Publication date: 1990-11
Review Kate Chopin / William Morrow:
Publication date: 1998-07
Dewey code: 813.4
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review The Writings of Celia Parker Woolley (1848-1918), Literary Activist (Women's Studies) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 1991-12-30
Dewey code: 016.78092
List Price: $98.95
Price: $98.95
Review Enrique Granados: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) / Greenwood Press:Enrique Granados (1867-1916) was one of the first modern Spanish composers to achieve international recognition. During a 1916 visit to the United States his opera Goyescas was premiered by the Metropolitan Opera and his symphonic poem, Dante, by the Chicago Symphony. Granados was also especially admired in Paris, where he knew Saint-Saens, d'Indy, and Faure. He had composed a remarkable body of work and was also at the height of his career as a concert pianist at his untimely death while a passenger on a torpedoed British ship. The biographical study, the first in English, draws on primary sources in English, Spanish, French, Catalan, and other languages. This material is carefully documented in the extensive annotated bibliography along with contemporaneous and recent analytical studies and other sources. Granados's oeuvre presents cataloging problems due to his habit of reworking pieces, long-delayed publication, and arbitrary opus numbers. In the Works and Performances section, however, every effort has been made to offer publication dates, manuscript locations, and information on premieres. Representative arrangements of his works by other composers are also given. An appendix classifies the works by scoring. [+]A selective discography is also provided, and all parts of the volume are fully cross-referenced and indexed. Granados is placed in the context of the international artistic scene at the turn of the century, and a chronology notes related events.
Publication date: 2001-03
Review Sugarflower: Memoirs of a Passionate Woman / New Holland Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2004-08
Dewey code: 920
Price: $15.99
Review Ups and Downs Diaries 1972-1975 / Orion:Frances Partridge at the age of 100 has had a new lease of life and decided she would like to publish another volume of diaries which will cover the years 1972–75. Now recognised as one of the great British diarists of the century, she was born in Bloomsbury in 1900, the daughter of a progressive mother and architect father whose friends included Henry James and Arthur Conan Doyle. After studying Moral Sciences and English at Cambridge, she worked a bookshop in London and became part of the Bloomsbury Group, encountering Virginia Woolf, the Bells, Roger Fry and Maynard Keynes. She met and fell in love with Ralph Partridge who was at the time married to Dora Carrington. After the death of Lytton Strachey, with whom she was in love, Carrington committed suicide. Ralph and Frances married in 1933. During the war they were both pacifists and opened their house, Ham Spray, to numerous strays of war. After it was over they enjoyed the happiest time of their life together, entertaining friends such as E M Forster, Robert Kee and Duncan Grant. This life of great warmth and friendship was brought to an abrupt end when Ralph died of a heart attack in 1960. Three years later another tragedy struck when their only son, Burgo, died at the age of 28 from a brain haemorrhage. [+]‘I have utterly lost heart: I want no more of this cruel life,’ Frances wrote and yet she made a decision ‘to live in the present’ and ‘to get a better seat on my bicycle’. Despite such enormous suffering, she maintained an astonishing appetite for life, whether for her friends, travelling, botany, or music. Her diaries, written without thought of publication, chronicle a remarkable life. Beautifully written, full of an infectious enthusiasm and unending curiosity, they are utterly riveting and rank amongst the greatest diaries of the twentieth century.
Publication date: 1991-12-30
Dewey code: 016.78092
List Price: $98.95
Price: $98.95
Review Enrique Granados: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) / Greenwood Press:Enrique Granados (1867-1916) was one of the first modern Spanish composers to achieve international recognition. During a 1916 visit to the United States his opera Goyescas was premiered by the Metropolitan Opera and his symphonic poem, Dante, by the Chicago Symphony. Granados was also especially admired in Paris, where he knew Saint-Saens, d'Indy, and Faure. He had composed a remarkable body of work and was also at the height of his career as a concert pianist at his untimely death while a passenger on a torpedoed British ship. The biographical study, the first in English, draws on primary sources in English, Spanish, French, Catalan, and other languages. This material is carefully documented in the extensive annotated bibliography along with contemporaneous and recent analytical studies and other sources. Granados's oeuvre presents cataloging problems due to his habit of reworking pieces, long-delayed publication, and arbitrary opus numbers. In the Works and Performances section, however, every effort has been made to offer publication dates, manuscript locations, and information on premieres. Representative arrangements of his works by other composers are also given. An appendix classifies the works by scoring. [+]A selective discography is also provided, and all parts of the volume are fully cross-referenced and indexed. Granados is placed in the context of the international artistic scene at the turn of the century, and a chronology notes related events.
Publication date: 2000-01
Price: $5.00
Review Famous Wisconsin Women / State Historical Society of Wisconsin:
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 813.54
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review Flannery O'Connor, Literary Theologian: The Habits and Discipline of Being / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 1990-11
Review Kate Chopin / William Morrow:
Creator: David Booy
Publication date: 2002-04
Dewey code: 941.06
List Price: $99.95
Price: $98.91
Review Personal Disclosures: An Anthology of Self-Writings from the Seventeenth Century (Early Modern English Woman 1500-1950: Comtemporary Editions) / Ashgate Publishing:The 17th century saw a dramatic increase in self-writing-from the private jotting down of personal thoughts in an irregular and spontaneous way, to the carefully considered composition of extended autobiographical narrative and deliberate self-fashioning for public consumption. Recent anthologies of women's writing, drawing to some extent on this rich but relatively little-known archive, have demonstrated the importance of studying such material to gain insight into female lives in that era. This volume is innovative in that it stimulates and facilitates comparative analysis of female and male representations of the self, and of gendered constructions of identity and experience, by presenting a broad range of extracts from both women's and men's autobiographical writings. The majority of the extracts have been freshly edited from original 17th-century manuscripts and books. Exploiting all kinds of text - diaries, journals, logs, testimonies, memoirs, letters, autobiographies - the anthology also encourages consideration of topics central to current scholarly interest: religious experience, the body, communities, the family, encounters with new lands and peoples, and the conceptualization and writing of the self. A General Introduction discusses early modern autobiographical writing, and there are substantial introductions to each of the six sections, together with detailed suggestions for further reading.
Publication date: 2000-01
Dewey code: 813.54
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review Flannery O'Connor, Literary Theologian: The Habits and Discipline of Being / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 2004-07-30
Dewey code: 920
Price: $14.99
Review Ibrahim - Where In The Spectrum Does He Belong? / Writersworld Limited:This is an autobiographical account of a mother's struggle to bring up a child with aa learning disorder. It tells the story of Ibrahim Rahman and his struggle with Semantic Pragmatic Language Disorder, a speech and language disorder) part of the autistic spectrum disorder. It hightlights the lack of awareness of this condition within our society, but particularly within the Bangladeshi community where autism is not recognised.
Publication date: 2001-03
Review Sugarflower: Memoirs of a Passionate Woman / New Holland Publishers Ltd:
Publication date: 2000-01
Price: $5.00
Review Famous Wisconsin Women / State Historical Society of Wisconsin:
Publication date: 2004-07-30
Dewey code: 920
Price: $14.99
Review Ibrahim - Where In The Spectrum Does He Belong? / Writersworld Limited:This is an autobiographical account of a mother's struggle to bring up a child with aa learning disorder. It tells the story of Ibrahim Rahman and his struggle with Semantic Pragmatic Language Disorder, a speech and language disorder) part of the autistic spectrum disorder. It hightlights the lack of awareness of this condition within our society, but particularly within the Bangladeshi community where autism is not recognised.
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 782.00922
List Price: $102.95
Price: $98.95
Review Five Centuries of Women Singers (Music Reference Collection) / Praeger Publishers:Five Centuries of Women Singers explores the careers of twenty singers from the late sixteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In addition to personal information, the stories of these singers tell a great deal about contemporary musical life, about musical and dramatic ideals of the time, and about performance practice. The experiences of the singers also reveal much about the business of music -how women were dealt with by teachers, impresarios, composers, and audiences-and the perseverance and pluck that were and are crucial ingredients of a successful career. The twenty singers were selected on the basis of their contribution to and influence on the art of singing, their significance in the history of performance, what their careers reveal about the life of a professional female musician, and finally for the originality of their achievements. All of the singers included reached the pinnacle of their art with persistence, ingenuity, and unsurpassed musicianship.
Creator: David Booy
Publication date: 2002-04
Dewey code: 941.06
List Price: $99.95
Price: $98.91
Review Personal Disclosures: An Anthology of Self-Writings from the Seventeenth Century (Early Modern English Woman 1500-1950: Comtemporary Editions) / Ashgate Publishing:The 17th century saw a dramatic increase in self-writing-from the private jotting down of personal thoughts in an irregular and spontaneous way, to the carefully considered composition of extended autobiographical narrative and deliberate self-fashioning for public consumption. Recent anthologies of women's writing, drawing to some extent on this rich but relatively little-known archive, have demonstrated the importance of studying such material to gain insight into female lives in that era. This volume is innovative in that it stimulates and facilitates comparative analysis of female and male representations of the self, and of gendered constructions of identity and experience, by presenting a broad range of extracts from both women's and men's autobiographical writings. The majority of the extracts have been freshly edited from original 17th-century manuscripts and books. Exploiting all kinds of text - diaries, journals, logs, testimonies, memoirs, letters, autobiographies - the anthology also encourages consideration of topics central to current scholarly interest: religious experience, the body, communities, the family, encounters with new lands and peoples, and the conceptualization and writing of the self. A General Introduction discusses early modern autobiographical writing, and there are substantial introductions to each of the six sections, together with detailed suggestions for further reading.
Publication date: 2005-06-30
Dewey code: 782.00922
List Price: $102.95
Price: $98.95
Review Five Centuries of Women Singers (Music Reference Collection) / Praeger Publishers:Five Centuries of Women Singers explores the careers of twenty singers from the late sixteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In addition to personal information, the stories of these singers tell a great deal about contemporary musical life, about musical and dramatic ideals of the time, and about performance practice. The experiences of the singers also reveal much about the business of music -how women were dealt with by teachers, impresarios, composers, and audiences-and the perseverance and pluck that were and are crucial ingredients of a successful career. The twenty singers were selected on the basis of their contribution to and influence on the art of singing, their significance in the history of performance, what their careers reveal about the life of a professional female musician, and finally for the originality of their achievements. All of the singers included reached the pinnacle of their art with persistence, ingenuity, and unsurpassed musicianship.
Publication date: 1998-07
Dewey code: 813.4
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review The Writings of Celia Parker Woolley (1848-1918), Literary Activist (Women's Studies) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 2004-08
Dewey code: 920
Price: $15.99
Review Ups and Downs Diaries 1972-1975 / Orion:Frances Partridge at the age of 100 has had a new lease of life and decided she would like to publish another volume of diaries which will cover the years 1972–75. Now recognised as one of the great British diarists of the century, she was born in Bloomsbury in 1900, the daughter of a progressive mother and architect father whose friends included Henry James and Arthur Conan Doyle. After studying Moral Sciences and English at Cambridge, she worked a bookshop in London and became part of the Bloomsbury Group, encountering Virginia Woolf, the Bells, Roger Fry and Maynard Keynes. She met and fell in love with Ralph Partridge who was at the time married to Dora Carrington. After the death of Lytton Strachey, with whom she was in love, Carrington committed suicide. Ralph and Frances married in 1933. During the war they were both pacifists and opened their house, Ham Spray, to numerous strays of war. After it was over they enjoyed the happiest time of their life together, entertaining friends such as E M Forster, Robert Kee and Duncan Grant. This life of great warmth and friendship was brought to an abrupt end when Ralph died of a heart attack in 1960. Three years later another tragedy struck when their only son, Burgo, died at the age of 28 from a brain haemorrhage. [+]‘I have utterly lost heart: I want no more of this cruel life,’ Frances wrote and yet she made a decision ‘to live in the present’ and ‘to get a better seat on my bicycle’. Despite such enormous suffering, she maintained an astonishing appetite for life, whether for her friends, travelling, botany, or music. Her diaries, written without thought of publication, chronicle a remarkable life. Beautifully written, full of an infectious enthusiasm and unending curiosity, they are utterly riveting and rank amongst the greatest diaries of the twentieth century.
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