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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Tag: women and writing
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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The Cemetery of Untold Stories, by Julia Alvarez
Alma Cruz is the central character in Julia Alvarez’s most recent novel, Cemetery of Untold...
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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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Ursula K. Le Guin: Women, Writing and Motherhood, American (1929-2018)
When I was in my late twenties, there was one essay I read in the New York Times Book Review that...
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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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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,...
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Woman Writer Nan Shepherd: Compelling Quiescence
Recently, I dreamed of a mountain—New Hampshire’s Mount Monadnock. In the dream, I was on a...
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