Alice Duer Miller

Gebundenes Buch

Are Women People?

Beschreibung

"How can you plead so earnestly for men / Who fight their own fight with a bloody hand; / [...] and then / Forget the women of your native land?" The poet, a committed suffragist, expresses her indignation to the highest power in the land-the President himself. Are Women People? is a collection of poems by Alice Duer Miller.

Autor

Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942) was an American novelist, poet, screenwriter, and women's rights activist. Born into wealth in New York City, she was raised in a family of politicians, businessmen, and academics. At Barnard College, she studied Astronomy and Mathematics while writing novels, essays, and poems. She married Henry Wise Miller in 1899, moving with him in their young son to Costa Rica where they struggled and failed to open a rubber plantation. Back in New York, Miller earned a reputation as a gifted poet whose satirical poems advocating for women's suffrage were collected in Are Women People? (1915). Over the next two decades, Miller published several collections of stories and poems, some of which would serve as source material for motion picture adaptations. The White Cliffs (1940), her final published work, is a verse novel that uses the story of a young women widowed during the Great War to pose important questions about the morality of conflict and patriotism in the leadup to the United States' entrance into World War II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mint Editions
• Seitenzahl: 44
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798888971505
• Artikelnr.: 68592144