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Free Download Conor Byrne, "Katherine Howard: Henry VIII’s Slandered Queen"
English | ISBN: 0750990600 | 2019 | 224 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Over the years Katherine Howard, Henry VIII’s fifth wife, has been slandered as a ‘juvenile delinquent’, ’empty-headed wanton’ and ‘natural born tart’, who engaged in promiscuous liaisons prior to her marriage and committed adultery after. Though she was bright, charming and beautiful, her actions in a climate of distrust and fear of female sexuality led to her ruin in 1542 after less than two years as queen.In this in-depth biography, Conor Byrne uses the results of six years of research to challenge these assumptions, arguing that Katherine’s notorious reputation is unfounded and redeeming her as Henry VIII’s most defamed queen. He offers new insights into her activities and behaviour as consort, as well as the nature of her relationships with Manox, Dereham and Culpeper, looking at her representations in media and how they have skewed popular opinion.Who was the real Katherine Howard and has society been wrong to judge her so harshly for the past 500 years?

Free Download Phyllis M. Betz, "Katherine V. Forrest: A Critical Appreciation"
English | ISBN: 1476662568 | 2017 | 204 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Best known for her Kate Delafield detective series, Katherine V. Forrest is recognized as one of the preeminent figures in lesbian popular literature. Yet her work has received little scholarly attention. This critical study explores Forrest’s entire body of work, including her fiction and (perhaps more importantly) her writing about writing, popular genres and her readers. Her science fiction and romance novels are analyzed, with a focus on the reasons behind their enduring appeal. Her most famous romance, Curious Wine, originally published in 1984, remains in print-a longevity far exceeding the typical romance novel.

Free Download June Woolerton, "The Mysterious Death of Katherine Parr: What Really Happened to Henry VIII’s Last Queen?"
English | ISBN: 1399054449 | 2024 | 224 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Raises fresh questions about how Katherine Parr actually died and why she was buried so quickly, painting a vivid picture of the last days of a powerful queen.

Free Download Joyce Aschenbrenner, "Katherine Dunham: DANCING A LIFE"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0252027590 | PDF | pages: 308 | 5.6 mb
Throughout the better part of the twentieth century, and in performance halls, classrooms, and communities throughout the world, the wellspring of Katherine Dunham’s remarkable career can be traced to the intersection of dance, culture, and society. More than a recounting of Dunham’s accomplishments as a dancer and choreographer, this biography is the first to thoroughly examine her pioneering contributions to dance anthropology and her commitment to humanizing society through the arts.

Free Download Joyce Aschenbrenner, "Katherine Dunham: DANCING A LIFE"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0252027590 | PDF | pages: 308 | 5.6 mb
Throughout the better part of the twentieth century, and in performance halls, classrooms, and communities throughout the world, the wellspring of Katherine Dunham’s remarkable career can be traced to the intersection of dance, culture, and society. More than a recounting of Dunham’s accomplishments as a dancer and choreographer, this biography is the first to thoroughly examine her pioneering contributions to dance anthropology and her commitment to humanizing society through the arts.

Free Download Darlene Harbour Unrue, "Selected Letters of Katherine Anne Porter: Chronicles of a Modern Woman"
English | 2012 | pages: 432 | ISBN: 161703620X, 1628461756 | EPUB | 2,7 mb
Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) produced a relatively small body of fiction, but she wrote thousands and thousands of letters. The present selection of 135 unexpurgated letters, written to seventy-four different persons, begins with a 1916 letter written from a tuberculosis sanatorium in Texas and ends with a 1979 letter dictated to an unnamed nursing-home attendant in Maryland. Different from any previous selection, this body of letters does not omit Porter’s frank criticism of fellow writers and spans her entire life. Within that circumscription is the chronicle of Porter, a twentieth-century woman searching for love while she struggles to become the writer who she is sure she can be.

Free Download Selected Stories of Katherine Mansfield: A Manuscript Critical Edition
by Katherine Mansfield and Todd Martin
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1350096652 | 344 Pages | True ePUB | 7.61 MB

Free Download Aimée Gasston, "Katherine Mansfield, Illness and Death "
English | ISBN: 139952741X | 2023 | 224 pages | PDF | 10 MB
During Katherine Mansfield’s life she experienced the effects of abortion, miscarriage, gonorrhoea, peritonitis, rheumatism and tuberculosis, and would take up a peripatetic existence constantly in search of more favourable climates. The First World War of 1914-1918 and the influenza pandemic of 1918-20 informed the zeitgeist of her times. This volume of essays explores the extent to which this resonant context of disease and death shaped Mansfield’s literary output and her modes of thinking. Illness both stimulated and limited Mansfield’s creativity – she would write to fund her medical care while simultaneously limited by her poor health, writing in 1922: ‘The real point is I shall have to make as much money as I can on my next book – my path is so dotted with doctors’. As explored in this volume, her personal writings document the increasing influence of tubercular literary predecessors such as Anton Chekhov and John Keats, while her stories function compellingly as dialogue with loved ones who have been lost – her brother, her mother, her grandmother – endowing them with life in the process.

Free Download Claire Davison, "Translation as Collaboration: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and S.S. Koteliansky"
English | ISBN: 0748682813 | 2014 | 208 pages | PDF | 1302 KB
The first book-length study of the poetics of co-translation in the context of British and European modernism

Free Download Gerri Kimber, "Katherine Mansfield and Children "
English | ISBN: 1474491901 | 2021 | 256 pages | PDF | 3 MB
What Virginia Woolf called ‘Childlikeness’ is a facet of Mansfield’s personality which permeates every aspect of her personal and creative life. It is present in her mature fiction, where some of her most well-known and accomplished stories, such as ‘Prelude’ and ‘At the Bay’, have children as protagonists. It is present in her early poetry, which includes a collection of poems for children intended for publication and it is also present in her juvenilia, where many of the stories she wrote from an early age for school magazines and other publications, feature children. Even as an adult, Mansfield’s love of the miniature, her delight in children in general, her fascination with dolls, all feature in her personal writing. Her relationship with John Middleton Murry was characterised by their mutual descriptions of themselves as little children fighting against a corrupt world.