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Auditions for "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown" are at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Town Theatre on Sumter Street. The play will run June 19 to 21. Call 799-2310 Monday, March 16,1998 1 m I HE Women ma i copy editor CONNIE KARICKHOFF % % ?t omen can't be writers. a At least, that's what they were told for hundreds T of years by a male-dominated culture. In this society it was not proper for women to think for themselves or speak for themselves, let alone have a writing career. It was not until the 19th century that women began to be accepted and | found success as authors, though only then if they wrote the sentimental love stories that other women wanted to read. Today female authors around the world ei\joy the literary popularity, success and prestige they had been denied in the past. As part of Women's History Month, we will profile a few of these contemporary women writers and their Dredecessors who Daved the wav. If you haven't read a good book in ^ a while, you may want to check a few " of these out. Just as Jane Austen captivated her audeince in Britain in the early 1800s with her stories of romance, true love and marrying rich, best-selling authors such as Jackie Collips, Rosamunde Pilcher and Mary Higgins Clark today appeal to a large number of women looking for a fast read filled with romance and intrigue. Their novels, often turned into made-for-TV movies, seem to fol^ low the same general themes, but some " are worth a second look. Pilcher, who sets her sweeping tales of love and family exclusively in Britain, will really break your heart with her bestsellers, The Shell Seekers and September. The Shell Seekers follows tne lire 01 reneiope reeling, an old woman who must reach into her past to find out where the relationships in her life went wrong. September is a sim^ ilar family drama set in Scotland. ^ mmm MONDAY TUESD 8:00- step 9:00 AM challenge step 10:30 11:30 AM | 11:00 AMNoon 12:15- cardio 1:05 PM CQMBQ 1:05- staff 2:05 PM enrich 2:003:00 PM 3:30- step step 8 4:30 PM attack slide 4:45- body bod"i 5:15 PM sculpting sculpt] 5:30- water 6:15 PM WQRKQUT 5:30- power step 6-30 PM interval challei 6:45- step step i 7:45 PM combo sculp I 7:00- water 7:45 PM RUNNING 8:00- step & step 9*00 PM sculpt comb< TH BEGIN MO I A $10 fee and signed waiver Participants need to bring a class to show proof of registi ation office, 202 Blatt PE Ce k IF YOU HAVE ALR ,, YOU D( I Worn 1rck r>nn fr?iKid IIV^ Willi IH/UI Terri McMillan, a relative newcomer m to the bestseller lists, also gives a new m twist to the drama of relationships with her books that focus on the Aincan into the^demic liter- M arycommunity, however, ^ ] their task was C] much more difficult, di Perhaps Mary Shelley proved that t ] women could write as well as men with 1: her 18th century horror story, Franken- ti stein, but men were still hard to con- K vince. C Several writers like Charlotte and ( Emily Bronte and Mary Ann Evans A (George Eliot) went so far as to write ei under male names in order to get their C works published and respected in lit- lo erary circles. Novels like Jane Eyre, b< Wuthering Heights and Middlemarch, tl considered time-honored classics today, ei AY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRI1 STEP STEp ST CHALLENGE CHALI POM INTEI CARDIO CAR! COMBO COM STAFF STAFF ENRICH ENRICH it STEP STEP & STI ATTACK SLIDE ATTA r BODY BODY BO [NG SCULPTING SCULPTING SCUL1 WATER WATER WORKOUT WORKOUT POWER STEP POV VGE INTERVAL CHALLENGE INTE fe STEP STEP & ST T COMBO SCULPT COR WATER RUNNING STEP & STEP 3 SCULPT COMBO IS SCHEDULE W NDAY, MARCH are required before taking part i valid USC ID with a Spring, 1991 ation. To register and pay, stop 1 nter. EADY PAID FOR THE SPl 3 NOT NEED TO DO SO A Etc. The Gamecock it ## D OF WOh tions to the literarj light never have seen print under the One of these important i ame of a woman. eries has been Zora Neale I Now, the growing field of women's Writing during the Jazz Age studies is bringing back to light Great Depression, she was not ^ some of the women writers of our ly criticized as a female auth III past who were overlooked by but as an African American i hopin "f h?w is no cook mors imoortant so me than mis one,"-?Alice weifce? S The n wak- e ling), s harlotte Perkins Gilman ("The Yel- her pioneering work deserves w Wallpaper") and many others are Her most famous novel, T1 sing rediscovered and added to an- Were Watching God, is told thi lologies as part of the American lit- everyday language of a blacl ary cannon. in an all black community te MHHHH " 1/ ? IBEDBBB m the CREF! 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Morrison's Song of Solomon (recently Oprah's Book Club list), is the emonal, sometimes funny, drama of Milkin Dead, a young black man trying uncover the secrets of his family's st. In her Nobel Prize-winning novel, iloved (now being made into a >vie starring Winfrey), Morrison saves a story of an escaped slave man, haunted by her bloody past. Another writer who has crossed over ;o best-selling success is Margaret wood, with her gothic science fiction ok, The Handmaid's Tale, and her west effort, Alias Grace. This is the tionalized story of a convicted murress of the 18th century. Marion Zimmer Bradley, a noted ence fiction author, has also crossed or with her best-selling Arthurian vel, The Mists of Avalon. Here she 1 a f oln /vf* ITinrr A rtViiir fV?i?nnrrV(