A New Narrative: It’s Hester’s Turn
When a great novel is penned and the author passes on, that story doesn’t change much if at all,...
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Tag: women-and-ambition
Woman Writer Brenda Ueland: Sharing an Exhilarating Existence
In preparation for a women’s writing group, I was lining up well-known teachers of writing, those...
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50 Women Sculptors: A Monumental Resource
While preparing to interview Cheryl Robson who initiated the establishment of the Virginia Woolf...
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Hannah Davis: Early Woman Entrepreneur Extraordinaire
On an excursion to visit novelist Willa Cather’s gravesite in Jaffrey, New Hampshire, my sister...
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Sandra Cisneros’ “Women Without Shame”: Poetry for a New Year
Almost 30 years in the making, this collection of poems is to be savored. This latest book of...
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May Alcott Nieriker: Littlest Woman, Big Ambition, American (1840-1879)
The youngest sister of Little Women author Louisa May Alcott, May Alcott Nieriker was a successful...
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Vera (Atkins) Rosenberg: A Romanian Jewish Woman Spy Who Fought the Nazis with Everything She Had (1908-2000)
I was unaware that women were sent behind enemy lines by the Allied powers as spies and...
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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...
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Sonia Sotomayor: “A Trailblazing Bronx Native” Honored in Bronze
There is now a stunning bronze statue of US Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor proudly on...
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