Adele. Soulful Singer by Heather E. Schwartz

Jane Austen: A Life

   At her loss of life in 1817, Jane Austen left the area six of the main loved novels written in English—but her shortsighted family members destroyed the majority of her letters; and if she stored any diaries, they didn't continue to exist her.   Now acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin has crammed the gaps within the list, making a remarkably clean and convincing portrait of the lady and the author.  
   While so much Austen biographers have permitted the statement of Jane's brother Henry that "My expensive Sister's existence used to be no longer a lifetime of events," Tomalin indicates that, to the contrary, Austen's short existence used to be fraught with upheaval.   Tomalin presents specific and soaking up money owed of Austen's ill-fated love for a tender Irishman, her common travels and prolonged visits to London, her shut friendship with a sophisticated cousin whose French husband met his demise at the guillotine, her brothers' naval provider within the Napoleonic wars and within the colonies, and therefore shatters the parable of Jane Austen as a sheltered and homebound spinster whose wisdom of the area used to be constrained to the view from a Hampshire village.  

Women in the Civil War: Extraordinary Stories of Soldiers, Spies, Nurses, Doctors, Crusaders, and Others

Whilst the Civil struggle broke out, ladies responded the decision for support. They broke clear of their conventional roles and served in lots of capacities, a few of them even going as far as to hide themselves as males and enlist within the military. Estimates of girls disguising themselves as males and enlisting variety from four hundred to seven hundred and documents point out that nearly 60 ladies infantrymen have been identified to were killed or wounded.

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World, Volume 165)

A spouse to ladies within the historical international offers an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based choice of newly-commissioned essays from widespread students at the research of girls within the historical world.

• the 1st interdisciplinary, methodologically-based selection of readings to handle the learn of girls within the historical international
• Explores a extensive diversity of subject matters in relation to ladies in antiquity, together with: Mother-Goddess concept; ladies in Homer, Pre-Roman Italy, the close to East; ladies and the kinfolk, the kingdom, and faith; gown and Adornment; girl Patronage; Hellenistic Queens; Imperial ladies; ladies in past due Antiquity; Early ladies Saints; and lots of extra
• Thematically prepared to stress the significance of ancient subject matters of continuity, improvement, and innovation
• Reconsiders a lot of the well known facts and preconceived notions with regards to ladies in antiquity comprises contributions from a few of the so much trendy students linked to the learn of ladies in antiquity

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Violence against Women in Turkey: A Nationwide Survey