You must read this book and let your heart be broken--"New York Times Book Review" "One of the earliest recognitions in American literature of the existence of the very poor."--Michele Murray, "National Observer" Suggested for course use in: 19th-century U.S. literatureWorking-class studies Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) published 12 books and many serialized novels, stories, and essays.
Follows the lives of two sisters in a wealthy Scots family. This novel reveals the power marriage and family hold in controlling the lives of talented, spirited women, but unlike other oppressed heroines of the period, the heroine and her feminism both survive. It includes an essay on marriage by Caird (1854-1932), a novelist and social critic.
Highly praised when first published in 1960, Anna Teller portrays the saga of a Jewish-Hungarian family through three quarters of a century in Europe and the United States. The 74-year old Anna, always known to her family as 'the General', ran a farm and a mill in Hungary after her husband's death, endured the worst of the Nazi occupation, and fought the Russians during the failed Hungarian revolt of 1956. The core of the novel lies in Anna's ...
Using biography, autobiography, journals, and letters, this volume offers portraits of seven women who were the first of their sex to work as faculty and deans at coeducational universities in the United States and Canada. Most historians of higher education for women have focused their attention on women's colleges. Here, thanks to the recent research of seven scholars, are stories of pathbreakers, their loneliness, isolation, and solitary tr...
This portrait of American women reveals the remarkable strengths and resources of ordinary women. Excerpts from 29 diaries include miniatures of the daily life of New England families in the late 1700s, overviews of the great expansion westward, and devastating portraits of the brutal politics of the 1960s and 1970s. The book also contains a bibliography of hundreds of women's diaries.
Inside and outside marriage, what happens to the woman betrayed? How do abandoned wives or lovers feel? What happens when the battle between the sexes becomes a triangle?The plots in this collection of eighteen stories written between the 1840s and 1980s are infinitely variable, and the outcomes will enrage, shock, amuse, and sometimes hearten. In some stories, women forge links with other women in solidarity. In others, women fight for their ...
Presents a realistic portrayal of industrial life - and social injustice - in the United States. This novel focuses on Sip, a mill worker, and Miss Kelso, the silent partner in the mill after her father's death. The lives of these two women intersect as they both reject marriage proposals in favor of new vocations.
Originally published in Sweden in 1936, this novel is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Mia, as she observes her mother's relationship with her handsome but hard-drinking and unfaithful husband. Booklist calls the novel, "a poignant, yet unsettling documentary story that transcends time and place in its depiction of the struggles of the working poor, deserving of a place alongside such notables as Sinclair Lewis, Ole Rolvaag, and John St...
Tillie Olsen's personal selection from the work of 120 writers of prose and poetry, memoir and song, provides a contemporary view of this special relationship from such writers as Louise Bogan, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Grace Paley, Olive Schreiner, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, and Virginia Woolf.
This beloved coming-of-age story set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II follows the life of Selina Boyce, the daughter of Caribbean immigrants. Author Danticat explores the novel's themes of identity, sexuality, and values as well as Selina's struggle against the racism and poverty surrounding her.
This fierce anti-war novel by Irene Rathbone (1892-1980) is told from the perspective of a cultured former suffragist and several of her friends- young women who work at rest camps just behind the lines in France and as nurses of the severely wounded in hospitals in London. When Joan loses both her brother and lover to the war, in anger at the enemy she volunteers for work in a munitions plant- but by the end, she is a confirmed pacifist.
