The Power of Her Paintbrush: The Story of Theresa Bernstein by Janice Hechter
Children are an ideal audience for highlighting historically marginalized women. Such works expose...
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Tag: women’s realities
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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‘A Purse of Her Own’: The Things She Carried by Kathleen B. Casey
It’s easy to live without thinking about how things were before we came into existence. Perhaps we...
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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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Frankenstein by Woman Writer Mary Shelley (First published in 1818)
I finally read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, considered one of the greatest horror stories ever...
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The Dream Book: Italian American Woman Writer Helen Barolini
Helen Barolini discovered a void and set out to do something about it. The result of her decision...
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Sarah Grimké: Women Must Acquire Feminist Consciousness by Conscious Effort (American Woman Writer and Activist 1792-1873)
“But I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren...
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