Henrietta Herndon Memoir

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Henrietta Herndon Memoir

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Author : Henrietta Robinson Herndon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981

Henrietta Herndon Memoir written by Henrietta Robinson Herndon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Dome Building fire, 1917 categories.

Irrepressible

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Author : Emily Bingham
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2015-06-16

Irrepressible written by Emily Bingham and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Raised like a princess in one of the most powerful families in the American South, Henrietta Bingham was offered the helm of a publishing empire. Instead, she ripped through the Jazz Age like an F. Scott Fitzgerald character: intoxicating and intoxicated, selfish and shameless, seductive and brilliant, endearing and often terribly troubled. In New York, Louisville, and London, she drove both men and women wild with desire, and her youth blazed with sex. But her love affairs with women made her the subject of derision and caused a doctor to try to cure her queerness. After the speed and pleasure of her early days, the toxicity of judgment from others coupled with her own anxieties resulted in years of addiction and breakdowns. And perhaps most painfully, she became a source of embarrassment for her family-she was labeled "a three-dollar bill." But forebears can become fairy-tale figures, especially when they defy tradition and are spoken of only in whispers. For the biographer and historian Emily Bingham, the secret of who her great-aunt was, and just why her story was concealed for so long, led to Irrepressible: The Jazz Age Life of Henrietta Bingham. Henrietta rode the cultural cusp as a muse to the Bloomsbury Group, the daughter of the ambassador to the United Kingdom during the rise of Nazism, the seductress of royalty and athletic champions, and a pre-Stonewall figure who never buckled to convention. Henrietta's audacious physicality made her unforgettable in her own time, and her ecstatic and harrowing life serves as an astonishing reminder of the stories lying buried in our own families.

The Hard Way Around

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Author : Geoffrey Wolff
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-11-29

The Hard Way Around written by Geoffrey Wolff and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

In 1895 Joshua Slocum set sail from Gloucester, Massachusetts, in the Spray, a thirty-seven-foot sloop. More than three years later, he became the first man to circumnavigate the globe solo, and his account of that voyage, Sailing Alone Around the World, made him internationally famous. But scandal soon followed, and a decade later, with his finances failing, he set off alone once more—never to be seen again. In this definitive portrait of an icon of adventure, Geoffrey Wolff describes, with authority and admiration, a life that would see hurricanes, shipwrecks, pirate attacks, cholera, smallpox, and no shortage of personal tragedy.

My First Thirty Years

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Author : Gertrude Beasley
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2021-09-28

My First Thirty Years written by Gertrude Beasley and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

"Thirty years ago, I lay in the womb of a woman, conceived in a sexual act of rape, being carried during the prenatal period by an unwilling and rebellious mother, finally bursting from the womb only to be tormented in a family whose members I despised or pitied, and brought into association with people whom I should never have chosen." Shortly after its 1925 publication, Gertrude Beasley's ferociously eloquent feminist memoir was banned and she herself disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Though British Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell called My First Thirty Years "truthful, which is illegal" and Larry McMurtry pronounced it the finest Texas book of its era, Beasley's words have been all but inaccessible for almost a century—until now. Beasley penned one of the most brutally honest coming-of-age historical memoirs ever written, one which strips away romantic notions about frontier women's lives at the turn of the 20th century. Her mother and sisters braved male objectification and the indignities of poverty, with little if any control over their futures. With characteristic ferocity, Beasley rejected a life of dependence, persisting in her studies and becoming first a teacher, then a principal, then a college instructor, and finally a foreign correspondent. Along the way, Beasley becomes a strident activist for women's rights, socialism, and sex education, which she sees as key to restoring bodily autonomy to women like those she grew up with. She is undaunted by authority figures but secretly ashamed of her origins and yearns to be loved. My First Thirty Years is profoundly human and shockingly candid, a rallying cry that cost its author her career and her freedom. Her story deserves to be heard. Praise for My First Thirty Years: "For almost a century in Texas literary circles, Gertrude Beasley's 1925 memoir has been more a legend than a book... The tangled history of My First Thirty Years, and Beasley's horrific personal fate, are case studies in society's merciless treatment of women of her era who gave voice to socially unspeakable truths. The memoir's republication this month, which makes it widely available for the first time in 96 years, is a long-overdue moment of reckoning. It's also a rich gift to the Texas literary canon."—Texas Monthly "We should all be as fierce, loud, and convinced of our own self-worth as Gertrude Beasley was. This story of a justifiably angry woman living ahead of the world she lived in will resonate deeply today."—Soraya Chemaly, activist and award-winning author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger "Gertrude Beasley's 1925 memoir grabs the reader by the arm and holds tight, speaking with a voice as compelling as if she had just put down her pen this morning. Feminist, socialist, and acute observer of both herself and the world around her, Beasley gives us stories that illuminate the costs of poverty and of being a woman. To read My First Thirty Years is to be in conversation with an extraordinary mind."—Anne Gardiner Perkins, author of Yale Needs Women

Memoirs Of Robert E Lee

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Author : Armistead Lindsay Long
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886

Memoirs Of Robert E Lee written by Armistead Lindsay Long and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with categories.

Libertie

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Author : Kaitlyn Greenidge
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2021-04-29

Libertie written by Kaitlyn Greenidge and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-29 with Fiction categories.

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 2022 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARD A Times Book of the Month One of Roxane Gay's Audacious Book Club Picks 'A feat of monumental thematic imagination' - The New York Times Book Review 'An elegantly layered, beautifully rendered tour de force that is not to be missed' - Roxane Gay Libertie Sampson was named by her father as he lay dying, in honour of the bright, shining future he was sure was coming. The only daughter of a prosperous Black woman physician, she was born free in a country still blighted by slavery. But she has never felt free. Shrinking from her mother's ambitions for her future, Libertie ventures beyond her insulated community, hoping that somehow, somewhere, she will create a life that feels like her own. Immersive, lyrical and deeply moving, Libertie is a novel about legacy and longing, the story of a young woman struggling to discover what freedom truly means - for herself, and for generations to come.

Dictee

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Author : Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2001

Dictee written by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.

This autobiographical work is the story of several women. Deploying a variety of texts, documents and imagery, these women are united by suffering and the transcendance of suffering.

Checklist Of Books And Pamphlets In Science And Technology

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Author : New York State Library
language : en
Publisher: Albany : New York State Library [and] University of the State of New York
Release Date : 1960

Checklist Of Books And Pamphlets In Science And Technology written by New York State Library and has been published by Albany : New York State Library [and] University of the State of New York this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Science categories.

Reminiscences And Memoirs Of North Carolina And Eminent North Carolinians

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Author : John Hill Wheeler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1884

Reminiscences And Memoirs Of North Carolina And Eminent North Carolinians written by John Hill Wheeler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with North Carolina categories.

Harvard Memorial Biographies Edited By T W H

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Author : Thomas Wentworth Higginson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1867

Harvard Memorial Biographies Edited By T W H written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1867 with categories.