The main character in my Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers series is a rambunctious, precocious ten-year-old girl going on forty. The...

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...

This is a graphic I have used many times before because it exactly captures what is like to be a writer. However, this desk is far more...

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

One characteristic of Christine de Pizan’s writing is the number of autobiographi-cal details she included in all of her various genres...

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

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...

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...

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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...

Saturday Series | Amy Tan

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,...

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

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)

"The Cult of Domesticity" or "True Womanhood," was established for the wives and daughters of the white American middle- and upper-class...