By Marie Lebert | On September 4, 2026 | Updated September 6, 2026 | Comments (0)
Anne Dacier (1645–1720), born Anne Le Fèvre, was a French classic scholar and one of the rare learned women in Europe who earned a living as an editor and translator.
She is best known for the prose translation of the Homeric epics from the original Greek language into French, a fifteen-year labour of love published as L’Iliade in 1711 and L’Odyssée in 1716.
The French editions were then translated into English by famed poet Alexander Pope, and published in 1715–20 for The Iliad and in 1725–26 for The Odyssey. Read More→
By Elodie Barnes | On August 23, 2026 | Comments (0)
Tove Ditlevsen (December 14, 1917 – March 7, 1976) was a Danish author best known for The Copenhagen Trilogy, an account of her life from childhood to adulthood, marriage, and drug addiction. She was also an accomplished and prolific poet.
Her contemporaries largely marginalized her work, despite the name she made for herself in Danish literary circles.
Ditlevsen’s work has seen a resurgence with the reissue of much of her body of work, especially the autofictional Copenhagen Trilogy, which has been translated into some thirty languages. Read More→
By Elodie Barnes | On May 8, 2026 | Updated June 15, 2026 | Comments (0)
June Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was a poet, playwright, and essayist, known for her political activism and commitment to human rights.
Her writing spanned thirty years and nearly thirty books, covering subjects such as marginalization, oppression, and inequality, as well as racial, political, and sexual identity.
She was also passionate about the use of Black English in writing and in education, and had a thriving teaching career in several universities. Read More→
By Elodie Barnes | On January 22, 2026 | Comments (0)
Miriam Karpilove (1888 – 1956) was a Belarus-born immigrant writer of fiction in the Yiddish language, best known for Diary of a Lonely Girl (1918).
Photo at right: Miriam Karpilove, from the collection of David Karpilow.
Karpilove became well known for her serialized novels in the American Yiddish press, focusing on the lives of young Jewish women and exploring contemporary issues of gender roles, sexual mores, immigration, and cultural dislocation. Read More→
By L.C. Canivan | On November 5, 2025 | Updated November 17, 2025 | Comments (0)
Edna O’Brien (December 15, 1930—July 27, 2024) was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet, and short-story writer.
Her work is noted for its lyrical depiction of women, sexuality, loneliness, emotional isolation, desire, survival, and rebellion. O’Brien is best known for her first novel, The Country Girls, which, upon its debut, was both denounced and lauded.
A prolific writer, O’Brien, challenged taboos of religion, sex, gender, patriarchy, and persecution.
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