The Woman's View: An Anthology of Prose Passages about Women, from the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day

ISBN-13: 9780367860325 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 176 str.

June Wedgwood Benn

Opis

What is it like being a woman? Originally published in 1967, here is a collection of passages, all linked by their theme, that of being a woman. They are taken from novels, essays, letters and diaries written by or about women concerning their psychology and position in society from the later eighteenth century onwards.

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Acknowledgments.  Introduction.  1. Young Girls: from The House by Elizabeth Bowen  2. Different Girls: from The Waves by Virginia Woolf  3. Being a Girl: from Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir  4. Growing Up I: from The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers  5. Growing Up II: from The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence  6. Wanting a Chance in Life: from The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner  7. Wanting Something More: from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë  8. A Young Girl’s Aspirations: from Journals by Marie Bashkirtseff  9. Being Non-Educated: from Letters by Mary Kingsley  10. Weak Woman: from A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft  11. Being in Love I: from Emma by Jane Austen  12. Planning for the Future: from Middlemarch by George Eliot  13. Being a Governess: from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë  14. Being Engaged: from The Egoist by George Meredith  15. Marriage for the Wrong Reasons – Or to the Wrong Man: from Portrait of a Lady by Henry James  16. Love and Commonsense: from Letters by Jane Austen  17. Advising a Daughter on Life: from Letters by Queen Victoria  18. Being Married: from At the Bay by Katherine Mansfield  19. Being Married – and a Little Older: from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf  20. Being a Bluestocking Married to a Genius: from Letters by Jane Welsh Carlyle  21. Wanting a Life of One’s Own: from All Passion Spent by Victoria Sackville-West  22. Escaping Temporarily: from A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor  23. How Life Passes: from Tenterhooks by Ada Leverson  24. Coming Up for Air: from Dangerous Ages by Rose Macauly  25. Bird in a Cage: from A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen  26. Being an Outsider: from The Holiday by Stevie Smith  27. Being Dissatisfied with the Love of Man: from The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann  28. Being a Sensitive Soul: from Howard’s End by E.M. Forster  29. Loving: from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy  30. Being in Love II: from Letters to Imlay by Mary Wollstonecraft  31. Man’s Ideal Wife – and Later: from Middlemarch by George Eliot  32. Man’s Ideal of Woman: from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde  33. Woman Playing up to Her Role: from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde  34. The Shavian Ideal of Woman and Man: from Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw  35. Being a ‘Free’ Woman: from My Life by Isadora Duncan  36. Bringing up Baby: from A Proper Marriage by Doris Lessing  37. A Man Infatuated – and Out of Love: from Liber Amoris by William Hazlitt  38. Being a Mother: from Look the Other Way by John Branfield  39. A Man in Two Minds: from Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock  40. If Shakespeare had Been a Woman: from A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf  41. Being a Political Woman: from The New Machiavelli by H.G. Wells  42. Women and Fiction: from Granite and Rainbow by Virginia Woolf  43. Woman in Present Society: from ‘The Guardian’ by Mary Stott.  Suggestions for Oral Discussion or Written Work.  Suggestions for Further Reading.

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June Wedgwood Benn