Women of Urania
Women of Urania

Author: Amanda Wallace

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-01-09

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9781793455079

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The best foot fetish saga on the net is back!After Rachel's outstanding achievement followed by the capture and defeat of the enemy King Jamal and his crew, Laurie, queen of Urania becomes empress of Esperia, country that was formerly ruled by Jamal. In spite of Jamal's outrageous behaviour prior to his capture, Laurie does not decide to kill him however, she decides to teach him and his innocent citizens the proper manner to deal with Uranian women. Esperia becomes a place of fun and relax for the free Uranian women and every single citizen is made a slave and auctioned together with his/her possessions . The Esperians are forced to increas their production in order to increase the Uranian revenues and are forced to endure the hardest conditions, being allowed only a ration of daily bread. In addition, Laurie decided to humiliate the Esperians even further by imposing a religion of which she was the only goddess, therefore, she ordered the construction of golden temples and statues dedicated to her.Meantime, before she decides to leave Esperia, she wants to make sure that her orders are followed and moves in the Esperian castle for six months in which she trains the former king Jamal to please her as her own personal slave.As this story contains femdom, foot worship, humiliation, mind control and degradation, the recommended audience is an adult only one. Happy New year!Amanda

Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women
Charles Dickens and the House of Fallen Women

Author: Jenny Hartley

Publisher: Methuen Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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"An account of Charles Dickens' work with destitute girls and young women in mid-eighteenth century London. With support from the millionairess Angela Burdett Coutts, he established a 'safe' house for young women in Shepherd's Bush where they were taken from lives of prostitution and crime and trained for useful employment."--Borders website.

The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (abridged)
The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (abridged)

Author: Lady Mary Wroth

Publisher: Medieval and Renaissance Texts

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780866984515

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The first romance written by an Englishwoman, Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania is a literary tour de force in its own right. As the niece of Sir Philip Sidney, Mary Wroth was ideally situated as an observer and reporter of the social, literary, and political milieu of her time. This abridged modern-spelling edition, with a useful introduction and index of characters, makes this work newly accessible to general readers, students, and scholars.

Among the Fallen
Among the Fallen

Author: Virginia Frances Schwartz

Publisher: Holiday House

Published: 2019-10-22

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0823444082

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Imprisoned for crimes she didn't commit, sixteen-year-old Orpha accepts an unusual invitation to live in a Victorian home for fallen women-- and finds new hope. Though haunted by nightmarish flashbacks and withering in the miserable conditions of Tothill prison, an infamous Victorian workhouse, Orpha perseveres, doing what she can to befriend and protect the other girls imprisoned alongside her. She doesn't speak about what happened-- no one would listen. No one would believe her. But then a mysterious letter arrives, offering her a place at Urania cottage. This experimental home aims to rehabilitate so-called fallen women-- many of them victims of sexual abuse, suffering not only the trauma of their experiences, but the blame and loss of reputation and livelihood. It sounds too good to be true-- but with nowhere else to go, Orpha decides to take her chance. Soon she discovers her unknown savior is none other than Charles Dickens, whose writing deals extensively with the plight of the lower class, and whose friendship and guidance offers Orpha a new way to express herself. With the support of the other women of Urania and the promise of a real future, Orpha will have to confront the darkest parts of her past-- and let go of her secrets. This atmospheric historical novel, full of heartbreakingly real characters whose lives are all too believable, celebrates the strength and resilience of young women throughout history. Virginia Frances' Schwartz's powerful prose, structured to echo Dickens' serialized style, illuminates an era of startling inequality and extreme poverty. Fans of Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever 1793, Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, and Katherine Paterson's Lyddie will enjoy this riveting title. Named to the Amelia Bloomer book List A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Nominated for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction

Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance
Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance

Author: Helen Hackett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-02

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780521031547

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This book traces the progress of Renaissance romance from a genre addressed to women as readers to a genre written by women. Exploring this crucial transitional period, Helen Hackett examines the work of a diverse range of writers from Lyly, Rich and Greene to Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare. Her book culminates in an analysis of Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621), the first romance written by a woman, and considers the developing representation of female heroism and selfhood, especially the adaptation of saintly roles to secular and even erotic purposes.

The First Part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania
The First Part of The Countess of Montgomery's Urania

Author: Lady Mary Wroth

Publisher: Iter Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 952

ISBN-13:

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Lady Mary Wroth composed her prose romance "Urania" at the height of the Jacobean debates concerning the nature and status of women. Personal experiences, her own and those of her friends, had made Wroth very much aware of how little voice women had in determining htheirown destinies or even choosing their life partners.

The Feast of the Goat
The Feast of the Goat

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2011-03-04

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1429921781

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE In The Feast of the Goat, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit. Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. "A fierce, edgy and enthralling book ... Mr. Vargas Llosa has pushed the boundaries of the traditional historical novel, and in doing so has written a book of harrowing power and lasting resonance."--The New York Times

Kissing the Wild Woman
Kissing the Wild Woman

Author: Christopher Nissen

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 1442643404

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Giulia Bigolina's (ca. 1516-ca. 1569) Urania (ca. 1552) is the oldest known prose romance to have been written by an Italian woman. In Kissing the Wild Woman, Christopher Nissen explores the unique aesthetic vision and innovative narrative features of Bigolina's greatest surviving work, in which she fashioned a new type of narrative that combined elements of the romance and the novella and included a polemical treatise on the moral implications of portraiture and the role of women in the arts. Demonstrating that Bigolina challenged cultural authority by rejecting the prevailing views of both painting and literature, Nissen discusses Bigolina's suggestion that painting constituted an ineffectual, even immoral mode of self-promotion for women in relation to the views of the contemporary writer Pietro Aretino and the painter Titian. Kissing the Wild Woman's analysis of this little-known work adds a new dimension to the study of Renaissance aesthetics in relation to art history, Renaissance thought, women's studies, and Italian literature.

Urania
Urania

Author: Giulia Bigolina

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0226048799

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Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, Urania: A Romance provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation. The first known prose romance written by a woman in Italian, Bigolina's Urania centers on the monomaniacal love of a female character falling into melancholy when her beloved leaves her for a more beautiful woman. A tale that includes many of the conventions that would later become standards of the genre—cross-dressing, travel, epic skirmishes, and daring deeds—Urania also contains the earliest treatise on the worth of women. Also included in this volume, the novella Giulia Camposampiero is the only extant part of a probable longer narrative written in the style of the Decameron. While employing some of those same gender and role reversals as Urania, including the privileging of heroic constancy in both men and women, it chronicles the tribulations that a couple undergoes until their secret marriage is publicly recognized.