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Each of the sections begins with a possible translation of "Hwaet", the word that begins Beowulf.The sections are told from different perspectives: Dana narrates in first person, Willa and Ben in third, and the ancestors living in the mountain, mothers of Herot, and dogs in first person plural.
It did not become a common English given name until the 19th century. Gwendoline was in use in England by the 1860s (an early example being Lady Gwendoline Anson, born c. 1837, a daughter of the 1st Earl of Lichfield ), [ 3 ] and Gwendolen appeared in Daniel Deronda , written by George Eliot and published in serialized form 1874–6.
The early Irish tale Tochmarc Emire exists in two (main) recensions. [1] The earliest and shortest version is extant only as a copy in a late manuscript, the 15th/16th-century Bodleian Library, MS Rawlinson B 512, where it lacks the first part, beginning instead with the last riddle exchanged between Cú Chulainn and Emer. [1] The text has been dated by Kuno Meyer to the tenth century. [2]
Guinevere (/ ˈ ɡ w ɪ n ɪ v ɪər / ⓘ GWIN-iv-eer; Welsh: Gwenhwyfar pronunciation ⓘ; Breton: Gwenivar, Cornish: Gwynnever), also often written in Modern English as Guenevere or Guenever, [1] was, according to Arthurian legend, an early-medieval queen of Great Britain and the wife of King Arthur. First mentioned in literature in the ...
The Wife of Bath's Prologue simultaneously enumerates and critiques the long tradition of misogyny in ancient and medieval literature. As Cooper notes, the Wife of Bath's "materials are part of the vast medieval stock of antifeminism", [11] giving St. Jerome's Adversus Jovinianum, which was "written to refute the proposition put forward by one ...
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...
Short story collection: The Bird Catcher and Other Stories (2018) [6] Zia Haider Rahman: In the Light of What We Know (2014) Razia Sultana Khan The Good Wife and Other Tales of Seduction (2007) Rashid Askari: Nineteen Seventy One and Other Stories (2011) [7] Saad Z. Hossain: Djinn City (2017) Arif Anwar The Storm (2018) Mehrab Masayeed Habib [8]
The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1990. (Internet Archive) Buck, Claire, ed.The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992. (Internet Archive) Corman, Brian. Women Novelists Before Jane Austen: The Critics and Their Canons. University of Toronto Press, 2008.