After the Divorce, she marries Brontu who abuses her, but things get really complicated when Costatino is acquitted… When Costatino is convicted of murder, she has no way of supporting herself. Giovanna on the other hand has two husbands in the novel by Grazia Deledda. All that in a canoe, and only two years after her husband perished on a similar trip. Mina Benson Hubbard set out on A Woman’s Way Through Unknown Labrador and mapped the rivers on her journey. Some 100 years ago, much of the world’s remote parts were unexplored. From Queen’s Gardens – A Chorus of Many Voices is a collection of poetry by both famous authors, and those who remained undiscovered.

Many women put their thoughts to paper, but not all of them become well-known. Loom and Spindle is a collection of her writings. Robinson was one of them, and she reached many people through her stories and essays. Not necessarily criminal were the conditions of workers in cottons mills in the 19th century.

Hoffmann will tell you whether she can solve the crime. This is how Das Fräulein von Scuderi becomes entangled in a murder case involving precious jewels. Of course, rich women were always well-educated, even in 17th century France. This set of boy and girl grow up in restrictive Victorian society, and their lives couldn’t turn out any more different. The idea of same education is also explored in the Sarah Grand’s novel The Heavenly Twins. She did no such thing, and yet performed Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women. When in the early 19th century, Elizabeth Blackwell set her mind on becoming a doctor, she was advised to dress as a man to enter university. She, in turn, was raised like a boy and thus is called Majoor Frans. Leopold inherits a fortune – on the condition to marry a distant cousin. Bosboom-Toussaint explores how a woman is to behave. We celebrate in our own way – with 10 gems from our catalog.Ī.L.G.

March 8 is International Women’s Day to celebrate women and their strengths all over the world.

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