Stevie Davies
Teoksen The Brontë Sisters: Selected Poems of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë tekijä
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Stevie Davies is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Welsh Academy, and Director Of Creative Writing at Swansea University.
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(eng) Stevie Davies is a single author of literary fiction and nonfiction. Please do not split her into separate authors unless you are sure of what you are doing.
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Tekijän teokset
The Brontë Sisters: Selected Poems of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë (1976) — Toimittaja; Johdanto — 48 kappaletta
Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics) 38 kappaletta
Regresso ao Suez 1 kappale
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- Kanoninen nimi
- Davies, Stevie
- Syntymäaika
- 20th century
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- UK
- Syntymäpaikka
- Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Asuinpaikat
- Swansea, Wales, UK
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Morriston, Swansea, Wales, UK - Koulutus
- University of Manchester (BA, MA, PhD)
- Ammatit
- Director of Creative Writing, University of Wales, Swansea
- Organisaatiot
- Royal Society of Literature
Academi Gymreig
Arts Council of Wales - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
- Erotteluhuomautus
- Stevie Davies is a single author of literary fiction and nonfiction. Please do not split her into separate authors unless you are sure of what you are doing.
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A study of women of the English Revolution, mainly, for obvious reasons, those who wrote and published, or were written about, that, although published in 1998, seems to have a ring of the earlier works of ‘herstory’ that came out in the late 80s and early 90s, both in the subject matter, reclaiming the lives and words of women from the margins, and in the language it’s written in, which is harder to quantify by definitely half way between polemical and academic writing, with a twist of pro-women language and a consciously partisan way of writing.
It uses women’s own words where possible, and links sets of women together – early Quaker women (this was fascinating, as I didn’t have a grasp of the role of women in forming the Quaker movement), women who preached, women who prophesised, the active and trouble-making wives of men who were imprisoned, etc. Davies brings their stories into the foreground and pulls the threads together, celebrating them in a readable work that does an important job.… (lisätietoja)