Blog Posts
The eye is deceived as well as the heart
Hi, folks! This is the second post where I talk about some of the stories in the collection Weird Women – Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction… Read more “The eye is deceived as well as the heart”
Josephine Daskam Bacon
Josephine Daskam Bacon (Josephine Dodge Daskam, also known as Mrs. Selden Bacon. February 17th, 1876 – July 29th, 1961) was an American author. Little is known about… Read more “Josephine Daskam Bacon”
The terrible moment of complete illumination
Hi, folks! This is the first post where I talk about some of the stories in the collection Weird Women – Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by… Read more “The terrible moment of complete illumination”
Bookshelf
Commonplace book
“It is best for us to continue in the belief that Eve actually ate an apple, and immediately ruined Adam in consequence! I like this belief, too, it speaks so well for the progressive power of women.” – 26 July 1857, ‘Early journalism’, in The Morgesons and Other Writings
The sadness of others one should leave alone. It is a small garden, a fragile delicate Arcadia, one should not disturb it. – I Am the Brother of XX
Menagerie of Authors
Josephine Daskam Bacon - Josephine Daskam Bacon (Josephine Dodge Daskam, also known as Mrs. Selden Bacon. February 17th, 1876 – July 29th, 1961) was an American author. Little is known about… Read more "Josephine Daskam Bacon"
Gertrude Atherton - Gertrude Atherton (Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton, October 30th, 1857 – June 14th, 1948) was an American author. Her parents separated when she was two, and Atherton was… Read more "Gertrude Atherton"
Mary Cholmondeley - Mary Cholmondeley (June 8th, 1859 – July 15th, 1925) was an English writer. The third of eight children and the eldest daughter of a clergyman, Cholmondeley was… Read more "Mary Cholmondeley"
Olivia Howard Dunbar - Olivia Howard Dunbar (married name Olivia Howard Dunbar Torrence. February 21st, 1873 – January 6th,1953) was an American writer. Little is known about her life. Born in West… Read more "Olivia Howard Dunbar"
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (née Mary Ella Wilkins. October 31st, 1852 – March 13th, 1930) was an American writer. She was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, but moved with… Read more "Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman"
About
About this [blank] garden
“I am younger each year at the first snow.”
– Anne Sexton, in a letter to W. D. Snodgrass, in 1958.
A Self-portrait in Letters, (2004)
This is my blank space. A white page, as good as a garden covered in snow, not yet cultivated, but with some strong Spring hidden within; something simple, clean, yet to be stained; a seed with some flower all curled up inside, first waiting, then slowly unraveling.
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