{"product_id":"the-neglected-authors-american-women-audiobook","title":"The Neglected Authors - American Women (Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCelebrated in their time, forgotten in ours\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead by Laurel Lefkow, Kelly Burke, Liza ross(Unabridged: 05:42mins)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeaturing stories by Gertrude Atherton, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Susan Glaspell \u0026amp; many more\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThroughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eIn literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be published in any great number.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eIn the 15th Century Gutenberg’s printing press began the revolution to address the second and by the 19th century had gathered pace with startling speed and mass distribution. Education for the many was brought in to help people understand more of their world and, with new skills, how to have a better place within it. Now, if the powers that owned the presses and means of distribution agreed an audience would now be able to avail themselves of your ideas, your printed words.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eWhilst male authors were the overwhelming majority of beneficiaries in having their work printed time was their constant enemy. Your work could be immensely talented but if it was not to lure money into the coffers by gaining an audience of readers then your career would be one of pleasing yourself and was soon forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eBut the printed word is rarely without someone, somewhere busying themselves through piles of papers and books rediscovering what a good story is, whatever its age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003eIn this volume we offer up a small selection of talents whose time has now come again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"“MsoNormal”\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e01 - The Neglected Authors - American Women - An Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e02 - The Striding Place by Gertrude Atherton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e03 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E Wilkins Freeman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e04 - White Bread by Zona Gale\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e05 - The Difference by Ellen Glasgow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e06 - The Preposterous Motive by Susan Glaspell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e07 - Two Offers by Frances Watkins Harper\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e08 - Talma Gordon by Pauline E Hopkins\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e09 - Since I Died by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e10 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e11 - The Octoroon's Revenge by Ruth D Todd\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e12 - Why I Live at the PO by Eudora Welty\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deadtree Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43438851489870,"sku":"AB-26699","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1194\/4786\/files\/9781836826699_The_Neglected_Authors_-_American_Women.jpg?v=1771418088","url":"https:\/\/www.deadtreepublishing.com\/en-gb\/products\/the-neglected-authors-american-women-audiobook","provider":"Deadtree Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}