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Self-Searching Quotes from Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton

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Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton is this multi-faceted writer’s 1973 follow-up to Plant Dreaming Deep, in which she continues her search for self.

Published in 1973, Journal of Solitude would later become a key text in women’s studies courses. Like her other books, both memoirs and novels, this one explores isolation, solitude, love, relationships, sexual orientation, success, failure, gratitude, love of nature, the seasons, and the struggles of a creative life.  Read More→

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Miss Bianca by Margery Sharp (1962)

By | On October 22, 2017 | Updated December 23, 2022 | Comments (0)

From the original review of Miss Bianca (book #2  in The Rescuers series) by Margery Sharp in The Anniston Star, November, 1962:

What a joy it is, in the harsh literary wilderness of earnest tragedy and frantic sophistication, to find an  occasional fairy tale, all delight and whimsy and otherworldliness!

Margery Sharp gave us this pleasure several years ago with her wonderful little book, The Rescuers, the stirring tale of the Mouse Prisoners’ Aid Society and its daring rescue of a Scandinavian poet from the gloomy dungeons of the notorious Black Castle.  Read More→

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