The Monstrous Regiment of Women

Back to the Future, Part 14: Women and Wikipedia I rarely refer to Wikipedia in my posts. It's not that I'm a research snob (we...

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (born 29 September 1810) Among nineteenth-century women novelists (aside from the Brontë sisters, of course)...

Ann Ward Radcliffe, Novelist (died 7 February 1823) A week or so ago, in writing about  Caroline Lamb , I once again referred to the no...

Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan, Novelist and Playwright  Frances Chamberlaine was born in Dublin some time during the year 1724--the dat...

Another "History" of the Novel that Fails to Mention Women! I'm a little behind with my reading, so I just now dipped int...

Frances Trollope (death of her son Anthony Trollope, 6 December 1882) I discovered the novels of Anthony Trollope when I was supposed ...

Sarah Fielding (born 8 November 1710) As I've written before , when I had a college course in the history of the novel, the syllabu...

Charlotte Turner Smith (died 28 October 1806) Although she is now acknowledged as a key figure in the Romantic movement, important for ...

Kate Chopin (died 22 August 1904) In these daily posts I have mentioned--on more than one occasion, I'm afraid--that in all my year...

Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley  For too long, Mary Shelley was more or less a footnote to the life of her spectacularly famous hu...