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: writing the female experience
“I Would Prefer Not To”: Why The Bride! Is a Writerly Movie about (and by) a Nasty Woman Writer
The title of the 2026 feature film, The Bride!, indeed includes the exclamation point, and that is...
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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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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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In Support of Choice: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1921-2006)
A while back, one of my male colleagues asked me what feminist books I recommend he read, and it...
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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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The Awakened Woman: Remembering and Reigniting Our Sacred Dreams by Woman Writer Dr. Tererai Trent
In celebration of Black History Month, here’s an update on the woman Oprah Winfrey says was...
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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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