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Women writers have been traditionally excluded from literary canons and not until recently have scholars begun to rediscover or discover for the first time neglected women writers and their works. This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries on 58 American women authors who wrote between 1900 and 1945. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and discusses a particular author's biography, her major works and themes, and the critical response to her writings. The entries close with extensive primary and secondary bibliographies, and the volume concludes with a list of works for further reading. The period surveyed by this reference is rich and diverse. Modernism and the Harle...
Welcome to the Delaine Baker Cozy Mysteries! Delaine Baker has it all—a gorgeous, wealthy husband who adores her, an adopted family in her new Georgian hometown, a vibrant career as a famous TV actress and a heart of gold. But when her mother-in-law’s birthday party is interrupted by murder, Delaine’s years playing a homicide detective give her an edge over the local chief of police. Tapping into her professional training and her need to help, Delaine sets out to save the night—and catch the killer—before happy birthday ends in a hot getaway! KEYWORDS: small town cozy mystery, cozy murder mystery, cozy mystery, contemporary cozy murder mystery, TV detective
Part of a series filled with “gratifying detail” about the ancestry of the first US President, this volume contains the tenth-generation descendants. (Robert K. Krick, author of The Smoothbore Volley that Doomed the Confederacy, Stonewall Jackson at Cedar Mountain, and Lee’s Colonels) This is the sixth volume of Dr. Justin Glenn’s comprehensive history that traces the “Presidential line” of the Washingtons, the vast family originated by the immigrant John Washington, who settled in Westmoreland Co., Va., in 1657, married Anne Pope, and became the great-grandfather of President George Washington. This volume contains the late nineteenth and twentieth century born descendants of Jo...
Rights taken, laws changed, choices given: take what they give you and live above in comfort or be confined to prisons. The pecking order allows this blessing for chosen ones as long as you perpetuate the prisons of the mind. Appreciating what is given is mandatory. Needing more is a crime. I guess that makes Jasmine, and those like her, criminal. In spite of it all, Jasmine finds life, love, family and happiness. Risk is worth the fulfillment until the day it is not herself she risks. There is no choice but to send her beloved baby above in the care of his father, her lover; a needed choice that ruptures the life she builds and unknowingly follows the path along tales of old. Rufus, a wolf elder long ago pledged to guide her, becomes protector and confidant in the world below. He walks by her side to rescue those they love. We live in hiding helping those we can. Dare we live life in love? Do we hope for family? Do we hope for battle and freedom?
The literary tradition begun by Zora Neale Hurston in the 1930s has since flourished and taken new directions with a diverse body of fiction by more contemporary African-American women writers. This book examines the treatment of domestic violence in Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gayl Jones's Corregidora, Gloria Naylor's The Women of Brewster Place and Linden Hills, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Love, Terry McMillan's Mama and A Day Late and a Dollar Short, and Octavia Butler's Seed to Harvest. These novels have given voice to oppressed and abused women. The aims of this work are threefold: to examine how female African American novelists portray domestic abuse; to outline how literary depictions of domestic violence are responsive to cultural and historical forces; and to explore the literary tradition of novels that deal with domestic abuse within the African American community.
James Ray (ca. 1750-1816) lived in North Carolina and married Jane "Jinnit" Allison (ca. 1750-1849). Descendants lived in Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Texas, Illinois, Georgia, Oklahoma, Colorado, Alabama, and elsewhere.
1970- issued in 2 vols.: v. 1, General reference, social sciences, history, economics, business; v. 2, Fine arts, humanities, science and engineering.
Covington is the seat of St. Tammany Parish government and sits north of Lake Pontchartrain in the New Orleans metropolitan area. Records from 1727 show 11 Africans on the north shore. One person of African descent was present at the founding of Covington on July 4, 1813. Most African Americans in antebellum Covington were slaves, with a modest number of free people, all of whom covered nearly every occupation needed for the development and sustenance of a heavily forested region. For more than 200 years in Covington, African Americans transformed their second-class status by grounding themselves in shared religious and social values. They organized churches, schools, civic organizations, benevolent societies, athletic associations, and businesses to address their needs and to celebrate their joys.