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Becoming Mae West
Emily Wortis LeiderWith a combination of newly uncovered archival material, fine writing, and a rich appreciation of West's unique blend of comedy and "come hither" appeal, Emily Wortis Leider has created a serious and seamless biography as well as a cultural ...
California's Daughter: Gertrude Atherton and Her Times
Emily Wortis Leider. . . The most complete work on Atherton . . . recommended for its thorough presentation of the writer as part of the literary, social, political, and cultural world of the 19th century. Library Journal"
Stages of Engagement: U.S. Theatre and Performance 1898-1949
Joshua PolsterAs Emily Wortis Leider explains, “While effeminancy was officially decried, and the word 'homosexuality' rarely used in polite, non-medical society, a thriving gay subculture flourished in New York City” (154). Thus, those in political and social ...
Embattled Home Fronts: Domestic Politics and the American ...
Karsten Helge PiepPortrayed as a palpable goddess of wrath, Gisela, is, to use Emily Wortis Leider's apt description, “Atherton's Siegfried-slaying answer to Richard Wagner's ' Brunhilde on the rock' who awakens “not at the kiss of man, but at the summons of ...
Dark Lover: The Life and Death of Rudolph Valentino
Emily Wortis LeiderThe author of Becoming Mae West serves up another compelling chronicle of the silent film Hollywood legend that will alter the readers perceptions about "leading men," the changing images of masculinity, and the discrepancies that exist ...
Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars
Faye HammillEmily Wortis Leider argues that this title “invited ironic comparison with the play The Constant Wife, a Somerset Maugham opus in which Ethel Barrymore had starred in 1926, and perhaps with Dorothy Parker's New Yorker column, ' Constant ...
Performing O'Neill: Conversations with Actors and Directors
Yvonne ShaferEmily Wortis Leider, Becoming Mae West (New York: Farrar, Strous, and Giroux, 1997), p. 123. Selected Letters, p. 210. Ibid., p. 558. Ibid., p. 560. John Weld, September Song (Baltimore, MD: Scarecrow, 1998), p. 96. Ibid., p. 94. Ibid., p. 95.
South Atlantic Review: The Publication of the South Atlantic ...
More editionsBy Emily Wortis Leider. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991. 402 pp. $24.95 . For a feminist historian the study of neglected women writers means more than just rapturously reclaiming one's inspiring foremothers. It also means finding ...
Women and Gender in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and ...
Mary ZirinIryna Zhdanovich (b. 1906). Actor. TE. BEL75 Kuzniatsova, Klara. Iryna Zhdanovich (Minsk: Belarus', 1970). Miriam Shomer Zunser. BEL76 Yesterday. A Memoir of a Russian Jewish Family. Emily Wortis Leider, ed. (NY: Harper & Row, 1978).
Nils Thor Granlund: Show Business Entrepreneur and America’s ...
Larry J. HoeflingEmily Wortis Leider, Becoming Mae West, page 127. 42. Granlund, Blondes, page 91. 43. Harry Richman with Richard Gehman, A Hell ofa Life (New York: Duel Sloan and Pearce, 1966), page 97. 44. Ibid., page 98. 45. Clifford J. Doerksen ...
Victoriana
Emily IsaacsonEmily Isaacson. Copyright © Copyright 2015 The Emily Isaacson Institute. No part of this book may be reproduced, ... of the Emily Isaacson Institute P.O. Box 3366 Mission, B.C. Canada V2V 4J5 www.emilyisaacsoninstitute.com Dedicated to ...
Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference ...
Sharon Leiter1858 spring: Emily writes first Master letter. c. June: First letter to Samuel Bowles, editor of Springfield Republican. First year of “flood creativity,” Emily writes 43 poems. Emily organizes her poems into the first booklets, or fascicles, a practice ...
Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare
Páraic FinnertyDaneen Wardrop, '"The Ethiop Within: Emily Dickinson and Slavery," in Emily Dickinson at Home, Proceedings of the Third International Conference of the Emily Dickinson International Society in South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College, 12-15 ...
Klee Wyck
Emily CarrThese are beautifully crafted keepsake editions of the literary world of Emily Carr, each with an introduction by a distinguished Canadian writer or authority on Emily Carr and her work.
Secrets of the Lotus
Michelle Garren Flye“Emily,” she said,seeing Emily Rosenberg passing, “Ithink thiswas meant foryou.” Sheheld the invitationout between two fingersand Emily took it without comment. Theday of Dan Mason's party, Josie foundEmily Rosenberg looking feverishand ...
The International Reception of Emily Dickinson
Preview... a concise, comprehensive summation of the key features not only of Johnson's Complete Poems (1976) but also of Richard Sewall's The Life of Emily Dickinson (1974) and John Emerson Todd's Emily Dickinson's Use of the Persona (1973).
The Gospel According to Luke
Emily MaguirePraise for Emily Maguire 'Emily Maguire ... invites the reader to slide into the skins of her beautifully flawed characters and share in their human weaknesses. Be prepared to be absorbed ...' GOOD READING MAGAZINE '[Maguire's] prose is ...
This and That: The Lost Stories of Emily Carr
Emily CarrOnce available and appreciated only by researchers, these stories remained buried in the British Columbia Archives until 2007. Finally, readers are given a new glimpse into Emily Carr's life with this collection.
Emily Carr and Her Dogs: Flirt, Punk, and Loo
Emily CarrThis delightful book combines 25 stories about dogs with 16 playful drawings by famous Canadian writer, artist, and animal lover Emily Carr.
Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr
Emily CarrEmily Carr’s journals from 1927 to 1941 portray the happy, productive period when she was able to resume painting after dismal years of raising dogs and renting out rooms to pay the bills.
Rants in the Dark: From One Tired Mama to Another
Emily WritesPopular blogger Emily Writes gives words of encouragement to sleep-deprived parents everywhere. With two small boys, both non-sleepers, Emily finds herself awake in the wee small hours night after night.
Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination
Linda Freedman4 For further discussion of Dickinson's personae, see John Emerson Todd, Emily Dickinson's Use ofthe Persona (The Hague: Mouton, 1973). For further discussion of Dickinson's letters, see Marietta Messmer, A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily ...
City of Roses
Emily IsaacsonEmily Isaacson. About the Author Emily Isaacson was born December 11, 1975 in Windsor, Ontario and grew up in Victoria, B.C., Canada. She is both Scottish ( on the maternal side) and German, (on the paternal side), and has a Scottish plaid ...
Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare
Páraic FinnertySubsequently cited by parenthetical page references in the text. See Carlton Lowenberg, Emily Dickinson's Textbooks, ed. Ter- rita A. Lowenberg and Carla L. Brown (Lafayette, Calif.: Carlton Lowenberg, 1986), 100-101; and Capps, Emily, ...
Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr
Emily Carr" Completed just before Emily Carr died in 1945, Growing Pains tells the story of Carr’s life, beginning with her girlhood in pioneer Victoria and going on to her training as an artist in San Francisco, England and France.
Emily Wharton Sinkler Papers
Emily Wharton SinklerCopies of letters written by Emily Wharton Sinkler (1823-1875) to her parents, Thomas Wharton (1791-1856) and Arabella Griffith (1800-1866), and other family members in Philadelphia regarding life with her husband, Charles Sinkler, on ...
Emily
Jan ReidWhat do you see when you gaze into a mirror? Your own reflection or something extraordinary? Giggle along with Emily as she takes you to the moon and back.
Joe v. the Fairies
Emily SmithEmily Smith. Joe v. The Fairies Emily Smith Illustrated by Georgie Birkett RHCP DIGITAL For my mother One Joe Campbell sat on his football.
Between North and South: The Letters of Emily Wharton ...
Emily Wharton SinklerSinkler, Anna Linton Thomson (November 5, 1823— November 9, 1873). Anna was married to Charles's younger brother and her own first cousin, William Henry Sinkler, on March 4, 1847. She had a beautiful voice, and together Emily and ...
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