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LIGHTS ON A Reflective Journey By the time the sun sets on your life, you want to have made a difference. You don't want to waste a day struggling through the mire and not being able to to see the light that beckons you along your personal and professional path. You want to move forward with passion, certainty, courage and clarity. Lights On is a spirit-lifting book that compels you forward so you can make a difference in your life. It includes: - Wisdom-filled vignettes - Heart-warming stories - Guidance for women and women in business leadership roles - Reflections on everyday life -...

This book is a "must read" for Leaders. It is as much about keen leadership as it is about the organizational elephants that take up residence in organizations, work groups and work teams-whether it be in the boardroom, the back-room or the factory floor. The very existence of elephants means trouble. Some organizations and work-teams are trampled by their own elephants. Is your organization or work group being the best that it can be? Do you sense how much more effective your organization or workteam could be if the people in it could just have better harmony, civility or cohesiveness? To...

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry, Della Cruscanism was associated with writers like Robert Merry, Mary Robinson, and Hannah Cowley. While Merry is the poet most commonly associated with the Della Cruscan school, this book argues that Della Cruscanism was a movement dominated by female poets and that this was one of the key reasons for the later disavowal and downgrading of its poetic accomplishments. It offers a close examination of these women writers and their role in shaping the...

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry, Della Cruscanism was associated with writers like Robert Merry, Mary Robinson, and Hannah Cowley. While Merry is the poet most commonly associated with the Della Cruscan school, this book argues that Della Cruscanism was a movement dominated by female poets and that this was one of the key reasons for the later disavowal and downgrading of its poetic accomplishments. It offers a close examination of these women writers and their role in shaping the...

Arguing that the end of the eighteenth-century witnessed the emergence of an important female poetic tradition, Claire Knowles analyzes the poetry of several key women writing between 1780 and 1860. Knowles provides important context by demonstrating the influence of the Della Cruscans in exposing the constructed and performative nature of the trope of sensibility, a revelation that was met with critical hostility by a literary culture that valorised sincerity. This sets the stage for Charlotte Smith, who pioneers an autobiographical approach to poetic production that places increased...