![]() ![]() They were not only tolerated, but even admired - up to a point, the point at which girls were expected to become women.” Tomboys first became a major literary type in the 1860s. The tomboy embodied in Jo March “spoke to changing standards of girlhood. She is as clumsy, blunt, opinionated, and jolly. The second-oldest of four sisters, Josephine March is a tomboy Robert March has referred to her as his "son Jo" in the past, and her best friend Laurie sometimes calls her "my dear fellow." When her father went to volunteer in the Civil War, Jo wanted to fight alongside him. They had twins, Daisy and Demi (short for Demi-John). Though the March family is poor, their background is what was called 'genteel', and Meg attended some society balls and parties. ![]() Meg is employed as a governess for the Kings, a wealthy local family. This includes trying to keep her sisters from arguing, and they sometimes accuse her of lecturing them too much. ![]() As the oldest, Meg runs the household when her mother is absent. She is referred to as a beauty, and is well-mannered. Sixteen at the opening of the book, Meg is the oldest sister. ![]()
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Packages are shipped from Monday to Friday.offers FREE SHIPPING everywhere in the United States for ALL orders. ![]() ![]() ![]() The latter was chosen as the 1989 Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets, and given the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature. Her books of poetry include The Sound of One Fork, We Say We Love Each Other, and Crime Against Nature, on Pratt's relationship to her two sons as a lesbian mother. ![]() With Elly Bulkin and Barbara Smith, she co-authored Yours In Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives On Anti-Semitism and Racism, a feminist classic. ![]() For five years she was a member of the editorial collective of Feminary: A Feminist Journal for the South, Emphasizing Lesbian Visions. Born in 1946 in Selma, Alabama, Minnie Bruce Pratt received her academic education at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her actual education through grass-roots organizing with women in the army-base town of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and through teaching at historically Black universities. ![]() ![]() The artist’s exacting mark making, which produces intricate loops and swirls of paint that appear to glide and float across the canvases’ surfaces, infuses these works with an ethereal vitality.Īfter his last New York exhibition in 2014, Brown spent time concentrating exclusively on drawing, describing it as “the skeleton that holds the composition of any painting together.” In this exhibition, the technique becomes his starting point each painting is based on an appropriated drawing. The new paintings on view in New York include double portraits, twisted figures, and a large-scale still life with ripened quinces. By harnessing the lingering allure and historical resonance of old master drawings, he transforms their past imagery into something rich and strange. Wielding a broad knowledge of art history, literature, music, and popular culture, Brown creates images and forms in which divergent references collide and playfully coexist. ![]() Gagosian is pleased to present We’ll Keep On Dancing Till We Pay the Rent, an exhibition of new paintings, sculptures, and drawings by Glenn Brown. ![]() It is always about getting some internal understanding of reality out. ![]() Art, to me, has never felt like a description of reality. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:countofmontecris00alex_0:epub:fae124e1-553b-433a-bb36-499149720222 Extramarc University of Alberta Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier countofmontecris00alex_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6zw53698 Isbn 0553210319ĩ780553213508 Lccn 56010489 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0. The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 02:27:56 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA169701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Toronto Donorīlogistics Edition Bantam classic ed. Bantam Classic edition Translated and abridged by Lowell Bair. ![]() ![]() I do venture to concur with the blurb Laura Eve has provided this book with this is a “feminist successor to The Lord of the Rings” because it is a story told with grace and infused with rich history and lore in its gloriously huge scope: it is magnificent in every regard. However, with this I do venture to make a comparison. Every great work of fantasy has felt somewhat shallow in contrast to the deep pool of imagination he conjured with his words. ![]() ![]() As a huge Tolkien fan, and one who considers his writing to be the very best fantasy has to offer, I don’t often compare other books to his works (at least not in a positive way.) Simply because there is very rarely a good comparison to be made. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tink remains fundamentally petulant but does relate to Mother Dove her unrequited love for Peter, a point likely to be lost on readers who would migrate to this book's fairy themes. Unfortunately, the detailed descriptions of Never Land life are overly precious (e.g., "a midge on a fairy was as big as a bee on a Clumsy") and the characters' qualities come off as cloying. But when tragedy strikes Mother Dove and the egg, Prilla and two other fairies are chosen to go on a perilous quest (involving Captain Hook) in order to save the ailing bird. A new fairy named Prilla arrives on the eve of Mother Dove's Molt-her feathers provide flight-making fairy dust. The perpetual state of spring and summer is sustained by Mother Dove sitting on her magic egg. ) introduces readers to "Tink's" world, Never Land-a magical island that can shift size and location, and where humans (called "Clumsies"), animals and fairies never grow old. Barrie's Peter PanĪs well as Disney's animated movie of that book, goes into freefall here, recast as a star of this flighty and confusing fantasy. Tinker Bell, the feisty fairy made famous in J.M. ![]() ![]() ![]() She also discusses "arousal non-concordance", estimating, based on experiments of responsiveness to sexual stimuli, that there is a roughly 50% overlap between what men find physically and mentally arousing, compared with only 10% for women. Come as You Are Īmong various topics, Come as You Are discusses the difference between "spontaneous" and "responsive" sexual desire, with Nagoski estimating that only around 15% of women experience the former. ![]() She is the former director of wellness education at Smith College, where she teaches a course on women's sexuality. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Change Your Sex Life, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress CycleĪmelia Nagoski (sister), Steph Nagoski (sister)Īn Agent Based Model of Disease Diffusion in the Context of Heterogeneous Sexual Motivation (2006)Įmily Nagoski (born 1977) is an American sex educator and researcher, and author of the book Come as You Are. ![]() ![]() ![]() Those 'unwanted' children were placed in orphanages where they were misused as servants and abused by nuns and staff. I believe, however, that most of us are unaware of what happened to the large number of the children who were given up for adoption in Quebec at that time but who were never actually adopted. ![]() Most of us are aware of the situation a girl of the age of 15 would have been in in 1950s society if she found herself pregnant. It also shares the history of the times in Quebec including the divide between the French and the English. ![]() Set in 1950s French Canada, it tells the tale of a young woman who is forced by her family to give up her daughter for adoption and in lesser part, the tale of the daughter in the Canadian system. Joanna Goodman's The Home for Unwanted Girls is a fictionalized account of a true story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And every night, about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it-oh, so gently! And then, when I had made an opening sufficient for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, so that no light shone out, and then I thrust in my head. I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded-with what caution-with what foresight-with what dissimulation I went to work! Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold and so by degrees-very gradually-I made up my mind to take the life of the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever. I think it was his eye! Yes, it was this! One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture-a pale blue eye, with a film over it. It is impossible to tell how first the idea entered my brain but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. How, then, am I mad? Hearken! and observe how healthily-how calmly I can tell you the whole story. I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. Above all was the sense of hearing acute. TRUE!-NERVOUS-very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses-not destroyed-not dulled them. ![]() |