contributions to eighteenth-century instructional literature, and feminist pedagogy in particular. While contemporary scholars have extensively theorized Wollstonecraft’s...

This volume established Isabella Valancy Crawford as one of Canada's principal poets. Coupled with an introductory collage of viewpoints and reactions to her work by James Reaney its provides a vivid glimpse into the literary past of this country. Although her poetry reflects the patterns of...

Journey is not enough to define the words this book have - it is more than that.* the coffee cries foul* is a solemn tussle between love and hate. In this book, Ymatruz explores the different heights and drama of human emotions. She tells the stories of mother's love, romantic union and shares other...

This edition of Romance Readers and Romance Writers (1810) is the first modern scholarly publication of what is arguably Green's most famous novel. As with many of her other works, Green adopts numerous sophisticated methods to parody her contemporaries.

From wondrous fairy-lands to nightmarish hellscapes, the elements that make fantasy worlds come alive also invite their exploration. This first book-length study of critically acclaimed novelist Patricia A. McKillip’s lyrical other-worlds analyzes her characters, environments and legends and their...

Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them. In this collection of her major essays, Marleen Barr argues that feminist science fiction writers contribute to postmodern literary canons with radical alternatives to mainstream patriarchal society....

In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, Jocelyn Harris argues thatJane Austen was a satirist, a celebrity-watcher,and a keen political observer.In Mansfield Park, she appears to baseFanny Price on Fanny Burney, criticizethe royal heir as unfit to rule, and exposeSusan Burney’s cruel husband...

Recent years have witnessed important new initiatives in the study of popular fictional modes of writing. At one time the field could have been described with reasonable accuracy by two traditions: one that analyzed the production and distribution of popular fiction as commodities; and one whose proponents...

By Way of the Wilderness by Pansy and Mrs. C M Livingstone (Grace Livingston Hill's Mom) A Wholesome Christian Novel Heartwarming story of love, forgiveness and hope If the poor young man who struggled alone with his pain and his remorse had needed anything to complete his...

July 2005. London is hit by a coordinated terrorist attack. Jamie’s boyfriend disappears without a trace. Hundreds of miles away in Cornwall, how can Jamie find out what has happened to him? The initial impact of that terrible day is followed by a slow but sure falling apart of the life Jamie...