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Aphra Behn (/ ˈ æ f r ə b ɛ n /; [a] bapt. 14 December 1640 [1] [2] – 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era.As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors.
Mrs Osmond is a novel by the Irish author John Banville, published in 2017. It is based on the 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady by the American-British author Henry James . The Henry James novel describes how a young American heiress Isabel Archer marries Gilbert Osmond, a widower.
It was reprinted and packaged in a series of great novels in 1783, 1799, and 1810, and translated into German in 1754, French in 1773 and 1801, and Spanish in 1808. The novel formally inverts Don Quixote: as the Don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a romance. Arabella, also informed by earnest reading, mistakes herself for the maiden ...
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Her first novel, My Last Duchess, was published in the UK in August 2010 [8] and, under the title The American Heiress, in the U.S. and Canada in June 2011. [9] Goodwin has also compiled multiple poetry anthologies, the first being The Nation's Favourite Love Poems in 1997, [10] and written a memoir entitled Silver River (2007). [11]
Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, George III's queen.
E. D. E. N. Southworth was born Emma Nevitte on December 26, 1819, in Washington, D.C., to Susannah Wailes and Charles LeCompte Nevitte, a Virginia merchant.Her father died in 1824, and per his deathbed request she was christened Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte.
Alpha-blockers. When taken with Cialis, alpha-blockers can cause a drop in blood pressure. These medications are frequently prescribed to manage high blood pressure, benign prostatic hyperplasia ...