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Erica Jong
Erica Jong (born 1942)

poet, women's rights activist

  • Barnard College, Columbia University

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How to Save Your Own Life
Parachutes & kisses
Fear of Flying
Ballata di ogni donna
Any Woman's Blues
Fear of flying
Fear of Flying CD
Shylock's Daughter
How to save your own life
How to save your own life
Fear of Fifty
Fanny
Inventing Memory
At the edge of the body
The Devil At Large
Loveroot
Serenissima
Sugar in my bowl
Witches
Sappho's Leap
Ordinary miracles
Seducing the demon
What Do Women Want?
Any woman's blues
Megan's book of divorce
Parachutes and kisses
Megan's Two Houses
Sappho's leap
Love comes first
Witches (Abradale Books)
Fear of fifty
Fruits & vegetables
Four visions of America
Rambles through an Alaskan wild
Half-lives
The devil at large
Botero: La corrida
Becoming Light
Here comes & other poems
Witches
Fear of fifty : a midlife memoir
Becoming light
Serenissima
Serenissima
Here comes and other poems
Cancion triste de cualquier mujer
Fruits and Vegetables
Of Blessed Memory
Fear of flying
Keine Angst vor Fünfzig
Manolito Gafotas En LA Radio
La peur de l'âge
Miedo a Los 50
No más miedo
Der Buddha im Schoß. Über Sex, Macht und Literatur
FANNY
Devil At Large Miller
Serenissima
Les parachutes d'Icare
Fanny
Bendita Memoria
At the edge of the body
Fanny ou la Ve ridique histoire des aventures de Fanny Troussecottes-Jones
De mémoire de filles
Que Queremos Las Mujeres? - 2
Any Woman's Blues International
Fruits & vegetables
Miedo a Los Cincuenta
Paracadute e baci
Inventing memory
Diazugio
Here comes & other poems
Fear of flying
De mémoire de filles
Selected Poems
La planche de salut
Miedo a volar
Serensissima
In Their Own Voices - Volumes Three and Four
Half-lives
Erica Jong Fear of Flying
Ordinary miracles
Selected Poems Vol 2
Paracaidas Y Besos/Parachutes and Kisses
Miedo a Volar/Fear of Flying
Iliggos
Parasutculer ve Opucukler
Angst vorm Fliegen
Fallschirme & Küsse
Hekse
How to Steal Millions
Botero
Fear of flying
Megan's Book of Divorce
Witches
Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams (born 1973)

politician, voting rights activist, lawyer, jurist, entrepreneur, political activist

  • Spelman College, University of Texas at Austin

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Nh. Dini
Nh. Dini (1936-2018)

women's rights activist

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Tirai Menurun
Pada Sebuah Kapal
Jalan Bandungan
Keberangkatan
Monumen
Tanah baru, tanah air kedua
La Barka
Departures
Dari Parangakik ke Kampuchea
Jepun negerinya Hiroko
Kemayoran
Amir Hamzah, pangeran dari seberang
Istri konsul
La Grande Borne
Langit dan bumi sahabat kami
Segi dan garis
Sebuah lorong di kotaku
Dari Rue Saint Simon ke Jalan Lembang
Orang-orang Tran
Argenteuil
Pencakar langit
Sekayu
Pertemuan dua hati
Sebuah lorong di kotaku
Tuileries
Dua dunia
Padang ilalang di belakang rumah
Namaku Hiroko
Dari Ngalian ke Sendowo
Pondok baca kembali ke Semarang
Sekayu
Hati jang damai
Namaku Hiroko
Janda muda
Tembi Locke
Tembi Locke (born 1970)

actor, television actor, activist, film actor, executive producer

  • Wesleyan University

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Alexandra Kollontai
Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952)

revolutionary, diplomat, women's rights activist, political theorist, People's Commissar, sociologist

  • University of Zurich

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A great love
Love of worker bees
Selected writings of Alexandra Kollontai
Love of Worker Bees
Selected writing of Alexandra Kollontai
The autobiography of a sexually emancipated woman
Diplomaticheskie dnevniki
Autobiographie einer sexuell emanzipierten Kommunistin
Die Situation der Frau in der gesellschaftlichen Entwickklung
Die neu Moral und die Arbeiterklasse
Marxisme et révolution sexuelle
Communism and the family
Sot͡s︡īalʹnyi͡a︡ osnovy zhenskago voprosa
The workers opposition
The workers opposition in Russia
Sexual relations and the class struggle
Communism and the family
The workers opposition
Autobiographie einer sexuell emanzipierten Kommunistin
Diplomaticheskie dnevniki
Wege der Liebe
Semʹi͡a︡ i kommunisticheskoe gosudarstvo
Marksistskiĭ feminizm
Communism and the family
Trud zhenshchiny v evoliutsii khoziaǐstva
Kadinlari ozgulugu
Marxisme et révolution sexuelle
To gynaikeio zitima apo tin protogoni kinonia sti sychroni epohi
The workers' opposition
Women workers struggle for their rights
Otryvki iz dnevnika 1914 g
Selected articles and speeches
Iz moeĭ zhizni i raboty
Ich habe viele Leben gelebt ..
The workers opposition in the Russian Communist Party
Die Situation der Frau in der gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung
Sexual relations and the class struggle ; Love and the new morality
Red love
Kära kamrat! Allrakäraste vän!
Marxisme et révolution sexuelle
Sot︠s︡ialʹnyi︠a︡ osnovy zhenskago voprosa
Arbetaroppositionen
Women workers struggle for their rights
Red love
Vospominanii︠a︡ ob Ilʹiche
The workers opposition
The autobiography of a sexually emancipated woman
Marksistskiĭ feminizm
Love of worker bees
Essential Alexandra Kollontai
Kvinnans ställning i den ekonomiska samhälls utvecklingen
International Women's Day
Kvinnans kamp för ekonomisk frigörelse
Mit liv - kvinde og kommunist
Letopisʹ moeĭ zhizni
Sexual relations and the class struggle
Love of worker bees, and
Autobiographie einer sexuell emanzipierten Kommunistin
Selected writings of Alexandra Kollontai
International women's day
Women workers struggle for their rights
Red Love
Selected Writings
Izbrannye statʹi i rechi
Rabochaya oppozitsiya
Rabotnitsa-mat'
Sexual relations and the class struggle
Rabotnit︠s︡a-matʹ
Den första etappen
Red love
Wege der Liebe. Drei Erzählungen
Women workers struggle for their rights
La bolchevique enamorada
Free love
Iz moei zhizni i raboty
Izbrannye stat'i i rechi
Kak boryutsya rabotnitsy za svoi prava...
The autobiography of a sexually emanicipated Communist woman
Rabotnit͡s︡a i krestʹi͡a︡nka v Sovetskoĭ Rossii
Selected articles and speeches
Sexual Relations and Class Struggle
Obshchestvo i materinstvo
Bolʹshai︠a︡ li︠u︡bovʹ
Rabotnitsa i knest'yanka v Sovetskoi Rossii
A Great Love
Free love
Bolʹshai︠a︡ li︠u︡bovʹ
Trud zhenshchiny v evolyutsii khozyaistva
The workers' opposition
Ich Habe Viele Leben Gelebt
Women workers struggle for their rights
Alexandra Kollontai
Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

playwright, translator, poet, women's rights activist

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L'intreâque de Philander et Silvia
The works of Aphra Behn
Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister; with the History of Their Adventures in Three Parts The
Love-Letters Between A Nobleman and His Sister
Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister; with the history of their adventures. in three parts. the sixth edition. Volume 1 Of 3
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister with the History of Their Adventures in Three Parts the Eighth Edition
Oroonoko
The rover
The works of Aphra Behn
Oroonoko, and other writings
Novels
Oroonoko, The rover, and other works
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn: With Life and Memoirs ..
Restoration and eighteenth-century comedy
Rover
Oroonoko
An adaptation of the Rover (The banished cavaliers)
The Rover and Other Plays
Oroonoko
The Rover New Mermaids
Rover
Librivox Short Story Collection 047
Selected writings of the ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn
Oroonoko and other stories
Five plays
Selected Poems of Aphra Behn (Fyfield Books)
Oroonoko
The Widdow Ranter, or, The history of Bacon in Virginia
The Rover and Other Plays
Aphra Behn - the Younger Brother
Oroonoko
Oroonoko and Other Prose Narratives
Plays written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn
Zwei englische Farcen
History of the Nun, The
Zwei englische Farcen
The Novels of Mrs. Aphra Behn
Abdelazer, or, The Moor's revenge
The Royal Slave (and) the Fair jilt
Rover
Aphra Behn (1640-1689): Selected Poems (Fyfield Books)
The Rover
Oroonoko & Other Stories (Konemann Classics)
Lover's watch, or, the art of making love
The lucky chance, or, The alderman's bargain
The Roundheads or the Good Old Cause
Oroonoko The Royal Slave
The Widow Ranter, or, The history of Bacon in Virginia
The younger brother, or, The amorous jilt
Fair Jilt
The Lover's Watch (Hesperus Classics)
Dutch Lover
Lucky Chance
The Novels of Mrs. Aphra Behn
Town Fop
The Collected Works of Aphra Behn Volume 1 of 6
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn
Younger Brother
The Roundheads
History of the Nun
Oroonoko Yada Asil Köle
Rover
Selected Writings of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn
The Revenge or a Match in Newgate
The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume II
The works of Aphra Behn
Oroonoko
Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn
The Fair Jilt Or Tarquin And Miranda
The plays, histories, and novels of the ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn
History of the Nun
[To] poet Bavius
A pindarick on the death of our late sovereign
All the Histories and Novels Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn, ... Together With the History of the Life and Memoirs of Mrs. Behn. ... The ... From the Many Errors of Former Impressions
Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister
Oroonoko 0r the Royal Slave Illustrated
A poem humbly dedicated to the great patern of piety and virtue Catherine Queen Dowager, on the death of her dear lord and husband King Charles II
The Works of Aphra Behn, V2
Amorous Prince : The Curious Husband
Novels of Mrs. Aphra Behn
Prologue spoken by Mrs. Cook
The debauchee, or, The credulous cuckold
The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint)
Rover
Rover
Oroonoko : Or, the Royal Slave
Icon Critical Guides
Oroonoko : or, the Royal Slave
Oroonoko
Aphra Behn - the Rover - Part I
The forc'd marriage, or, The jealous bridegroom
History of the Nun
The novels of Mrs. Aphra Behn
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
Aphra Behn - the False Count
The City Heiress
The rover, or, The banished cavaliers
Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Works
Town Fop
Selected writings of the ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn
The poems of Aphra Behn
Fair Jilt
Unfortunate Happy Lady
Oroonoko or the Royal Slave Illustrated
Oroonoko the Royal Slave
History of the Nun
Younger Brother
Aphra Behn - the Rover - Part II
City Heiress
A congratulatory poem to His Most Sacred Majesty on the happy birth of the Prince of Wales
A critical old-spelling edition of Aphra Behn's the city heiress
Lycidus
Two tales
Roundheads
Aphra Behn's the luckey chance (1687)
Two congratulatory poems to Their Most Sacred Majesties
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
The Novels of Mrs. Aphra Behn with an Introduction By Ernest A. Baker
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
Plays Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn : In Four Volumes
Sir Patient Fancy
Selected Poems
Aphra Behn - The Young King
Roundheads
To the most illustrious Prince Christopher, Duke of Albemarle, on his voyage to his government of Jamaica
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn
Royal Slave Illustrated
The histories and novels of the late ingenious Mrs Behn
Lucky Chance
Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister
False Count
Oroonoko & other prose narratives
Sir Patient Fancy
False Count
City Heiress
Oroonoko : The Royal Slave
Oroonoko : or, the Royal Slave
History of the Nun
Unfortunate Happy Lady
Works of Aphra 1640-1689
Oroonoko Prince of Abyssinia
Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn
The luckey chance, or, An alderman's bargain
Plays Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn, Entire in two Volumes. ... of 2; Volume 1
The false count, or, A new way to play an old game
Aphra Behn - The Town Fop
The land of love
Sir Patient Fancy
Roundheads
The Rover Or The Banished Cavaliers
OCR the Rover
Roundheads
The rover
The Unfortunate Happy Lady
Oroonoko : Or, the Royal Slave
Novels of Mrs. Aphra Behn
The ten pleasures of marriage, and the second part, The confession of the new married couple
Dutch Lover
Behn, the Short Fiction of Aphra
The History of the Nun or the Fair Vow Breaker
Sir Patient Fancy
Oroonoko
Aphra Behn - the Emperor of the Moon
Dutch Lover
Sir Patient Fancy
Dutch Lover
The Plays, Histories And Novels Of The Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn With Life And Memoirs V1
Town Fop
Oroonoko, the Rover and Other Stories
All the Histories and Novels Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn, Intire in one Volume. ... Together With the History of the Life and Memoirs of ... Fair sex. ... The Sixth Edition, Corrected
Amorous Prince
City Heiress
Amorous Prince
History of the Nun - Large Print
The Adventure of the Black Lady, and the Lucky Mistake (Dodo Press)
A congratulatory poem to the King's Most Sacred Majesty, on the happy birth of the Prince of Wales. By Mrs. A. Behn
Younger Brother
History of the Nun : The Fair Vow-Breaker
Oroonoko or, the Royal Slave
False Count
The Dutch lover
Selected Poems of Aphra Behn
Widow Ranter
Plays Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn. In Four Volumes. ... The Third Edition. of 4; Volume 2
Fair Jilt
Love-letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister; With the History of Their Adventures. In Three Parts. The Sixth Edition. of 3; Volume 2
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko
Town Fop
OROONOKO or the ROYAL SLAVE Illustrated
Oroonoko - Publishing People Series
History of Oronooko; or, the Royal Slave. a Novel. Containing a Variety of Entertaining Passages. Published by Charles Gildon. the Ninth Edition Corrected
Sir Patient Fancy
Younger Brother
Lucky Chance : An Alderman's Bargain
Lucky Chance
Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister
The Rover
Town Fop : Sir Timothy Tawdrey
Lycidus
The Forced Marriage Or The Jealous Bridegroom
Lycidus
Amorous Prince
Two tales
The Plays, Histories And Novels Of The Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn With Life And Memoirs V4
Emperor of the Moon. As Now Acting with Applause at the Theatre-Royal in Smock-Alley
City Heiress
Lycidus
City Heiress
History of the Nun : The Fair Vow-Breaker
Rover
Oroonoko (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
Lucky Chance
A congratulatory poem to Her Sacred Majesty, Queen Mary upon her arrival in England
Oroonoko Illustrated
Oroonoko
Town Fop
English Nights Entertainments. The History of Oroonoko; or, the Royal Slave. Written Originally by Mrs. Behn, and Revised by Mrs. Griffiths
Lycidus
The rover
Novels Of Mrs. Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn - The City Heiress
The novels of Mrs Aphra Behn
Oroonoko
Oroonoko
Lycidus the Lover in Fashion
A Pindaric poem to the Reverend Doctor Burnet
A poem to Sir Roger L'Estrange on his third part of the history of the times
El Aventurero, La heredera burguesa/The Rover, The City-Heiress
Oroonoko
The Feign'd Curtizans Or A Nights Intrigue
Love-letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister; With the History of Their Adventures. In Three Parts
Oroonoko
Oroonoko or the Royal Slave Illustrated
City Heiress
The Works Of Aphra Behn Vol II
The Plays, Histories And Novels Of The Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn With Life And Memoirs V2
The Emperor of the Moon. A Dialogue-pantomime, Written by Mrs. Behn; With Alterations, and the Addition of Several Airs, Duets, and Choruses, Selected ... as Performed at the Patagonian Theatre
Rover
Roundheads
The town-fopp, or, Sir Timothy Tawdrey
Histories, novels, and translations
False Count
A congratulatory poem to Her Most Sacred Majesty on the universal hopes of all loyal persons for a Prince of Wales
Unfortunate Happy Lady
Oroonok
Lycidus
Plays, histories, and novels
A pindarick poem on the happy coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty James II, and his illustrious consort Queen Mary
The poems of Aphra Behn
The young king, or, The mistake
Oroonoko
A poem humbly dedicated to the great pattern of piety and virtue, Catherine, Queen Dowager, on the death of her dear lord and husband, King Charles II
Plays 1682-1696
Oroonoko
Fair Jilt
The Works of Aphra Behn
The amorous prince, or, The curious husband
Works of Aphra Behn Vol. 1
Younger Brother
The emperor of the moon
City Heiress
Oronooko
Fair Jilt
Works of Aphra Behn
The Plays, Histories And Novels Of The Ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn With Life And Memoirs V3
Love-letters Between a Nobleman and his Sister
The fair jilt, or, The history of Prince Tarquin and Miranda
The young king, or, the mistake
The amorous prince, or, The curious husband
Love in many masks
Rover (Approaching Literature)
A farce call'd the false count, or, A new way to play an old game
The feign'd curtizans, or, A nights intrigue
Oroonoko; or, The history of the royal slave
All the histories and novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn
A Pindaric poem to the Reverend Doctor Burnet, 1689
The Rover, Or, the Banish'd Cavaliers
The feign'd curtizans, or, A nights intrique
The city-heiress, or, Sir Timothy Treat-all
Plays written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn, entire in two volumes
Seventeen histories and novels
The city-heiress, or, Sir Timothy Treat-all
The Ten pleasures of marriage and the second part The confession of the new married couple
Plays
Lycidus; or, The lover in fashion
[All the histories and novels]
All the histories and novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn, entire in one volume ..
The histories and novels of the late ingenious Mrs Behn: in one volume
The luckey chance, or, An alderman's bargain
A poem humbly dedicated to the great patern of piety and virtue Catherine Queen Dowager
Love in many masks: as altered by J. P. Kemble, from Mrs. Behn's Rover, and first acted ... March 8th, 1790
Young Jemmy: or, The princely shepherd
The dramatic works of Mrs. Behn
Sir Patient Fancy
The uncollected verse of Aphra Behn
The lives of sundry notorious villains, memorable for their base and abominable actions
Plays written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn
The Ten pleasures of marriage and the second part The confession of the new married couple
Miscellany
The Works of Aphra Behn
Love in many masks
English nights entertainments. The history of Oroonoko; or, the royal slave. Written originally by Mrs. Behn, and revised by Mrs. Griffiths
The feign'd curtizans, or, a nights intrigue
The history of Oronooko
The younger brother: or, The amourous jilt
The debauchee, or, The credulous cuckold
[The histories and novels of Mrs. A. Behn]
The false count, or, A new way to play an old game
Sir Patient Fancy
Rover
Three histories ..
Love in many masks
The Widdow Ranter, or, The history of bacon in Virginia
The lucky mistake
Abdelazer, or, The Moor's revenge
The wandring beauty
Poems upon several occasions
Poems upon several occasions ; with, A voyage to the Island of Love, 1684
The uncollected verse of Aphra Behn
The emperor of the moon
Prologue to Romulus
The ten pleasures of marriage
The lady's looking-glass, to dress herself by, or, The whole art of charming
The novels of Aphra Behn
Poems upon several occasions
The rover: or, The banish'd cavaliers
The forc'd marriage, or, The jealous bridegroom
All the histories and novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn, intire in two volumes
The amorous prince, or, The curious husband
The emperor of the moon
All the histories and novels written by the late ingenious Mrs. Behn
Abdelazer, or the Moors revenge
Cleonice, princess of Bithynia
Love in many masks: as altered by J. P. Kemble, from Mrs. Behn's Rover, and first acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, March 8th, 1790
Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister
The city-heiress: or, Sir Timothy Treat-all
A prologue to her new play called Like father, like son, or, The mistaken brothers
The Roundheads, or, The good old cause
The unfortunate bride, or, The Blind lady a beauty
The second part of The rover
The rover, or, The banish't cavaliers
The forc'd marriage, or, The jealous bridegroom ...
The plays, histories, and novels of the ingenious Mrs. Aphra Behn
The counterfeit bridegroom, or, The defeated widow
Ethel Lilian Voynich
Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864-1960)

activist, composer, translator, suffragist

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The Gadfly
Nihilism as it is
An Interrupted Friendship
Olive Latham
Six Lyrics from the Ruthenian of Tarás Shevchénko, Also the Song of the Merchant Kaláshnikov from the Russian of Mikhaíl Lérmontov;
Scarlet Flower
Jack Raymond
Humour of Russia
Gadfly
Ovod
Niu mang
Gadfly
Yedidut she-nifseḳah
Olive Latham
Jack Raymond
Der shṭekhediger
Gadfly Classics Illustrated
Jack Raymond
Gadfly Illustrated
Chopin's Letters
Gadfly
Gadfly
Atsinegi
An Interrupted Friendship
Ovod
Interrupted Friendship
Jack Raymond
An Interrupted Friendship
Izbrannye proizvedenii︠a︡ v dvukh tomakh
Gadfly
Mardut
Chopin's Letters;
Gadfly
Gadfly
Sobranie sochineniĭ v trekh tomakh
Di bin
Ovid
Der shṭekhediger
Ethel L. Voynich papers
Prervannai︠a︡ druzhba
Put off thy shoes
Lucila Gamero Medina
Lucila Gamero Medina (1873-1964)

suffragette, human rights activist, physician

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