Lily Briscoe’s Radical Refusal to do Emotional Labor for a Man in Virginia Woolf’s Novel, To the Lighthouse
In 1983, someone finally put a name to an issue that had been stalking women for generations:...
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Agatha Christie (1890-1976): “The most famous woman writer ever, perhaps the most famous writer, period!”
I will say that I was shocked recently when, in a bookstore, I turned Agatha Christie’s book, Five...
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George Eliot (1819-1880) Part 2: “The Slavery of Being a Girl”
George Eliot’s truthful depictions of human nature and relationships within the patriarchal system...
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George Eliot (1819-1880) Part 1: A Giantess of English Literature
You have to commit to the prospect of reading a novel by nineteenth-century British author George...
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Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) Part 1: A Savvy Businesswoman with a Fierce Love for the Wild
I don’t know who I thought Beatrix Potter was but I certainly didn’t think she was the kind of...
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Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Women Writers Who Were Friends
Elizabeth Gaskell (1801-1865) was fifteen years older than Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855). They led...
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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865): Part 2—A Voice for Women and the Working Class
The death of her son William at 10 months old from Scarlett Fever in August of 1845 left woman...
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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) Part 1 — Having it All
I had no idea what to expect when I opened an Elizabeth Gaskell novel. When she was referred to in...
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Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley: The Power of Female Friendship
Before this novel, published in 1849, between Jane Eyre and Villette, Shirley was only a man’s...
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