Her Own Place

Author : Dori Sanders
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616202521
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Own Place written by Dori Sanders and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dori Sanders' first novel, CLOVER was a smash hit. Now, with HER OWN PLACE, Dori Sanders tells a story about ordinary people taking part in a transformation of heart and mind--in the South, in the nation. "Resonates as powerfully as an old hymn."--Kirkus Reviews; "Like a ripe summer peach, HER OWN PLACE just keeps getting better and better until the last page leaves the reader longing for more."--Christian Science Monitor. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9356843384
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Room of One's Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Room of One’s Own is an essay written by Virginia Woolf. It was published in 1929 and is based on two lectures given by the author in 1928 at two colleges for women at Cambridge. In this famous essay, Woolf addressed the status of women, and women artists in particular. In this essay, the author also asserts that a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write. According to Woolf, women’s creativity has been curtailed due to centuries of prejudice and financial and educational disadvantages. To emphasize her view, she offers the example of an imaginary gifted but uneducated sister of William Shakespeare, who, discouraged from all eventually kills herself. Woolf celebrates the work of women who have overcome that tradition and become writers, including Jane Austen, George Eliot, and the Brontë sisters, Anne, Charlotte, and Emily. In the final section Woolf suggests that great minds are neutral and argues that intellectual freedom requires financial freedom. The author entreats her audience to write not only fiction but poetry, criticism, and scholarly works as well.

Author : Janet Fisher
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493010972
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Place of Her Own written by Janet Fisher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After leaving home at a young age and defying her parents to marry the dashing Garrett Maupin, Martha Maupin's future became bound up with some of the most extraordinary events in antebellum American history, eventually leading to her journey to a new life on the Oregon Trail. After Garrett Maupin died in 1866, leaving her alone on the frontier with their many children, Martha Maupin was torn between grief and relief after a difficult marriage. Lone mothers had few options in her day, but she took charge of her own dream and bought her own place, which is now one of the few Century Farms in Oregon named for a woman. A Place of Her Own is the story of the author’s great-great-grandmother’s daring decision to buy that farm on the Oregon frontier after the death of her husband--and story of the author's own decision to keep that farm in the family. Janet Fisher's journey into the past to uncover her own family history as she worked to keep the property interweaves with the tales from her ancestors' lives during the years leading up to the Mexican-American War in the East and her great-great-grandmother's harrowing journey across the Oregon Trail with her young family and finally tells the tale of Martha's courageous decision to strike out on her own in Oregon. This book will hold special appeal for Oregon Trail buffs and the many people in this country whose ancestors took that terrible trek, as well as others interested in American history of that period.

Author : Nancy R. Hiller
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253223539
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Home of Her Own written by Nancy R. Hiller and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with more than 100 color photographs, A Home of Her Own showcases a wide variety of homes and tells the stories of their making.

Author : Lynn A. Coleman
Publisher : Barbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160742956X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Place of Her Own written by Lynn A. Coleman and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Truly Yours Digital Edition. . .After a life of indentured sevitude and abuse, Katherine O'Leary longs for a place of her own. And especially when Shelton Greene invades her heart. Her history is fully of darkness; how could the son of her former owner love her after he learns the truth? Shelton Green has loved Katherine since he was sixteen, but she's as skittish as a wild mare. He knows only time and gentleness will bring her around to trust him. But his father's gambling has destroyed his family's reputation, and Shelton must find a way to restore it. When Shelton's parents arrive, the past flares up and sends Katherine deeper inside herself. Will Shelton's family obligations keep Katherine from believing she's worthy of love? Could the peaceful place she longs for be by his side?

Author : D. Hellegers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230339204
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Room of Her Own written by D. Hellegers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oral history collection brings together extended interviews with fifteen women, illuminating the part that gender roles play in ensnaring women in cycles of domestic abuse and homelessness and highlighting the physical stresses. It also challenges liberal myths about homeless people, and homeless women in particular.

Author : John Perkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.ZD/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Woman Her Own House-keeper; Or, The Ladies' Library written by John Perkins and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beth Luey
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476692246
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A House of Her Own written by Beth Luey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the founding of the United States, women have picked up their pens to write and express their ideas, affording them independence and self-sufficiency in days when they had little. By way of their poetry, essays, advice columns, investigative journalism and more, women like Helen Keller, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Shirley Jackson wrote not only to entertain and inform, but often to simply keep a roof over their heads. This text offers a unique examination of female New England writers, focusing on their homes. The women wrote in many genres and became literary entrepreneurs, bargaining with editors for higher fees and royalties, participating in marketing campaigns, and seeking advice and help. The homes women bought with their earnings included cottages, suburban houses, farms, and an occasional mansion. Whether modest or luxurious, these houses provided the "room of her own" that Virginia Woolf said every woman needs in order to write. Sometimes that room was an elegant study, and sometimes a corner of the kitchen.

Author : Andrew Morton
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782436936
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diana: Her True Story - In Her Own Words written by Andrew Morton and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER-ONE BESTSELLER. A reissue of this classic title brought up to date with never-before-published material from the original taped interviews and a new introduction by Andrew Morton. This edition reflects on the extraordinary circumstances surrounding the original publication, and on the long-term legacy of Diana, the woman who helped reinvigorate the royal family, giving it a more emotional, human face, and thus helping it move forward into the 21st century.

Author : Thelma Poirier
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552381803
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Voice of Her Own written by Thelma Poirier and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, the editors have brought to light a little-discussed aspect of ranching: the valuable contributions of women in an industry traditionally thought of as the domain of men. To them, the ranch means many things; it is a business, a home, and a place to raise their children. In their own words, they share their experiences, their successes, and their hardships, and clearly demonstrate the important role women have played, and continue to play, in the history and economy of the ranching industry in Canada.