Panthea Reid
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Conversations with Ellen Douglas
Edited by Panthea Reid
University Press of Mississippi
Interviews with the author of A Family's Affairs, Black Cloud, White Cloud, and Where the Dreams Cross
Tillie Olsen
One Woman, Many Riddles
By Panthea Reid
Rutgers University Press
In Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles, Panthea Reid examines the complex life of this iconic feminist hero and twentieth-century literary giant, hailed by many as the mother of modern feminism. Based on diaries, letters, manuscripts, private documents, resurrected public records, and ountless interviews, Reid’s artfully crafted biography untangles some of the puzzling knots of the last century’s triumphs and failures and speaks truth to legend, correcting fabrications and myths about and also by Tillie Olsen.
- Copyright year: 2009
Jonathan Swift's Word-Book
A Vocabulary Compiled for Esther Johnson and Copied in Her Own Hand
University of Delaware Press
This Word-Book is presumably the only work of Jonathan Swift’s not in print, until now. Since the 1690s, Swift had been formulating a list of words and definitions for his protégé Esther Johnson, beginning with terms from the Book of Common Prayer. His was apparently an ongoing list, kept rather haphazardly, with open spaces for adding new words. About 1710, when Swift was in London, Johnson, in Dublin, set out to formalize the dictionary, copying out Swift’s words and definitions to make an orderly and careful book with no blank spaces.
- Copyright year: 2017
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