The Girls And I A Veracious History

The Girls And I A Veracious History
Author: Mrs. Molesworth
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2024-01-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9360469408

The short story "The Girls and I" changed into written by means of Mrs. Molesworth, whose actual name changed into Mary Louisa Molesworth and who changed into a well-known English writer of children's books in the past due 1800s and early 1900s. The book tells a candy and touching story about the lives of 3 sisters. The story is ready three sisters, Babi, Betty, and Bran, who're the "girls" within the title. As orphans who have to address the difficult things that include being an infant, the sisters get thru the u.S.A. And downs of lifestyles and form a near bond this is at the heart of the story. The story Molesworth tells is about a collection of cousins, friendship, and growing as a person. The radical takes place inside the stunning English nation-state and captures the innocence and marvel of childhood. Mrs. Molesworth's tales are regarded for being heat and honest, with people and conditions that younger readers can relate to. "The Girls and I" is a super instance of Mrs. Molesworth's talent at writing books for kids which might be each a laugh and teach them morals. Through the reports and studies of the three sisters, the book teaches critical classes about lifestyles and is a lovely look at Victorian kid's literature.

Artful Dodgers

Artful Dodgers
Author: Marah Gubar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2009-03-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199714479

In this groundbreaking contribution to Victorian and children's literature studies, Marah Gubar proposes a fundamental reconception of the nineteenth-century attitude toward childhood. The ideology of innocence was much slower to spread than we think, she contends, and the people whom we assume were most committed to it--children's authors and members of the infamous "cult of the child"--were actually deeply ambivalent about this Romantic notion. Rather than wholeheartedly promoting a static ideal of childhood purity, Golden Age children's authors often characterize young people as collaborators who are caught up in the constraints of the culture they inhabit, and yet not inevitably victimized as a result of this contact with adults and their world. Such nuanced meditations on the vexed issue of the child's agency, Gubar suggests, can help contemporary scholars to generate more flexible critical approaches to the study of childhood and children's literature.

The Only Dance in Iowa

The Only Dance in Iowa
Author: Max McElwain
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780803232365

Iowa six-player girls? basketball was the most successful sporting activity for girls in American history, at its zenith involving more than 70 percent of the girls in the state. The state tournament was so popular?regularly drawing fifteen thousand fans, more than the boys? tourney?that officials declined a lucrative broadcasting offer from ABC?s Wide World of Sports rather than forfeit the Iowa Girls? High School Athletic Union?s control of the game. The Only Dance in Iowa chronicles the one-hundred-year history of this Iowa tradition, long a symbol of the state?s independence and the people?s rural pride. Max McElwain shows how, well before the passage of Title IX in 1972, Iowa six-player girls? basketball was, as Sports Illustrated gushed, ?a utopia for girls? athletics.? He also demonstrates how, ironically enough, the fallout from Title IX in many ways led to six-girl basketball?s demise. Through interviews, careful ethnography, and detailed historical analysis, McElwain exposes the intricate political, sociological, and historical dynamics of this cultural phenomenon. His book reveals how six-girl basketball, flourishing with the passionate support of Iowa?s small towns, school districts, and media, came to represent the state?s strong traditional beliefs and the public school system?s determination to maintain its identity in the face of national educational trends. The Only Dance in Iowa is as much a study of this disappearing culture as of the game it claimed as its own.

Onoto Watanna

Onoto Watanna
Author: Diana Birchall
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780252026072

In 1901, Winnifred Eaton arrived in New York City with literary ambitions, journalism experience, and the manuscript for A Japanese Nightingale, the novel that would make her famous. Her writing and gift for reinvention would set her apart from other women authors of her time and make her a fascinating early figure in Asian American literature. Diana Birchall, Eaton's granddaughter, tells the Horatio Alger story of the woman who became Onoto Watanna. Born to a British father and a Chinese mother, Winnifred capitalized on her exotic appearance--and protected herself from Americans' scorn of the Chinese--by "becoming" Japanese. Her popular Japanese-themed romance novels thrust her into the glittering world of New York's literati. From there she leapt to Hollywood to become a scriptwriting protégée of Carl Laemmle at Universal Studios. Yet her boldness and talent masked a sometimes-desperate personal life that included a troubled first marriage and the sudden end of her Hollywood career. A compelling saga of the shifting boundary between life and art, Onoto Watanna reveals the conflicting stories, personal tempests, and remarkable accomplishments of a woman whose career was sensational in every sense.

She the People

She the People
Author: Jen Deaderick
Publisher: Seal Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1580058728

A sweeping, smart, and smart-ass graphic history of women's ongoing quest for equality In March 2017, Nevada surprised the rest of America by suddenly ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment--thirty-five years after the deadline had passed. Hey, better late than never, right? Then, lo and behold, a few months later, Illinois followed suit. Hurrah for the Land of Lincoln! That left the ERA just one state short of the congressional minimum for ratification. One state--and a legacy of shame--are what stand between American women and full equality. She the People takes on the campaign for change by offering a cheekily illustrated, sometimes sarcastic, and all-too-true account of women's evolving rights and citizenship. Divided into twelve historical periods between 1776 and today, journalist, historian, and activist Jen Deaderick takes readers on a walk down the ERA's rocky road to become part of our Constitution by highlighting changes in the legal status of women alongside the significant cultural and social influences of the time, so women's history is revealed as an integral part of U.S. history, and not a tangential sideline. Clever and dynamic, She the People is informative, entertaining, and a vital reminder that women still aren't fully accepted as equal citizens in America.