The Children's Hour
Author: Lillian Hellman
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780822202059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA serious play about two women who run a school for girls.
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Author: Lillian Hellman
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780822202059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA serious play about two women who run a school for girls.
Author: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a collection of stories relating to a child's everyday experiences.
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9780879239718
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf all of Longfellow's beloved poems (and there are many) none is so personal, so sunny, or so touching as this affectionate love letter to his three daughters, "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with the golden hair." Longfellow's happiest hours were spent writing on a cluttered desk by the south window of his beloved Craigie House, an imposing mansion still preserved on Cambridge's famous Brattle Street. It was here that most of the action takes place (except for his literary reference, and brief excursion, to the "Mouse-Tower on the Rhine"), here that his daughters come creeping down the stairs to beard the gentle, genial poet in his lair. Lang's luminous illustrations perfectly capture the happy atmosphere of that house, the author's affections for his daughters, and the painterly quality of his verse. This book for young readers presents one of the sweetest poems in the English language, her newly illustrated, beautifully presented, and now available to a new generation of readers.
Author: Kenneth S. Robson
Publisher: Lyre Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780615391984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTHE CHILDREN'S HOUR is a "must read" according to Dr. Robson's colleagues in the field of child psychiatry. They are delighted by the book's combination of compassion, insight, poetry, and candor. They find its emphasis on non-chemical therapy to be a necessary antidote to the more mechanistic, biological approaches currently in vogue. And they note that the book is equally important to professionals and the general public. No one can read this engaging, witty, devastatingly honest, and wonderfully wise memoir without feeling its direct relevance to the sorrows, dangers, and triumphs we have all experienced as children and continue to experience in the lives of the young in our immediate and extended families. Whoever we are, wherever we have been, this book cuts deeply into our common humanity.
Author: T. S. Arthur
Publisher:
Published: 1867
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cristina Pantoja-Hidalgo
Publisher: UP Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9789715425414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew fiction anthology of stories abuot childhood.
Author: Elizabeth Wister Stevenson
Publisher:
Published: 1866
Total Pages: 146
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gémino H. Abad
Publisher: UP Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9789715425407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiterature from the Philippines, distributed on behalf of University of Philippines by University of Hawai'i Press.
Author: Julia Erhart
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2024-05-14
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 0228021456
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on a play by Lillian Hellman, The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream commercial American film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. It centres on a teacher at a girls’ school (Shirley MacLaine) who is accused of harbouring feelings for her co-worker (Audrey Hepburn) and depicts the intense moral panic that ensues. Produced in the social climate of the Lavender Scare, the film reveals deep insights into the politics of sexuality and censorship in midcentury America, only a few years before more visible struggles for queer liberation. The director, William Wyler, lobbied hard to get the film made after an earlier straight-washed version in 1936. The tense road to production included debates about whether to eliminate mentions of lesbianism from the script and how implicitly queer subject matter might conflict with the Production Code, by then weakened but still in force. Julia Erhart’s reading of the film’s conception, production, and reception advances a nuanced case of censorship as a productive force. While contests between Hellman and Wyler suppressed scenes of overt affection between main characters Karen and Martha, reception was comparatively fixated on the characters’ lesbianism: it threatened middlebrow movie critics in the mainstream press and resonated with queer audiences. Erhart’s attentive interpretation of both the script and the sonic landscape yields a detailed analysis of the soundtrack as an original pro-lesbian element. As issues of queer censorship continue to permeate life and culture more than fifty years later, Erhart demonstrates that The Children’s Hour is as salient to social and political tensions around gender and sexuality today as it was in the 1960s.