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You might never find your way back
Dear Shirley, Natalie Waite is seventeen, she is stuck at home with her family, her mother is a neurotic (rather desperate) housewife, and her father is the… Read more “You might never find your way back”
British Library Women Writers | Reading Project
Hi, folks! The British Library Women Writers Project is a personal long-term project of mine, where I intend to read my way through the entire series. I… Read more “British Library Women Writers | Reading Project”
The creation of the love of all her being
Dear Edith, When The Love Child (1927) opens, Agatha is 32, a spinster, and lonely. Her mother has just died. Agatha’s life has been a blank, and… Read more “The creation of the love of all her being”
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
Edith Olivier - Edith Olivier (Edith Maud Olivier. December 31st, 1872 – May 10th, 1948) was an English writer. Olivier was educated at home by her mother, and later by… Read more "Edith Olivier"
Alice Brown - Alice Brown (December 5th, 1856 – June 21st, 1948) was an American author. Born on a farm in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, Brown was educated at home… Read more "Alice Brown"
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"
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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