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Isabel Miller
Isabel Miller (pen name of Alma Routsong, born Elma Louise Routsong, November 26, 1924 – October 4, 1996) was an American author. Miller began college, in 1942,… Read more “Isabel Miller”
Our desires for beauty and rareness
Dear Vernon, The novella A Phantom Lover (first published in 1886, and later collected in Hauntings in 1890, as ‘Oke of Okehurst’) reads like a claustrophobic hall… Read more “Our desires for beauty and rareness”
A creature of strength and grace and beauty and softness
Dear Florence, Her Father’s Name (1876) features the best (and worst) of what a Victorian Sensational novel has to offer: an exotic location, murder, a cross-dressing heroine with… Read more “A creature of strength and grace and beauty and softness”
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
Isabel Miller - Isabel Miller (pen name of Alma Routsong, born Elma Louise Routsong, November 26, 1924 – October 4, 1996) was an American author. Miller began college, in 1942,… Read more "Isabel Miller"
Mourning Dove - Mourning Dove (Hum-Ishu-Ma, also known as Christine/Christal Quintasket. Sometime between 1882 and 1888 – August 8th, 1936) was a Native American author of Okanagan and Colville ancestry. According to… Read more "Mourning Dove"
Natália Borges Polesso - Natália Borges Polesso (August 6th, 1981) is a Brazilian writer. She holds a PhD in Literary Theory from PUCRS (2017). Her first short-story collection Recortes para álbum… Read more "Natália Borges Polesso"
Gertrud Kolmar - Gertrud Kolmar (pseudonym of Gertrud Käthe Chodziesner, December 10, 1894 – March 1943) was a German writer. Kolmar was born in Berlin as the eldest of four… Read more "Gertrud Kolmar"
Norah Lange - Norah Lange (October 23, 1905 – August 5, 1972) was an Argentine author. Born in Buenos Aires, Lange spent her childhood in Mendoza, after the family moved in 1910. Her… Read more "Norah Lange"
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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.
