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A captivating dual timeline mystery romance, set in Lyme Regis. A novel spanning two centuries, set against the historic backdrop of the Jurassic coast, about a painting that links one family, the quest to solve a mysterious death and, ultimately, the search for love. 'The windswept beaches of Lyme Regis conceal prehistoric jewels, awaiting discovery by those with 'the eye'. 1824 After being struck by lightning as a baby, Mary Anning was...

Bird in a Gilded Cage - Second Edition This book has been published before and is the second edition of Bird in a Gilded Cage. A passionate story of love, women's fight for equality in the early twentieth century and friendships that test the very limits of endurance. Fighting for the right to vote in Edwardian Britain, but is the price of freedom too high? The Suffragette movement in the early 20th century is at the heart of this dram...

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In an elegant but contemporary voice, award-winning author Susan Griffin breaks down the creative process step-by-step, guiding the reader through a practical course in how to begin and end a work of literature, whether fiction or nonfiction, poetry, or proseThe distinguished author of more than twenty-two books, many award-winning, Susan Griffin distills daily wisdom garnered from more than five decades teaching creative writing and editing m...

Scarlett's Story is an emotional, gripping historical novel, about one woman's fight to overcome adversity, and the courage, hope and bravery of the resistance fighters in occupied France during WW2. Perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop and Dinah Jeffries.¿It is the summer of 1918 and the Spanish Flu epidemic hits East Sussex, leaving Scarlett Cunningham an orphan at the age of nine. Determined to escape her roots, Scarlett yearns for a better ...

1941It is wartime England and as Reilly fights for his country Ruby waits anxiously for his return. The devastating news that he has been killed in action throws Ruby into a spin. She finds herself pregnant and alone but is offered a way out. Only when it is too late she realises her mistake, and by then she is powerless to prevent disaster.2018India had hoped that restoring her grandmother Ruby's, Victorian home, deep in the Sussex countrysid...

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The Men Who Knew Too Much innovatively pairs these two greats, showing them to be at once classic and contemporary. Over a dozen major scholars and critics take up works by James and Hitchcock, in paired sets, to explore the often surprising ways that reading James helps us watch Hitchcock and what watching Hitchcock tells us about reading James.

The Men Who Knew Too Much innovatively pairs these two greats, showing them to be at once classic and contemporary. Over a dozen major scholars and critics take up works by James and Hitchcock, in paired sets, to explore the often surprising ways that reading James helps us watch Hitchcock and what watching Hitchcock tells us about reading James.

Am Strand von Coney Island lernt die Schauspielerin Lora (Lana Turner) die farbige Annie (Juanita Moore) kennen und engagiert sie als Haushälterin. Beide haben Probleme mit ihren Töchtern: Suzie fühlt sich von ihrer karrierebesessenen Mutter vernachlässigt, und Sarah Jane gibt sich wegen ihrer auffallend hellen Hautfarbe überall als Weiße aus.

Susan Griffin uncovers and analyzes the important but neglected body of anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the turn of the century in both Britain and America. Griffin examines Anglo-American anti-Catholicism and reveals how this sentiment provided Victorians with a set of political, cultural and literary tropes through which they defined themselves as Protestant and therefore normative. She draws on a broad range of writing i...

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Written by one of America's most innovative and articulate feminists, this book illustrates how childhood experience, gender and sexuality, private aspirations, and public personae all assume undeniable roles in the causes and effects of war.

A Crack in the World explores empathy for all sentient beings and the planet in the face of global warming.

In this famously provocative cornerstone of feminist literature, Susan Griffin explores the identification of women with the earth both as sustenance for humanity and as victim of male rage. Starting from Plato's fateful division of the world into spirit and matter, her analysis of how patriarchal Western philosophy and religion have used language and science to bolster their power over both women and nature is brilliant and persuasive, coming...

Selecting all the major poetry from her more than 30 years of publishing, preeminent feminist writer and Pulitzer Prize nominee Susan Griffin demonstrates once again why she is a major force in American letters. In poems ranging from the comic to the tragic, from, Griffin maintains an essential element of domesticity as she addresses subjects as diverse as mothering, myth and history, sex, food, and filmmaking.

A look at the nature of war and gender, illustrating the interplay between private suffering and public tragedy.

Griffin analyses anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the turn of the century in both Britain and America.

They charmed some of Europe's most illustrious men, honing their social skills as well as their sexual ones, and accumulating wealth, fame, and power along the way. Unlike their geisha counterparts, courtesans didn't lived in brothels or bend their wills to suit their suitors. They were the muses who enflamed the hearts of our most celebrated artists--Raphael, Manet, Dumas, and Proust, to name just a few--as well as becoming artists in their o...