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Showing posts with label women and literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women and literature. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's "Ladyland"

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Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's "Ladyland" Last fall, I read Michael Dirda's Washington Post review , "'Tis the Season ...
Monday, July 25, 2022

Herrad of Landsberg, Abbess, Author, and Artist

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Herrad of Landsberg, abbess of Hohenburg Abbey (died 25 July 1195) The exact date of Herrad of Landsberg's birth is unknown, but most so...
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Gwerful Mechain, Fifteenth-Century Author of "Playfully Erotic Poems"

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 Gwerful Mechain, Welsh poet (c. 1462-1505) A "playfully erotic" detail from a fifteenth-century Book of Hours, Bibliothèque de Ge...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Marguerite St. Leon Barstow Loud: An "Imagination of No Common Order"

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Marguerite St. Leon Barstow Loud, poet (born 17 April 1812) In the preface to Wayside Flowers: A Collection of Poems by "Mrs. M....
Sunday, July 15, 2018

Qiu Jin, the "Woman Knight of Mirror Lake"

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  秋瑾,  Qiu Jian, Revolutionary, Feminist, Writer (executed 15 July 1907) The Chinese revolutionary and writer Qui Jian was born on 8 N...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Dorothea and Gladys Cromwell: The Horrors of War

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Dorothea and Gladys Cromwell, World War I nurses (died 19 January 1919) Twins Dorothea and Gladys Cromwell were born in Brooklyn, New Y...
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Sunday, October 8, 2017

Lady Margaret Douglas, Poet and "Progenitor of Princes"

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Margaret Douglas, countess of Lennox (christened 8 October 1515) Margaret Douglas was the daughter of Margaret Tudor , Henry VIII'...
Friday, September 29, 2017

Mrs. Gaskell and Mothers of the Novel

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