Sentences with phrase «women in rural towns»

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That woman drove miles to a rural town to meet a man she had never met, but believed she was in love with.

Seldom are ordained women placed in full charge of a local church, save in some small town and rural congregations that can not afford or find a man.

by Barbara Kingsolver Drama: A smart but poorly educated woman in rural Tennessee has her life transformed when scientists come to town.

As in the play Thoroughly Modern Millie, millions of young women left the safety and security of rural, small - town life and went to live an independent life in the big city.

The feature film adaptation of the acclaimed National Theatre production documents the events that shook Suffolk in 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.

Sky Atlantic's latest moody and mysterious crime drama comes from rural Australia and stars Elizabeth Debicki as a woman who returns home after 15 years to find her town in a struggle for survival.

Co-starring Domhnall Gleeson, it tells the story of a young woman named Eilis who moves from a rural town in Ireland to the bright lights of Brooklyn as she tries to follow her dreams.

Set in the 1950's, The Dressmaker is a bittersweet comedy about a glamorous young woman who returns, after many years in Europe, to her small home town in rural Australia in order to right some wrongs from the past.

In Ingmar Bergman's feature directing debut, urban beauty - shop proprietress Miss Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her eighteen - year - old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who has raised heIn Ingmar Bergman's feature directing debut, urban beauty - shop proprietress Miss Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her eighteen - year - old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who has raised hein an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her eighteen - year - old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who has raised her.

Within these pages, a desperate asylum seeker is pacing the hallways of Sydney's notorious Villawood detention centre; a seven - year - old Sudanese boy has found solace in a patchwork bike; an enraged black militant is on the war - path through the rebel squats of 1960s Brixton; a Mississippi housewife decides to make the ultimate sacrifice to save her son from small - town ignorance; a young woman leaves rural Jamaica in search of her destiny; and a Sydney schoolgirl loses her way.

I enjoyed researching this period of about 1919, when women had the vote in New York but not yet throughout the U.S.; when cars and telephones were changing even rural towns; when publishing birth control education materials could lead to jail time.