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Sanctuary in Porcelain
… of “Jennifer Lorn,” in the autumn of 1923, and to commend this story in the public prints (according to the … that “The Orphan Angel,” when it was published in 1926, affected me very much^as, in the cliche at least, does a … as if with a caress. A few of them may even pretend to die, with unruffled decorum. Their little porcelain tongues …
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Lord of the WASPs
… for a cottage. Fifty feet below lay a natural harbor. At a comfortable swimming distance from shore were three shoals, … as a single property.) By this time, my grandfather had died, but he had approved her plan. The islands would be … turning, at the age of fifty-nine, to fiction. As Watt points out, only a society such as Defoe’s own, well …
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9 Sencu Iela
… 9 Sencu Iela Freedom Monument in Riga, Latvia (IStockPhoto.com / Birgit Kutzera) . On the night of August 3, 1944—in … first line of dialogue in Heart of Darkness  is: “And this also,” said Marlow suddenly, “has been one of the dark … was to read this letter to my mother only if my grandfather died. And though it would certainly make for a lovely …
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Revisiting Afghanistan: A Conversation with Najibullah
… women, with whom they avoided public contact. Their foot soldiers, the “cannon fodder” of the offensives they would … that prayed in their own fervent way for the end of Communism . Most of these madrassa “scholars” received about … who had taken up positions with the Taliban. My colleague also saw a pervasive Pakistani presence in Kandahar. The …
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Intimate Odyssey
… when approximately seven per one hundred thousand women died giving birth, maternal-mortality rates—mothers who die … are simply not enough. The data—our woeful mortality rate—points to that fact.  Childbirth is active, physical, … or hold it close.  birth childbirth narrative mortality 26-37 By Julia Cooke Photography by Alice Proujansky …
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Effie In Venice and the Roman Spring of Margaret Fuller
… of the Ruskins’ marriage and Effie’s subsequently becoming the wife of Millais. “The Countess” (as Millais … who symbolized the ideal qualities of a romanticized Italy, dies of unrequited love for Lord Nelvil after her … is Lucile to Margaret’s Corinne. Certainly Corinne (as also George Sand) was a heroine to Margaret’s taste—a …
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