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Title: Woman of Independent Means (Ultimate Classics) by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Barbara Rush ISBN: 0-7871-0259-8 Publisher: Audio Literature Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.47 (19 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must read for both sexes!
Comment: This is quite simply an amazing book. It follows one woman's entire life through the letters that she writes to others. This woman is not always a role model, not always nice, but always human. She lives, suffers, triumphs, expresses opinions and evolves as we read on. I have recommended this book to my friends, parents and boyfriend and all have loved it! Insightful, inspiring, a look into one woman's ordinary life. A must-read!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Model Guide for Women of all Ages
Comment: I have read and re-read this book over the years, and again this summer found it in my Beach Pack. For any age, EFH has produced a kind, gentle view of life as a woman who grew up knowing her place in the world, and yet being able to go beyond what her times would have expected of a woman. It is very much like finding old letters in a trunk, and I came to think of the writer as a matron of her times, giving to herself and all women the understanding that taking care of one's self, being able to be truly independent, is a key to freedom in every sense. Read it ladies. I read it at 20 and 30, and it reads just as well into the 40s and 50s. My mother's good friend in her 70s came upon it on my bookshelf, and it has become her favorite book of all times. Enjoy.
Rating: 4
Summary: More than a Woman of Substance...
Comment: This was one of the first books I reviewed for the Pulaski Magazine Club after a series of dull travel books. Centering around the life of a strong, out-spoken woman (to whom I could most certainly identify) with an invincible spirit and no modesty in her letters to "everyone."
Written in the form of letters, though it comes through much more like a diary, it spans more than half a century. Beginning as a child in 1899 from Texas to June, 1968, in Dallas, these letters relate the tranquility and lack of opportunities in a small town to the turbulence in the city.
Bess Stead Barner had a vivid personality backed with the strength and energy of a vibrant woman ahead of her time. It is an intimate account of one woman's life which surely touches the lives of all who share it, and also those who read it.
In our Club, the reviewer had thirty minutes in which to explain the book without giving details; we were to induce a thirst from the members to read the book themselves. At the time, I was the youngest member and very impressionable; I'd just started telling how this writer brought these people to life so that you felt you knew them and barely into my prepared review when the timekeeper said, "five minutes," which meant I had to wrap up in a tidy manner ASAP.
I was quite rattled as I had so much to tell about Bess and felt denied my 'time' in which to do it. The timekeeper that day was a friend of mine, an old-maid college librarian who has a tendency to nod off and lose count of the time. My other friend in the Club at the time was a college English teacher who told me later that 'Miss Barnes' really didn't know how long I had been talking and cut me short by some 10-15 minutes. Oh well, the value of experience.
I'll keep this one short. But this is one book which influenced me and my life to go on to do things a hard-headed, high-spirited young (now older) woman could do but probably shouldn't.
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Title: The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas ISBN: 0312147015 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin ISBN: 0207197245 Publisher: A&R Classics Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Diary of Mattie Spenser by Sandra Dallas ISBN: 0312187106 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: A Cure for Dreams by Kaye Gibbons ISBN: 0679736727 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson, V. Sackville-West ISBN: 0226583570 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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