Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights: A 19th Century Woman Writer Calling Out White Supremacist Patriarchy
Wuthering Heights (1847) is so brutal in its exposure of life in the white supremacist patriarchy...
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Virginia Woolf’s The Years: Time, Presence and the “Conversational Nature of Reality”
I had read a lot about Virginia Woolf’s relationship to this novel before I read it. I read that...
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Margaret Fuller’s Cenotaph: “A well-worn path” American (1810-1850)
I decided to rerun this post for a number of reasons, one being that it’s the perfect time...
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The Memoir of Glückel of Hameln (1646-1724): The First Life Story Written by a Jewish Woman
In The Life of Glückel of Hameln: A Memoir, said to be the first life story written by a Jewish...
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Woman Writer Anne Brontë: To Tell the Truth (1820-1849)
It is said that Anne Brontë’s novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the most shocking of the Brontë...
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Making Waves: One creative endeavor at a time!
Nasty Women Writers strives to amplify the work of as many women writers, artists, scientists, and...
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Gloria Naylor: Redirecting the Spotlight, American Woman Writer (1950-2016)
I am beyond thrilled to learn of The Gloria Naylor Archive! This extensive repository of...
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: A Woman Writer Living Life On Her Own Terms
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) was a wild woman: independent, strong-willed, super ambitious...
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Thank you, Deborah Feldman: From One Jewish Woman Writer to Another
Something happened to me this month which changed my life: I discovered Deborah Feldman. Feldman...
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