Grazia Deledda (1871-1936): The Second Woman Writer to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature was a Woman from Sardinia
Sardinian woman writer Grazia Deledda wrote every day, even after she was married and had...
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Adrienne Rich and Emily Dickinson: Women Writers and the Loaded Gun of Poetry
In her poetry and prose, Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) writes about important, forgotten and...
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Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet is a #Nastywoman and Her #Nastiness Changes the World in this 18th Century Woman Writer’s Novel.
If Donald Trump met Elizabeth Bennet he for sure would have called her a #nastywoman. Why? Because...
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Vivian Gornick’s Taking a Long Look: What 2nd Wave Feminists and Women Writers Got Right That We Still Benefit From Today
I was excited to find a new collection of essays by feminist writer Vivian Gornick, Taking a Long...
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Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Being, Non-Being, and the Spiritual Continuum Holding Up the World–A Woman Writer on Writing
In her autobiographical memoir, “A Sketch of the Past,” Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) writes of...
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Ada Lovelace: Math, Vision, and Ambition in a Woman Meets Certain Death in Victorian England – Women Writing Code
When I think of Ada Lovelace 1815-1852, widely recognized as the first computer programmer, I...
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Women Writers on Writing: 5 Gifts From Ursula K. Le Guin’s Last Novel
Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin’s last novel, written in 2008 when she was 79 is a gift in many ways....
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Morgan Jerkins: This woman writer is on fire! And we all get to benefit.
Morgan Jerkins is a woman writer on fire who we are all benefitting from. At 29 she has written...
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Woman Writer and Activist Alicia Garza: The Dynamics of Power
Let’s begin by saying that movements are not started with hashtags and there is a lot more to...
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