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Why I Want a Wife   } Judy ( Syfers ) Brady } Judy Brady (1937- ) was born in San Francisco } B.F.A . from the University of Iowa in 1962. } Brady's a feminist, a political and environmental activist—especially having to do with cancer-related issues, and a freelance writer. } She's edited both  Women and Cancer (1990) and  One in Three: Women with Cancer Confront an Epidemic  (1991). } Brady's work has also appeared in periodicals such as  Greenpeace Magazine  and  The Women's Review of Books . } Her classic satirical essay "Why I Want a Wife" was first published in the first issue of  Ms .   magazine  in 1972 . (as Judy Syfers ) } Reprinted in the same magazine in 1979 and 1990 } Why I Want a Wife- Judy Brady   I belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am A Wife. And, not altogether incidentally, I am a mother. } Not too long ago a male friend of mine appeared on the scene fresh fro...

Where the mind is without fear — Ravindranath Tagore ( BORN: May 7, 1861    Kolkata, India-   DIED: Aug 7, 1941 (aged 80)   Kolkata, India) — Nobel Prize (1913) — Knighted (1915) — Tagore: Life & Works — Bengali poet, short-story writer,  song  composer, playwright, essayist, and painter — introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of  colloquial  language into  Bengali literature , thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical  Sanskrit . — He was highly influential in introducing Indian  culture  to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of early 20th-century India. — In 1913 he became the first non-European to receive the  Nobel Prize for Literature . — Tagore was awarded a knighthood in 1915, — but he  repudiated  it in 1919 as a protest against the  Amritsar ( Jallianwalla Bagh ) Massacre . ...

Up-Hill BY  CHRISTINA ROSSETTI — Christina Rossetti,  full  name Christina Georgina Rossetti,  — pseudonym  Ellen Alleyne  (born Dec. 5, 1830,  London , Eng.—died Dec. 29, 1894, London), one of the most important of English women poets both in range and quality. — She excelled in works of fantasy, in poems for children, and in religious  poetry . — LIFE — Christina was the youngest child of  Gabriele Rossetti  and was the sister of the painter-poet  Dante Gabriel Rossetti .  — In 1850, under the pseudonym Ellen Alleyne , she contributed seven poems to the Pre-Raphaelite journal  The Germ . — In 1853, when the Rossetti family was in financial difficulties, Christina helped her mother keep a school at Frome , Somerset, but it was not a success, and in 1854 the pair returned to London, where Christina’s father died. — In straitened circumstances, Christina entered on her life work o...