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  Katherine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Katherine is a given name for a female, derived from the Greek name Aikaterinē (which is of unknown origin and meaning), altered by folk etymology to resemble the Greek word katharos "pure".
Katharine, Duchess of Kent, the wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
Katherine D. Ortega, former Treasurer of the United States
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katherine   (215 words)

  
 Katherine (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It tells the story of the love affair between the titular Katherine and John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and son of King Edward III.
The novel was placed in the BBC's Big Read survey of 2003 and is generally considered to be one of the best examples of the historical novel.
Katherine de Roet is a little known (today) figure of English history, but she is still important.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katherine_(novel)   (230 words)

  
 Assaying The Mother Lode: Frederick Manfred's Katherine King
Katherine is a pure, untrammelled female, the first natural white woman in the Buckskin Man Tales, a woman of great potential not only in the context of her marriage to Magnus King, but in the context of the.
Katherine is attractive to him because of her amorousness, but it is her very sensuality that he chooses to attack and use as a weapon against her, accusing her both of infidelity and of an unnatural affection for her child.
Katherine is as tragic a figure as the novel can offer–totally sane, completely innocent of wrongdoing, and the victim of first her husband's, then her son's madness.
www.dancingbadger.com /katherine.htm   (4097 words)

  
 NovelGuide: Henry VIII: Novel Summary: Act 2 Scene 4
Katherine says she is a simple woman and unfitted to oppose Wolsey’s cunning.
The trial to decide the legality of the marriage between Katherine and the king is as dubious as that convened to convict Buckingham.
Katherine knows that she is no match for Wolsey’s cunning, and she can only withdraw from a court she knows to be partial and corrupt.
www.novelguide.com /HenryVIII/summaries/Act2Scene4.html   (1178 words)

  
 Author Katherine Darlington's Meadows Publishing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Katherine’s second novel, “An Angel for Leonie,” was inspired by her Christian faith and personal experience with angels.
Although Katherine writes poetry about various subjects, the poetry that is closest to her heart includes poems about her son and his struggle with autism, a neurobiological disorder affecting approximately one in 500 people.
Katherine hopes to reach out to other families with autism, but most of all, she has faith that these children will continue accomplishing many wonderful things.
home.comcast.net /~katherinedarlington   (427 words)

  
 04-23hay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Katherine Haynes' Fashioning the Feminine in the Greek Novel seeks to examine gender patterns in this once neglected genre.
In Chapter 3,[[3]] Haynes dissects the heroines from each of the five canonical novels and the novel fragments, while never losing sight of the fact that these women are literary products who to some extent assume freedoms normally only granted to males (p.
The heroine is supreme in the emotional sphere, but her intrusion in the male- dominated social sphere demonstrates a 'possible subversive streak' that must be kept in check by 'convention' (p.
www.classics.und.ac.za /reviews/04-23hay.htm   (1100 words)

  
 VG: Critique: Katherine by Anchee Min
Katherine centers on the life of Zebra Wong, a 29-year-old Chinese woman whose whirlwind past of being raped, impregnated, then aborting the child has left her bitter.
Katherine is the apple in all her students' eyes.
Katherine's individualism and free spirit are refelcted in actions and expressions not allowed in China.
voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Critique/review_fiction/katherine_by_anchee_min.html   (658 words)

  
 Featured Author: Katherine Paterson
Katherine Womeldorf Paterson was born on October 31, 1932 in Qing Jiang, China, the middle child of five children.
She wrote her first novel when she was a student in an adult education creative writing class.
In this novel, set in Feudal Japan, a famous samurai warrior's daughter, Takiko, is taken into the court of the boy emperor, Antoku, when her mother remarries and becomes his musician and personal servant.
www.carolhurst.com /newsletters/31dnewsletters.html   (2224 words)

  
 Katherine Jones Bellamann, 1877-1956, Novelist and Poet
Katherine Jones Bellamann, novelist and poet, was born on 7 October 1877 in Carthage, Mississippi, to Ephriam and Emma Williams Jones.
The combined papers and manuscripts of Henry and Katherine Bellamann, which are housed in the University of Mississippi's Department of Archives and Special Collections, testify to the fact that the work of the two writers is closely entwined: they often shared notebooks and sometimes even single pages.
She may never be considered a great American writer, or even a great regional one, but Katherine Bellamann's few contributions, especially her novels, are worthy pieces of art, and Mississippi may well be proud of this woman whose life exemplifies a devotion to literature and the arts.
www.geocities.com /lrampey/kjb.htm   (1017 words)

  
 Women in Literature
Overall, Adam is thus "Eliots primary illustration of the way in which a man can develop, according to her standards, a proper orientation; in which he becomes moral instead of moralistic and evolves a gentleness and a humility which are essentially, rather than dogmatically christian".
I am however still troubled by the narration and ending of the novel, as I am unconvinced that Jane ever truly achieves her goal of happiness and search for unconditional love.
Throughout the novel, Charlotte Bronte appears to be sensitive to the issues and structure of Jane's journey, however it is difficult to identify the kind of narrative focus Bronte adopts due to the lack of unified structure of the novel.
katherineenglish3621.blogspot.com   (836 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Katherine: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Katherine's story is amazing and uplifting, and of course the fact that it is true makes it all the more entrancing.
It is the story of Katherine Sywnford (nee de Roet) and of course her romance with John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, from which union sprung the Beaufort line.
Some of the novel is seen from the view of Katherine's brother-in-law, Geoffrey Chaucer, and extracts of his poetry are used in chapter headings.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/155652532X   (766 words)

  
 Anna Katherine Green   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Green's novels also suffer in modern eyes by their general lack of puzzle plots, although there are some good puzzles in her shorter fiction.
Austin Freeman, Anna Katherine Green was a major influence on detective fiction.
They are for a dozen of her novels, still in print after many years in 1910, and are brief quotes from contemporary reviewers, taken from journals that no longer exist, and of which I have largely never heard.
members.aol.com /MG4273/green.htm   (12217 words)

  
 The Children's Book Guild of Washington D.C.
Katherine Paterson is the author of twelve novels for children and young people including Bridge to Terabithia and Jacob Have I Loved, Newbery Winners in 1978 and 1981 and The Great Gilly Hopkins, a Newbery Honor Book.
Her novel Lyddie, set in Vermont and Massachusetts in the 1840's was the 1994 United States representative for writing on the Honor List of the International Board of Books for Young People.
Her novel, Jip, His Story, is the recipient of the 1997 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, an ALA Notable Book and a Best Book for Young Adults.
www.childrensbookguild.org /paterson.html   (320 words)

  
 ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Rose Without a Thorn by Jean Plaidy
Born into an impoverished branch of the noble Howard family, young Katherine is plucked from her home to live with her grandmother, the Duchess of Norfolk.
But when Katherine catches the eye of the aging and unhappily married king, she is forced to abandon her plans for a life with Thomas and marry King Henry.
Overwhelmed by the change in her fortunes, bewildered and flattered by the adoration of her husband, Katherine is dazzled by the royal life.
www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/rose_without_thorn1.asp   (855 words)

  
 Kidsreads.com - Katherine Sturtevant
AT THE SIGN OF THE STAR by Katherine Sturtevant is a book about a young girl who is the sole heir of her father's bookstore --- that is, until he remarries.
My interest in history began with reading historical novels as a child, and was nurtured by a wonderful history teacher named Ted Yanak who taught me when I was in eighth grade.
I loved historical novels when I was growing up, and I've returned to reading juvenile literature many times over the years.
www.kidsreads.com /authors/au-sturtevant-katherine.asp   (1746 words)

  
 Interview | Katherine Govier
There is something regal about Katherine Govier -- something very elegant -- as she sits across from me at a trendy eatery and delicately makes her lunch disappear.
Govier's latest novel, The Truth Teller, is a beautifully rendered story that deals with illusion and how people use it to color their lives.
Irene Guilford who was then an unknown writer -- she's published a novel since then, she's a wonderful writer -- she went to find the displaced persons camp in Europe where her mother had spent a number of years after the war.
www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/govier.html   (2224 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Geek Love: a Novel: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A wild, often horrifying, novel about freaks, geeks and other aberrancies of the human condition who travel together (a whole family of them) as a circus.
This audacious, mesmerizing novel should carry a warning: "Reader Beware." Those entering the world of carnival freaks described by narrator Olympia Binewski, a bald, humpbacked albino dwarf, will find no escape from a story at once engrossing and repellent, funny and terrifying, unreal and true to human nature.
Katherine Dunn writes with a force and bravado I haven't seen anywhere else.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375713344   (1039 words)

  
 A Novel Idea Bookstore
Katherine and I are going on a book hunt in St. Louis this week.
Katherine has put together a memorial bulletin board with some of our favorite "O.K." pictures.
Also, Katherine has created a beautiful display of gardening books - and there's a lovely bouquet of flowers on the counter to provide further inspiration.
www.anovelideabookstore.com   (2472 words)

  
 Crown | Catalog | The Rose Without a Thorn by Jean Plaidy
For Katherine’s past is speckled with improprieties, and the court is full of schemers who could ruin her with a whispered secret.
Katherine is suited for love, and moves easily from one passionate paramour to the next, with no inkling that her actions could threaten her reputation.
Katherine describes her aunt this way: “The Duchess was a lady who would make herself believe what she wanted to—particularly if the alternative was too unpleasant to contemplate.” Which other characters in the novel use this coping mechanism?
www.randomhouse.com /crown/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780609810170&view=rg   (1049 words)

  
 Katherine Govier : Press Kit
Katherine was educated at the University of Alberta and York University.
Katherine began her career as a journalist, writing for major magazines in Canada and the United Kingdom.
Katherine enjoys working with writers at the beginning of their careers.
www.govier.com /presskit.htm   (750 words)

  
 Instititute of Children's Literature
Katherine won the Newbery Medal first in 1978, for Bridge to Terabithia, based on the death by lightning of her son’s best childhood friend—the first children’s novel to deal with that subject.
After Katherine had prepared to be a missionary to China herself, China was closed to missionaries, so she went as a missionary to Japan instead.
It is a novel with an alluring time and place setting, filled with rich description, characters so real they seem to breathe, and a story that will keep you reading to the end of the book.
www.institutechildrenslit.com /rx/tr01/paterson.shtml   (4133 words)

  
 Katherine Anne Porter --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Although the novel seems to be a dominant form of prose fiction in modern times, at least equally impressive is the short story.
As a type of fiction, the short story had become as wide ranging as the novel by the end of the 19th century.
Dancer, choreographer, anthropologist, and social activist Katherine Dunham was instrumental in changing the status of the fl dancer in America from entertainer to artist.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9060970   (600 words)

  
 Katherine V. Forrest - Author
Katherine welcomes your comments and would be pleased to hear from you.
PRAISE FOR KATHERINE V. "Forrest writes extremely well, and she manages to address the social and sexual issues of being gay...while never losing sight of the story she's telling and the tension that must be preserved in the mystery genre novel.
Katherine V. Forrest is twice winner of the Lambda Literary Award for best mystery, and has been recently honored with the Pioneer Award from the Lambda Literary Foundation.
www.art-with-attitude.com /forrest/forrest.html   (762 words)

  
 NovelGuide: The Taming Of The Shrew: Character Profiles
Katherine: “The Shrew” Baptista’s daughter that none of the men like because of her sharp tongue.
She is interested in music, and her studies, but gets angry with her sister for not marrying.
He marries Katherine for her mother, which makes his friends happy.
www.novelguide.com /tamingoftheshrew/characterprofiles.html   (450 words)

  
 glbtq >> literature >> Forrest, Katherine V.
Widely acclaimed writer and editor Katherine V. Forrest has played a major role in bringing lesbian fiction to the forefront of the mystery and science fiction genres.
Lesbian publishing house Naiad Press released all of Forrest's novels prior to 1994, including her Delafield series and her science fiction books: the lesbian cult classic Daughters of a Coral Dawn (1984) and An Emergence of Green (1986).
The gay and lesbian press is of prime importance in sustaining a frequently embattled minority and has been crucial in the development of a national mass movement for gay rights.
www.glbtq.com /literature/forrest_kv.html   (1076 words)

  
 Porter, Katherine Anne on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Set aboard a German ship shortly before Hitler's accession to power, the novel is a moral allegory that attempts to recreate the atmosphere of a world on the brink of disaster.
Katherine Anne Porter's "The Old Order": Writing in the Borderlands.
Katherine Anne Porter, "María Concepción" y la imagen de la mujer indígena.(TT: Katherine Anne Porter, Maria Concepcion and the image of the native women.)(Reseña)
www.encyclopedia.com /html/p/porter-k1.asp   (475 words)

  
 The SF Site Featured Review: King Kelson's Bride
Despite the title of the novel and the fact that the early chapters show several different groups and individuals discussing who the proper wife for Kelson will be, Kurtz has elected to focus on the political situation which surrounds Kelson and Liam.
This is both an asset and a disadvantage for this novel.
Kurtz brings a richness of culture to the novel which she is not required to build from scratch; she can assume certain knowledge of prior events and relationships.
www.sfsite.com /07a/kk84.htm   (721 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Foreign Student: A Novel: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Estranged from her family, Katherine, too, is mired in the past, having begun an affair at age 14 with an English professor nearly 30 years her senior.
This novel is startling in its audacity to depict America's occluded responsibility for the war that probably even challenges what most Koreans over 50 believe.
I've read an article where Choi downplays the "authenticity" issue of her novel, and emphasizes that it is fiction.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/006019149X   (1271 words)

  
 Books, Listed by Author
This edition has been extensively revised and should be considered the definitive text of a major sf novel.
This is the revised text of the 1984 Crown edition, with a new introduction by George Zebrowski and the author’s afterword from the Crown edition.
An unprepared young princess is forced to become a warrior queen when her brother is killed fighting an evil usurper who commands demonic forces.
www.locusmag.com /index/b218.html   (2643 words)

  
 Katherine Kurtz:  King Kelson's Bride
Katherine Kurtz has returned to the world of Gwynedd after a six year absence with the long-awaited novel King Kelson’s Bride.
Kurtz frequently builds on events which occurred in previous novels, usually alluding to the background the reader needs, but as often as not assuming the reader already understands what has happened.
The reader knows that the characters have lives outside the confines of the novel, allowing for Kurtz’s fans to speculate on future events while waiting for the next novel to be published.
www.sfsite.com /~silverag/kelson.html   (540 words)

  
 Author Scott Wittenburg Announces Publication of Supernatural Thriller, Katherine’s Prophecy
The mystery surrounding her family’s scandalous past begins to unravel as Emily and Lenny join forces but eventually discover that the couple’s chance meeting was anything but mere coincidence.
The author states that his first published novel illustrates a classic case of good vs. evil and the power of unconditional love.
For additional information on the news that is the subject of this release (or for a preview of the novel), contact Scott Wittenburg or visit www.prweb.com.
www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/7/prweb263201.php   (341 words)

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