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The 2004 AQA Anthology was a collection of poems and short texts. The anthology was split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney , [ 4 ] Gillian Clarke , Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage , and a bank of pre-1914 poems.
"Elvis's Twin Sister" is a poem by Carol Ann Duffy [1] that is said to reflect "the hidden lives of generations of overlooked women" as part of the collection The World's Wife, of 30 similar poems dealing with the female relatives of famous men throughout history.
It is the first book of a trilogy that continues with As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning (1969) and A Moment of War (1991). It has sold over six million copies worldwide. The novel is an account of Lee's childhood in the village of Slad, Gloucestershire, England, during and after the First World War. It chronicles the traditional village ...
Mother (Russian: Мать, romanized: Mat') is a novel written by Maxim Gorky in 1906 about revolutionary factory workers. It was first published, in English, in Appleton's Magazine in 1906, [1] then in Russian in 1907. Although Gorky was highly critical of the novel, the work was translated into many languages, and was made into a number of films.
As it is commonly used, the term maternal deprivation is ambiguous as it is unclear whether the deprivation is that of the biological mother, of an adoptive or foster mother, a consistent caregiving adult of any gender or relationship to the child, of an emotional relationship, or of the experience of the type of care called "mothering" in many ...
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy (née Drabble; 24 August 1936 – 16 November 2023), known professionally by her former married name, A. S. Byatt (/ ˈ b aɪ. ə t / BY-ət), [1] was an English critic, novelist, poet and short-story writer. Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages.
The New Mother" is a short story written by Lucy Clifford and first published in her collection of children's stories, The Anyhow Stories, Moral and Otherwise in 1882. The story has been reprinted in anthologies , including The Dark Descent , and was rewritten for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series.
Sir Arnold Wesker FRSL (24 May 1932 – 12 April 2016) was an English dramatist.He was the author of 50 plays, four volumes of short stories, two volumes of essays, much journalism and a book on the subject, a children's book, some poetry, and other assorted writings.