I enjoy reviewing books for Literary Ladies Guide (and other sites). In the process of reviewing, I get to think through why a book is important or moves me. The Age of Phillis was a book that changed my views…
Blog Archives
A poetry collection that forces a reinterpretation
Tagged with: colonial Massachusetts, George Washington, Honoree Fannone Jeffers, Phillis Wheatley, poetry, slavery, women of color, women's work, writing and women, writing poetry
Posted in About Me
Posted in About Me
The 1930s: ‘Women had the vote, but the old agitation went on’ | Women’s suffrage | The Guardian
Women won voting rights equal to men in Britain in 1928, but that didn’t mean they had attained equality. Per Diana Souhami’s article in The Guardian: “To have legislation is not at all the same as to have the state…
Tagged with: 1930s Britain, British Union of Fascists, Diana Souhami, fascism, misogyny, Oswald Mosley, suffrage, the 1930s, The Guardian, women, women's suffrage, women's work
Posted in What I'm Reading
Posted in What I'm Reading
A Good Journalist Understands That Fascism Can Happen Anywhere, Anytime ‹ Literary Hub
In researching the rise of fascism in 1930s Britain, I was surprised to learn that Oswald Mosley, the charismatic founder of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), was initially a fan of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. He formed the BUF…
Tagged with: anti-fascist, anti-Semitism, Dorothy Thompson, fascism, Lit Hub, Mussolini, Nancy Cott, Oswald Mosley, women, women's work
Posted in What I'm Reading
Posted in What I'm Reading
Tillie Olsen, Author of Tell Me a Riddle | LiteraryLadiesGuide
Since I posted yesterday about Virginia Woolf and how A Room of One’s Own made me think of Tillie Olsen’s Silences, I wanted to post Olsen’s biography from the Literary Ladies site today. I remember being moved by Olsen’s Tell…
Tagged with: creative writing, literary creation, literary history, Literary Ladies, tillie olsen, Virginia Woolf, women, women's work, writing
Posted in What I'm Reading
Posted in What I'm Reading
A Room of One’s Own and Time to Think
This posting from Literary Ladies is about Virginia Woolf, but I find myself thinking about Tillie Olsen. I think they were from the same era–perhaps Olsen was a little younger. But of very different economic classes. I don’t think that…
Tagged with: 1930s, fiction, literary creation, literary history, Literary Ladies, tillie olsen, Virginia Woolf, women, women's work, writing, writing advice
Posted in What I'm Reading
Posted in What I'm Reading
The not-so-hidden injuries of class: A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Maid
I ran across this while looking for something else. The language is so delightfully fresh and arch. Elizabeth Hands–died in 1815, and although the Poetry Foundation does not date the poem, her book was published in 1789–so who knows? Perhaps…
Numbers Talk! The 2014 VIDA Count | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts
The 2014 VIDA Count | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
Tagged with: books, Literary journals, Literary Magazines, race in literature, women, women's work, writing
Posted in What I'm Reading
Posted in What I'm Reading
18 Inventions By Women That Changed The World
18 Inventions By Women That Changed The World. This is outside my usual focus of literature/language/performing arts, but who can resist?
The plight of the overworked writer. Charlotte Bronte: Hands Full | Lapham’s Quarterly
Hands Full | Lapham’s Quarterly.
Tagged with: books, Charlotte Bronte, fiction, Lapham's Quarterly, literary creation, literary history, women, women's work, writing, writing and women
Posted in What I'm Reading
Posted in What I'm Reading
