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Sixty Women Who Changed the Word
- The Female Authors Who Inspired, Influenced and Innovated the Literary Landscape
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Laurel Lewkow, Stella Gonet
- Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Whether we understand it or recognise it, it is women who have shaped the course and journey of humanity. We are all born from women and usually raised by women. Half the world’s population is female but many of them are trodden down by misogyny, religious misinterpretation, failing systems of education and welfare and all manner of other ills that shame us all. In a world where, gender, colour, race and orientation are still stumbling blocks to inclusion, women’s words are too often unheard and neglected.
Whilst the world has moved measurably forward in recent decades, although not enough, some progress has been made. Our poets wrote at a time when their basic rights as human beings were restrictive and oppressive. Against the odds, they were able to write verse, which in varying degrees, moved the literary needle and perhaps influenced their society in positive ways.
This volume pays tribute to 50 different women poets, some well-known whilst others undeservedly forgotten but all contributing a single poem which we hope might nudge listeners to discover more of their verse.
1 - Sixty Women That Changed the Word. The Classic Poets - An Introduction
2 - "Mock Panegyric on a Young Friend" by Jane Austen
3 - "The Disappointment" by Aphra Behn
4 - "To My Dear and Loving Husband" by Anne Bradstreet
5 - "Night" by Anne Bronte
6 - "Speak of the North, a Lonely Moor" by Charlotte Bronte
7 - "Remembrance" by Emily Jane Bronte
8 - "How Do I Love Thee" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
9 - "What Constitutes a Negro" by Eva Carter Buckner
10 - "Prairie" Dawn by Willa Cather
11 - "The Hunting of the Hare" by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle
12 - "Wild Nights, Wild Nights" by Emily Dickinson
13 - "Hermes of the Ways" by Hilda Doolttle
14 - "In a London Drawingroom" by George Eliot
15 - "Ardelia to Melancholy" by Anne Kingsmill Finch
16 - "In Memorium. Alphonse Campbell Fordham" by Mary Weston Fordham
17 - "The Little Waves of Breffney" by Eva Gore-Booth
18 - "Song of the Worker's Wife" by Alice Gray Jones
19 - "Expecting the Lord" by Ann Griffiths
20 - "The Angel's Visit" by Charlotte L Forten Grimke
21 - "A Twilight Fancy" by Radclyffe Hall
22 - "Bury Me in a Free Land" by Frances E W Harper
23 - "Acceptance" by Janabai
24 - "You Men" by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
25 - "Tears Ere Thy Death" by Khansa
26 - "Love, the Soul of Poetry" by Anne Killigrew
27 - "Vakh - They Who Have Gained Experience" by Lal Ded
28 - "Revenge" by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
29 - "Afterword" by Emily Lawless
30 - "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus
31 - "Lilacs" by Amy Lowell
32 - "Would a Circling Surface Vulture" by Akka Mahadevi
33 - "Night Scented Stock" by Katherine Mansfield
34 - "Infelix" by Adah Isaacs Menken
35 - "The Farmer's Bride" by Charlotte Mew
36 - "Regrets" by Alice Meynell
37 - "Drink the Nectar" by Mirabai
38 - "Negro Heroines" by Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer
39 - "Before Winter" by Edith Nesbit
40 - "The Gift" of India by Sarojini Naidu
41 - "Impressionist" by Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson
42 - "The Natives of America" by Ann Plato
43 - "Envy" by Adelaide Anne Proctor
44 - "In Love" by Rabia al Basri
45 - "A Birthday" by Christina Rosseti
46 - "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" by Edna St Vincent Millay
47 - "Hymn to Aphrodite" by Sappho
48 - "Stanzas" by Mary Shelley
49 - "Sonnet LXX - On Being Cautioned..." by Charlotte Smith
50 - "On Foot I Had to Cross the Solar System" by Edith Sodergran
51 - "Colored Hats from Tender Buttons" by Gertrude Stein
52 - "O Lord in Me there Lieth Naught" by Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke
53 - "There Will Come Soft Rain" by Sara Teasdale
54 - "To Mother" by Marina Ivanova Tsvetaeva
55 - "Any Woman" by Katharine Tynan
56 - "An Autumn Sunset" by Edith Wharton
57 - "To a Lady and Her Children on the Death of Her Son and Their Brother" by Phyllis Wheatley
58 - "Solitude" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
59 - "For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin" by Wu Zao
60 - "A Crowded Trolly Car" by Elinor Wylie
61 - "Black Hair" by Akiko Yosano