Woman Writer Willa Cather: A Forever View of the Mountain
A couple of years back, my sister Theresa and I visited the grave of novelist Willa Cather and her...
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“I Would Prefer Not To”: Why The Bride! Is a Writerly Movie about (and by) a Nasty Woman Writer
The title of the 2026 feature film, The Bride!, indeed includes the exclamation point, and that is...
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Visibility Matters : Where are the Women?
Out of forty monuments along the National Mall in Washington, DC, none celebrate women and their...
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Wildly Different: How five women reclaimed nature in a man’s world
I never tire of learning about women who defy the constraints of patriarchy. Sarah Lonsdale’s...
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An Uprush of Flight: Woman Writer May Sarton’s Grave
Each summer I return to New Hampshire and often drive through Nelson where May Sarton lived for...
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Simin Daneshvar: I Dream of a Universal Reconciliation (Iranian Woman Writer 1921-2012)
“When I am shivering from the cold, and darkness envelops me due to the scarcity of fuel and...
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Celebrating Trailblazer Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
Happy Birthday to Margaret Fuller, born on May 23, 1810. Our collective gifts to Margaret are the...
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The Power of Her Paintbrush: The Story of Theresa Bernstein by Janice Hechter
Children are an ideal audience for highlighting historically marginalized women. Such works expose...
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In Her Name: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Woman Writer and Activist (1826-1898)
A while back, I came upon a term I had not heard before, the Matilda Effect. It’s defined as a...
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