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Gale Researcher Guide for: Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Feminist Realism is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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Forges a fresh interpretation of Charlotte Brontë's oeuvre as a response to ecological instability.
In this book, Shawna Ross argues that Charlotte Brontë was an attentive witness of the Anthropocene and created one of the first literary ecosystems animated by human-caused environmental change. Brontë combined her personal experiences, scientific knowledge, and narrative skills to document environmental change in her representations of moorlands,...
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"Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle" is an 1896 treatise on the Brontë sisters by Clement King Shorter. Dealing with every aspect of their lives, loves, losses, and literary endeavors, it offers the reader a unique and profound insight into this famous literary family. This volume is not to be missed by those with an interest in English literature and the Brontë sisters in particular. Contents include: "A Brontë Chronology", "Preliminary: Mrs. Gaskell",...
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Who says you have to travel far from home to go on a great hike? In “Best Hikes Charlotte” veteran hikers Jennifer Pharr Davis and Johnny Molloy offer the absolute best hikes in the greater Charlotte area. Each featured trail is perfect for the urban and suburbanite hard-pressed to find outdoor activities close to home. This guide leads you up mountains, over creeks, and through forests to the best outdoor adventures around Charlotte:
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Engines roared at Charlotte Motor Speedway for the first time in 1960, and the track has been home to some of NASCAR's greatest races and most honored drivers ever since. Despite early challenges, Bruton Smith and Humpy Wheeler took charge in 1975, and together sculpted one of the most famous race tracks in America as host of the Coca-Cola 600 and the Sprint All-Star Race. In 1992, the track became the first modern speedway to host night racing and...
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Charlotte Cross didn't believe in ghosts, until she met one whose heart was as broken as her own...
The spring before 7th Grade, tragedy strikes C. C. Cross. Dad won't be coming home from Afghanistan. When her mother packs her up and moves her across the country to Manassas, Virginia, C.C. finds herself in a new neighborhood, a new school and a new life, one without her mighty, fearless, and beloved father.
As C.C. struggles to build a new...
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From USA Today Bestselling Author and Daphne du Maurier Award Winner Grace Callaway comes a riveting enemies to lovers second chance romance...
An instant #1 Apple Books Romance Bestseller
She buried her husband twelve years ago...didn't she?
As the founder of a society of lady detectives, beautiful and intrepid widow Lady Charlie Fayne has made it her life's mission to help women in need. Her desire stems from her own dark past…which rises...
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Charlotte is a young Frontier woman breaking barriers. Enduring the hardship of both her parents dying, she takes on the role of both parents to her younger siblings. Needing stability, she has a whirlwind courtship with a local minister which results in a quick marriage but ends just as quickly when the preacher dies from a sudden illness.Charlotte is left cursing God but refuses to let her personal tragedies keep her down. She takes a job as a midwife,...
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The ultimate guide to Charlotte's food scene provides the inside scoop on the best places to find, enjoy, and celebrate local culinary offerings. Written for residents and visitors alike to find producers and purveyors of tasty local specialties, as well as a rich array of other, indispensable food-related information including: food festivals and culinary events; specialty food shops; farmers' markets and farm stands; trendy restaurants and time-tested...
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Debut novelist Michael Boccacino invites readers into the world beyond the realm of the living in Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling, a Victorian gothic tale of the strange and supernatural. But all who enter this house must beware-for there is a price to pay for visitors who wish to save those they love. The story of a British governess and her young charges seduced by the otherworldly enticements of a mysterious mansion in the forest following...
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Five-Star Trails: Charlotte is a handy guide for area residents, vacationers seeking outdoor fun, and for business travelers with a free afternoon. With a diverse collection of hiking routes, the book offers choices for everyone from solo trekkers to companions to families with either youngsters or oldsters to consider. Researched, experienced, and written by a local author, the guide provides in-depth trail descriptions, directions, and commentary...
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This is a true story about my mother and aunt (Charlotte and Louise) and their journey through youth being neglected and mistreated by their mothers during the Great Depression, their relationships, and parenthood. Charlotte and Louise struggle with love in their home life and in their love life, feeling like they have never really experienced true love. They leave home and become burlesque dancers. One becomes a burlesque super star, while the other...
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This is book two in the Flying Tiger series. Please read book one, 'Charlotte and the Morthe' first.
In an attempt to get more kids reading all my children's books are free as e-books and always will be.
In the kingdom of Faladia, the volcano Mount Pustular is beginning to erupt. Ash and lava is spewing from the crater and is starting to engulf the tiny Sundria monastery situated at its base.
In the grounds of the abbey is a magical fountain...
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The first four Charlotte Anthony Mystery novels in one box set. The Charlotte Anthony novels are traditional, character-driven amateur detective mysteries where the past informs the present, and a small town in the American Midwest is connected to the larger world in often surprising ways.
An Uncollected Death introduces Charlotte Anthony, a forty-something divorcée, single mother and magazine editor who suddenly finds herself an empty-nester, unemployed,...
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It's not every day a ghost curls up in your lap...
When little Henrietta decides I'm trustworthy and introduces me to her teacher, Charlotte, I find myself wrapped up in the story of their murders. Before long, my friends and I are saving a building, solving a murder, and telling the stories that a lot of people in our small town would rather be left untold.
Our best hope for ourselves and for Henrietta and Charlotte is that the truth really will...
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Mackenzie Menter performs Charlotte Perkins Gilman's famous 1892 tale of a woman's decent into madness. The unnamed narrator secretly keeps a journal and chronicles her decent into madness while subjected to her doctor-husband's severe postpartum rest cure. She begins to see that a woman is trapped in the suffocating wallpaper that envelops her room, and she becomes determined - - at all costs - - to free her. Rediscovered and celebrated by feminists...
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The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from "regional backwater" to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation's premier banking and financial cores with interests reaching broadly into global markets. Once defined by its biracial and bicultural character, Charlotte is now an emerging immigrant gateway drawing newcomers from...
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Charlotte has entered a golden age of craft brewing, and while this fermented frenzy may feel altogether new, it evokes a forgotten heritage that dates back to colonial days. Beginning with Captain James Jack, whose tavern was a Patriot haven burned by the British during the Revolution, local beer writer Daniel Hartis follows a frothy trail through the highs and lows of this sudsy story. Grab a pint and discover how Prohibition took hold of Charlotteans....
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Charlotte, the Very Good, Very Naughty Girl is a delightful story of little Charlotte who has learned how fun it is to use the word no a little more often than her mother, father, grandparents, and teacher would like. As the story unfolds, Charlotte refuses to pick up her toys, go to bed on time, and even participate when her teacher asks! Father has a wonderful idea to turn the tables on little Charlotte. With clear communication, the adults in Charlotte's...