Résultats pour "The Letters" dans Femmes

Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909–1943) lived largely in the shadows, searching for her spiritual home while bearing witness to the violence that devastated Europe twice in her brief lifetime. The letters she wrote to her parents and brother from childhood onward chart her intellectual range as well as her itinerancy and ever-shifting preoccupations, revealing the singular personality at the heart of her brilliant essays. The first complete collection of Weil's missives to her family, A Life in Letters offers new insight into her personal relationships and experiences.

After growing up in Zanzibar as part of the ruling Omani Sultanate, Sayyida Salme, the daughter of the Sultan and his surie concubine Djilfidan, took a fateful step that shaped the rest of her life. She could not have imagined what challenges lay ahead. When she chose to follow her love and became Emily Ruete, she found herself on a path to self-exile, as she moved from East to West, South to North. Taking on a new culture, language, faith, even identity, she crossed borders only to find new barriers.

Entertaining, informative, irreverent and indiscreet – and sometimes very touching – Letters to Margaret reveals an eighty-seven-year-old Hunter still raging against the dying of the light, and seeking consolation for life’s frustrations and disappointments (and the loneliness of widowerhood) through a sustained conversation with the woman he shared his life with for more than half a century.

18 luglio 1976, Olimpiadi di Montréal: una giovane ginnasta rumena esegue l’esercizio alle parallele asimmetriche. La votazione tarda ad arrivare, poi sullo schermo appare un misterioso 1.00, che lascia tutti confusi e interdetti; infine giunge la rivelazione: i computer sono programmati per segnalare un massimo di 9.99 punti. A soli quattordici anni, Nadia Comaneci entra nella storia dello sport con un esercizio da 10, una perfezione che il tabellone non è neanche in grado di registrare, diventando istantaneamente un modello per generazioni intere di ginnaste e atlete.

The brief and tragic life of Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) is told through the beautiful and passionate letters written by Charlotte to her best friend Ellen Nussey. Born and brought up in the bleak Haworth parsonage with only her sisters and brother for company, she soon obtains employment as a Governess. Having travelled abroad to study languages in Brussels, she returns to the Yorkshire moors to join her family where she writes her most successful novel, Jane Eyre.

“I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.” Jane Austen at her witty, observant, intelligent, and sympathetic best, in this collection of her letters written to family and friends. Compiled by her niece Fanny Knight’s son Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen (the first Baron Brabourne), and edited by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, this collection includes a preface written by the editor and notes from Lord Brabourne. It was originally published in 1892.

Six weeks before her eighth birthday in May of 2024, my granddaughter Paige Schilling was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Paige underwent a 14-hour brain surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The tumor was successfully removed and Paige began a lengthy period of rehabilitation. During this time, Paige received so many gifts from friends and family that her father considered renting a storage unit. Instead of giving her another stuffed toy, I decided to write letters to Paige. The letters describe real events from my own life beginning from a time before television existed.

A new edition of the letters of the most remarkable of the Mitford sisters--timed to a new streaming series about the ever-fascinating family and a new biography of Jessica coming in 2025. Born into the British aristocracy as one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) larger-than-life Mitford...

'I still have that recurring fear of something happening to me before I see you again, and before I can tell you myself just how much and how often I've realised during the last few months that I love you completely and to the exclusion of all others. Remember that, because if there wasn't you, my darling Mary, the world would seem very empty and meaningless.' Mary was only 21 when she met and fell in love with the privately educated 19-year-old David in 1938.

Two women. One secret. Will they be able to keep it under wraps? It was a stormy evening in 1920s London. When newly qualified almoner, Alice, stepped into the home of Charlotte, a terrified teenager who had just given birth out of wedlock, she did not expect to make a pact that would change her...

In this powerful memoir told through a series of raw, unfiltered letters, Tamara Dillard invites listeners into the most vulnerable parts of her story—from the pain of childhood abuse and the failures of the foster care system, to the healing she found in unexpected places and people. Each letter is written to someone who left an imprint on her life: the helpers, the hurters, and the bystanders. Letters to the Village is not just a story of survival—it's a testament to the ripple effects of our actions and inactions.

When Susan's father reached out to her from prison, she wasn't sure if she wanted to play his game or not. Susan's father had physically and sexually brutalized her and many other victims, and even though she never blamed herself she thought she just might get some closure with the correspondence from her father. The journey of these letters is proof that all the answers any of us are searching for are inside of us all along. Through these letters Susan did find the closure and peace she had been searching for her entire life.

Lisa McNair was born in 1964, one year after her older sister, Denise, was murdered in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Dear Denise is a collection of forty letters from Lisa addressed to the sister she never knew, but in whose shadow of sacrifice and lost youth she was raised. These letters offer an intimate look into the life of a family touched by one of the most heinous tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement.

The staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regime Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight...

Each seven-year period of life is marked by distinct experiences, perceptions, and lessons. From growing up in a country foreign to her family to finding strength during a tumultuous and scarring divorce, to finally understanding a greater purpose and independence in spite of cultural norms, Rani Puranik shares lessons of life, love and leadership in 7 Letters to My Daughters, a roadmap crafted to equip not only her daughters but the daughters of the world.

Giulia Farnese, a woman who traverses time to find, in this novel, her redemption. Her real story is tachat of a woman who goes far beyond the figure of Sponsa Christi as she was known throughout the world.

What makes a 1930s society girl become a farmer? Answer: the Second World War. This is the story of my mother, Frances Donaldson, a privileged young woman giving her all in wartime. With her soldier husband, Jack, far away and two young children to care for, she bought a farm in Warwickshire and determined to live off it. Could an emotionally fragile young mother survive the ordeal? A Woman's War tells how she conquered WWII. An emotional tale from riches to rags, from joy to sorrow, and, at the end of the war together again with Jack, rejoicing.

Gertrude Stein and Laura Riding enjoyed a fascinating if brief three-year friendship via correspondence between 1927 and 1930, and in A Description of Acquaintance, Logan Esdale and Jane Malcolm make the letters available to a larger audience for the first time. Riding and Stein are important figures in twentieth-century poetry and poetics and are considered progenitors of later movements such as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.

Ogni settimana, per un anno, Susanna Tamaro scrive a un'amica lontana, Mathilda, che è tornata a vivere nel suo paese natale, l'Africa. Sono lettere che raccontano la vita quotidiana in campagna e parlano di amicizia, responsabilità, violenza, guerra, speranza, affrontando i temi fondamentali dell'esistenza. Ne nasce un diario che, con sguardo semplice e diretto, attraverso ricordi, incontri, pensieri, esortazioni e denunce, invita alla riflessione sulle piccole grandi questioni di cui la vita di ogni giorno è costellata. Con una nuova introduzione dell'autrice.

Il diario epistolare (1877-1902) della più famosa eroina del selvaggio West americano, indirizzato alla figlia Janey, letto dalla calda e appassionata voce dell'attrice Lucia Schierano...