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Becoming a Woman of Letters

Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market

By: Linda H. Peterson

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Becoming a Woman of Letters

Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market

By: Linda H. Peterson

During the nineteenth century, women authors for the first time achieved professional status, secure income, and public fame. How did these women enter the literary profession; meet the demands of editors, publishers, booksellers, and reviewers; and achieve distinction as "women of letters"? Becoming a Woman of Letters examines the various ways women writers negotiated the market realities of authorship, and looks at the myths and models women writers constructed to elevate their place in the profession. Drawing from letters, contracts, and other archival material, Linda Peterson details the careers of various women authors from the Victorian period. Some, like Harriet Martineau, adopted the practices of their male counterparts and wrote for periodicals before producing a best seller; others, like Mary Howitt and Alice Meynell, began in literary partnerships with their husbands and pursued independent careers later in life; and yet others, like Charlotte Brontë, and her successors Charlotte Riddell and Mary Cholmondeley, wrote from obscure parsonages or isolated villages, hoping an acclaimed novel might spark a meteoric rise to fame. Peterson considers these women authors' successes and failures--the critical esteem that led to financial rewards and lasting reputations, as well as the initial successes undermined by publishing trends and pressures. Exploring the burgeoning print culture and the rise of new genres available to Victorian women authors, this book provides a comprehensive account of the flowering of literary professionalism in the nineteenth century.

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Princeton University Press

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1400833256

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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II vol 4

By: Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes

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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part II vol 4

By: Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes

A selection of texts by Elizabeth Gaskell, accompanied by annotations. It brings together Gaskell academics to provide readers with scholarship on her work and seeks to bring the crusading spirit and genius of the writer into the 21st century to take her place as a major Victorian writer.

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1351220292

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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 1

By: Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes

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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 1

By: Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes

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1351220411

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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 2

By: Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes

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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 2

By: Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes

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1351220373

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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 5

By: Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes

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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 5

By: Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes

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1351220241

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9781351220248

The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 3

By: Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes

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The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell, Part I Vol 3

By: Joanne Shattock,Angus Easson,Josie Billington,Deirdre d'Albertis,Linda K Hughes,Elisabeth Jay,Charlotte Mitchell,Linda H Peterson,Marion Shaw,Alan Shelston,Joanne Wilkes

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1351220322

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Dancing in the Storm

Hope in the Midst of Chaos

By: Linda R. McGinn

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Dancing in the Storm

Hope in the Midst of Chaos

By: Linda R. McGinn

Chaos forms the very framework of life. By learning to accept it, you can experience the inner peace you crave.

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Fleming H. Revell Company

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0800756967

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9780800756963

The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

By: Linda Gordon

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The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction

By: Linda Gordon

In 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this "interracial" transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. The Catholic Church sued to get its wards back, but all the courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, ruled in favor of the vigilantes. The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction tells this disturbing and dramatic tale to illuminate the creation of racial boundaries along the Mexican border. Clifton/Morenci, Arizona, was a "wild West" boomtown, where the mines and smelters pulled in thousands of Mexican immigrant workers. Racial walls hardened as the mines became big business and whiteness became a marker of superiority. These already volatile race and class relations produced passions that erupted in the "orphan incident." To the Anglos of Clifton/Morenci, placing a white child with a Mexican family was tantamount to child abuse, and they saw their kidnapping as a rescue. Women initiated both sides of this confrontation. Mexican women agreed to take in these orphans, both serving their church and asserting a maternal prerogative; Anglo women believed they had to "save" the orphans, and they organized a vigilante squad to do it. In retelling this nearly forgotten piece of American history, Linda Gordon brilliantly recreates and dissects the tangled intersection of family and racial values, in a gripping story that resonates with today's conflicts over the "best interests of the child.

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Harvard University Press

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0674061713

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9780674061712

Planting a Garden

Growing the Church Beyond Traditional Models

By: Linda Schiphorst McCoy

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Planting a Garden

Growing the Church Beyond Traditional Models

By: Linda Schiphorst McCoy

Planting a Garden: Growing the Church beyond Traditional Models offers church leaders insights into how to think outside the box and how to engage in a new way to be church. This book is a helpful tool of inspiration and encouragement to those who want to be faithful to God's call, but who are encountering frustration on a daily basis."--BOOK JACKET.

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0687343143

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Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work

By: Linda K. Hughes,Michael Lund

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Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work

By: Linda K. Hughes,Michael Lund

For much of her own century, Elizabeth Gaskell was recognized as a voice of Victorian convention—-the loyal wife, good mother, and respected writer—-a reputation that led to her steady decline in the view of twentieth-century literary critics. Recent scholars, however, have begun to recognize that Mrs. Gaskell's high standing in Victorian society allowed her to effect change in conventional ideology. Linda K. Hughes and Michael Lund focus this reevaluation on issues pertaining to the Victorian literary marketplace. Victorian Publishing and Mrs. Gaskell's Work portrays an elusive and self-aware writer whose refusal to grant authority to a single perspective even while she recirculated the fundamental assumptions and debates of her era enabled her simultaneously to fulfill and deflect the expectations of the literary marketplace. While she wrote for money, producing periodical fiction, major novels, and nonfiction, Mrs. Gaskell was able to maintain a tone of warmth and empathy that allowed her to imagine multiple social and epistemological alternatives. Writing from within the established rubrics of gender, narrative, and publication format, she nevertheless performed important cultural work.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813918758

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9780813918754

Insomnia

Finding the Help You Need

By: Linda K. DeVries

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Insomnia

Finding the Help You Need

By: Linda K. DeVries

More than 130 million Americans have sleep-related problems. Linda DeVries offers up-to-date data about the causes and treatments of sleep disorders, complete with self-tests to help you identify physical and emotional causes and tips for sleeping better.I

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Shaw Books

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0877881847

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9780877881841

The Positive, Practical, and Inspirational Guide to Help Overweight Kids

Spiritual, Behavioral, and Preventative Solutions

By: Linda Mintle

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The Positive, Practical, and Inspirational Guide to Help Overweight Kids

Spiritual, Behavioral, and Preventative Solutions

By: Linda Mintle

Positive and practical guide to help parents find spiritual and behavioral solutions for their children who are overweight"--Provided by publisher.

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Thomas Nelson

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159145283X

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9781591452836

Investing Your Life in Things That Matter

By: Linda R. McGinn,T. R. Hollingsworth

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Investing Your Life in Things That Matter

By: Linda R. McGinn,T. R. Hollingsworth

Most Americans live their lives in pursuit of material wealth. But there are more important investments--the eternal values, relationships, and pursuits that make life meaningful and significant. Linda McGinn shows how to focus time and energy on investment goals that pay eternal dividends, whether you earn $10,000 a year or $100,000.

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B&H Publishing Group

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0805461477

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The Call to Love

By: Linda Riley

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The Call to Love

By: Linda Riley

Beginning with the “love chapter” of the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13, the author uses biblical teaching and moving personal stories to show readers how to put their love into action. Then, building on the two great commandments, first to love God, then to love others, the author draws readers in and moves them from intentions to actions. The Call to Love gives specific ideas and examples of what a loving lifestyle looks like.

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0842337873

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9780842337878

Woman to Woman Wisdom

Inspiration for Real Life

By: Bettie Youngs,Linda Caldwell Fuller,Donna Schuller

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Woman to Woman Wisdom

Inspiration for Real Life

By: Bettie Youngs,Linda Caldwell Fuller,Donna Schuller

Each page in this heart-to-heart book centers on such women's issues as parenting, marriage, fitness, caring for aging parents, and deepening one's relationship with God.

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Thomas Nelson

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0785212612

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9780785212614

Becoming a Woman of Letters

Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market

By: Linda H. Peterson

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Becoming a Woman of Letters

Myths of Authorship and Facts of the Victorian Market

By: Linda H. Peterson

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Princeton University Press

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1400833256

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Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography

The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing

By: Linda H. Peterson

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Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography

The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing

By: Linda H. Peterson

Victorian women's autobiography emerged at a historical moment when the field of life writing was particularly rich. Spiritual autobiography was developing interesting variations in the heroic memoirs of pioneering missionary women and in probing intellectual analyses of Nonconformists, Anglicans, agnostics, and other religious thinkers. The chroniques scandaleuses of the eighteenth century were giving way to the respectable artist's life of the professional Victorian woman. The domestic memoir, a Victorian variation on the family histories of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, flourished in a culture that celebrated the joys of home, family, and private life. Perhaps most important, Victorian women writers were experimenting with all these forms in various combinations and permutations. Arguing that women's autobiography does not represent a singular separate tradition but instead embraces multiple lineages, Linda H. Peterson explores the poetics and politics of these diverse forms of life writing. She carefully analyzes the polemical Autobiography of Harriet Martineau and Personal Recollections of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, the missionary memoirs that challenge Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, the Romantic autobiographies of the poet and poetess that Barrett Browning reconstructs in Aurora Leigh, the professional life stories of Margaret Oliphant and her contemporaries, and the Brontëan and Eliotian bifurcations of Mary Cholmondeley's memoirs. The desire to know the details of other women's lives--and to use them for one's own purposes--underlies much Victorian women's autobiography, even as it helps to explain our continuing interest in their accounts.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813918839

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