All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: A Woman Writer Recovering the Untold Stories of Black Women in America
First she was told about a grain sack dating from around 1851 that had these words embroidered on...
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Tag: women and freedom
Vivian Gornick’s Taking a Long Look: What 2nd Wave Feminists and Women Writers Got Right That We Still Benefit From Today
I was excited to find a new collection of essays by Vivian Gornick, Taking a Long Look: Essays on...
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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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Being Poor While Female in 19th Century Woman Writer Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853)
Nearly eighty years after the publication of Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Villette, Virginia Woolf...
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Toni Morrison’s Sula: Available to and for her own imagination—a rare kind of freedom and a black woman writer’s manifesto.
Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973) has long been one of my favorite books. Besides simply wanting to...
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