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Free Download A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPT9YMF4 | 2024 | 16 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 466 MB
Author: Camille Peri
Narrator: Jeanette Illidge
The extraordinary story of the creative and romantic partnership between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife and muse, Fanny Van de Grift. He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silver miner’s wife, with children, when they met. Who could have predicted that Fanny Van de Grift and Robert Louis Stevenson would go on to create one of history’s great literary marriages? From their first encounter in France in 1876, Fanny and Louis’s partnership transcended societal expectations to become a literary union that was progressive, eccentric, and tempestuous, but always animated by a profound mutual respect.

Free Download A Wilder Shore: The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson by Camille Peri
English | August 13th, 2024 | ISBN: 0670786195 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 31.76 MB
"Engrossing . . . [A] richly researched and vivid double portrait." -Phyllis Rose, The Atlantic

Free Download Fanny: Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones By Erica Jong
2003 | 512 Pages | ISBN: 0393324354 | EPUB | 4 MB
"A rollicking tale…a tour de force."-NewsweekDiscovered on the doorstep of a country estate in Wiltshire, England, the infant Fanny is raised to womanhood by her adoptive parents, Lord and Lady Bellars. Fanny wants to become the epic poet of the age, but her plans are dashed when she is ravished by her libertine stepfather. Fleeing to London, Fanny falls in with idealistic witches and highwaymen who teach her of worlds she never knew existed. After toiling in a London brothel that caters to literati, Fanny embarks on a series of adventures that teach her what she must know to live and prosper as a woman. Soon to be a major Broadway musical. Reading group guide included.

Free Download James E. Caron, "The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern "
English | ISBN: 3031412753 | 2024 | 230 pages | EPUB, PDF | 426 KB + 3 MB
The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern argues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position within the antebellum literary marketplace dominated by women authors of sentimental fiction, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne (in)famously called "the damn mob of scribbling women." The Fanny Fern persona represents a nineteenth-century woman voicing the modern feminine within a laughter-provoking bourgeois carnival, a forerunner of Hélène Cixous’s laughing Medusa figure and her theory about écriture féminine. By advancing an innovative theory about an Anglo-American aesthetic, comic belles lettres, Caron explains the comic nuances of Parton’s persona, capable of both an amiable and a caustic satire. The book traces Parton’s burgeoning celebrity, analyzes her satires on cultural expectations of gendered behavior, and provides a close look at her variegated comic style. The book then makes two first-order conclusions: Parton not only offers a unique profile for antebellum women comic writers, but her Fanny Fern persona also anchors a potential genealogy of women comic writers and activists, down to the present day, who could fit Kate Clinton’s concept of