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  2. The Light of Days - Wikipedia

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    Julia M. Klein of the Boston Globe wrote that the book "takes readers deep into the psyches of these women" and that Batalion's "research is prodigious, and her dedication to her story obvious and moving. But the book’s very scope — its huge cast of characters, geographical sweep, and mix of chronological and thematic organization — may ...

  3. The Quadroons - Wikipedia

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    Cottage. The setting of the story is a cottage in Augusta, GA, before the Civil War.The two main characters, Rosalie, a "quadroon", and her husband Edward, a "Georgian," are living together in "a marriage sanctioned by Heaven, though unrecognized on earth" [5] Rosalie, as a partly African-American woman, cannot legally marry a White man, but they live together as if they are man and wife, and ...

  4. Silent Grace - Wikipedia

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    Silent Grace is a 2001 Irish feature film written and directed by Maeve Murphy.A fictional story based on real events, covering the untold story of Republican women prisoners involvement in the 1980/81 Dirty Protest and first hunger strike. It is about friendship and survival.

  5. Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman - Wikipedia

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    Sensibility seemed to many, particularly during a time of political reaction, to offer too much political power to women and to emasculate British men needed for fighting France. [26] All of Wollstonecraft's writings betray a tortured relationship with the language of sensibility and The Wrongs of Woman is no exception. As feminist scholar ...

  6. A Voice from the South - Wikipedia

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    Also acknowledging that women's role in government was minute at the time. She also claims that women are the reason for men's strengths in politics. She closes out this chapter by naming more influential women, Amanda Smith, Sarah Woodson Early, Martha Briggs, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Hallie Quinn Brown, and Fanny Jackson Coppin. The ...

  7. The Girls of Slender Means - Wikipedia

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    The book centres on 'The May of Teck Club', a fictional institution said to have been established by Princess May of Teck during the First World War [5] "for the Pecuniary Convenience and Social Protection of Ladies of Slender Means below the age of Thirty Years, who are obliged to reside apart from their Families in order to follow an Occupation in London".

  8. A Singular Woman - Wikipedia

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    A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother is a 2011 book by former The New York Times journalist Janny Scott.It is a biography of Ann Dunham, the mother of U.S. President Barack Obama.

  9. Hidden Figures (book) - Wikipedia

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    The book takes place from the 1930s through the 1960s, depicting the particular barriers for Black women in science during this time, thereby providing a lesser-known history of NASA. [3] The biographical text follows the lives of Katherine Johnson , Dorothy Vaughan , and Mary Jackson , three mathematicians [ 4 ] who worked as computers (then a ...