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Hi, folks! This post is my contribution to the blog parade „Frauen und Erinnerungskultur | #femaleheritage“, hosted by the Monacensia im Hildebrandhaus, in Munich, from November 11th…… Read more “Six 19th-century Brazilian Women Writers”
Month: December 2020
Careering along like drunken drivers
Dear Shelagh, A Taste of Honey (1958) centres on teenage Jo and her mother, Helen. They are always falling behind on rent, and, as the story starts,…… Read more “Careering along like drunken drivers”
Shelagh Delaney
Shelagh Delaney (née Sheila Mary Delaney; 25 November 1938 – 20 November 2011) was an English playwright. Born in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire, from a working-class family, Delaney…… Read more “Shelagh Delaney”
The unlived life is light, so light
Dear Marie Luise, Circe’s Mountain: Stories (1990, tr. Lisel Mueller. Stories originally written in the 1950’s and 1960’s) is a collection of 12 of some of your…… Read more “The unlived life is light, so light”
Marie Luise Kaschnitz
Marie Luise Kaschnitz (née Marie Luise von Holzing-Berslett; after marriage, Marie Luise Kaschnitz von Weinberg; 31 January 1901 – 10 October 1974) was a German writer. She…… Read more “Marie Luise Kaschnitz”
When will thy sublime maxim pierce the human hearts,
Dear Maria Firmina, Úrsula (c.1859) is a tale of two books. On the one hand, we have a doomed love story between the eponymous heroine and a…… Read more “When will thy sublime maxim pierce the human hearts,”
Maria Firmina dos Reis
Maria Firmina dos Reis (March 11, 1822 – November 11, 1917) was a Brazilian writer. Little is known about her early life. Recent research suggests that the…… Read more “Maria Firmina dos Reis”
Things can be going on inside you without you even knowing
Dear Hanne, Love (2018, tr. Martin Aitken. Original: Kjærlighet, 1997), or the absence of it, unfolds on a single day in the lives of Vibeke and her eight-year…… Read more “Things can be going on inside you without you even knowing”
The world has dropped its petals
Dear Olga, Reading Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead (2018, tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Original: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych, 2009) is all about…… Read more “The world has dropped its petals”
Reading Projects Wrap-up | 2020
Hi, folks! My reading was a mess this year, and I cannot wrap-up my year-long projects soon enough. Let’s see what I managed to accomplish from my…… Read more “Reading Projects Wrap-up | 2020”
But love—the real, everlasting love
Dear Marie, My reading of your novela Krambambuli (first published in Dorf- und Schlossgeschichten, 1883) comes colored by all the times I read it as a child. We…… Read more “But love—the real, everlasting love”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (née Marie Dubský von Třebomyslice. September 13, 1830 – March 12, 1916) was an Austrian writer. She was born to an aristocratic family in Moravia (now…… Read more “Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach”
