Biography & Autobiography Women
Rebel Women
Achievements Beyond the Ordinary
- Publisher
- Heritage House Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2010
- Category
- Women
- Recommended Age
- 15
- Recommended Grade
- 10
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781926613758
- Publish Date
- Sep 2010
- List Price
- $9.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926936277
- Publish Date
- Feb 2011
- List Price
- $7.99
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Description
The women in these stories did the unthinkable for their time: they followed their own paths, flouting convention and daring to break from the traditions of family and marriage. They chose a life outside the norm, a decision for which most paid dearly. Nell Shipman was overlooked because she was not as acquiescent as required; she opened an independent production company just when the major Hollywood studios began exerting their power. Isobel Gunn, once revealed to be a woman, lost her livelihood and her respectability. And almost everyone scorned Mother Caroline Fulham. In Rebel Women, you’ll discover women who faced conflict, adversity and doubt to follow their dreams.
About the author
Linda Kupecek is a Calgary-based author and retired actress. She was a columnist with The Hollywood Reporter in Los Angeles for 10 years, and her writing has been published in numerous magazines, including City Palate, TV Guide and Country Collectibles. She has acted in regional theatre and in classic films such as McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Her publications include The Rebel Cook; the Amazing Stories Fiction and Folly for the Festive Season and Rebel Women; and Deadly Dues, the first mystery in the Lulu Malone Mystery series.
Please visit www.lindakupecek.com.
Librarian Reviews
Rebel Women: Achievements Beyond the Ordinary
Rebel Women tells the stories of extraordinary Canadian women including Nell Shipman, a silent screen actress in the 1920s who did one of the first nude scenes on film, and Isabel Gunn, who worked as a labourer for the Hudson’s Bay Company and was only discovered to be a woman when she delivered her first child. All the women in this book in the Amazing Stories series defied the conventions of their age to live their lives as they chose, and not how society said they should.Kupecek has written three other books including The Rebel Cook: Entertaining Advice for the Clueless, Fiction and Folly for the Festive Season and Deadly Dues.
Source: The Association of Book Publishers of BC. BC Books for BC Schools. 2011-2012.
