By Maggy Hendry (eds.)
The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography includes info of the lives of over 2100 girls from all sessions, cultures and walks of lifestyles - from queens to television cooks, engineers to face up comics, pilots to poisoners. With subsections for extra analyzing, accomplished topic index and a bibliographical survey, this dictionary of women's biography is a useful reference source.
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She came to understand the country people and their struggle to survive. Her experience provided the context of her many poems about nature and beauty and especially about women at work, in poverty and misery and struggling for their daily bread. Her style, free ofthe pseudo-romanticism ofher age, reveals a sense of realism and a remarkable awareness of social and national problems. She wrote in the Greek vernacular, contrary to the current tendency of writers to use the archaizing, 'pure' Greek (katharevousa).
Her books inelude The Citi;:;en and his Country, The Rights qf the Child in Israel and ftOman as a Human Being. Al-Sa'id 'Anünah (1914-). Egyptian writer. Born in Cairo, she came from the remarkable family of a progressive doctor who believed in the education of women. Her eldest sister, Karlmah, became a teacher and in 1965 was the first woman Minister ofEducation. AmI nah was one of the first small group of women who graduated from Cairo University in 1935 and has been advocating women's rights since her school days.
Iraqi poet. She was born into a literary family in Baghdad; her father and grandfather were both poets. She assumed a leading role in the free verse movement through her poetry and her critical work. A graduate of Arabic literature from Baghdad University, she went to Princeton University to do an MA in Comparative Literature. The author of numerous collections of poetry, ineluding Ashiqat al-ayl ('Lover of the night'), Shadaya wa-ramad ('Splinters and ashes'), Qgrarat al-maurjah ('The bottom of the waves'), and Shqjarat al-qamar ('The moon tree'), and a former teacher at Baghdad University, Nazik AlMala 'ikah now lives in Kuwait.