Bøker av Mary Carey

"Lady Mary Carey examined her life and expressed her views in a handwritten manuscript, composed and revised between 1650 and 1658. Her poetry and prose was important enough to her inner circle that her autograph manuscript was copied in a fair hand in 1681. In addition to providing us with key insights into women's multidimensional roles as wives, widows, and mothers during the seventeenth century in England, Carey's writings teach us a great deal about a woman's deepest emotional and spiritual states while confronting the hardships of life"--

In 1962 Mary Carey, newly widowed, drove the Alcan Highway alone from Texas to Alaska, where she would make herself a new life. And her life there - whether she was teaching in an eight-pupil pilot school in Talkeetna, flying Mt. McKinley with bush pilot Don Sheldon, or homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness - was one of continuous pioneering.A crackerjack photojournalist ¿- she obtained exclusive eyewitness coverage of the 1964 earthquake in Kodiak, Seward, and Valdez - Ms. Carey won five first prizes in an Alaskan Press Clubs contest in 1963. She did not re-enter the contest until 1974, at which time the lady walked off with three more first prizes. Previously, in 1955, she won the National True Story Award - a $5,000 prize.Mary Carey was the owner and proprietor of Mary's McKinley View Lodge, which she built on her homestead in 1972. There she baked sixty-four pies each day, welcomed guests, gave lectures to tourists, and somehow found time for rock hunting and writing.Mary died suddenly at the age of 91, on June 18, 2004, at her beloved Mary's McKinley View Lodge. She left a rich legacy and a loving family from a life well-lived.

Writing from a Small Country is a collection of fresh literature written by members of the Creative Writing Club of Luxembourg. From such diverse origins as the UK, the US, Canada, Italy, India, Germany and Mozambique, these expatriate lovers of literature gathered in the evenings in Luxembourg to mutually inspire one another. This anthology is a first offering of their formidable talent, including poetry, essays, short stories and extracts from novels in progress. It has everything from love and death, sibling rivalry and endings with a twist, tales of the supernatural and contemplations on the horrors of terrorism. Read in any order you like, laugh, cry, but savour each piece from beginning to end.