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Series
Caribbean heritage volume 2
Publisher
University of the West Indies Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Author
Series
Purdue studies in Romance literatures volume Volume 62
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
17) Sister novelists: the trailblazing Porter sisters, who paved the way for Austen and the Brontës
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters--exact contemporaries of Jane Austen--were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published twenty-six books and achieved global fame. They socialized among the rich and famous,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
The drama of a U.S. missionary family in Africa during a war of decolonization. At its center is Nathan Price, a self-righteous Baptist minister who establishes a mission in a village in 1959 Belgian Congo. The resulting clash of cultures is seen through the eyes of his wife and his four daughters. By the author of Pigs in Heaven.
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