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Learning to Forget

Learning to ForgetAmy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward. Men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take…

John: 4

John Chapter 4 1 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, 2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) 3 He…

John Keats: Part 1

by John Keats Part 2Part 1 Upon a time, before the faery broods Drove Nymph and Satyr from the prosperous woods, Before King Oberon's bright diadem, Sceptre, and mantle, clasp'd with dewy…

feminism

(Encyclopedia) feminism, movement for the political, social, and educational equality of women with men; the movement has occurred mainly in Europe and the United States. It has its roots in the…

Laforet, Carmen

(Encyclopedia) Laforet, Carmen (Carmen Laforet Díaz)Laforet, Carmenkärˈmān läfōrĕtˈ [key], 1921–2004, Spanish writer, b. Barcelona. Her first novel, Nada (1945, tr. Andrea 1964), which describes the…

Kateri Tekakwitha, Saint

(Encyclopedia) Kateri Tekakwitha, SaintKateri Tekakwitha, Saintgädälēˈ dĕkhäkhwēˈᵺschwa;, –dālēˈ dāgäkwēˈtä [key] or Saint Catherine Tekakwitha, 1656–80, Native American holy woman known as the Lily…

Cleland, John

(Encyclopedia) Cleland, John, 1709–87, English novelist. His Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1750), commonly known as Fanny Hill, was an immediate popular success; the novel's notoriety led to a…