Fanny Kemble

Pornography is usually sexual content intended to arouse and give sexual pleasure. Pornography hasn’t always been an open subject for conversation. It’s an activity that people enjoy in private, but avoid discussing in public. Pornography has been around for many years, even before it was acknowledged has pornography. It dates to prehistoric times with the presence of nude sculptures. However, the 20th century was the actual wake of pornography, it introduced films, magazines, and porn sites. There

Ellmann, R. (1988) Oscar Wilde. United States: Distributed by Random House. This biography of Oscar Wilde is thorough and gives a good understanding of how his life influenced his work, especially his only novel, A Picture of Dorian Gray. This biography details Wilde's philosophical nature, especially in relation to aestheticism. The combination of this philosophical view as well as Wilde's view of society and his homosexuality makes it easier to appreciate the underlying themes of the novel. This

Fairy Book. The narratives are set in an enchanted forest where the Faraway Tree, a magical gigantic tree grows. The tree is massive with so wide a trunk that small houses can be carved into it and so high that its branches almost touch the clouds. Fanny, Bessie, and Jo are the three children lucky or adventurous enough to discover the tree and the magical forest. The discovery of the tree marks the beginning of their adventure travelling to the top of the tree. The first novel in the series, The

Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own Missing works cited In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf ponders the plight of women throughout history. Woolf 'reads the lives of women and concludes that if a woman were to have written she would have had to overcome enormous circumstances' (Woolf xi). Woolf's initial thesis is that 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction' (Woolf 4). Throughout the book, however, she develops other important conditions for artistic

Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the very first English feminists (1). She had brilliant ideas and wrote about them all the time. She often found herself hating other women in which she thought they were the definition of what was wrong with the women population. She wanted women to take a stand and fight for their educational rights, not to be weak and depend on men for their identity (2). Mary Wollstonecraft wasn’t taken seriously by many people during her time because her ideas were so unique, her

Mary Shelley is the author of the famed novel Frankenstein. The era in which Frankenstein was published happened to be one where religion was followed in more of a strict manner than today’s society follows. The monster in the novel was viewed as an abomination not only in its existence, but even as an idea. Although the novel was released unanimously, it was critiqued mostly from a religious standpoint. Critiques gave reviews saying that it was unintellectual work that was not worth the time it

audiences were made up of mostly women” (Fields). One can see how women like Sophie Tucker and Fanny Brice wanted to be a part of the “stage-struck-girl” movement (Fields). These Women were not meant to be underestimated. As Vaudeville evolved into musicals, so did the amount of powerful females commanding the spot light. Theatre brought on a great amount of funny women. One of the well known “funny girls” was Fanny Brice. She was a burlesque performer turned comic when Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. saw her potential

core of morals. They reveal that while Fanny looks like a timid, frail being but inside she possess a set of principle that are unyielding to any outside force. Through her silence, Fanny becomes the selfless conscience of Mansfield Park. Fanny is strong-willed in her steady continual silence. She is sole unmoving thing in a fluid, ever moving time. Fanny grew up in a large, ever-growing household, where quiet was so hard to come by. In the Price household, Fanny was the opposite of her family. She

these regards led to the temporary destruction of Mary Wollstonecraft’s already polarized reputation. William’s reputation was also crumbling at the time, as his reformist ideals were losing popularity in the wake of the French Revolution. The care of Fanny and newborn Mary was left to William, although female friends and maids attended to the practical issues of parenting. Mary spent many long hours by her mother’s grave in the churchyard of St Pancras Old Church, and

Introduction Popular culture has manifested itself in a number of ways. Currently, the most commonly used method of spreading and exchanging opinions, ideas, art, and other concepts is through the internet. Never before has it been so easy to shed light on a person or an idea, giving it levels of popularity that were considered inconceivable in ages past. In many circumstances the way people are portrayed through pop-culture is most likely how they were perceived by the bulk of people. Pop/culture