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Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self is a 1999 book written by Sara Shandler and published by HarperCollins. [1] [2] [3]The book is an anthology of works by adolescent girls which spent eighteen weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List. [4]
[3] [4] [5] Author Laura Wattenberg noted that the name is elegant, exotic, and similar in style to the popular name Olivia but has a more Gothic, romantic sensibility that some parents find appealing. [6] Ophelia has also been the subject of numerous songs, paintings, film and television productions. Ofelia is the Spanish-language spelling of ...
51. Pixie - Pixie is such a cute name and means "fairy." 52. Posy - A girl's name of English origin that means "a bunch of flowers." 53. Poppy - Poppy means "red flower" and is of Old English ...
Lisa Klein is an American author known for her Shakespearean works including Ophelia and Lady Macbeth's Daughter. [1] She was an assistant professor of English at Ohio State University for eight years but left when she was denied tenure.
Ophelia often appears in various cultural contexts, [31] including literature, music, film and television. A moon of Uranus is named after Ophelia. [32] Robert Schumann in 'Herzeleid' from 'Sechs Gesänge' (opus 107 nr 1; 1852) puts the poem of Titus Ullrich to music, which is dedicated to the figure of Ophelia, ending with her name sung twice.
Sue Barton is the central character in a series of seven novels for adolescent girls written by Helen Dore Boylston between 1936 and 1952. The series was published by Little, Brown & Co. and saw a number of reprints following its initial publication. [1] The series follows red-headed Sue Barton through her nurse's training and her career.
Pipher is best known for a book she wrote in 1994, introducing the terms Ophelia complex or Ophelia syndrome, in Reviving Ophelia.There she argued for a view of Shakespeare's character of Ophelia in Hamlet as lacking inner direction and externally defined by men, [8] and suggested that similar external pressures were currently faced by post-pubescent girls. [9]
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls is a 1994 book written by Mary Pipher. This book examines the effects of societal pressures on American adolescent girls, and utilizes many case studies from the author's experience as a therapist . [ 1 ]