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The Women is a historical fiction novel by American author Kristin Hannah published by St. Martin's Press in 2024. The book tells the story of Frances "Frankie" McGrath, a young nurse who serves in the United States Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. [1] [2] The novel debuted at number one on The New York Times fiction best-seller list.
The author added that everything that's said to Melina, the fictional female playwright, has been said "to my face" and that she doesn't understand why stories about women written by women aren't ...
Feminist literature is fiction or nonfiction which supports the feminist goals of defining, establishing and defending equal civil, political, economic and social rights for women. It often identifies women's roles as unequal to those of men – particularly as regards status, privilege and power – and generally portrays the consequences to ...
Half of a Yellow Sun received the 2007 Women's Prize for Fiction. [8] The award is given annually for the best original full-length novel written by a woman in English; Adichie's prize amounted to £30,000. [8] The novel was well received by critics and included in the New York Times ' s "100 Most Notable Books of the Year". [9]
No one writes about British footballing history like David Peace. The latest novel from the author of The Damned United and Red or Dead traces the devastating impact of the 1958 Munich air ...
A Short History of Women's Rights, From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. With Special Reference to England and the United States, Eugene A. Hecker (1914) [195] La Rosa Muerta, Aurora Cáceres (1914) [196] To the Women of Kooyong, Vida Goldstein (1914) [197] Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times, Alice Duer Miller (1915 ...
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."
Publishers Weekly wrote of the novel, "Gregory earned her international reputation evoking sex, violence, love and betrayal among the Tudors; here she adds intimate relationships, political maneuvering and battlefield conflicts as well as some well-drawn supernatural elements." The review adds that the author "is especially poignant depicting ...