Prequel to Mission 1: All in a Day's Work | Middle-Grade New York City History
Jefferson Market Library was originally built as the Third Judicial District Courthouse from 1874 to 1877 and was designed by architect...
Susan Stoderl
May 26, 20232 min read
The Shockingly Modern 19th-Century Anglo-Irish Novels of Maria Edgeworth
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...
Susan Stoderl
May 9, 20232 min read
Children’s and Middle-Grade Stories | Frances Browne (1816–1879)
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...
Susan Stoderl
Apr 28, 20232 min read
Sun, Moon, and Stars. Astronomy for Beginners | Agnes Giberne’s Middle-Grade Books on Science
Agnes Giberne (1845-1903) was a prolific British writer, writing around one-hundred-thirty books. She is one of the first women to...
Susan Stoderl
Apr 21, 20232 min read
Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008) Poems V, VI & VII
These poems were written for a song cycle in 2008, Prairie Girl. I wrote about my life as a child growing up in a rural county of Kansas...
Susan Stoderl
Mar 31, 20232 min read
Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008) Poems III & IV
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...
Susan Stoderl
Mar 24, 20231 min read
Christine de Pizan | Not the Ordinary Woman Writer
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...
Susan Stoderl
Mar 21, 20232 min read
From Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008)
During my second career, after singing and running a small opera company, I began composing art songs and opera. In 2008, I wrote about...
Susan Stoderl
Mar 17, 20231 min read