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A journey of the plague year6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Defoe acts as an enlightened scientist would, in his vigorous effort to understand and convey ways to prevent or at least contain another plague, should one come -Fortunately, this great plague was the last scourge of its kind. Defoe himself was a small boy during the terrible year, but the terror of that year was so great that it remained in survivors for the rest of their lives. ![]() Defoe's study, it is said, was the first historical novel, and was derived at least in part from a journal kept by an adult who lived through the Great Plague. Defoe describes what was done by authorities (whether helpful or not) to contain the disease, its spread to other neighborhoods and towns, the effects on the different classes and efforts to help those in need, as well as actions (both legal and otherwise) of residents to escape both the disease and the resulting loss of freedom if you and yours were suspected of being so afflicted. I gained a much better understanding of the conditions that people of London endured during the mid 1660's. Many penetrating insights by Defoe make for fascinating listening. ![]()
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Night Wind's Woman by Shirl Henke6/30/2023 ![]() Night Wind's Women, Leisure Books (New York, NY), 1991. Night Flower, Warner Books (New York, NY), 1990. Moon Flower, Warner Books (New York, NY), 1989. WRITINGS: "TEXAS" TRILOGY ROMANCE NOVELSĬactus Flower, Warner Books ( New York, NY), 1988. MEMBER: Authors Guild, Romance Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Novelists Inc., International Thriller Writers, and Missouri Romance Writers.ĪWARDS, HONORS: Romantic Times, three career achievement awards and four reviewer's choice awards. ![]() Worked variously as a public welfare caseworker, assistant circulation manager for a daily newspaper, cashier for a loan company, administrator for a federal program for the elderly, a newspaper editor, a social worker, and instructor in a large urban university. E-mail- ĬAREER: Writer and romance novelist. Agent-c/o Author Mail, Dorchester Publishing Co., 200 Madison Ave., Ste. Hobbies and other interests: Reading, travel, cooking, working in her greenhouse.ĪDDRESSES: Home-St. Ethnicity: "Caucasian." Education: University of Missouri, B.A., M.A. ![]() PERSONAL: Married husband's name Jim (a retired professor of English) children: Matt. ![]()
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Imaginarium by A. Robert Lee6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() He was also cherished by numerous nieces, nephews. He was loved and cherished by many people including : his parents, Rev Robert Lee and Ota Short (Berry) his significant other Myrtle "Mert" Faye Crumbo his children, Linda Carpenter and Robert Lee "Bob" Short his siblings, Andrew Peter Short and Esther Mary Elizabeth Allen his grandchildren, John Enno, Jeremy Enno and Jennifer Henshaw his great grandchildren, Makenzie, Dylan, Landen and Journee Enno his grandchildren, Jaxson and Jett Henshaw his son Richard "Ricky" Wayne Short and his siblings, James Weldon Bandy, Dan Hancock and Jane Nadine Glenn. Family and friends are welcome to leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the family. We are sad to announce that on May 18, 2023, at the age of 85, Johnny Robert Lee Short of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, born in Texarkana, Texas passed away. ![]()
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Mary bracht6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Reviews of the magazine have been published in the TES and The Guardian newspaper. Boyle, Dubravka Ugrešić, Courttia Newland, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Peter Ho Davies, Jean McNeil and David Foster Wallace. These include Ali Smith, Toby Litt, Rose Tremain, Joyce Carol Oates, T. Originally limited to MA students' short stories and novel extracts, MIR has also included work by notable published authors, from Issue 3 onwards. "Mechanics" then meant "skilled artisans", and the purpose of the institute was to instruct them in the principles behind their craft. The first Mechanics' Institute in London was founded in 1823 by George Birkbeck. The publication owes its name to the institution that publishes the title, Birkbeck, University of London. The Mechanics' Institute Review (also known by the abbreviation MIR) is an annual literary anthology published by Birkbeck, University of London, as part of its MA Creative Writing course. ![]()
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Sapphire's push6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() This essay seeks to provide alternative interpretations of the novel in order to revive critical interest in its politics and aesthetics. The portrayals of disturbing themes of sexual abuse and the experimental narrative structure of the novel have contributed to its marginalization within criticism. ![]() ![]() In addition, Sapphire’s novel uses intertextual references to Alice Walker’s The Color Purple (1982) to encourage readers to consider how motherhood conceived through rape and incest can be reclaimed for black women characters. Literacy provides opportunities for Precious to escape the social silence and invisibility imposed upon her by her race, class, and gender, exemplifying a tradition in black women’s fiction that links literacy, motherhood, and resistance. Throughout the novel, Precious draws on her desire to give birth to and mother her children as motivation to learn to read and write. PUSH was published in a social and political moment characterized by intensified scapegoating of poor black mothers, and the novel invokes the controlling image of the “welfare queen” in order to reimagine the subjectivity and citizenship of this denigrated racialized figure. Push (Revised) by Sapphire - Reading Guide: 9780593314609 - : Books A new 25th anniversary edition of the instant classic that inspired the major motion picture and Sundance Film Festival winner Precious: Based on the Novel. ![]() This essay examines themes of black motherhood and literacy in Sapphire’s controversial novel PUSH (1996) through an analysis of its central character, a poor black teenage mother named Precious. ![]() |