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Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American novelist, known for The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, The Interestings, and The Female Persuasion. She works as an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton .
The Friendly Persuasion (1945) is West's best-known work. The New York Times book reviewer Orville Prescott called it "as fresh and engaging, tender and touching a book as ever was called sentimental by callous wretches... There have been plenty of louder and more insistent books this year, but few as sure and mellow as The Friendly Persuasion ...
The Friendly Persuasion is an American novel published in 1945 by Jessamyn West. [1] It was adapted as the Oscar-nominated motion picture Friendly Persuasion in 1956. [2] The book consists of 14 vignettes about a Quaker farming family, [3] the Birdwells, living near the town of Vernon in southern Indiana [1] along "the banks of the Muscatatuck, where once the woods stretched, dark row on row."
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“He’s a 10,” the leading lady enthuses to an older woman about a young man she fancies in this latest screen adaptation of Jane Austen’s final novel — and if that line doesn’t throw ...
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The Female Man is a feminist science fiction novel by American writer Joanna Russ.It was originally written in 1970 and first published in 1975 by Bantam Books.Russ was an ardent feminist and challenged sexist views during the 1970s with her novels, short stories, and nonfiction works.
From its first trailer, Netflix's new adaptation of Persuasion had Jane Austen's fans riled. Many took to Twitter to denounce the Fleabag-ification of humble heroine Anne Elliot. Some lamented ...