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The academic discipline of women's writing is a discrete area of literary studies which is based on the notion that the experience of women, historically, has been shaped by their sex, and so women writers by definition are a group worthy of separate study: "Their texts emerge from and intervene in conditions usually very different from those which produced most writing by men."
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 Jovinianus that virginity and marriage were of equal worth,” as one of many examples. [11] As author Ruth Evans notes in her book ...
The following is a list of feminist literature, listed by year of first publication, then within the year alphabetically by title (using the English title rather than the foreign language title if available/applicable). Books and magazines are in italics, all other types of literature are not and are in quotation marks.
Ten Novels and Their Authors is a 1954 work of literary criticism by William Somerset Maugham. [1] Maugham collects together what he considers to have been the ten greatest novels and writes about the books and the authors.
Rebecca is a 1938 Gothic novel by the English author Daphne du Maurier.It depicts an unnamed young woman who impetuously marries a wealthy widower, before discovering that both he and his household are haunted by the memory of his late first wife, the title character.
1 Plot summary. 2 References. 3 Publication history. ... English: Published: 1975 Houghton Mifflin: ... Wife (1975) is a novel by ...
The book sold very well, remaining on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than three months. [6] [8] Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming was published in 2018. She received over $60 million in advance of publication, and the book had sold over 11.5 million copies as of November 2019. [9] [10] Melania Trump published her memoir Melania in 2024
A plate from the 1742 deluxe edition of Richardson's Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded showing Mr. B intercepting Pamela's first letter home to her mother. Pamela Andrews is a pious, virtuous fifteen-year-old, the daughter of impoverished labourers, who works for Lady B as a maid in her Bedfordshire estate.