Lucy Maud Montgomery

Gail Hamilton

Responsible for the loss of the school library fund, Sara takes it upon herself to raise the money again, launching one disastrous scheme after another. Reprint. TV tie-in.

The Story Girl Earns Her Name

As the annual Harvest Party draws near, Felicity King makes plans to win the prize for best costume and transform homely Clemmie Ray into a beauty. Reprint.

Felicity's Challenge

Nothing Endures But Change (Road to Avonlea, No 11)

Family Rivalry (Road to Avonlea, No 16)

When Felicity King accidentally loses her mother's heirloom comb, she must ask her brother, Felix, and her cousin, Sara, to help her find it. Original.

Vows of Silence

Road to Avonlea: Story Girl Earns Her Name

Aunt Hetty's determined efforts to become the best schoolmarm Avonlea has ever known run aground when she picks on poor, uneducated Gus Pike, hoping to turn him into a "model student." TV Tie-in. Reprint.

Aunt Hetty's Ordeal

D. Rosenstock

Susan Sontag

Joyce Carol Oates

Virginia Woolf

Judith Ortiz Cofer

Jamaica Kincaid

Joan Didion

Jenny Diski

Elizabeth David

Annie Dillard

M. F. K. Fisher

Gretel Ehrlich

Anne Fadiman

Elizabeth Hardwick

Cynthia Ozick

Margaret Cavendish

Rebecca West

Alice Walker

Linda Hogan

Zora Neale Hurston

Elizabeth Bowen

Fanny Fern

Eliza Haywood

Sara Suleri

Grace Greenwood

Charlotte Lennox

Margaret Fuller

Vernon Lee

Eliza Lynn Linton

Kyoko Mori

Lydia Maria Child

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Harriet Martineau

Frances Brooke

Mary Russell Mitford

Frances Power Cobbe

Zitkala-Sa

Alice Meynell

Louise Imogen Guiney

Ann Plato

Agnes Repplier

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

Judith Sargent Murray

Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris

Gertrude Bustill Mossell

Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi

Of Women and the Essay brings together forty-six American and British women essayists whose work spans nearly four centuries. The contributions of these essayists prove that women have been significant participants in the essay tradition since the genre’s modern beginnings in the sixteenth century. Many of these essayists, such as Eliza Haywood, Fanny Fern, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, Agnes Repplier, and Alice Meynell, achieved significant success as writers within whatever essay form ruled the day; others bent the rules, though often imperceptibly, to make room for themselves. Collectively they represent a missing piece in the larger history of the essay. In Of Women and the Essay Jenny Spinner contextualizes the broad range of literary essays included within the chronological development of the genre. She makes a compelling argument that women have constructed their own tradition in the essay genre, often utilizing periodic traits of the essay to their own advantage. At the same time, she suggests that the personal essay’s demands on the essayist required both a public and personal authorization that proved challenging for women essayists in general and for women of color in particular. The appendix catalogs the works of nearly 200 female essayists and should inspire further reading. As a whole, the volume lifts women writers from the cutting-room floor of essay scholarship and returns them to their rightful place in the essay canon.

An Anthology from 1655 to 2000

Of Women and the Essay

Lucy Larcom

John Townsend Trowbridge

Our Young Folks

Spring Thaw by Gail Hamilton released on Oct 25, 1986 is available now for purchase.

Spring Thaw

Wool-gathering

Sermons to the Clergy

Twelve Miles from a Lemon

May the Best Man Win

A Dark and Stormy Night

Gala-days

Sample letters and thousands of heartfelt, ready-to-use phrases, conveniently arranged by key word in thesaurus form, quickly provide exactly the right words to express feelings with warmth, grace, and ease.

1001 Ways to Say Thank You

A Sentimental Sketch

First Love is Best

Gail Hamilton

Books

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