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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is a valuable piece of American feminist literature that reveals attitudes toward the psychological health of women in the nineteenth century. Diagnosed with "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency" by her physician husband, a woman is confined to an upstairs bedroom. Descending into psychosis at the complete lack of stimulation, she starts obsessing over
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure. Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists...
Author
Series
Witch boy volume 1
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In thirteen-year-old Aster's family, all the girls are raised to be witches, while boys grow up to be shapeshifters. Anyone who dares cross those lines is exiled. Unfortunately for Aster, he still hasn't shifted... and he's still fascinated by witchery, no matter how forbidden it might be. When a mysterious danger threatens the other boys, Aster knows he can help -- as a witch. It will take the encouragement of a new friend, the non-magical and non-conforming...
7) Anna Sunday
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
In 1863 twelve-year-old Anna, disguised as a boy and accompanied by her younger brother Jed, leaves their Pennsylvania home and makes the difficult journey to join their wounded father in Winchester, Virginia, where they find themselves in danger from Confederate troops.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
After her parents and brother are killed by Loyalists, fourteen-year-old Hannah leaves their farm and eventually, disguised as a boy, joins a pirate ship that preys on other ships to get supplies for the American Revolution.
11) Girl in blue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.
13) Evvy's Civil War
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In Virginia in 1860, on the verge of the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Evvy chafes at the restrictions that her society places on both women and slaves.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Enjoying the freedom afforded her while dressing as a boy in order to earn higher pay after emigrating from Ireland, Jennie Hodgers serves in the 95th Illinois Infantry as Private Albert Cashier, a Union soldier in the American Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Follows Caty and her daughter Cornelia through the latter half of the eighteenth century as they mingle with the heroes of the Revolutionary War, discovering that a woman's only means of power, flirting, can cause trouble and confusion.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In 1876, Ellen Harding Baker begins stitching a quilt that accurately depicts the solar system, demonstrating to her daughters that they can dream bigger and look farther. Includes author's note.
"In 1876 Ellen Harding Baker began stitching an extraordinary quilt, one that accurately depicted our solar system. Ellen, a Iowa storekeeper's wife and a mother, had a curiosity that reached far beyond the stratosphere. Today the quilt hangs in the Smithsonian's...
Author
Publisher
Listen & Live Audio
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Jacky Faber makes waves, even when docked in her adopted city of Boston to attend to the business of Faber Shipping Worldwide. With big dreams and perhaps too much exuberance for the Puritan populace, she quickly finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and a town roiling over the arrival of hundreds of Irish laborers, brought in on Jacky's Lorelei Lee.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A collection of 10 classic movies staring Bob Hope.
Give me a sailor: Jim enlists Letty to help him win over her sister if he helps set her up with his brother.
Thanks for the memory: A stay-at-home author and his working wife discover their domestic roles are not clear cut in this comedy of errors.
Never say die: A gold-digging widow tries to trap a millionaire into a hasty wedding.
Caught in the draft: Hope plays a gun-shy movie star who gets...