Showing results for "Girls" in Literary History & Criticism

This is the Marathi translation of The Diary of a Young Girl - a compilation of diary writings of Anne Frank, a girl who had to resort to hiding along with her family because of the Nazi occupation. This book has received widespread publicity and is one of the most famous literatures of the Nazi era. This book has been translated in more than 60 languages and has received critical acclamation. Anne Frank died of typhus in a concentration camp and her diary was successfully retrieved by Miep Gies, who handed it to Anne’s father, the lone survivor from the family.

NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2025 ELLE BEST BOOKS OF 2025 'Essential reading' Irish Independent 'Fascinating and powerfully argued' Daily Telegraph 'A captivating must-read for anyone who wants to understand how and why misogyny is as powerful a force as ever'...

‘Powerful, intelligent and vital – one of the year’s must-reads’ Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLE Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica Horn, Ebele Okobi, Funmi Fetto and Freddie Harrel. In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, but wholly its own, Girl...

One of the first personal narratives written by an ex-slave, this is also one of the few written by a woman. Harriet Jacobs (1813-97) was enslaved, along with her family, in North Carolina under a ruthless master who sexually harassed her. After several failed escape attempts, and several years of hiding, she finally made her way North to freedom, where she was eventually reunited with her children. The book was published in 1861.

1940s. With the world at war, Eleanor Trigg leads a mysterious ring of female secret agents in London. Twelve of these women are sent to aid the resistance. They never return home. 1946. Passing through Grand Central Station, Grace Healey finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. The case is filled with a dozen photographs, each of a different woman.

A bi-weekly book club podcast. Two friends talking about words, drinking wine and probably offering too many opinions.

It's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80s in Maggie Thatcher's England, and Marlene has something to celebrate: she has just been made managing director of the Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a collection of famous women from history. Soon Marlene discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it's cracked up to be. This is a bold, searing comedy from an Olivier Award-winning playwright.

Bringing a Literary Lens to Pop Culture - covering the worlds of A Song of Ice and Fire, Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, Fire and Blood, His Dark Materials & more

On her second birthday in 1967, Bernice McFadden died. She was in a car crash on the motorway turnoff to Detroit. For a few minutes, she was clinically dead. From the moment of her resuscitation, we follow a remarkable life, all the way up to the publication of her first novel, Sugar. Bernice’s family story begins in Sandersville, Georgia, with freedwoman Louisa Vicey Wilson in 1870. Her descendants survived Reconstruction, Jim Crow, joined the ‘great migration’, cried when Dr King was assassinated. Wisdom, secrets, and fierce love are passed down through generations of women.

A scholarly podcast about pop culture hosted by Hannah McGregor and Marcelle Kosman, produced by Witch, Please Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930 - and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women’s libbers) to enter the pantheon of American culture. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers’ lives. Here, in a narrative with all the page-turning pace of Nancy’s adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew?

A simple golden ring reveals more than anyone could imagine. When a chemist examines it under a microscope, he unexpectedly stumbles upon a vibrant sub atomic realm. Within this captivating world, he sees a beautiful young girl who sparks his curiosity and sets him on an extraordinary adventure. Armed with newly developed chemicals that allow him to change his size, he and three friends embark on a thrilling journey into this minute universe. As they navigate the wonders and dangers of this hidden world, they encounter challenges that test their courage and friendship. Will they uncover the ...

Stieg Larsson's best-selling Millennium Trilogy is an international phenomenon. These books express Larsson's lifelong war against injustice, his ethical beliefs, and his deep concern for women's rights. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Philosophy probes the compelling philosophical issues behind the entire trilogy. What philosophies do Lisbeth Salander and Kant have in common? To catch a criminal, can Lisbeth and Mikael be criminals themselves? Can revenge be ethical?

In this timely anthology, Glory Edim, founder of the online community Well-Read Black Girl, brings together original essays by some of America's best black women writers to shine a light on how important it is that we all - regardless of gender, race, religion, or ability - have the opportunity to find ourselves in literature. 

Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women's bodies. These poems are full of lush tropical plants, dense forests, pockets of wildflowers, and full of the wolves that lurk in the forests of our everyday lives. Opening the whispered frames around sexuality and sex work, immersed in the unflattering symptoms of survival, Buffalo Girl burgeons with matrilineal love and corporeal rage while censuring the white gaze and the violence enacted through the English language.

Author Ann Dunbar shares heartfelt reflections on life, grief, creativity, writing, and courage through the lens of timeless cowboy sayings. From her West Virginia roots to city life in Calgary, Alberta, Ann brings a down-to-earth mix of wisdom and warmth—reminding us that sometimes the simplest cowboy truths hold the deepest lessons.

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When humanity turns upon itself and governments begin attacking their own people for reasons darker than anyone dares imagine, a small band of survivors flees into the mountains—only to uncover an ancient, sentient time machine buried deep within an abandoned mine. Known simply as Ben, it has waited across centuries for those destined to restore balance to a fractured world. Guided by Ben, the travelers are hurled through history to confront a secret war waged by reptilian beings who feed on human suffering.

𝓙𝓞𝓘𝓝 𝓜𝓔 𝓐𝓢 𝓦𝓔 𝓑𝓔𝓒𝓞𝓜𝓔 𝓨𝓞𝓤𝓝𝓖 𝓦𝓞𝓜𝓔𝓝 𝓦𝓘𝓣𝓗 𝓐𝓓𝓗𝓓 𝓣𝓞𝓖𝓔𝓣𝓗𝓔𝓡! 𝓗𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓯𝓾𝓷 𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓮 𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓵𝓪𝓷𝓷 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓼 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓮𝓵𝓵 𝓼𝓽𝓸𝓻𝔂𝓼! 𝓨𝓸𝓾 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝓼𝓾𝓹𝓮𝓻 𝓹𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓷𝓮𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓵𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓷 𝓱𝓸𝔀 𝓽𝓸 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓸𝓵 𝓲𝓽...

The SPA Girls Podcast (SPA = Self Publishing Authors) stands as a trailblazing force in the publishing industry, captivating audiences worldwide since its inception in 2015. Crafted by four dedicated full-time New Zealand authors, the free weekly podcast delivers honest advice, expert interviews and actionable strategies for indie authors at all stages of their career.