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Emily Post
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Laura P. Claridge |
"What would Emily Post do?" Even today, Americans cite the author of the perennial bestseller Etiquette as a touchstone for proper behavior. But who was the woman behind the myth, the authority on go… |
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The anthropology of turquoise
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Ellen Meloy |
In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise--the color and the gem--to probe deeper into our profound human attachment to landscape. From t… |
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A group of their own
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Katherine H. Adams |
"A Group of Their Own is the story of the first generations of women who went to college to learn to be writers and then launched their careers writing poetry and prose. This unprecedented group incl… |
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Contributions of women, literature
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O'Connor, Karen |
Profiles of Emily Dickinson, Willa Cather, Pearl Buck, May Sarton, and Maya Angelou, five women known for their outstanding contributions to American literature. Includes biographical sketches of oth… |
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Bobbed hair and bathtub gin
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Marion Meade |
In her exuberant new work, BOBBED HAIR AND BATHTUB GIN, Marion Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers--Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber--who… |
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Epilogue
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Anne Richardson Roiphe |
Widowed novelist, near seventy, ex-Park Avenue girl, ex-beatnik, ex-many other things too complicated to list here, loves big parties, summers at the beach, grandchildren, seeks interesting man for d… |
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Tillie Olsen
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Panthea Reid |
Panthea Reid examines the complex life of this iconic feminist hero and twentieth-century literary giant. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Tillie Olsen spent her young adulthood there, in Kansas City, and in… |
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Asia on my mind
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Sally Hovey Wriggins |
274 p. : 23 cm |
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Invincible Louisa
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Meigs, Ciornelia, Illustrated,Cornelia Meigs |
Biography tracing the fascinating life of Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) from her happy childhood in Pennsylvania and Boston, to her success as a writer of such classics as Little Women in which she b… |
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