Sandra Gilbert, feminist scholar of ‘Madwoman in the Attic,’ dies at 87
Dr. Gilbert and colleague Susan Gubar shook up literary studies by seeing feminist defiance woven into works by female ...
Christianity Today2d
The Quiet Faith Behind Little House on the Prairie
The Religious Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder, historian John Fry invites readers into a detailed exploration of the celebrated ...
These women first made mushrooms a trend—back in the 1800s
From Lion’s Mane supplements to mushroom 'leather' shoes, mushrooms are having a moment right now. But the trend isn't ...
Sandra M. Gilbert, Co-Author of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic,’ Dies at 87
A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë ...
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In ‘Ballads of Broncos,’ Jacob Brown ’26 examines, reimagines gender and sexuality in Western verse
As an English major, he is frustrated by the fact that, “when we talk about late nineteenth-century/early twentieth-century literature, we have a tendency ... back toward the Northeast to examine ...
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Local writer’s book explores feminist trailblazer who named Eden Prairie
Eden Prairie author Vicki Pellar Price shines a light on Elizabeth Fries Ellet, the feminist trailblazer who named Eden ...
Hyperallergic7d
How the Women’s Studio Workshop Shakes Up the Art of Bookmaking
What started as a small feminist arts collective has grown to host hundreds of residents and publish countless books under ...
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8 Famous Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms
In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf famously posited “that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a ...
The New Yorker13d
The Feminist Critic Who Kept Flaubert on His Toes
It has trickled down through history thirdhand, first appearing in a footnote to a study of Flaubert by the scholar René Descharmes, in 1909. Descharmes reported that, according to someone he knew who ...
Cambridge University Press14d
Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
Nineteenth-century literature and culture have proved a rich field for interdisciplinary studies. Since 1994, books in this series have tracked the intersections and tensions between Victorian ...
Wall Street Journal21d
A Writers’ Boycott of Israel Betrays the Values of Literature
This week the Palestine Festival of Literature, known as Palfest, announced that over 1,000 writers have signed on to a literary boycott of Israel. In a public letter, these writers declared that ...
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Women authors dominate Scottish Book Award nominations
Women are dominating the shortlists for Scotland ... shared traum and a wistful story of coming of age amidst grief. The authors up for this award are Genevieve Jagger, Ellec Machray, Allan ...