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  • New Welsh Reader 133

    New Welsh Review, autumn 2023

    by Elizabeth Griffiths ...
    Female-led European literature with a focus on place in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction and diversity in poetry. Plus illustrations by Katherine Cleaver.This edition presents the winner of the New Welsh Writing Awards 2023 Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting: 'Invisibility' by Mark Blayney, a fictionalised biography of Thomas Picton, Tyrant of Trinidad. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Welsh Reader 133

    Voices

    by Elizabeth Griffiths, Mark Blayney ...
    Series Book 133 - New Welsh Review
    Female-led European literature with a focus on place in nonfiction, narrative voice in fiction and diversity in poetry. Plus illustrations by Katherine Cleaver. This edition presents the winner of the New Welsh Writing Awards 2023 Rheidol Prize for Prose with a Welsh Theme or Setting: 'Invisibility' by Mark Blayney, a fictionalised biography of Thomas Picton, Tyrant of Trinidad. Plus poems by ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Managing for Posterity

    The Norfolk gentry and their estates c.1450-1700

    by Elizabeth Griffiths ...
    Series Book 21 - Studies in Regional and Local History
    Securing the long-term survival and status of the family has always been the principal concern of the English aristocracy and gentry. Central to that ambition has been the successful management of their landed estates, whilst failure in this regard could spell ruination for an entire family. In the sixteenth century, the task became more difficult as price inflation reduced the value of rents; ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Formidable

    American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020

    by Elisabeth Griffith ...
    “An essential history of the struggle by both Black and white women to achieve their equal rights.”—Hillary Rodham ClintonThe Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women, or even protect the rights of those women who could vote. A century later, women ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Delicate Distress

    by Elizabeth Griffith ...
    Series series Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women
    Actress, playwright, and novelist, Elizabeth Griffith (1727-1793) won fame in England with the publication in 1757 of the first two volumes of Letters Between Henry and Frances, letters from her own courtship with Richard Griffith whom she secretly married in 1751. Her first novel, The Delicate Distress (1769), focuses on the problems women encounter after marriage—the issue of financial ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Life of a Slave Girl - Women's Slave Narratives

    Women's Testimonies of Enslavement, Resistance, Faith, Family, and Freedom

    by Harriet Jacobs, Sojourner Truth, Mary Prince, Elizabeth Keckley, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Emma and Lloyd Ray, Annie L. Burton, Nina Hill Robinson, Martha Griffith Browne ...
    The Life of a Slave Girl—Women's Slave Narratives gathers an essential body of autobiographical testimony that exposes slavery's violence through the interwoven pressures of gender, family separation, sexual coercion, labor, faith, and the pursuit of freedom. Ranging from urgently personal recollection to reflective moral argument, these narratives employ documentary realism, spiritual meditation, ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Evolution of the Gender Pay Gap

    A Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Frances Hamilton, Elisabeth Griffiths ...
    Through interdisciplinary research, this book explores the continued cause of the significant gender pay gap that still exists in many countries today. This gap persists despite a wide range of measures having been introduced to protect women at work. Internationally varied approaches which have been attempted include prohibiting discrimination, maternity leave, maternity pay, health and safety ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • The Long List Anthology Volume 2

    More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List

    by David Steffen, Aliette de Bodard, Alyssa Wong, Kai Ashante Wilson, Ann Leckie, Martin L. Shoemaker, Amal El-Mohtar, Catherynne M. Valente, Elizabeth Bear, Usman T. Malik, David D. Levine, Ursula Vernon, Sarah Pinsker, Rose Lemberg, Tamsyn Muir, Naomi Kritzer, Seanan McGuire, Megan Grey, Nicola Griffith ...
    Series Book 2 - Long List Anthology Series
    This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and ... Read more

    $7.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Search of Vikings

    Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Scandinavian Heritage of North-West England

    Edited by Stephen E. Harding, David Griffiths, Elizabeth Royles ...
    This book presents a collection of papers from experts in a broad range of disciplines, including history, archaeology, genetics, and linguistics, to provide a detailed understanding of the Vikings in peace and in war. It focuses on one particularly exciting area of the Viking world, namely the north-west section of England, where they are known to have settled in large numbers. The 12 integrated ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • In Her Own Right

    The Life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    by Elisabeth Griffith ...
    Series series Galaxy Books
    The first comprehensive, fully documented biography of the most important woman suffragist and feminist reformer in nineteenth-century America, In Her Own Right restores Elizabeth Cady Stanton to her true place in history. Griffith emphasizes the significance of role models and female friendships in Stanton's progress toward personal and political independence. In Her Own Right is, in the author's ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660

    Tawney's <I>Agrarian Problem</I> Revisited

    by Jane Whittle, Jean Morrin, Jennifer Holt, Keith Wrightson, R. Harold Garrett-Goodyear, William Shannon, Andy Wood, Briony McDonagh, Christopher Dyer, Christopher W Brooks0, David Ormrod1, Elizabeth Griffiths2, Heather Falvey3 ...
    This volume revisits a classic book by a famous historian: R.H. Tawney's Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century (1912). Tawney's Agrarian Problem surveyed landlord-tenant relations in England between 1440 and 1660, the period of emergent capitalism and rapidly changing property relations that stands between the end of serfdom and the more firmly capitalist system of the eighteenth century. This ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Antigone

    by Sophocles ...
    Translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff ...
    A stand-alone edition of Sophocles’s Antigone taken from Chicago’s renowned translations of the Greek tragedies.Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press’s Complete Greek Tragedies series, this stand-alone edition of Elizabeth Wyckoff’s elegant rendition of Antigone reminds readers why it endures as one of the most widely read and admired of Sophocles’s plays. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks