Blog Posts
Being good felt delicious
Dear May, Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922) traces the eponymous character’s downfall from a promising child to a nonentity. Our protagonist, Harriett, the only child… Read more “Being good felt delicious”
Free Printables & Reading Spreadsheet
Hi, folks! This is yet another spring cleaning post! As I already mentioned, I decided to transfer some of my pages to regular posts. Here, I will… Read more “Free Printables & Reading Spreadsheet”
Desert Island Books
Hi, folks! The spring cleaning continues in this [blank] garden of mine! As I already mentioned, I decided to transfer some of my pages to regular posts –… Read more “Desert Island Books”
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
May Sinclair - May Sinclair (pen name of Mary Amelia St. Clair; August 24th, 1863 – November 14th, 1946) was an English writer. When Sinclair was seven years old, her… Read more "May Sinclair"
Marghanita Laski - Marghanita Laski (October 24th, 1915 – February 6th, 1988) was an English writer. Born to a family of Jewish intellectuals, Laski attended a school for girls in… Read more "Marghanita Laski"
Rosemary Manning - Rosemary Manning (Rosemary Joy Manning , 9 December 1911 – 5 April 1988; pen names Sarah Davys and Mary Voyle) was an English author. Manning attended the… Read more "Rosemary Manning"
Karolina Pavlova - Karolina Pavlova (Karolina Karlovna Pavlova – Кароли́на Ка́рловна Па́влова; born Karolina Karlovna Jaenisch, 22 July 1807 – 14 December 1893) was a Russian author. Born to a… Read more "Karolina Pavlova"
Yan Ge - Yan Ge (pen name of Dai Yuexing, 1984) is a Chinese author. She grew up in a small town in Sichuan, and earned a PhD in comparative… Read more "Yan Ge"
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.
