An Unfortunate Woman

Author : Richard Brautigan
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782114840

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An Unfortunate Woman by Richard Brautigan Pdf

An Unfortunate Woman, An Unforgettable Journey was the final book written by Richard Brautigan before his death in 1984 and lay unpublished for sixteen years. Originally written in the 160 pages of a loose-leaf notebook, the narrator of the book is trying to come to terms with the death of a friend by going on a personal odyssey which zigzags through time and landscapes, from Oakland to Hawaii, and the wilds of Montana. An Unfortunate Woman, An Unforgettable Journey walks a fine line between fiction and memoir, between dark introspection and a lust for life, and in the last pages in particular, marks a gut-wrenching, intense, and ultimately tragic exit from fiction and life itself for the troubled author.

Author : Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Russian fiction
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6TXX

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An Unfortunate Woman by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Pdf

Author : Barry Gifford
Publisher : Creative Arts Book Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0916870731

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An Unfortunate Woman by Barry Gifford Pdf

Author : Edith M. Ziegler
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817318260

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Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women by Edith M. Ziegler Pdf

In Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women, Edith M. Ziegler recounts the history of British convict women involuntarily transported to Maryland in the eighteenth century. Great Britain’s forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain’s earlier program of sending convicts—including women—to North America. Many of these women were assigned as servants in Maryland. Titled using epithets that their colonial masters applied to the convicts, Edith M. Ziegler’s Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women examines the lives of this intriguing subset of American immigrants. Basing much of her powerful narrative on the experiences of actual women, Ziegler restores individual faces to women stripped of their basic freedoms. She begins by vividly invoking the social conditions of eighteenth-century Britain, which suffered high levels of criminal activity, frequently petty thievery. Contemporary readers and scholars will be fascinated by Ziegler’s explanation of how gender-influenced punishments were meted out to women and often ensnared them in Britain’s system of convict labor. Ziegler depicts the methods and operation of the convict trade and sale procedures in colonial markets. She describes the places where convict servants were deployed and highlights the roles these women played in colonial Maryland and their contributions to the region’s society and economy. Ziegler’s research also sheds light on escape attempts and the lives that awaited those who survived servitude. Mostly illiterate, convict women left few primary sources such as diaries or letters in their own words. Ziegler has masterfully researched the penumbra of associated documents and accounts to reconstruct the worlds of eighteenth-century Britain and colonial Maryland and the lives of these unwilling American settlers. In illuminating this little-known episode in American history, Ziegler also discusses not just the fact that these women have been largely forgotten, but why. Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women makes a valuable contribution to American history, women’s studies, and labor history.

Author : Dominick Dunne
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307815101

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An Inconvenient Woman by Dominick Dunne Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Good unclean fun . . . [a] convoluted, scandal-greased, exposed-backsides-of-the-rich-and-famous story . . . told in a confiding, breathless undertone.”—Entertainment Weekly Jules Mendelson is wealthy. Astronomically so. He and his wife lead the kind of charity-giving, art-filled, high-society life for which each has been carefully groomed. Until Jules falls in love with Flo March, a beautiful actress/waitress. What Flo discovers about the superrich is not a pretty sight. And in the end, she wants no more than what she was promised. But when Flo begins to share the true story of her life among the Mendelsons, not everyone is in a listening mood. And some cold shoulders have very sharp edges. . . .

Author : Naomi Clifford
Publisher : Pen & Sword History
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Capital punishment
ISBN : 1473863341

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Women and the Gallows 1797-1837 by Naomi Clifford Pdf

"131 women were hanged in England and Wales between 1797 and 1837, executed for crimes including murder, baby-killing, theft, arson, sheep-stealing and passing forged bank notes. Most of them were extremely poor and living in desperate situations. Some were mentally ill. A few were innocent. And almost all are now forgotten, their voices unheard for generations. Mary Morgan – a teenager hanged as an example to others. Eliza Fenning – accused of adding arsenic to the dumplings. Mary Bateman – a ‘witch’ who duped her neighbours out of their savings. Harriet Skelton – hanged for passing counterfeit pound notes in spite of efforts by Elizabeth Fry and the Duke of Gloucester to save her. Naomi Clifford has unearthed the events that brought these ‘unfortunates’ to the gallows and has used contemporary newspaper accounts and documents to tell their stories"--

Author : Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : HARVARD:RSLEWQ

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A Study of Mary Wollstonecraft and the Rights of Woman by Emma Rauschenbusch-Clough Pdf

Author : Wilhelm Bernhardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : German language
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102777000

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A Course in German Composition, Conversation and Grammar Review by Wilhelm Bernhardt Pdf

Author : Simone De Beauvoir
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307832177

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The Woman Destroyed by Simone De Beauvoir Pdf

One of the most influential thinkers of her generation draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises in these three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times). Suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best. Includes "The Age of Discretion," "The Monologue," and "The Woman Destroyed." "Witty, immensely adroit...These three women are believable individuals presented with a wry mixture of sympathy and exasperation." —The Atlantic

Author : Theodore Alfred Bingham
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066452247

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The Girl That Disappears: The real facts about the white slave traffic by Theodore Alfred Bingham Pdf

The Girl That Disappears will captivate and inform you about this important and horrible everyday occurrence. You will be struck with the urgency and dark permanence of the topic. Read and learn all about the darkness that is prostitution in New York.

Author : Lovina B. Benedict
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Prostitution
ISBN : WISC:89098883267

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Woman's Work for Woman by Lovina B. Benedict Pdf

Author : Etaf Rum
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062699787

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A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum Pdf

A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Fiction and Best Debut • BookBrowse's Best Book of the Year • A Marie Claire Best Women's Fiction of the Year • A Real Simple Best Book of the Year • A PopSugar Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March • A Newsweek Best Book of the Summer • A USA Today Best Book of the Week • A Washington Book Review Difficult-To-Put-Down Novel • A Refinery 29 Best Books of the Month • A Buzzfeed News 4 Books We Couldn't Put Down Last Month • A New Arab Best Books by Arab Authors • An Electric Lit 20 Best Debuts of the First Half of 2019 • A The Millions Most Anticipated Books of the Year “Garnering justified comparisons to Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns... Etaf Rum’s debut novel is a must-read about women mustering up the bravery to follow their inner voice.” —Refinery 29 The New York Times bestseller and Read with Jenna TODAY SHOW Book Club pick telling the story of three generations of Palestinian-American women struggling to express their individual desires within the confines of their Arab culture in the wake of shocking intimate violence in their community. "Where I come from, we’ve learned to silence ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence will save us. Where I come from, we keep these stories to ourselves. To tell them to the outside world is unheard of—dangerous, the ultimate shame.” Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children—four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear. Brooklyn, 2008. Eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra’s oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her grandmother Fareeda’s insistence, though her only desire is to go to college. Deya can’t help but wonder if her options would have been different had her parents survived the car crash that killed them when Deya was only eight. But her grandmother is firm on the matter: the only way to secure a worthy future for Deya is through marriage to the right man. But fate has a will of its own, and soon Deya will find herself on an unexpected path that leads her to shocking truths about her family—knowledge that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, the past, and her own future.

Author : Amanda Filipacchi
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393352306

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The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty by Amanda Filipacchi Pdf

"A sure comic touch . . . smart and sweet . . . a tribute to the pleasures of friendship." —The New Yorker In the heart of New York City, a group of artistic friends struggles with society's standards of beauty. At the center are Barb and Lily, two women at opposite ends of the beauty spectrum, but with the same problem: each fears she will never find a love that can overcome her looks. Barb, a stunningly beautiful costume designer, makes herself ugly in hopes of finding true love. Meanwhile, her friend Lily, a brilliantly talented but plain-looking musician, goes to fantastic lengths to attract the man who has rejected her—with results that are as touching as they are transformative. To complicate matters, Barb and Lily discover that they may have a murderer in their midst, that Barb’s calm disposition is more dangerously provocative than her beauty ever was, and that Lily's musical talents are more powerful than anyone could have imagined. Part literary whodunit, part surrealist farce, The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a smart, modern-day fairy tale. With biting wit and offbeat charm, Amanda Filipacchi illuminates the labyrinthine relationship between beauty, desire, and identity, asking at every turn: what does it truly mean to allow oneself to be seen?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : NYPL:33433003100769

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Friends' Intelligencer and Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Theodore Gaillard Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Generative organs, Female
ISBN : UOM:39015070971430

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A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women by Theodore Gaillard Thomas Pdf