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The existence of the work was first announced by publisher Knopf on April 23, 2007, with a scheduled publication date of June 19, 2007. [1] A Woman in Charge was released at the same time as another mainstream biography of Clinton, Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr.'s Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton. [3]
June 19 is the 170th day ... 1785 – The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, ... club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (d. 1904 ...
Medal commemorating the canonization of Pedro de Alcántara and Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, Rome, 1669 (from the Women of the Book Collection, nr. 7595989). Cloistered convents, and female religious houses more generally, provided early modern women with access to a contemplative life of the mind—including educational opportunities, conventual libraries, and the resources needed to compose ...
The Women is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2024. The book tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. [1] [2] The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times fiction best-seller list.
A Celebration of Women Writers; SAWNET: The South Asian Women's NETwork Bookshelf; Victorian Women Writers Project; Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists & Writers of Color; The Women Writers Archive: Early Modern Women Writers Online; SOPHIE: a digital library of works by German-speaking women; REBRA: a list of women writers from Brazil.
The Feminine Gaze: a Canadian compendium of non-fiction women authors and their books, 1836–1945. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. includes brief biographies of 473 writers; Fister, Barbara, ed. Third World Women's Literatures: A Dictionary and Guide to Materials in English. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995.
Jane Cunningham Croly (née Cunningham; December 19, 1829 – December 23, 1901) was a British-born American author and journalist, better known by her pseudonym, Jennie June. She was a pioneer author and editor of women's columns in leading newspapers and magazines in New York.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (born Barbara Leigh Smith; 8 April 1827 – 11 June 1891) was an English educationalist and artist, a philanthropist and her greatest skill was as a facilitator. [1] She was a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist.