Thomas, Antoine Leonard. An Essay on the Character, the Manners, and the Understanding of Women. Translator Kindersley, Jemima, J. Dodsley, 1781.
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| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Kamila Shamsie | Offence is her first (and as of 2018, only) non-fiction book. It chronicles the formation of the offended Muslim archetype and the historical conditions which foregrounded the politicization of Islam
and the rise of extremism... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jemima Kindersley | With this exception, JK
shows herself moderately accepting of different cultures. She discusses the caste system (which, apart from the deplorable condition of the untouchables, she finds not uncongenial to eighteenth-century notions of the benefits... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Jemima Kindersley | Thomas's work, as translated by Kindersley, is interesting for its bald opening statement of women's dilemma, in all countries and ages . . . everywhere . . . adored and oppressed. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Edna Lyall | EL
's protagonist is Kaspar Sefarian, a young American-Armenian who travels from New York to work at the Armenian College in Vosdân. He has an American fiancée (bearing the highly suggestive name of Faith... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Hannah Lynch | HL
opens by contrasting Madrid, which she calls modern, insignificant, and cheap (not in prices but in effect) with Toledo, which she finds silent, romantic, and magnificently faithful to its past. Lynch, Hannah. Toledo. The Story of an Old Spanish Capital. J. M. Dent, 1899. 4 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Cecily Mackworth | She depicts an astonishing range of individuals: an Arab woman who hates Jews and their acquisition of land, yet would never dream of selling to a fellow-Arab if a Jew would give her more money... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | RF
nevertheless argued that the Senussi in general, and Emir Sidi Idris
in particular, were not necessarily hostile to the British: they were merchants; they had found that moving skins and ivory abroad for sale... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Dervla Murphy | In 1971, the present state of Bangladesh (formerly known as East Pakistan) had seceded from Pakistan, which had then fought a war with India (3-16 December 1971) over the secession. DM
was interested in the... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | Forbes's interviewee, a brigand and a powerful political manager in Morocco (which was currently a Spanish protectorate), masterminded more than one strategic kidnapping of a westerner. She preserves the biblical flavour which El Raisuni
's... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Julia O'Faolain | The topics covered in richly informative detail, far too many to enumerate, include a father's life-or-death rights over his offspring in ancient Greece, while such topics as buying and selling sex, or the relation... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rosita Forbes | RF
sets out with a brisk account of the 675 Indian princely States, which involves her in a summary of Indian history and some speculation about the future. The various strands in her political thinking... |
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