women authors, english

"Barbara Pym lived through extraordinary times. Throughout social and political upheaval, she wrote diaries, notes, letters, stories and more than a dozen novels, which often reflected the themes of Pym's own experience. [In this book,] Paula Byrne brings Barbara Pym back to center stage as one of the great English novelists: a generous, shrewdly perceptive writer and a brave woman with an unparalled sense of fun"--Provided by publisher.

Celebrating the joy of storytelling and the love of books, this story of the four motherless Bront? children shows how, through the power of reading novels, poetry, history and fables, they grew up to become some of English literature's finest writers.

Looks at the life, accomplishments, and legacy of author and playwright Agatha Christie.

"In the English countryside of the nineteenth century, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bront?--coping with an elderly father and a brother dedicated to drinking--find themselves confronting their family's stormy economic forturnes. And they do it their own way: overcoming difficulties and first failures with pride and courage; transforming their creative talents into a source of sustenance; and finally living lives of freedom"--Provided by publisher.

"Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were born just four years apart, in the 1770s, in a world torn between heady revolutionary ideas and fierce conservatism, and both were influenced by the Romantic ideals of Dorothy's brother, William Wordsworth, and his friends. This book compares their upbringing and education, home lives and loves and, above all, their emotional and creative worlds."--OCLC.

Profiles the lives and works of twelve female writers who challenged society's beliefs and norms about vital issues including Mae West, Margaret Mitchell, Ayn Rand, and others.

Explores the use of voice, form, and setting in the works of twelve women authors who used their writings to construct a testament of their own identity, including Mary McCarthy, Anais Nin, and Virginia Woolf.

"This is the story of Yrsa Daley-Ward, and all the things that happened--'even the terrible things. And God, there were terrible things.' It's about her childhood in the northwest of England with her beautiful, careworn mother Marcia; the man formerly known as Dad (half fun, half frightening); and her little brother Roo, who sees things written in the stars"--Back cover.

The young Jane Austen is not particularly interested in getting married, although she does find the mysterious Mr. Lefroy an intriguing possibility - but first she has to deal with the accusation that her cousin Eliza is a French spy, and solve a murder.

Young Emily and Charlotte Bront? solve a mystery.