Word: queendom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city of Woonsocket's quick abandonment of the term personhole for manhole [Oct. 2] gives hope that the United Kingdom can avoid the temptation to change its designation periodically to United Queendom or permanently to United Crowndom...
...then, would she reconcile her quest for the kingdom of highest literary standards with a championship of women's rights that might promise a queendom of intellectual anarchy? Her lecture, it emerged, was no attempt to confront contemporary women's literature on shared, upto-date grounds of counter-culture, or politics, economics and sociology. She embarked instead on a delightfully meandering journey through literary history. Along the way, she did not visit the obscure artistic achievements of some long-forgotten authoresses, nor mouldering collections of poetry by some oppressed New England saint; she preferred to scrutinize fictional heroines familiar...
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