Search Results: Biography: women from The Owl at the Bridge

N.Y., Oxford UP, 1987. Hard Cover. 5 p.l., 310 p., 24 illus., genealogical table, 24 cm. "The full story of some of the most interesting and important and articulate women in American history." Stock# 32,877. Vg/ dj vg.

N.Y., Knopf, 1988. Hard Cover. xv, 331 p. 95 illus., 24.5 cm. Author of filmscripts for D.W. griffith at 19, Loos made her mark with Gentlemen Prefer Blonds in 1925. Stock #29,475. Vg/ dj vg.

Boston, Houghton-Mifflin, 1991. Hard Cover. xxiii, 488 pages, index, illus.; 23.5 cm. Biography of Anne Sexton (1928- 1974), troubled, alcoholic, confessional poetess. Fine/ dj fine. stock#29256x.

"...expands the boundaries of what is conventionally recognized as 17th-century English literature by uncovering, reintroducing and documenting the lives and works of more than 550 English women who wrote between 1580 and 1720... contains an informative introduction and helpful theoretical apparatus in the form of seven analytical appendices." xxvi, 298 pages; 23.5 cm. Fine in Fine dust jacket; As New. Stock#ofc0895.

"...despite repressive attitudes toward female assertiveness, women writers flourished in every stratum of eighteenth-century society-- aristocratic, working, and middle class-- through an extensive network of female, and occasionally male, patronage. During the years 1660 to 1800 "[w]riting became for the first time a respectable occupation rather than a sign of loose morals... many gifted women, while adapting to the constraints of eighteenth-century life, led unusual, often independent, and occasionally flamboyant lives as struggling novelists, actresses and playwrights, male impersonators, royal mistresses, or persecuted Quaker preachers..." xxiv, 344 pages; 25 cm. Paperback; as new. Stock#ofc0897.

Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1996, ©1995. Soft Cover. xxix, 231 p., illus.; 24 cm. A book about women in Tudor England, so "invariably begins with the wives of Henry VIII." (10): 0201408236. Stock#47854. Vg / soft cover.

"Fifth Printing." xii, [1], 431 pages, illustrations; 23.5 cm. Detailed life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, c.1122-1204. Bound in blue cloth (faded), three parts of original dust jacket pasted on blank leaves front & rear; endpaper maps; Good. Stock#ofc0911.

London, Rockliff [1950]. Hard Cover. xvi, 207 p., index, plates incl. portrait front.; 22.5 cm. A celebrated actress, Charles Lamb dedicated sonnets to her and proposed marriage, she was a substantial personage off the stage as well as on. Stock# 30,211. Vg/ no dj.. History; Biography; Women.

xiv, 338 p., 16 leaves of plates; 22 cm. A rich American Vanderbilt who became Duchess of Marlborough in a marriage of convenience and then, in a marriage for love, became French, tells of her life of privilege as one who saw it as an anachronism. Stock#48098.

"Jacqueline du Pré... one of the world's great cellists... won the most prestigious cello award in Britain... was a fully established artist at twenty... a remarkable but often tormented human being." 224 pages, plates; dust jacket; Very Good+. Stock#ofc0189.

NY, Scribner, ©1999. Hard Cover. 350 p., illus.; 25 cm. "Long obscured by her husband's shadow, Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson emerges in this first comprehensive biography as a figure of surprising influence and the centering force for LBJ, a man who suffered from extreme mood swings and desperately needed someone to help control his darker impulses." ISBN(10): 0684814803. Stock#NEU335. Very Good in VG dust jacket.

N.Y., Harper [1953]. Hard Cover. 482 p., illus., ports., facsim., 25 cm. Biography of French novelist George Sand who, after separating from her husband, went to Paris in 1831 to begin an independent life as a writer. Her early novels were about the struggles of individual women against social constraints, especially marriage. One of those novels, "Lelia" (1833), gave Maurois his title for this study. Vg/no dj. stock#101873.

Robert Hale, London ['First paperback edition 1990']. Soft Cover. Women writers, 1778-1927. 222 p., index, portrait plates; 23.5 cm.; academic paperback; fine. Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Beatrix Potter, Virginia Woolf. 'This book is offered as a work of interpretation, juxtaposition and synthesis... I have worked from primary sources... to use the words of the women themselves... to explore the complex father/daughter relationships of eight women writers.' 34134.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1967.. Hard Cover. xxii, 356 p., index, bibliography, partial list of plays & roles, photos; 23.5 cm. Biography of the great French actress by the American actress and humorous writer. Book club edition. Stock #29,413x. Good+/ dj chipped. Another copy vg/ no dj. Entertainment; Women; Theater.

See the Wikipedia entry for biographical information. This is the book, not the prospectus. "Edition Limited to 250 Copies." Contents include Practical Education, 1780; Books by Maria Edgeworth (including a few written in collaboration with her father) (28 titles); Contributions to Other Books; Collected Editions; Appendices (A Poem, Press Numbers, Works Concerning The Edgeworth Family. xxxii, 253 pages; 23 cm.; 8 collotype plates with printed guardsheets, 4 facsimiles; Index, pages 239-253. Bound in blue/green marbled boards, black cloth spine stamped in gold; top edge gilt; original grey printed paper dust jacket, spine sunned, a few small chips; Very Good+. Stock#ofc0828.

NY, Norton [1983]. Hard Cover. 319 p., index, photos; 24 cm. Mary Smith of Philadelphia, married to London barrister Frank Costelloe, left husband and children in 1891, to join art critic Bernard Berenson as companion in life and in art studies. Stock# 30,705x. Fine, new from publisher/ dj fine. Biography, women.

N.Y., Coward, McCann & Geohegan, 1972. Hard Cover. 307 p. 4 leaves of plates, 24 cm. Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797, pioneer English feminist and author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Women." RBL. Stock# 30,769. Vg/ dj good, some wear and small tears.

Philadelphia, J.B.Lippincott, 1973. Hard Cover. 160 p., illus. (ports), 21 cm. Brief biographies of thirteen prominent African women. Written for juvenile readers. Stock# 34,097. Good+/ no dj.

Doubleday [1997]. 'First Edition'. First Edition. Hard Cover. 'After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill... became a public figure at the white-hot center of an intense national debate on how men and women relate to each other in the workplace. That debate led to groundbreaking court decisions and major shifts in corporate policies that have had a profound effect on our lives-- and on Anita Hill's life. Now, with remarkable insight and total candor, Anota Hill reflects on events before, during, and after the hearings, offering for the first time a complete account that sheds startling new light on this watershed event.' 374 p., 24 cm.; pictorial dj has scratch across front, else VG+. 30548.

Raised in Fortezza della Brunella from 1916 (age five) until 1921 when she was sent to England for schooling. A wonderful Tuscan childhood. "Uncorrected Bound Galleys." 271 pages, illus., [24] pages of black-and-white photos; slight shelfwear; paper covers; Good+. Stock#ofc0123.