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Her first book Own Your Body came out in 1973. Hawkins and Creeley separated in 1975, after Hawkins had two more daughters. Hawkins was an accomplished artist. Her first one-woman show, of paintings and collages, was at the Gotham Book Mart in 1974. Many of her artworks graced her books' covers.
Valentinian had two daughters but no sons, and therefore no heir to the throne. Having Majorian as son-in-law would have strengthened Valentinian in the face of other powerful generals and would have solved the problem of the succession. Furthermore, as Emperor, Majorian could have led the army himself, freed from the dangerous bond with a ...
Daughter of a famous doctor, and a skilled physician in her own right, Helena cures the King of France—who feared he was dying—and he grants her Bertram's hand as a reward. Bertram, however, offended by the inequality of the marriage, sets off for war, swearing he will not live with his wife until she can present him with a son, and with ...
Kishwar Naheed has also written eight books for children and won the prestigious UNESCO award for children's literature. [5] Her love for children is as much as her concern for women. She expresses this concern in her poem, Asin Burian We Loko, which is a touching focus on the plight of women in the present male-dominated society. Naheed has ...
For example, she wrote several proto-feminist poems about the Daughters of Liberty, a group of women active in protesting British policies in the Thirteen Colonies. "The Female Patriots" [ 5 ] (1768) contains references that are implicitly critical of the Sugar Act 1764 and the Townsend Duties of 1767, which were measures intended to raise ...
The straw-to-gold quandary is the plot device driving the Grimms' version of the age-old fable, published by Georg Reimer in 1812. But an earlier iteration — one recorded by the Grimms just two years earlier, and sent to academic friends for comment — tells a different, more empowering story of the miller's daughter.
The poems contemplate martial, masculine culture, fate, and old age from a critical standpoint. As with the other so-called 'saga englynion’ (pre-eminently Canu Urien and Canu Heledd), there is considerable uncertainty and debate as to how the poems of Canu Llywarch might originally have been performed.
"Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!" Poems of Sentiment and Reflection: 1807 To a Skylark 1805 "Up with me! up with me into the clouds!" Poems, composed during a Tour, chiefly on foot. No. 2 (1807); Poems of the Fancy (1815–) 1807 Fidelity 1805 "A Barking sound the Shepherd hears," Poems of Sentiment and Reflection. 1807