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Download Ride on Rapunzel, Maeve Binchy, Attic Press, 1992 Ride on Rapunzel, Maeve Binchy, Attic Press, 1992, 1855940515, 9781855940512, 143 pages. A collection of the very best of feminist fairytales including such authors as Maeve Binchey, Zoe Fairbairns, Ivy Bannister, Mary Dorcey, Leland Bardwell and Mairide Woods amongst others.. Cinderella on the ball , ZoГ« Fairbairns, 1991, , 64 pages. Biography of Desire , Mary Dorcey, 1997, Fiction, 377 pages. New Dubliners , Oona Frawley, 2005, Fiction, 152 pages. Presents a collection of short stories set in Dublin by such authors as Roddy Doyle, Maeve Binchy, Anthony Glavin, and Frank McGuinnes.. Womenfolk + Fairy Tales , Rosemary Minard, 1975, , 163 pages. This collection of folk and fairy tales has the theme of a girl or women who is the moving force in each story.. Hearth, Home and Hope , Kaitlyn Gorton, 1995, Fiction, 251 pages. The Old wives' fairy tale book , Angela Carter, Oct 1, 1990, , 242 pages. 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Moments of Desire Sex and Sensuality by Australian Feminist Writers, Susan Hawthorne, Jenny Pausacker, 1989, Fiction, 207 pages. A collection of stories and poetry portraying women's sexual experiences and feelings from childhood through adulthood. Soul of the West , Suzanne Ellison, Oct 1, 1990, , 299 pages. New women's fiction , Aorewa McLeod, 1988, Fiction, 158 pages. Maeve Binchy was born on 28 May 1940 in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland, the eldest child of four. Her parents were very positive and provided her with a happy childhood. Despite the fact she describes herself as an overweight child it was her parents attitude that gave her the confidence to accept herself for who she is today. She studied at University College Dublin and was a teacher for a while. She also loved travelling and this was how she found her niche as a writer. She liked going to all different kinds of places such as a Kibbutz in Israel and worked in a camp in the United States. It was whilst she was away that she sent letters home to her parents. They were so impressed with these chatty letters from all over the world that they decided to send them to a newspaper. They were published. She left teaching and became a journalist. She still writes columns today. Maeve married Gordon Snell who is also a published writer. When they were struggling financially it was then that Light a Penny Candle was published. She became an overnight success. Her books deal with relationship problems. Many of them are set in the past in Ireland such as "Echoes" and often deal with people who are young, fall in love, have families then have relationship or family problems that readers can identify with. The main characters are people you can empathise with. Some of her later novels have been brought forward to the present day to become more modern. Her cousin Dan Binchy is also a published writer. Aobh Aoife asked Baby Bear Baby William ball beanstalk began Bodb Dearg boys budgeens busy Buttercup called Cinderella dance dark woman decided door eyes face fairy father felt Fiachra Fionnuala foot fetish forest Frederick frog Frog Prince giant going Goldilocks grew hair happy head Henry Jack's mother Jerravilda Julia Justice Goodbye Kate White king knew Lightning little girl Little Red Shoes live happily looked Macha Mama Bear Maoliosa marry Matilda Matri miners Minnie mirror morning never night noses Oberon Once palace Papa Bear Patri Arky Pauline playing pond Prince Prince Phillippe Princess Freda queen Rapunzel Riding Hood seven Shineon sisters Sleeping Beauty smiled Snida Snow White Snow-Fight story talk Techno tell there's thing thought three Bears Thumbelina Thunder Titania told took town turned witch woman women woods worried As an author, Binchy's goal is simple: to let the story shine through. She told Oprah Winfrey, "I do not have a particular literary style, I am not experimental ... I tell a story and I want to share it with my readers." As a result, with her Ireland-set stories featuring strong heroines, friendship and romance, Binchy has gained quite a following since she became a bestselling author at age 43. If storytelling is an art, then Maeve Binchy is unquestionably one of today's master artists. After all, Binchy was born, educated, and lives in Ireland, a land well known for its great storytellers. Firmly grounded in the Irish storytelling tradition, Binchy has earned a sizeable following of enthusiastic fans for her 11 novels and 4 collections of short stories. I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer," Maeve jokes. Perhaps that happy childhood is why Binchy did not publish her first novel until she was 43 years old. But there's no doubt that once she did she proved herself to be an immensely talented, multiple New York Times-bestselling author. her name. Binchy was introduced into the joys of storytelling at an early age. Her mother, Maureen, and father, William, a prominent Dublin barrister, encouraged Binchy and her three siblings to be avid readers as well as to share stories at dinner and, as her brother William admits, nobody loved telling stories more than Maeve. Growing up in the quiet seaside town of Dalkey, located about 10 miles south of Dublin, Binchy also found herself dreaming of escape. "I love Dalkey now," she says, "but when I was young, I thought it was somewhat like living in the desert." Her desire to escape led her first to the big city, to the University College in Dublin, where she studied history and French. After graduating in 1960, she taught Latin, French, and history in a Dublin grade school and was able to indulge her love of traveling during summer vacations. She proved so popular a teacher that parents of her students pooled their money to send her on a trip to Israel. Her father was so impressed by the letters she wrote describing Israeli life that he typed them up and sent them to the Irish Independent newspaper. That's how Maeve returned home to find, quite to her surprise, that she was now a published writer. Using her newfound interest in journalism, she got a job on The Irish Times as the women's editor, an unlikely role for her, she jokingly acknowledges, given her hopeless lack of fashion sense. In the early 70s, she shifted to feature reporting, and moved to London. The move was motivated only in part by her career. Making the kind of bold life-altering decision that many of her characters are prone to, Binchy decided to take a chance and move to London to be with the man she'd fallen in love with during a previous visit—Gordon Snell, a BBC broadcaster, children's book author, and mystery novelist. The risk, as it often does in her novels, paid off big time. Maeve married Gordon in 1977, and the two remain happily married to this day. In 1980, they bought a one-bedroom cottage back in Binchy's old hometown of Dalkey. Struggling to make mortgage payments on their new home, Binchy, who had published two collections of her newspaper work and one of short stories, decided to try to sell her first novel, which she'd managed to write in between her newspaper assignments. When her publisher told her that Light A Penny Candle would likely be a bestseller, Maeve remembers her sense of shock. "I had to sit down," she recalls. "I had never even had enough money to pay the telephone bill." Maeve and her husband still live in that same Dalkey cottage, where they share an office, writing side by side. "All I ever wanted to do," she says, "is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with." She has unquestionably succeeded with that goal. Light A Penny Candle was followed by such bestselling works as Circle of Friends, which was turned into a major motion picture starring Minnie Driver, and Tara Road, an Oprah Book Club selection. Binchy is consistently named one of the most popular writers in readers' polls in England and Ireland, outselling and rated higher than James Joyce. Of this success, Binchy comments with her typical good humor, "If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than Finnegan's Wake." In addition to her books, Binchy is also a playwright whose works have been staged at The Peacock Theatre of Dublin, and was the author of a hugely popular monthly column called "Maeve's Week," which appeared in The Irish Times for 32 years. A kind of combined gossip, humor, and advice column, it achieved cult status in Ireland and abroad. A collection of the very best of feminist fairytales including such authors as Maeve Binchey, Zoe Fairbairns, Ivy Bannister, Mary Dorcey, Leland ... Show synopsis A collection of the very best of feminist fairytales including such authors as Maeve Binchey, Zoe Fairbairns, Ivy Bannister, Mary Dorcey, Leland Bardwell and Mairide Woods amongst others.
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