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The Poet's Wife

Judith Allnatt
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Author : Judith Allnatt
Publisher : Random House
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446487891

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It is 1841. Patty is married to John Clare: peasant poet, genius and madman. Travelling home one day, Patty finds her husband sitting, footsore, at the side of the road, having absconded from a lunatic asylum over eighty miles away. Hopeful that his condition has improved, she takes his hands in delight but he fails to recognize her. She is devastated to discover that he has not returned home to find her, but to search for his childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce, to whom he believes he is married. Patty still loves John deeply, but he seems lost to her, obsessed with the idealised image of a woman that she cannot possibly match. Plagued by jealousy, she seeks strength in memories: their whirlwind courtship, the poems John wrote for her, their shared affinity for the land. She must try to heal John's turbulent, unhappy soul and restore him to the man she married. But as John descends further into delusion and his behaviour becomes increasingly volatile, hope seems to be fading. Will she ever be able to conquer her own anger and hurt and reconcile with this man she now barely knows?

Poet's Wife

Mandy Sayer
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Author : Mandy Sayer
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Married people
ISBN : 9781742373539

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In the follow-up to her bestselling memoir, Dreamtime Alice, Mandy Sayer tells the story of the ten years she and Yusef Komunyakaa spent together, first as lovers, then as husband and wife.

The Poets' Wives

David Park
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Author : David Park
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408846452

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From award-winning writer David Park, an absorbing account of the lives of the women most important to three poets: William Blake, Osip Mandlestam and an imagined contemporary Irish poet 'An outstanding novel, written in luminous accessible prose, thoroughly enjoyable and much deeper even than the sum of its excellent parts' Irish Times 'The Poets' Wives is a marvellous triptych: lyrical, respectful of creativity but also sharply sceptical' Sunday Times __________________ Three women, each destined to play the role of a poet's wife: Catherine Blake, the wife of William Blake – a poet, painter and engraver who struggles for recognition in a society that dismisses him as a madman; Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, whose poetry costs him his life under Stalin's terror; and the wife of a fictional contemporary Irish poet, who looks back on her marriage during the days after her husband's death as she seeks to fulfil his final wish. Set across continents and centuries, and in very different circumstances, these three women confront the contradictions between art and life, contemplate their emotional and physical sacrifices for another's creativity, and struggle with infidelities that involve not only the flesh, but ultimately poetry itself. They find themselves custodians of their husbands' work, work that has been woven with love's intimacies and which has shaped their own lives in the most unexpected of ways. Deeply insightful and beautifully wrought, The Poets' Wives is David Park at his best – a novelist whose work has the power to bring the hidden from the shadows, into a delicate and shimmering light.

The World's Wife

Carol Ann Duffy
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Author : Carol Ann Duffy
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571199952

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Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.

Women Writers of Traditional China

Kang-i Sun Chang,Haun Saussy,Charles Yim-tze Kwong
Women Writers of Traditional China Book PDF

Author : Kang-i Sun Chang,Haun Saussy,Charles Yim-tze Kwong
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0804732310

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Women Writers of Traditional China by Kang-i Sun Chang,Haun Saussy,Charles Yim-tze Kwong Pdf

The book also includes an extended section of criticism by and about women writers.

Sweeping Beauty

Pamela Gemin
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Author : Pamela Gemin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015061179191

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Thankless, mundane, and “never done,” housework continues to be seen as women's work, and contemporary women poets are still writing the domestic experience sometimes resenting its futility and lack of social rewards, sometimes celebrating its sensory delights and immediate gratification, sometimes cherishing the undeniable link it provides to their mothers and grandmothers. In Sweeping Beauty, a number of these poets illustrate how housekeeping's repetitive motions can free the imagination and release the housekeeper's muse. For many, housekeeping provides the key to a state of mind approaching meditation, a state of mind also conducive to making poems. The more than eighty contributors to Sweeping Beauty embrace this state and confirm that women are pioneers and inventors as well as life-givers and nurturers. “My fingers are forks, my tongue is a rose . . . / I turn silver spoons into rabbit stew / make quinces my thorny upholstery . . . / how else could the side of beef walk / with the sea urchin roe?” sings the cook in Natasha Sajé's ode to kitchen alchemy. “I love the notion that we can take our most poisonous angers, our most despairing or humiliated or stalemated moments, and make something good of them--something tensile and enduring,” says Leslie Ullman. Whether we are fully present in our tasks or “gone in the motion” of performing them, whether our stovetops are home to “stewpots of discontent” or grandmother's favorite jam, something is always cooking.

British Women Poets of the Romantic Era

Paula R. Feldman
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Author : Paula R. Feldman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0801866405

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British Women Poets of the Romantic Era by Paula R. Feldman Pdf

This groundbreaking volume not only documents the richness of their literary contributions but changes our thinking about the poetry of the English Romantic period.

A Passionate Sisterhood

Kathleen Jones
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Author : Kathleen Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0993204562

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Letters and journals form the basis for this illuminating account of the lives of the women of the Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey households. It tells the story of their passionate attachments, petty jealousies, the deaths of children, the realities of chronic ill health and barbaric medical practice, and the suppression of their own talents.

The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives

Diane Johnson
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Author : Diane Johnson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681374468

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The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives by Diane Johnson Pdf

A classic of alternative biography and feminist writing, this empathetic and witty book gives due to a "lesser" figure of history, Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith, who was brilliant, unconventional, and at odds with the constraints of Victorian life. “Many people have described the Famous Writer presiding at his dinner table. . . . He is famous; everybody remembers his remarks. . . . We forget that there were other family members at the table—a quiet person, now muffled by time, shadowy, whose heart pounded with love, perhaps, or rage.” So begins The True History of the First Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives, an uncommon biography devoted to one of those “lesser lives.” As the author points out, “A lesser life does not seem lesser to the person who leads one.” Such sympathy and curiosity compelled Diane Johnson to research Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith (1821–1861), the daughter of the famous artist Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866) and first wife of the equally famous poet George Meredith (1828–1909). Her life, treated perfunctorily and prudishly in biographies of Peacock or Meredith, is here exquisitely and unhurriedly given its due. What emerges is the portrait of a brilliant, well-educated woman, raised unconventionally by her father only to feel more forcefully the constraints of the Victorian era. First published in 1972, Lesser Lives has been a key text for feminists and biographers alike, a book that reimagined what biography might be, both in terms of subject and style. Biographies of other “lesser” lives have since followed in its footsteps, but few have the wit, elegance, and empathy of Johnson’s seminal work.

The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women

Rabe`eh Balkhi
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Author : Rabe`eh Balkhi
Publisher : Mage Publishers
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781949445602

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One of the very first Persian poets was a woman (Rabe’eh, who lived over a thousand years ago) and there have been women poets writing in Persian in virtually every generation since that time until the present. Before the twentieth century they tended to come from society’s social extremes. Many were princesses, a good number were hired entertainers of one kind or another, and they were active in many different countries – Iran of course, but also India, Afghanistan, and areas of central Asia that are now Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. Not surprisingly, a lot of their poetry sounds like that of their male counterparts, but a lot doesn’t; there are distinctively bawdy and flirtatious poems by medieval women poets, poems from virtually every era in which the poet complains about her husband (sometimes light-heartedly, sometimes with poignant seriousness), touching poems on the death of a child, and many epigrams centered on little details that bring a life from hundreds of years ago vividly before our eyes. This new bilingual edition of The Mirror of My Heart – the poems in Persian and English on facing pages – is a unique and captivating collection introduced and translated by Dick Davis, an acclaimed scholar and translator of Persian literature as well as a gifted poet in his own right. In his introduction he provides fascinating background detail on Persian poetry written by women through the ages, including common themes and motifs and a brief overview of Iranian history showing how women poets have been affected by the changing dynasties. From Rabe’eh in the tenth century to Fatemeh Ekhtesari in the twenty-first, each of the eighty-four poets in this volume is introduced in a short biographical note, while explanatory notes give further insight into the poems themselves.

Emily Tennyson

Ann Thwaite
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Author : Ann Thwaite
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Authors' spouses
ISBN : 0571252141

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Emily Tennyson by Ann Thwaite Pdf

It was as a small girl in Lincolnshire that Emily Sellwood first saw the boy Alfred Tennyson. Nearly thirty years later, in the year he became Poet Laureate, they married. What kept them apart and what eventually brought them together has never before been fully explored. This major biography radically alters the picture of the poet's relationship with his wife, establishing in detail the person Emily Tennyson was. It is the story of a remarkable family as well as a remarkable woman, bringing into the foreground a neglected and often misunderstood character a century after her death. 'Meeting Emily Tennyson in the pages of Thwaite's enthralling book is pure delight.' Sunday Express 'A finely and deeply researched work, and clearly a labour of love ...She tells an ever absorbing story, and throws much light on that fascinating social area in which high art and worldly power meet.' The Times 'This fat and well-documented book will quickly establish its place in bibliographies of essential Tennyson background.' Literary Review 'A magnificent, surprising biography.' Lynne Truss, Mail on Sunday

The Poets' Wives

David Park
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Author : David Park
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620405260

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What does it mean to be a poet's wife, his muse and lover, there for the heights of inspiration and the quotidian of the day-to-day, and often times, too, the drudgery of being in a supporting role to "the great man." In this exquisite and sensitive new novel, David Park explores this complicated relationship, through three well-crafted characters, two based on actual women: Catherine Blake, wife of William Blake, 19th-century poet, painter, and engraver, and Nadezhda Mandelstam, wife of Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who died in a transit camp en route to Siberia during Stalin's rule. Park has also fashioned a fictional contemporary poet, whose wife looks back on her husband's life during the days just after his death. All three women deal with their husband's fame or notoriety. All three stick by their mates, taking seriously their commitment to the men they married, but also to assisting with and preserving their work. And this despite infidelities, despite a singlemindedness at the expense of others, and despite hardship sometimes beyond comprehension. Set across continents and centuries, under wildly different circumstances, these three women exist as a testament to love, to relationship despite the odds, and to art. An amazingly insightful novel.

David Austin's English Roses

David Austin
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Author : David Austin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : English roses
ISBN : 1870673700

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David Austin's English Roses by David Austin Pdf

Fully illustrated, the charm of his English Roses comes across on every page, even if the reader has to imagine their scent. The Irish Garden Like its highly-respected companion in the series, Old Roses, this title draws the most useful information fr

Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons

Marilyn Hacker
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Author : Marilyn Hacker
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393351118

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Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons by Marilyn Hacker Pdf

This critically acclaimed sonnet sequence is the passionately intense story of a love affair between two women, from the electricity of their first acquaintance to the experience of their parting.

The Not Wives

Carley Moore
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Author : Carley Moore
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936932696

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The Not Wives by Carley Moore Pdf

An Occupy-era New York City novel following three women. “A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, and human frailty.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) The Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other. Stevie is a nontenured professor and recently divorced single mom; her best friend Mel is a bartender, torn between her long-term girlfriend and her desire to explore polyamory; and Johanna is a homeless teenager trying to find her way in the world, who bears shared witness to a tragedy that interlaces her life with Stevie’s. In the midst of economic collapse and class conflict, late-night hookups and long-suffering exes, the three characters piece together a new American identity founded on resistance—against the looming shadow of financial precarity, the gentrification of New York, and the traditional role of wife. “Audacious and exhilarating in its candor, The Not Wives captures the heady mix of pleasures and agonies necessary to turn one’s life in a new, truer direction. Carley Moore attends to the complexities of urban living and activism with riveting clarity.” —Idra Novey, award-winning author of Those Who Knew “The Not Wives is gritty, sexy, very queer, literary social realism that’s up-all-night compelling—just what I want from a novel set in NYC in the time of Occupy, with its sprawling cast of adjuncts, bartenders, poets, single parents, little kids, homeless teenagers, and serious organizers embroiled in various romantic and economic complications. When we say report back, this is what we mean!” —Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl