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Shakespeare for My Father

A One-woman Play in Two Acts

By: Lynn Redgrave,William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare for My Father

A One-woman Play in Two Acts

By: Lynn Redgrave,William Shakespeare

The renowned actress's first foray into playwriting as family reminiscences developed into a complex, funny and moving portrait of a child's longing for the love of the inscrutable, daunting and charismatic Shakespearean actor who was her father. Acclaimed in America and Great Britain, Shakespeare for My Father weaves scenes from the Bard that delightfully coalesce with events in Ms. Redgrave's young life, eliciting memories of Sir Michael and engaging impressions of the celebrated stars who frequented the Redgrave's home and lives.

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Samuel French, Inc.

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0573627584

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9780573627583

Journal

A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer

By: Lynn Redgrave

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Journal

A Mother and Daughter's Recovery from Breast Cancer

By: Lynn Redgrave

A compelling documentary of treatment and recovery with an unprecedented level of intimacy.

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120

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Umbrage Editions

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1884167438

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9781884167430

Women, Work, and Representation

Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature

By: Lynn Mae Alexander

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Women, Work, and Representation

Needlewomen in Victorian Art and Literature

By: Lynn Mae Alexander

In Victorian England, virtually all women were taught to sew, but this essentially domestic virtue took on a different aspect for the professional seamstress of the day. This study considers the way this powerful image of working-class suffering was used by social reformers in art and literature.

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266

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Ohio University Press

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0821414933

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9780821414934

Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century

By: Trev Lynn Broughton,Helen Rogers

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Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century

By: Trev Lynn Broughton,Helen Rogers

Despite current debate over the paternal role, fatherhood is a relatively new area of investigation in literary, historical and cultural studies. The contributors to this illustrated, interdisciplinary volume - one of the first extended investigations of paternity in 19th century Britain and its empire - penetrate the stereotype of the Victorian paterfamilias to uncover intimate and involved, authoritarian and austere fathers. Finding surprising precursors of the 'new man' and the 'lone father', Trev Lynn Broughton and Helen Rogers provide an essential overview of changing ideologies and practices of fatherhood as the family acquired its distinctively modern form. Gender and Fatherhood in the Nineteenth Century: - Offers nuanced re-readings of artistic and literary representations of domesticity, investigations of fathering at home and at work, and of legal, political and religious discourses, suggesting that fatherhood generated more anxiety and debate than previously acknowledged. - Explores how traditional conceptions of paternal authority worked to accommodate the 'cult of motherhood'. - Examines how paternal power was embedded in social institutions. - Shows how models of social fatherhood provided powerful men with a means of negotiating their relationship with working-class men and colonized subjects. As these innovative essays demonstrate, the history of fatherhood can illuminate our understanding of class, society and empire as well as of gender and the family. Together they form an indispensable resource for anyone studying Victorian fatherhood as part of a history, literature, art, social or cultural studies course.

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216

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230207855

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9780230207851

Reading Joan Didion

By: Lynn M. Houston,William V. Lombardi

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Reading Joan Didion

By: Lynn M. Houston,William V. Lombardi

This book is a compelling reference guide for book clubs on the work of Joan Didion, with summaries of her major works and discussion questions. Reading Joan Didion is the ideal way to enter this extraordinary and versatile author's world—a world that counts among its citizens burned-out hippies, cynical and delusional players in the film and music scene, and even members of the Charles Manson family. In addition to looking closely at major works of fiction, Reading Joan Didion also focuses on Didion the essayist, critic, and founding member of the New Journalism Movement, which uses fiction-like narrative techniques to go deeper into subjects that traditional objective reporting allows. Also covered is the rich screenwriting partnership of Didion and husband John Gregory Dunne, and the overwhelming late-career success of The Year of Magical Thinking, written in the aftermath of Dunne's shocking death and completed just before the author's daughter also passed away unexpectedly.

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172

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313364044

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9780313364044

A Curious Career

By: Lynn Barber

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A Curious Career

By: Lynn Barber

A wonderfully frank and funny memoir by Britain's greatest and most ferocious interviewer, Lynn Barber. 'Packed full of incredible stories' Glamour 'Funny, bold, incisive, clever and interesting' Independent 'Candid, unsentimental and extremely funny. I read it in one glorious go, laughing and crying throughout' Zoe Heller Lynn Barber, by her own admission, has always suffered from a compelling sense of nosiness. An exceptionally inquisitive child she constantly questioned everyone she knew about imitate details of their lives. This talent for nosiness, coupled with her unusual lack of the very English fear of social embarrassment, turned out to be the perfect qualification for a celebrity interviewer. In A Curious Career, Lynn Barber takes us from her early years as a journalist at Penthouse - where she started out interviewing foot fetishists, voyeurs, dominatrices and men who liked wearing nappies - to her later more eminent role interrogating a huge cross-section of celebrities ranging from politicians to film stars, comedians, writers, artists and musicians. A Curious Career is full of glorious anecdotes - the interview with Salvador Dali that, at Dali's invitation, ended up lasting four days, or the drinking session with Shane MacGowan during which they planned to rob a bank. It also contains eye-opening transcripts, such as her infamous interview with the hilarious and spectacularly rude Marianne Faithfull. A wonderfully frank and funny memoir by Britain's greatest and most ferocious interviewer, A Curious Career is also a fascinating window into the lives of celebrities and the changing world of journalism.

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235

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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140883720X

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9781408837207

This is Living

By: Lynn Redgrave

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This is Living

By: Lynn Redgrave

A compelling autobiographical account of Redgrave's journey to self-acceptance and appreciation--and her ultimate triumph over dieting with the help of the Weight Watchers organization. Redgrave shares her secrets from maintaining an ideal weight to a host of helpful hints on nutrition, healthy living, and a fulfilling life style.

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364

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Signet Book

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0451173074

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9780451173072

50 Women in Theatre

By: Katie Mitchell,Lynn Nottage,Marsha Norman,Jude Kelly,Winsome Pinnock

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50 Women in Theatre

By: Katie Mitchell,Lynn Nottage,Marsha Norman,Jude Kelly,Winsome Pinnock

Since 1660 when actresses first began performing on the English stage, women have forged bright careers in theatre, while men called the shots. Four hundred years of women playwrights, from Aphra Behn to Caryl Churchill, yet plays by women make up less than a quarter of staged productions in the UK, leading to a lack of central roles for women. At a time when many theatres have closed their doors and others are looking to re-open, will they choose to move with the times or fall back on the safety of a tired repertoire? With an overview of influential women in post-war theatre and 25 exclusive interviews with leading women theatre-makers, this book inspires us to create a truly equal and inclusive theatre today. Interviews with: Denise Gough; Vicky Ireland; Jude Kelly; Bryony Lavery; Katie Mitchell; Marsha Norman; Lynn Nottage; Winsome Pinnock; Emma Rice; Daryl Roth and many more.

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461

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Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.

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1913641066

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9781913641061

Community Participation in Health

The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica

By: Lynn M. Morgan

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Community Participation in Health

The Politics of Primary Care in Costa Rica

By: Lynn M. Morgan

An anthropological study of the failure of community participation in health-care in Costa Rica.

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199

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Cambridge University Press

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0521418984

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9780521418980

Feminist Lives

Women, Feelings, and the Self in Post-War Britain

By: Lynn Abrams

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Feminist Lives

Women, Feelings, and the Self in Post-War Britain

By: Lynn Abrams

Could women be feminist without feminism? Could they foster feminist activism without a movement or an ideology? Could they recraft ways of being female without a plan? Feminist Lives adopts a woman-centred approach to explore these questions and to understand how British women charted a new way of being female in the three decades before the Women's Liberation Movement. By focusing on the 'transition' generation of women who were born in the long 1940s and who grew to maturity in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, the book demonstrates that it was they who developed the aspirational model of womanhood that then emerged after 1970 as the norm amongst women in the global north. In doing so, Feminist Lives seeks to fill 'the feminist history gap', countering a narrative that has for too long neglected this generation of women as fusty and failing, and as just not feminist enough. Using women's voices as the book's evidential and emotional core as they describe themselves, their relationships, their feelings and actions, this volume analyses the modes by which women constructed a modern self, built upon new ways of living, feeling, and being.

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272

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Oxford University Press

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0192896997

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9780192896995

Struggling With Development

The Politics Of Hunger And Gender In The Philippines

By: Lynn Kwiatkowski

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Struggling With Development

The Politics Of Hunger And Gender In The Philippines

By: Lynn Kwiatkowski

Struggling with Development is a study of the complex relationships among international development, hunger, and gender in the context of political violence in the Philippines. This ethnography demonstrates that gender-specific international development, which has among its main goals the alleviation of hunger in women and children and the raising

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Routledge

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0429965621

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9780429965623

Covert Amish Investigation

By: Dana R. Lynn

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Covert Amish Investigation

By: Dana R. Lynn

From USA TODAY bestselling author Dana R. Lynn A deadly undercover assignment… in the Amish community she left behind. After a woman in witness protection disappears from Kate Bontrager’s Amish hometown, the now Englisch police officer goes undercover—and enters a killer’s sights. Partnering with Abram Burkholder, the man she’d hoped to marry nearly a decade ago, is the only way to solve the case. But can they face the past and heal their still damaged hearts…before they both end up dead? From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith. AN AMISH COUNTRY JUSTICE ROMANCE Book 1: Plain Target Book 2: Plain Retribution Book 3: Amish Christmas Abduction Book 4: Amish Country Ambush Book 5: Amish Christmas Emergency Book 6: Guarding the Amish Midwife Book 7: Hidden in Amish Country Book 8: Plain Refuge Book 9: Deadly Amish Reunion Book 10: Amish Country Threats Book 11: Covert Amish Investigation Book 12: Amish Christmas Escape

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Harlequin

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0369716183

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9780369716187

Red in the Rainbow

The Life and Times of Fred and Sarah Carneson

By: Lynn Carneson

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Red in the Rainbow

The Life and Times of Fred and Sarah Carneson

By: Lynn Carneson

Red in the Rainbow is a story of humanity in the face of political turmoil. Fred and Sarah Carneson were fiercely committed members of the Communist Party from the 1930s onwards. Dedicated activists in brutal times, theirs is a story of political persecution, prolonged separation and enduring love. Lynn Carneson, their daughter, candidly narrates the terror, the pain and the joy of her extraordinary life as the child of such dedicated freedom fighters, revealing how, despite endless campaigning, financial difficulty, emotional breakdown, banning, torture and imprisonment, the family managed to stay together. Based on personal recollection as well as letters, official records and newspaper articles, Lynn describes her parents’ underground work and their involvement in watershed events such as the Treason Trial and the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. She evokes the tension of secretive operations and the family’s constant surveillance by security police, as well as the trauma of her father’s trial and prison sentence. Lynn vividly recounts their life as exiles in London and their long-awaited return to South Africa in 1991. Red in the Rainbow not only invokes Fred and Sarah’s lifelong political struggles and triumphs in gripping detail, but also tells a poignant human story of endurance, courage and the survival of a marriage against all odds.

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428

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1770222812

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9781770222816

Gregory Peck

A Charmed Life

By: Lynn Haney

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Gregory Peck

A Charmed Life

By: Lynn Haney

His first screen test was a disaster, his features were large and irregular, his left ear outsized the right, yet he would one day be headlined as the Most Handsome Man in the World. And most of his leading ladies—among them, Ingrid Bergman, Jennifer Jones, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, and Ava Gardner—would not disagree. Irreverent, candid, refreshingly honest, Lynn Haney's carefully researched biography not only charts the remarkable career of the Oscar-winning star but also plumbs Peck's frequently troubling complexity in his off-screen roles as husband, father, lover, and son. About the tough times, Haney minces no words; but the misfortunes by no means eclipse the energy, intensity, and excitement that characterized Peck's five decades of moviemaking. This is a book filled with telling photographs, and a story cast with movie moguls from Louis B. Mayer to Darryl Zanuck, with directors from Hitchcock and Walsh to Huston and Wyler, with nearly every major luminary in Hollywood, and, starring for the first time in toto, Gregory Peck.

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498

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Da Capo Press

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0786737816

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9780786737819

Food for Health, Food for Wealth

The Performance of Ethnic and Gender Identities by Iranian Settlers in Britain

By: Lynn Harbottle

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Food for Health, Food for Wealth

The Performance of Ethnic and Gender Identities by Iranian Settlers in Britain

By: Lynn Harbottle

Food and eating practices are central to current sociological and anthropological concerns about the body, health, consumption, and identity. This study explores the importance of these themes as they intersect with processes of globalization and cultural production within a specific group of consumers, British Sh'ite Iranians. Through the analysis of the consumption practices of this particular migrant group, this book illustrates how both the nutritional value and symbolic significance of food contribute to its health-giving properties and how gender and ethnic identities are preformed and reinforced through the medium of food-work in public and private spheres. At the same time, as this study demonstrates, migration modifies and transfigures such identities and produces hybrid cultures and cuisines.

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198

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Berghahn Books

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1571816348

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9781571816344

The Secret History of Lucifer (New Edition)

By: Lynn Picknett

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The Secret History of Lucifer (New Edition)

By: Lynn Picknett

In her new account of an old religion, Lynn Picknett explains that Lucifer means 'the light bringer' and was a personification of the Morning Star, the planet Venus and its goddess. 'He' was originally 'she' -- a divine representation of love, light and human warmth. The early Christian Church appropriated the name Lucifer, and it became synonymous with darkness and the Devil. Yet many great thinkers have covertly followed the old Luciferan way, most famously Leonardo da Vinci, who encrypted the symbols of his heretical beliefs in his work, visible only to those who have the key.

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256

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Robinson

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1780337698

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9781780337692

1000 Cat Names

From A to Z

By: Gabriele Linke-Grun,Sharon Lynn Vanderlip

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1000 Cat Names

From A to Z

By: Gabriele Linke-Grun,Sharon Lynn Vanderlip

Cats have very distinctive personalities, and every new kitten deserves a name to match its looks and character. Prince might be the perfect name for a pussycat of regal appearanceï¿1/2though Yogi would be a better fit for a comical cat who always gets into mischief. Those two plus 998 additional names fill this entertaining and informative little book, written to inspire soon-to-be cat owners. Theyï¿1/2ll find names to match not only their kittenï¿1/2s personality, but also to reflect their own tastes and interests, all names presented in alphabetical order. And while trying to decide on that perfect feline nameï¿1/2whether it be Pinocchio or Picasso, Hercules or Hamletï¿1/2cat owners can delight over the dozens of enchanting, comical, and endearing color photos of kittens at rest and at play.

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B.E.S. Publishing

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0764130706

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9780764130700

Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800

By: Lynn Zott

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Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800

By: Lynn Zott

Presents literary criticism on the works of writers of the period 1400-1800. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.

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