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Letters on Women's Rights, Abigail and John Adams (1776) [20] Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms, Judith Sargent Murray (1784) [21] Philosophie eines Weibs: Von einer Beobachterin, Marianne Ehrmann (1784) Mary: A Fiction, Mary Wollstonecraft (1788) [22]
This list of historical fiction is designed to provide examples of notable works of historical fiction (in literature, film, comics, etc.) organized by time period.. For a more exhaustive list of historical novels by period, see Category:Historical novels by setting, which lists relevant Wikipedia categories; see also the larger List of historical novels, which is organized by country, as well ...
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c. January – Tidskrift för hemmet (Home Review), the first women's magazine in the Nordic countries, is founded by Sophie Leijonhufvud and Rosalie Olivecrona in Stockholm (Sweden). February 1 – George Eliot's Adam Bede, her first full-length novel, is published by John Blackwood in the United Kingdom. [1]
The list was criticized as biased towards English-language books, particularly those published by American authors. [3] Nigerian academic Ainehi Edoro criticized the lack of literature by African authors and the predominance of American literature on the list and called the list "an act of cultural erasure". [ 4 ]
Letters Live initially started as a one-off literacy charity event to promote Canongate Books epistolary texts Letters of Note by Shaun Usher and To the Letter by Simon Garfield in December 2013. [2] Usher had been compiling letters in an online blog, searching for interesting, funny, or dramatic letters in libraries, museums, and archives. [3]
Eliot's letter describing the selection process in a letter to the editor, p.7, Collier's, July 24, 1909 In a June 1909 issue of Collier's Weekly, P.F. Collier & Son announced it would publish a series of books selected by Eliot, without disclosing the list of included works, that would be approximately five feet in length and would supply the readers a liberal education.
Following this she speaks about a similar gruelling experience of finding out her pregnancy and the consequences such as hiding it from her parents and public, searching for a doctor who would illegally abort the child, revealing pregnancy to some close ones for help in abortion and the horror of abortion itself, which is the rest of the book.