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The story is told through a series of letters written by the heroine Olivia Fairfield to her former governess, Mrs. Milbanke, in Jamaica. Olivia is the mixed-race illegitimate daughter of an English plantation-owner, Mr. Fairfield, and his slave Marcia, who died in childbirth.
Sugar dating, also called sugaring, [1] is a quasiromantic or pseudoromantic relationship wherein a financially successful person dates a less financially successful person. Typically, the financially successful person is older and wealthy, while the other person is typically younger, attractive , and interested in improving their quality of ...
The book dealt with an anti-hero character named after Jomo Kenyatta that ran an organization similar to the Black Panthers to clear the ghetto of crime. In his book The Low Road, Eddie B. Allen remarks that the series was a departure from some of Goines's other works, with the character of Kenyatta symbolizing a sense of liberation for Goines. [5]
In the 1970s, women of color worked alongside hegemonic, white feminist groups but found them to be mostly centered on the white, middle-class feminist issues of the time. With the help of white, anti-racist women, women of color gave rise to multiracial feminist theory and led to the development of organizations created by and for women of color.
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Reviews of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek were uniformly positive. The book was a New York Times bestseller, [13] and was included in the best seller lists of the Los Angeles Times [14] and USA Today. [15] It has a Goodreads average rating of 4.23. [16]
Mary Lou [1] Mackey (born 1945 [1]) is an American novelist, poet, and academic.She is the author of eight collections of poetry and fourteen novels, including A Grand Passion and The Village of Bones, The Year The Horses Came, The Horses At The Gate, and The Fires of Spring, four sweeping historical novels that take as their subject the earth-centered, Goddess-worshiping cultures of Neolithic ...
The novel is the first of a seven-book saga about the fortunes of a retail empire and the machinations of the business elite across three generations. The series, featuring Emma Harte and her family also includes Hold The Dream, To Be The Best, Emma's Secret, Unexpected Blessings, Just Rewards and Breaking the Rules.