Virginia's Sisters - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Résumé :
A fascinating anthology of poetry and prose by leading feminist writers of the 20th century on the topic of women's freedom and the idea of the 'New Woman'. This international collection offers over 20 literary gems by favourite and newly rediscovered women writers. Selected and introduced by Gabi Reigh who gives context to the selected contributions from women writers who were expressing their hopes for freedom and autonomy during the early part of the twentieth century. Includes stories and poems by well-known authors writing in English such as Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, and Katherine Mansfield as well as many new translations of international women's writing from the same period. These include writers such as Antonia Pozzi, Maria Messina, Fani Popova Mutafova, Magda Isanos, Gabriela Mistral, Carmen de Burgos, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, May Ziadeh, Yenta Serdatzky and others. List of authors and works included: A Woman by Fani Popova-Mutafova (translated by Petya Pavlova) Thoughts by Myra Viola Wilds The Little Governess by Katherine Mansfield Villa Myosotis by Sorana Gurian (translated by Gabi Reigh) The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself [extract] by Radclyffe Hall I sit and sew by Alice Dunbar Nelson First Steps [extract] by Dorka Talmon (translated by Mira Glover) Coming Home by Maria Messina (translated by Juliette Neil) Vegetal Reverie by Magda Isanos (translated by Gabi Reigh) The Iceberg by Zelda Fitzgerald The Russian Princess by Carmen de Burgos (translated by Slava Faybysh) Bring to Me All... by Marina Tsvetaeva (translated by Nina Kossman) Autres Temps by Edith Wharton Unheard by Yente Serdatsky (translated by Dalia Wolfson) Fog by Gabriela Mistral (translated by Stuart Cooke) Natalia [extract] by Fausta Cialente (translated by Laura Shanahan) What makes this century worse? by Anna Akhmatova (translated by Olga Livshin) Broken by Nataliya Kobrynska (translated by Hanna Leliv & Slava Faybysh) Sunset by Antonia Pozzi (translated by Sonia di Placido) Once Upon A Time by Ling Shuhua (translated by Leilei Chen) Their Religions and our Marriages: Herland [extract] by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Goodbye Lebanon by May Ziadeh (translated by Rose DeMaris) ...

Biographie:
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a Modernist writer, widely considered to be one of the most important of the twentieth century. She and her husband Leonard bought a hand-printing press in 1917, and they set up Hogarth Press in their house in Richmond, which published much of Virginia's work, as well as those of friends and fellow luminaries. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Set - an artistic, philosophic and literary group which included John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. Today she is best remembered for her novels - in particular To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway - and her essay A Room of One's Own....

Sommaire:
Virginia Woolf is a celebrated English writer considered the 'Mother' of Modernism because of her use of stream of consciousness within her work. She first published 'The Voyage out' in 1915 and went on to publish several novels, as well as essays and short stories including 'Mrs Dalloway', 'Orlando' and 'A Room of One's Own.'...