In an opinion by Mattie Kahn, in Time magazine, she opens with “It started like most revolutions do: with gossip.” Ms. Kahn has a new...

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), an 18th-century British woman writer and early feminist, wrote about the place of women within society....

Maria Edgeworth began writing in a variety of forms in the mid-1790s when she was in her late twenties, including novels for adults and...

Edgeworth (1768—1849) wrote many children’s novels that conveyed moral lessons. One of her main collaborators was her friend Louise...

Maria Edgeworth is a woman writer I would have liked to have known. Edgeworth lived in England prior to her family moving to their estate...

Frances Browne was an Irish poet and novelist who was blind from the age of eighteen months. She is best known for her collection of...

Agnes Giberne (1845-1903) was a prolific British writer, writing around one-hundred-thirty books. She is one of the first women to...

Children want to know how to cope with situations that seem overwhelming, that they feel are beyond their years and ability to cope....

Chapter 1. Apartment 4B—with a Capital “B” for Bo-o-oring! A cloud of doom hovered over the MacGregor household. Sophia propped her...

"The Poem of Joan of Arc" is dated July 31, 1429, and was the first poem to honor the historic Jeanne d’Arc. Several legends attributed...

These poems were written for song a cycle in 2008, Prairie Girl. I wrote about my life as a child growing up in a rural county of Kansas...

The Book of the Body of Policy was the first political treatise written by a woman c. 1407. It counsels the knights, noblemen, and common...

During my second career, after singing and running a small opera company, I began composing art songs and opera. In 2008, I wrote about...

Many years ago, I discovered the medieval writer Christine de Pizan (also spelled Pisan) (1364-1430) when doing research for an opera...

Sometime between the years 97-103 CE, Claudia Severa invited her sister Sulpicia Lepedina Cerialis to come to her birthday celebration on...

Being a middle-grade female writer, came upon the work of Anne Duffy. The poem that really spoke to me was “In Mrs. Tilscher’s Class.” It...

The quote in the image posted with this entry is from the preface of Lines Scribbled on an Envelope: and Other Poems (1969, Farrar,...

I wrote a previous blog on Beatrix Potter several months ago. I have incorporated parts of that today, but I wanted to add to it. One of...

Louisa May Alcott, (November 29, 1832—March 5, 1888) was an American author of many children's books, in particular Little Women. In the...

I was looking for a quote for the graphic on Ms. Gabaldon's website and found one that looked interesting. However, it didn't make much...