“The phoenix takes its rest”: Visiting Woman Writer May Sarton’s Grave
It’s been 4 years since I wrote this original post. My daughter and her husband will...
Read More
Tag: virginia-woolf
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:...
Read More
Rachel Kadish: Transcendence and Text
I love recognizing Toni Morrison’s influence on a writer as I am reading a book. Reading Rachel...
Read More
Woman Artist Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879): Photographic Vision
In 1926 Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press published Victorian Photographs of Famous Men...
Read More
Woman Writer Virginia Woolf: A Bench of Her Own, With Room for You
Such an invitation! We were invited to the unveiling of the full-size bronze sculpture of Virginia...
Read More
Women Writers on Writing: Virginia Woolf’s “Angel in the House” and what it takes to be a #NastyWoman
In 1931 Virginia Woolf was asked to give a speech to the London/National Society for Women’s...
Read More
Being Poor While Female in 19th Century Woman Writer Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853)
Nearly eighty years after the publication of woman writer Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Villette,...
Read More
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...
Read More
Painting Historic Women on Plates! In the 1930s Nasty Woman Artist Vanessa Bell Did It Too.
In the 1930’s Vanessa Bell and her partner and fellow artist Duncan Grant returned much of their...
Read More- 1
- 2
Recent Posts
JOIN NOW FOR “NASTY” UPDATES, One post per week in your inbox about a #nastywoman who is inspiring us to write about them.
Recent Comments