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The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography

The Education of Fanny Lewald: An Autobiography

Fanny Lewald

The Education of Fanny Lewald is the autobiography of the most popular and prolific German woman writer of her period (1811-1889).
A Year of Revolutions: Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848

A Year of Revolutions: Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848

Fanny Lewald

From the Holy Roman Empire to the Bismarckian Reich Eric Dorn Brose During recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in interest in the nineteenth century, resulting in many fine monographs. However, these studies often gravitate ...
A Year of Revolutions: Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848

A Year of Revolutions: Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848

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Lewald (1811-1889), the best-selling German woman writer in the nineteenth century, proved akeen and perceptive observer of the social, artistic, and political life of her times, of which these Recollections offer an excellent example.
Fanny Lewald: Between Rebellion and Renunciation

Fanny Lewald: Between Rebellion and Renunciation

Margaret E. Ward

This book will, therefore, be of interest not only to specialists in German literature, but also to students and scholars of European cultural and social history, Jewish studies, and women's studies.
Voices of Rebellion: Political Writing by Malwida Von ...

Voices of Rebellion: Political Writing by Malwida Von ...

Ruth Whittle

This must be contrasted with the tendencies of Anglo-American literature where women writers used novels as a forum to show that female 'transgressive' behaviour could be 'credible and realistic'1 1 Vanessa van Ornam, Fanny Lewald and ...
Fanny Lewald and Nineteenth-century Constructions of Femininity

Fanny Lewald and Nineteenth-century Constructions of Femininity

Vanessa Van Ornam

However, Van Ornam, a Berlin-based writer and translator, finds strategies of dissent in most of the many texts she produced over her 40-year career. The study is based on her Ph. D. dissertation for Washington University in St. Louis.
Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young

Wayward Saints: The Godbeites and Brigham Young

Ronald Warren Walker

Fanny Stenhouse, TIAH, pp. 576-77. 2. Tullidge, Life of Joseph the Prophet (1880 ). 3. Fanny Stenhouse, TIAll, pp. 554-57; Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest, 1:208 -9. 4. Fanny Stenhouse, Expose of Polygamy in Utah, p. 141; Excommunication ...
Fanny Fern

Fanny Fern

Nancy A. Walker

Fanny Fern, Nathaniel Hawthorne said, "writes as if the devil was in her.
Begums, Thugs and White Mughals

Begums, Thugs and White Mughals

Fanny Parkes Parlby

To read Fanny Parkes is to go as close as one can to early colonial India, in all its violence and beauty.
Map of Life and Beauty: A Memoir

Map of Life and Beauty: A Memoir

Fanny Barry

Fanny Barry was a successful engineer, artist, yoga instructor and girlfriend living in Boston, Massachusetts.
LIFE & BEAUTIES OF FANNY FERN

LIFE & BEAUTIES OF FANNY FERN

Fanny 1811-1872 Fern

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Ruth Hall and Other Writings

Ruth Hall and Other Writings

Fanny Fern

Briefly traces Fanny Fern's life, presents her novel about a young widow struggling to support her children, and gathers a selection of her newspaper articles
The world of Fanny Burney

The world of Fanny Burney

Evelyn Farr

This book, which draws extensively on Fanny Burney's renowned diaries, provides an intimate portrait of a woman whose life was described by a contemporary as 'a vortex of pleasure, brilliancy, and wit'.
Fanny Says

Fanny Says

Nickole Brown

A raucous, bawdy, and hilarious investigation of the South through the unforgettable voice of Fanny, Nickole Brown's fierce, tough-as-new-rope grandmother.
Fanny Seward: A Life

Fanny Seward: A Life

Trudy Krisher

Giving readers a previously unseen glimpse into the era, Fanny Seward: A Life broadens our understanding of Civil War America.
Fanny Burney

Fanny Burney

Judy Simons

The first comprehensive critical study of the work of Fanny Burney. Living in a world where male supremacy was unchallenged, Burney pioneered the 'women's novel' by presenting a distinctively female perspective in English fiction.
Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman

Fanny Fern: An Independent Woman

Joyce W. Warren

Fanny Fern is a name that is unfamiliar to most contemporary readers. In this first modern biography, Warren revives the reputation of a once-popular 19th-century newspaper columnist and novelist.
Evelina; or The history of a young lady's introduction to ...

Evelina; or The history of a young lady's introduction to ...

Fanny Burney

Fanny Burney, Evelina (fict.name.) in affluence ; and, therefore, the less her grandchild requires her assistance, the more gladly she will give it. I have but one thing more to add, from which, however, I can by no means recede : my word so ...
Fanny Burney: Her Life

Fanny Burney: Her Life

Kate Chisholm

23 This miniature was commissioned by Charles from the portraitist Gervase Spencer. ... 29 In her notoriously unreliable Memoirs of her father, Fanny claimed that Charles's salary was £100, but Dr Scholes included in his The Great Dr Burney ...
Frontiers

Frontiers

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Oklahoma's pioneering woman progressive, who fought for social justice reform. $34.95 Hardcover • 0-8061-3563-8 - 256 [ Fanny Dunbar Corbusier Recollections of Her Army Life. 1869-1908 By Fanny Dunbar Corbusier Edited by Patricia Y.
La Citadelle: Layle Lane and Social Activism in ...

La Citadelle: Layle Lane and Social Activism in ...

Leonard L. Bethel

FANNY SIMON An educator and New York teacher, Fanny Simon became a close friend of Layle Lane's. They became acquainted right after she graduated from Cornell University. Their comradeship developed during a period of challenge ...
Feminism's Queer Temporalities

Feminism's Queer Temporalities

Sam McBean

Vanda Zajko and Miriam Leonard (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 163–86 (p. 164). Ibid., p. 184. 14 Fanny Söderbäck, 'Introduction: Why Antigone Today', in Feminist Readings of Antigone, ed. Fanny Söderbäck (Albany: SUNY ...
Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an heiress, by the author of Evelina

Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an heiress, by the author of Evelina

Fanny Burney

Fanny Burney. " Then have I an unanswerable excuse," said Cecilia ; " for I remember that on the third day I saw her at your house." " O that's nothing at all to the purpose; you should have waited upon her, or sent her a ticket, just the same as if ...
Fanny Dunbar Corbusier: Recollections of Her Army Life, ...

Fanny Dunbar Corbusier: Recollections of Her Army Life, ...

Fanny Dunbar Corbusier

When the Geese Come: The Journals of a Moravian Missionary, Ella Mae Ervin Romig, 1898-1905, Southwest Alaska. Phyllis Demuth Movius, ed. Fairbanks: Univers1ty of Alaska Press, 1997. Rugoff, Milton. The Beechers: An American ...
Sibling Relations And The Transformations Of European ...

Sibling Relations And The Transformations Of European ...

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“Briefe aus der Verlobungszeit,” edited by Martina Helmig and Annette Maurer. In Fanny Hensel, geb. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Das Werk, edited by Martina Helmig , pp. 139–163. Munich: 1997. Mendelssohn, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn.
The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: ...

The Court Journals and Letters of Frances Burney: Volume II: ...

Fanny Burney

Volume II: 1787 Fanny Burney, Stewart Cooke Peter Sabor. [Burney, Frances] Cecilia [Burney, Frances] Evelina [Burney, Frances] The Wanderer CJL Davenport Delany Corr. Dictionary DL ED EJL Eton College Register GEC, Peerage Berg ...
Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to ...

Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to ...

J. Simons

J. Simons. Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Wool Judy Simons Principal Lecturer in English Sheffield City Polytechnic 22 MACMILLAN 22 © Judy Simons 1990 All rights reserved. No reproduction, Title.

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