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Woman are People
Alice Duer Miller
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The White Cliffs is a novel in verse, the story of an American girl
who falls in love with an Englishman in the era of World War I.
Are Parents People? (1924) is a collection of stories by Alice Duer
Miller. Inspired by her work as an activist for women's suffrage,
Miller explores themes of independence, agency, and female desire
while illuminating the subject of divorce. Her work was adapted
into a 1925 comedy film starring Betty Bronson, Florence Vidor, and
Adolphe Menjou. "There they were-her mother looking down at her so
calmly from the gallery and her father waiting so confidently for
her below, each unaware of the other's presence. What in thunder
was she going to do?" As the chairman of her school's
self-government committee, Lita Hazlitt is a young woman committed
to order. Seeing her parents in the same room for the first time
since their acrimonious divorce, she longs for them to reunite so
that their family can return to its former state. When her attempts
at reconciliation fall on deaf ears, Lita begins to act out,
threatening her parents with scandal by spending time with an
older, married man. In each of its nine stories, Are Parents
People? explores the politics of divorce in middle to upper class
American families. Witty and heartbreaking, Miller's work is an
utterly human look at the shortcomings of marriage in modern life.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Alice Duer Miller's Are Parents People?
is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Women Are People! (1917) is a collection of poems by Alice Duer
Miller. Inspired by her work as an activist for women's suffrage,
Miller published many of these poems individually in the New York
Tribune before compiling them into this larger work. Focusing on
the opposition of politicians and citizens alike, Miller makes a
compelling and frequently hilarious case for the extension of
voting rights to women across the nation. With her keen eye for
hypocrisy and even keener ear for the rhythms of the English
language, Alice Miller Duer crafts a poetry both personal and
political. In "Liberty," she lampoons the hypocrisy of men who
praise the goddess of Liberty while denying women access to basic
human rights: "O Liberty, how many men there are / Who do you
honour in a flowing phrase, / In martial measures and in patriot
lays, / Invoking you as a goddess and as star/ [...] / But when you
first approach them, when you turn / On their pale eyes your eyes'
unwavering light, / [...] / They fly before you, crying in their
fright: / 'Arrest this wild-eyed jade! Police! Police!'" In these
lighthearted lines, Miller satirizes the exclusion of women from
American democracy. Succinctly and convincingly, with humor and
with lyric grace, Miller makes her case for suffrage and the rights
of women very clear. As she expresses in her ironic title, women
are indeed people-despite the lengths to which they must repeatedly
go to prove it. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Alice Duer
Miller's Women Are People! is a classic of American literature
reimagined for modern readers.
Little Miss Severance sat with her hands as cold as ice. The stage
of her coming adventure was beautifully set - the conventional
stage for the adventure of a young girl, her mother's drawing-room.
Her mother had the art of setting stages. The room was not large, -
a New York brownstone front in the upper Sixties even though
altered as to entrance, and allowed to sprawl backward over yards
not originally intended for its use, is not a palace, - but it was
a room and not a corridor; you had the comfortable sense of four
walls about you when its one small door was once shut. It was
filled, perhaps a little too much filled, with objects which seemed
to have nothing in common except beauty; but propinquity,
propinquity of older date than the house in which they now were,
had given them harmony. Nothing in the room was modern except some
uncommonly comfortable sofas and chairs, and the pink and yellow
roses that stood about in Chinese bowls.
Come Out of the Kitchen (1916) is a novel by Alice Duer Miller.
Inspired by her work as an activist for women's rights, Miller
presents a romantic comedy exploring the effects of class and
gender on love, friendship, and work. Adapted for theater and film,
Come Out of the Kitchen is a charming novel from a writer whose
reputation as a popular poet should extend to her fiction as well.
Arriving in the South, Mr. Burton, a successful young businessman,
meets with a local real estate agent to inquire about renting a
property for the summer. Interested in an old mansion, he is eager
to sign the contract-only one strange detail prompts his
hesitation. If he would like to stay there, he will need to employ
the four domestic servants already living at the property.
Desperate to settle down, Burton agrees to meet with them first:
the butler, a kind and intelligent man; the cook, a beautiful
woman; the housemaid, a sullen young lady; and a young boy whose
job is to do everything else. Slightly unsettled by their manners
and accents, Burton agrees to keep them on and soon makes his way
to the mansion, where he immediately plans to host a small party of
friends. When the day of the party arrives, however, the behavior
of the servants begins to change. Come Out of the Kitchen is an
entertaining romantic comedy from Alice Duer Miller, whose
political work as a women's rights activist informs her characters
and their frequently humorous interactions. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Alice Duer Miller's Come Out of the Kitchen is a classic of
American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Are Women People? (1915) is a collection of poems by Alice Duer
Miller. Inspired by her work as an activist for women's suffrage,
Miller published many of these poems individually in the New York
Tribune before compiling them into this larger work. Focusing on
the opposition of politicians and citizens alike, Miller makes a
compelling case for the extension of voting rights to women across
the nation. With her keen eye for hypocrisy and even keener ear for
the rhythms of the English language, Alice Miller Duer crafts a
poetry both personal and political. In "Representation," she
lampoons the notion that men's votes and voices are capable of
representing the viewpoints of the women in their lives: "My
present wife's a suffragist, and counts on my support, / [...] /
One grandmother is on the fence, the other much opposed, / And my
sister lives in Oregon, and thinks the question's closed; / Each
one is counting on my vote to represent her view. / Now what should
you think proper for a gentleman to do?" In these lighthearted
lines, Miller satirizes the exclusion of women from American
democracy, which inherently supposes that womanhood is monolithic,
containing no opposing points of view. In "To President Wilson,"
Miller excoriates the President for his focus on militarism and
foreign policy, asking "How can you plead so earnestly for men /
Who fight their own fight with a bloody hand; / [...] and then /
Forget the women of your native land?" Succinctly and convincingly,
Miller makes her case for women's suffrage. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Alice Duer Miller's Are Women People? is a classic of American
literature reimagined for modern readers.
Ladies Must Live (1917) is a novel by Alice Duer Miller. Inspired
by her work as an activist for women's rights, Miller presents a
romantic comedy exploring the effects of class and gender on love,
friendship, and work. Adapted for theater and film, Ladies Must
Live is a charming novel from a writer whose reputation as a
popular poet should extend to her fiction as well. "Certain human
beings are admitted to have a genius for discrimination in such
matters as objects of art, pigs or stocks. Mrs. Ussher had this
same instinct in regard to fashion, especially where fashions in
people were concerned. She turned toward hidden social availability
very much as the douser's hazel wand turns toward the hidden
spring. When she crossed the room to speak to some woman after
dinner, whatever that woman's social position might formerly have
been, you could be sure that at present she was on the upward
wing." At a gathering of prominent socialites, a story of ambition
and romance emerges. While Christine longs to marry the
soon-to-be-divorced Ralph, she finds herself in competition with
Nancy, a woman she detests. As the night goes on, discussions over
wealth, women's rights, and politics turn heated, engagements are
made and broken, and a tragic event changes hearts and minds
forever. Ladies Must Live is both a romantic comedy and a biting
critique on social convention from Alice Duer Miller, whose
political work as a women's rights activist informs her characters
and their frequently contentious interactions. With a beautifully
designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition
of Alice Duer Miller's Ladies Must Live is a classic of American
literature reimagined for modern readers.
Are Parents People? (1924) is a collection of stories by Alice Duer
Miller. Inspired by her work as an activist for women's suffrage,
Miller explores themes of independence, agency, and female desire
while illuminating the subject of divorce. Her work was adapted
into a 1925 comedy film starring Betty Bronson, Florence Vidor, and
Adolphe Menjou. "There they were-her mother looking down at her so
calmly from the gallery and her father waiting so confidently for
her below, each unaware of the other's presence. What in thunder
was she going to do?" As the chairman of her school's
self-government committee, Lita Hazlitt is a young woman committed
to order. Seeing her parents in the same room for the first time
since their acrimonious divorce, she longs for them to reunite so
that their family can return to its former state. When her attempts
at reconciliation fall on deaf ears, Lita begins to act out,
threatening her parents with scandal by spending time with an
older, married man. In each of its nine stories, Are Parents
People? explores the politics of divorce in middle to upper class
American families. Witty and heartbreaking, Miller's work is an
utterly human look at the shortcomings of marriage in modern life.
With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset
manuscript, this edition of Alice Duer Miller's Are Parents People?
is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Certain human beings are admitted to have a genius for
discrimination in such matters as objects of art, pigs or stocks.
Mrs. Ussher had this same instinct in regard to fashion, especially
where fashions in people were concerned. She turned toward hidden
social avail-ability very much as the douser's hazel wand turns
toward the hidden spring. When she crossed the room to speak to
some woman after dinner, whatever that woman's social position
might formerly have been, you could be sure that at present she was
on the upward wing. When Mrs. Ussher discovered extraordinary
qualities of mind and sympathy in some hitherto impossible man, you
might be certain it was time to begin to book him in advance.
Ladies Must Live (1917) is a novel by Alice Duer Miller. Inspired
by her work as an activist for women’s rights, Miller presents a
romantic comedy exploring the effects of class and gender on love,
friendship, and work. Adapted for theater and film, Ladies Must
Live is a charming novel from a writer whose reputation as a
popular poet should extend to her fiction as well. “Certain human
beings are admitted to have a genius for discrimination in such
matters as objects of art, pigs or stocks. Mrs. Ussher had this
same instinct in regard to fashion, especially where fashions in
people were concerned. She turned toward hidden social availability
very much as the douser's hazel wand turns toward the hidden
spring. When she crossed the room to speak to some woman after
dinner, whatever that woman's social position might formerly have
been, you could be sure that at present she was on the upward
wing.” At a gathering of prominent socialites, a story of
ambition and romance emerges. While Christine longs to marry the
soon-to-be-divorced Ralph, she finds herself in competition with
Nancy, a woman she detests. As the night goes on, discussions over
wealth, women’s rights, and politics turn heated, engagements are
made and broken, and a tragic event changes hearts and minds
forever. Ladies Must Live is both a romantic comedy and a biting
critique on social convention from Alice Duer Miller, whose
political work as a women’s rights activist informs her
characters and their frequently contentious interactions. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Alice Duer Miller’s Ladies Must Live is a classic
of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
Come Out of the Kitchen (1916) is a novel by Alice Duer Miller.
Inspired by her work as an activist for women’s rights, Miller
presents a romantic comedy exploring the effects of class and
gender on love, friendship, and work. Adapted for theater and film,
Come Out of the Kitchen is a charming novel from a writer whose
reputation as a popular poet should extend to her fiction as well.
Arriving in the South, Mr. Burton, a successful young businessman,
meets with a local real estate agent to inquire about renting a
property for the summer. Interested in an old mansion, he is eager
to sign the contract—only one strange detail prompts his
hesitation. If he would like to stay there, he will need to employ
the four domestic servants already living at the property.
Desperate to settle down, Burton agrees to meet with them first:
the butler, a kind and intelligent man; the cook, a beautiful
woman; the housemaid, a sullen young lady; and a young boy whose
job is to do everything else. Slightly unsettled by their manners
and accents, Burton agrees to keep them on and soon makes his way
to the mansion, where he immediately plans to host a small party of
friends. When the day of the party arrives, however, the behavior
of the servants begins to change. Come Out of the Kitchen is an
entertaining romantic comedy from Alice Duer Miller, whose
political work as a women’s rights activist informs her
characters and their frequently humorous interactions. With a
beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript,
this edition of Alice Duer Miller’s Come Out of the Kitchen is a
classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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