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The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English, from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates of ...
History vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don't Want You to Know is a 2018 book by Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams, illustrated by T.S. Abe, which profiles 25 women from history. [1] The subjects featured are from a diverse range of historical periods and locations, and include women who had a negative impact on the world.
Similarly, Pocahontas, [36] or Amonute, [37] was a Powhatan noble who lived in Tidewater Virginia, when she was captured by English immigrants trying to establish a settlement at Jamestown. [36] In captivity she took on the name 'Rebecca', converted to Christianity, [36] and married John Rolfe, an Englishman with whom she later had a son ...
A Biographical Dictionary of English Women Writers 1580–1720. Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1990. Benbow-Pfalzgraf, Taryn. American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide: From Colonial Times to the Present. 2nd ed. Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. Contains biographical and critical essays on 1,328 American women writers
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Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History [1] is a 1989 book, edited by Kumkum Sangari [2] and Sudesh Vaid, [3] published by Kali for Women in India and by the Rutgers University Press in the United States. The anthology attempts to explore the inter-relation of patriarchies with political economy, law, religion and culture and to suggest a ...
The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English is a biographical dictionary of women writers and women's writing in English published by Cambridge University Press in 1999 (ISBN 0-521-49525-3). It was edited by Lorna Sage , with Germaine Greer and Elaine Showalter as advisory editors, [ 1 ] and contains more than 2,500 entries written by ...
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King's Mother is a 2011 book by historical novelist Philippa Gregory and historians David Baldwin and Michael K. Jones. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a non-fiction work that explores the lives of three prominent women of the historical Wars of the Roses , all of whom Gregory has featured ...