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Author | : Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780674011304 |
Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.
Author | : Megan Mayhew Bergman |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-01-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1476786569 |
Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity, from Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra, to Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly.
Author | : Eva Chen |
Publisher | : Feiwel & Friends |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2019-02-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1250245621 |
Why stick with plain old A, B, C when you can have Amelia (Earhart), Malala, Tina (Turner), Ruth (Bader Ginsburg), all the way to eXtraordinary You—and the Zillion of adventures you will go on? Instagram superstar Eva Chen, author of Juno Valentine and the Magical Shoes, is back with an alphabet board book depicting feminist icons in A Is for Awesome: 23 Iconic Women Who Changed the World, featuring spirited illustrations by Derek Desierto.
Author | : Charles Francis Horne |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781022616073 |
Part of a larger biographical series, this book examines the lives and legacies of some of the world's most famous artists and authors. Featuring well-known figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, and Michelangelo, as well as lesser-known artists and authors, this book offers an engaging and informative glimpse into the lives of these creative geniuses. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Matilda Betham |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 880 |
Release | : 1804 |
Genre | : Biography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elizabeth Urban Alexander |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2004-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807130249 |
The legal crusade of Myra Clark Gaines (1804?--1885) has all the trappings of classic melodrama -- a lost heir, a missing will, an illicit relationship, a questionable marriage, a bigamous husband, and a murder. For a half century the daughter of New Orleans millionaire Daniel Clark struggled to justify her claim to his enormous fortune in a case that captivated the nineteenth-century public. Elizabeth Urban Alexander taps voluminous court records and letters to unravel the twists and turns of Gaines's litigation and reveal the truth behind the mysterious saga of this notorious woman. Myra, the daughter of real estate heir Clark and Zulime Carrière, a beautiful young Frenchwoman, was raised by friends of Clark and kept ignorant of her real parentage until 1832, when she discovered her true lineage in letters among her foster father's papers. She thereupon returned to Louisiana with tales of a lost will and a secret marriage between Clark and Carrière and claimed to be Clark's missing heir. Was Myra the legitimate daughter of the prominent merchant or the "fruit of an adulterous union?" The courts would decide. The Great Gaines Case wound its tortuous path through the United States legal system from 1834 until 1891. It was considered by the U.S. Supreme Court seventeen times and pursued even after Gaines's death by lawyers trying to recoup fees. By courageously bringing her case to the courtroom and doggedly keeping it there, Alexander asserts, Gaines helped instigate a new type of family law that provided special protection of women, children, and marriages. Though Gaines never recovered more than a tiny fraction of the rumored millions, this riveting chronicle of her struggle for legitimacy and legacy as told by Elizabeth Urban Alexander is a gold mine for anyone interested in legal history, women's studies, or a good yarn superbly spun.
Author | : Susan E. Edgar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781561569793 |
Author | : Mary Sarah Bilder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : 9780813947204 |
"A biography of Eliza Harriot Barons O'Connor, an educator whose 1787 Philadelphia public lecture attended by George Washington might have inspired the gender-neutral language of the Constitution. Explores women's public roles and political power following the American Revolution through the early nineteenth century, tracing the story of white and Black women's struggles for education and suffrage at a transformative moment"--
Author | : Samuel Griswold Goodrich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : French literature |
ISBN | : |