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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Indeed if woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various; heroic and mean; splendid and sordid; beautiful and hideous in the extreme; as great as a man, some would say greater.
A Short History of Women's Rights, From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. With Special Reference to England and the United States, Eugene A. Hecker (1914) [195] La Rosa Muerta, Aurora Cáceres (1914) [196] To the Women of Kooyong, Vida Goldstein (1914) [197] Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times, Alice Duer Miller (1915 ...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by British philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. In it, Wollstonecraft responds to those educational and political ...
Little Women is a coming-of-age novel written by American novelist Louisa May Alcott, originally published in two volumes, in 1868 and 1869. [1][2] The story follows the lives of the four March sisters—Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy—and details their passage from childhood to womanhood. Loosely based on the lives of the author and her three sisters ...
Herstory is a term for history written from a feminist perspective and emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view. It originated as an alteration of the word "history", as part of a feminist critique of conventional historiography, which in their opinion is traditionally written as "his story", i.e., from the male point ...
Chivalry. Konrad von Limpurg as a knight being armed by his lady in the Codex Manesse (early 14th century) Chivalry, or the chivalric language, is an informal and varying code of conduct developed in Europe between 1170 and 1220. It is associated with the medieval Christian institution of knighthood, with knights being members of various ...
The Subjection of Women is an essay by English philosopher, political economist and civil servant John Stuart Mill published in 1869, [1] with ideas he developed jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill. J.S. Mill submitted the finished manuscript of their collaborative work On Liberty (1859) soon after her untimely death in late 1858, and ...
A Word to the “Little Flock.” WLF 1847 30 James White: Collection of writings by Joseph Bates, James White, and Ellen White A Sketch of the Christian Experience and Views of Ellen G. White. ExV 1851 64 James White: Supplement to the Christian Experience and Views of Ellen G. White. ExV54 1854 48 James White: Testimony for the Church No. 1 ...