Paula Modersohn-Becker: Women and Ambition, German Woman Artist (1876-1907)
What if there were a woman born in the late 1800s with the ambition to paint a way no woman had...
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Month: March 2018
Esclarmonde of Foix the Great: Pope of the Heretics, French (1151– 1215) Original painting and text by Karin Peschau
Countess Zebella Trencavel of Carcassone and her husband Roger Bernard, the count of Foix, gave...
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Ursula K. Le Guin: Women, Writing and Motherhood, American (1929-2018)
When I was in my late twenties, there was one essay I read in the New York Times Book Review that...
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Margaret Fuller’s Manifesto, 1845, American Woman Writer (1810-1850)by Maria Dintino
Never heard of Margaret Fuller? You’re not alone. In 1855, five years after her untimely death,...
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Adrienne Rich: A Woman Writer Whose Voice Echoes in My Body, American (1929-2012)
Of all the lines written in the English language, the ones that have inspired, moved and meant the...
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Simone de Beauvoir Wrote the Story of My Life, French Woman Writer (1908-1986)
My awakening occurred the week of my birthday in 1984. I had just turned thirteen. Thirteen is a...
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Sojourner Truth: A Wandering Woman Orator, American (c. 1797-1883) Original painting and text by Karin Peschau
Her face speaks to us about the chains of slavery, about the iron chains of the slaves in America,...
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