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A Wrinkle in Time was almost not published because according to its author, it “dealt overtly with the problem of evil, and it was really...

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Eugenia Lovett West was born in February 1923. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College amidst WWII and took jobs with Harper’s Bazaar...

Part two in my Fanny Fern Tales series is based on her humorist columns published in the New York Ledger in the 1850s-70s. The articles,...

This will be the first in a series of readings of Fanny Fern's columns which were published in The New York Ledger. Excerpt two will be...

I read Year of Wonders in 2020, right when Covid was in full swing. The book concerns how one English countryside village dealt with the...

Sean O'Donohue was Sophia’s grandmother, Elspeth MacGregor's soul mate and best friend. When Sophia came to live with Nana as an orphan...

Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) knew at age twenty that she would die from the same inherited polycystic kidney disease as her father did when...

Helen Beatrix Potter grew up isolated from other children since upper-middle-class girls did not attend school. Governesses privately...

The aria speaks of life among the destitute in 19th-century New York City. That time is returning all over this country because women are...

Late Bloomer | Sassy Senior | Mary Wesley (1912-2002)