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Charlie May Simon materials
No full textThis collection contains materials relating to Arkansas author Charlie May Simon
"I don’t really like tedious, monotonous work": working-class young women, service sector employment and social mobility in contemporary Russia
No full textThis article contributes a global perspective to the emerging literature on girlhood in western contexts by examining the changing shape of transitions to adulthood amongst working-class young women in St. Petersburg, Russia. As in many western countries, new forms of service sector employment and an increasingly accessible higher education system appear to offer young women new prospects for social mobility. In contrast to the increasingly impoverished and denigrated traditional pathways into work, the young women in the study derive significant value from these new opportunities, constructing narratives of self-actualisation and approximating notions of respectable femininity. Nevertheless, actual social mobility is elusive, as familiar patterns of classed and gendered stratification limit their prospects. Despite its specificity, the case thus further illustrates the limited nature of the transformations available to young women through the new forms of education and work characteristic of global neoliberal contexts
Charlie Lovett Book Talk and Signing
No full textThe Z. Smith Reynolds Library Lecture Series presents a talk and book signing by Charlie Lovett, author of the bestselling novel The Bookman's Tale. Charlie is the son of Wake Forest Professor Emeritus Robert Lovett, and the Z. Smith Reynolds Library rare books collection and special collections reading room were an inspiration for his novel
Meghan Daum
No full textRecording of the radio show The North Avenue Lounge broadcast February 15, 2016 on WREK Atlanta, 91.1FMIn part three of our February Celebrity Challenge, Charlie talks to Meghan Daum, newspaper columnist, essayist, and author of My Misspent Youth, The Unspeakable, and other books, about writing as a profession, writing as a life, and why she would not have rocked blogs
Roald Dahl: the Author for Two Audiences. A comparison of His Writings for Children and Adults
Full text linkKatedra anglistiky a amerikanistikyDokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo
Charlie May Simon: Uncovering The Lost Voice of An Arkansas Author
No full textThis dissertation analyzes the life and published novels of noted Arkansas author Charlie May Simon, a woman whose writing career spanned four decades, during which time she remained an Arkansas resident. None of her twenty-nine published novels, biographies, or memoirs remain in print. Although a yearly award was established in 1970 by the Arkansas Department of Education— the Charlie May Simon Book Award— educators and librarians have difficulty obtaining copies of her own writing that set the high bar of excellence each award recipient demonstrates. My purpose in research is to uncover the prose beauty of Charlie May Simon’s writing, examine the history of her life and the times in which she produced her work, and wrestle with the factors that caused her voice to go silent, lost to our current generation. Broader implications of research include the ability to view patriarchy, gendered performance, and gender roles through the lens she provides in her writing of the times in which she lived. The research conducted occurred in four special collections archives: Butler Center of Arkansas Studies (John Gould Fletcher/Charlie May Simon photograph collection, BC.PHO.32 and Charlie May Simon Materials, MSS.97.28), University of Arkansas in Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (Charlie May Simon Papers, UALR.MS.0006), University of Memphis Libraries (Mississippi Valley Collection, Charlie May Simon MSS.41), and Syracuse University in New York (E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. Records). Analysis of her published works, including illustrations and text, is taken from my personal library collection of all Charlie May Simon published books. Literary analysis is the primary focus of the study; new historicism is the literary criticism lens of my methodological approach to contemplate the culture, historical events, and life occurrences that fueled the creative spirit of Arkansas’s most prolific author of the 20th century. Areas for further research are outlined in the conclusion, signifying implications which additional scholarship and archival research in the four collections could reveal. In each collection, personal and business correspondence chronicle the indomitable spirit of the Arkansas literary diamond, Charlie May Simon
The Charlie Fix Sr. Family
Full text linkNotes - A brief history of Mr. Charlie Fix Sr., originally born in Missouri, but spent a number of years as a businessman in Athabasca. Mr. Fix and his wife had eight children. Mr. Fix worked as a debt collector and later ran the Universal Garage (2 pages
Karl ( Charlie) Deering and person on bicycles
No full textBlack & White photo of Karl ( Charlie) Deering and unidenftified man on bicycles ( wearing fedora and carriage cap)5.0 Early Life of Latvians in Albewrta, 5.1.2 Lake Isle, 5.1.4 The Homesteader
Jared Brown Discusses His Book
Full text linkA Bloomington Normal author and retired theater professor has published his first work of fiction. WGLT’s Charlie Schlenker has more, on the mysteries of Jared Brown
Charlie May Simon Fletcher
No full textFletcher seated behind desk and in front of stained glass window."(On verso: LL.D. 1960 as Simon, Charley Mae [sic]. Mrs. John Gould Fletcher.)Charlie May Simon Fletcher (1897-1977) was an Arkansas author and former creative writing professor at the University of Arkansas. She was married to John Gould Fletcher, an Arkansas poet
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