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The World's Wife is a collection of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy, originally published in the UK in 1999 by both Picador [1] and Anvil Press Poetry [2] and later published in the United States by Faber and Faber in 2000. [3] Duffy's poems in The World's Wife focus on either well known female figures or fictional counterparts to well known male ...
In her role as editor from 1852 Hale created a section headed "Employment for Women" discussing women's attempts to enter the workforce. [13] Hale also published the works of Catharine Beecher, Emma Willard and other early advocates of education for women. She called for play and physical education as important learning experiences for children ...
A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets) to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku). Typically the poems included in single volume of poetry, or a cycle of poems, are linked by their style or thematic material.
Starting around 1830, she created a cadre of women teachers called jajiss, who travelled throughout the Caliphate educating women in the students' homes. [12] In turn, each of these jajis used the writings of Nana Asmaʾu and other Sufi scholars, usually through recited mnemonics and poetry, to train crops of learned women called the ƴan-taru ...
The poem tells the story of a heroic princess who forswears the world of men and founds a women's university where men are forbidden to enter. The prince to whom she was betrothed in infancy enters the university with two friends, disguised as women students. They are discovered and flee, but eventually they fight a battle for the princess's hand.
Kate Bernheimer's collection How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales is an overt ode to the genre, but, at the same time, a revitalizing force that graces the messiness of girlhood with an ethereal air. "I do think it's something that attracts women who want to turn over and examine the stereotypes and the role of women," Sparks said.
Mari Evans (July 16, 1919 [3] [1] – March 10, 2017) [4] was an African-American poet, writer, and dramatist [5] associated with the Black Arts Movement. [6] Evans received grants and awards including a lifetime achievement award from the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation.
Nihar (IPA: Nīhār) was her debut collection of poems. In 1930, Nihar, [28] in 1932, Rashmi, [29] in 1933, Neerja [30] were composed by her. In 1935, her collection of poems called Sandhyageet [31] was published. In 1939, four poetic collections were published with their artworks under the title Yama. [32]