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"La Morte amoureuse" (in English: "The Dead Woman in Love") is a short story written by Théophile Gautier and published in La Chronique de Paris in 1836. It tells the story of a priest named Romuald who falls in love with Clarimonde, a beautiful woman who turns out to be a vampire. In English translations the story has been titled "Clarimonde ...
Literary critic Greg Johnson describes the story as a “symbolic dream-narrative” in which Oates enlists Christian allegories to dramatize the degradation of a teenage American girl by “a demonic male figure who represents the death of her spirit.” [17] Oates also draws upon 19th century American romantic writers whose work was informed ...
Diane A. Oliver (July 28, 1943 – May 21, 1966) was an American short fiction writer. [1] She published four short stories in her lifetime and a further ten posthumously, eight of those only seeing print nearly 58 years after her death. [2]
Some of the most incredible inventors, writers, politicians, & activists have been women. From Ida B. Wells to Sally Ride, here are women who changed the world. 22 Famous Women in History You Need ...
The Queen of Tejano Music received many accolades in her tragically short life. Her 1990 album, Ven Conmigo , was the first Tejano gold record, selling over 500,000 albums and eventually going ...
"The Story of an Hour" is a short story written by Kate Chopin on April 19, 1894. It was originally published in Vogue on December 6, 1894, as " The Dream of an Hour ". It was later reprinted in St. Louis Life on January 5, 1895, as "The Story of an Hour".
Mary Josephine Lavin (10 June 1912 – 25 March 1996) was an American-born Irish author of short stories and novels, now regarded as a pioneer in the field of women's writing. The well-known Anglo-Irish writer Lord Dunsany mentored Lavin after her father approached him on her behalf to discuss with him some stories she had written.
Ödön von Horváth's play based on his friend Hertha Pauli's story, written in 1934 and titled Eine Unbekannte aus der Seine. Claire Goll's 1936 short story "Die Unbekannte aus der Seine", in which the protagonist peers into a death mask and dies from a heart attack caused by delusion and guilt as he believes he recognizes the face as his ...