By Nava Atlas | On May 15, 2017 | Updated March 9, 2023 | Comments (0)
Enid Bagnold, the British author and playwright is best known for the classic 1935 children’s novel National Velvet and The Chalk Garden, a dramatic play that opened on Broadway in 1955.
Regarded as prickly and perplexing, she left behind a modest yet significant body of work. Here we’ll look at a selection of quotes by Enid Bagnold, a complicated and perplexing woman.
Bagnold at first pursued her studies in art, but then changed direction when she went to work as a journalist for a magazine in 1911. Read More→
By Nava Atlas | On May 15, 2017 | Updated December 23, 2018 | Comments (0)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 – 1935), an American author of fiction and nonfiction, is considered ahead of her time for her feminist works that pushed for women’s social and economic independence. Best known for the 1892 semi-autobiographical work of short fiction, The Yellow Wallpaper, she was one of the leading voices of the late 19th and early 20th century American women’s movement
Her nonfiction works, including Women and Economics (1898) and The Man-Made World (1911) detail how women’s lives were impacted by social and economic bias. Sadly they’re still relevant, which is why they’re still read and studied. Here is a selection of Charlotte Perkins Gilman quotes on gender roles and human nature. Read More→
By Nava Atlas | On May 15, 2017 | Updated October 8, 2022 | Comments (0)
Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was published in 1898.
Far ahead of its time, Women and Economics held the position that humans are the only species in which the female depends on the male for her survival.
It’s considered one of Gilman’s finest works, though it hasn’t retained the renown of her semi-autobiographical short story, The Yellow Wallpaper. Read More→
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