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  • Ambitious Heights

    Writing, Friendship, Love – The Jewsbury Sisters, Felicia Hemans, and Jane Welsh Carlyle

    by Norma Clarke ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Women and Writing
    How did the Victorian woman cope with the image of herself as a writer?What were the constraints on female friendships in a world centred on the pre-eminence of the husband?How significant for an ambitious woman were her politics about men?At the heart of this book, originally published in 1990, is a friendship between two women: Jane Carlyle and the novelist Geraldine Jewsbury. But it was a ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Brothers of the Quill

    Oliver Goldsmith in Grub Street

    by Norma Clarke ...
    Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England in 1756 a penniless Irishman. He toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street—already a synonym for impoverished hack writers—before he became one of literary London’s most celebrated authors. Norma Clarke tells the extraordinary story of this destitute scribbler turned gentleman of letters as it unfolds in the early days of commercial publishing, when ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Dr Johnson's Women

    by Norma Clarke ...
    Dr Johnson's friendships with the leading women writers of the day was an important feature of his life and theirs. He was willing to treat women as intellectual equals and to promote their careers: something ignored by his main biographer, James Boswell. Dr Johnson's Women investigates the lives and writings of six leading female authors Johnson knew well: Elizabeth Carter, Charlotte Lennox, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters

    by Norma Clarke ...
    If Aphra Benn is widely regarded as the first important woman writer in English, who was the second? In literary history, the eighteenth century belongs to men: Pope and Swift, Richardson and Fielding. Asked to name a woman, even the specialist stumbles. Jane Austen? She didn't publish until 1811. Aphra Benn herself? She died in 1869.The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters tells the remarkable ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 05 February 1896 (Unabridged)

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    by et al. Cleveland Moffet ...
    Narrated by Ted Tijerina, Norma Clark, Eric Yarbrough, Wendy Locke ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 6 min

    Crackle open a forgotten relic: The Black Cat, February 1896. This unearthed issue of the vintage literary magazine chills with six tales of the strange and unsettling. Unravel "The Mysterious Card" with a man haunted by a cryptic message. Peer into the uncanny with a sharpshooter who saves a battleship with his extraordinary vision. Feel the icy grip of the supernatural in a tale of a wife ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Political Pioneer of the Press

    Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Her Transnational Crusade for Social Justice

    by Lori Amber Roessner, Jodi L. Rightler-McDaniels, Chandra D. Snell Clark, Norma Fay Green, Joe Hayden, Jinx C. Broussard, Kris DuRocher, Patricia A. Schechter0, R.J. Vogt1, Kathy Roberts Forde2 ...
    Series series Women in American Political History
    Known most prominently as a daring anti-lynching crusader, Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862-1931) worked tirelessly throughout her life as a political advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and members of the working class. Despite her significance, until the 1970s Wells-Barnett’s life, career, and legacy were relegated to the footnotes of history. Beginning with the posthumously published ... Read more

    $39.99 USD