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The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who, "affronting her destiny," [1] finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. Like many of James's novels, it is set in Europe, mostly England and Italy.
"Progress of the American Woman" from the North American Review, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1900) [78] "Votes for Women", Mark Twain (1901) [79] Woman, Kate Austin (1901) [80] "Declaration of Principles", by the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1904) [81] The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (1905) Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1909 ...
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22, 1873 – November 21, 1945) was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. [1]
You may have read Chilean American author Isabelle Allende's novel The House of the Spirits in high school, but her contribution to literature and magical realism cannot be overstated.
"Life in the Iron Mills;" or, The Korl Woman is widely considered Rebecca Harding Davis's most significant work. [6] Published in 1861 in The Atlantic Monthly, "Life in the Iron-Mills" was one of the first works to explore industrialization in American literature. The short story saw its publication around the dawn of the American Civil War ...
The book centres on 'The May of Teck Club', a fictional institution said to have been established by Princess May of Teck during the First World War [5] "for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years, who are obliged to reside apart from their Families in order to follow an Occupation in London".
In her house, Julia is said to have the Bible, Foxe's Book of Martyrs and Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls. Later, Martha mentions Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Enoch Arden and Irwin Shaw's The Girls in Their Summer Dresses is also mentioned. In Book Five, Henry James and Agatha Christie are mentioned.
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (May 23, 1859 – August 13, 1930) was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor.She is considered a pioneer in her use of the romantic novel to explore social and racial themes, as demonstrated in her first major novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South.