Tag: women and freedom

Being Poor While Female in 19th Century Woman Writer Charlotte Brontë’s Villette (1853)

Posted by Theresa C. Dintino | Mar 17, 2026 | Nasty Women Writers

Nearly eighty years after the publication of woman writer Charlotte Brontë’s novel, Villette,...

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Toni Morrison’s Sula: Available to and for her own imagination

Posted by Theresa C. Dintino | Feb 25, 2025 | Nasty Women Writers

Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973) has long been one of my favorite books. Besides simply wanting to...

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Vera (Atkins) Rosenberg: A Romanian Jewish Woman Spy Who Fought the Nazis with Everything She Had (1908-2000)

Posted by Theresa C. Dintino | Dec 6, 2022 | Nasty Women Writers: Activists

I was unaware that women were sent behind enemy lines by the Allied powers as spies and...

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All That She Carried by Tiya Miles: Recovering the Untold Stories of Black Women in America

Posted by Theresa C. Dintino | Nov 30, 2021 | Nasty Women Writers: Feminist Booklist

First she was told about a grain sack dating from around 1851 that had these words embroidered on...

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Vivian Gornick’s Taking a Long Look: What 2nd Wave Feminists and Women Writers Got Right That We Still Benefit From Today

Posted by Theresa C. Dintino | Jul 6, 2021 | Nasty Women Writers

I was excited to find a new collection of essays by feminist writer Vivian Gornick, Taking a Long...

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