{"product_id":"marriage-for-love-a-nineteenth-century-lithuanian-womans-fight-for-justice-9780996515368","title":"Marriage for Love: A Nineteenth-Century Lithuanian Woman's Fight for Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow did a penniless nineteenth-century farm woman with an alcoholic husband, seven children, and little education, living in a rural backwater of the tsarist Russian empire far from any centers of culture manage to become the initiator of literary prose fiction in the Lithuanian language and write six volumes of stories, plays, and letters? Not only that, but she also distinguished herself as a feminist activist against patriarchy, especially the centuries-long tradition of arranged marriages. During the First World War she traveled the United States for five years, giving speeches from Chicago to New Hampshire for the cause of relieving the famine and suffering of her war-torn country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKelertas, Violeta:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Violeta Kelertas is a literary critic, translator, and editor who analyzes the literary scene in Soviet and post-Soviet Lithuania. Formerly the PLB Endowed Chair of Lithuanian Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago, she is now an affiliated professor at the University of Washington. Her translations from the Lithuanian range from the poet Vytautas Mačernis's \"Visions\" to the anthology of short stories, \"Come into My Time: \" Lithuania in Prose Fiction 1970-1990 to a Valdas Papievis story, \"Echo, or the Sieve of Time,\" recently published in the July-Aug. 2019 issue of the Kenyon Review. Currently she is translating an early Papievis novel, Bryde, dealing with the partisan war after the war in Lithuania.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRacys, Maryte:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Maryte Racys is a librarian at the Seattle Public Library. She studied English Literature at Victoria University Toronto and completed graduate studies in Library Sciences at the University of Toronto. She has been a professional librarian in two countries for forty-five years. She completed training at the Academy of Theater Arts in Toronto, Canada and has had a lifelong interest in Eastern philosophy.","brand":"Birchwood Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50478210089234,"sku":"9780996515368","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e15f2723-1214-4aab-9802-ae7de972a7c7.jpg?v=1730289514","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/marriage-for-love-a-nineteenth-century-lithuanian-womans-fight-for-justice-9780996515368","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}