By Lynne Weiss | On March 22, 2024 | Updated March 2, 2026 | Comments (0)
Playwright and novelist Alice Childress (October 12, 1916 – August 14, 1994) was a prolific and influential contributor to American theater and letters throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Her first full-length play, Trouble in Mind, premiered in 1955 and won an Obie.
Childress said, “I never was ever interested in being the first woman to do anything. I always felt that I should be the 50th or the 100th. Women were kept out of everything.”
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By Hannah Wright | On March 6, 2024 | Comments (0)
Joan Lindsay (November 16, 1896 – December 23, 1984) was an Australian author, essayist, and visual artist, best known for her mystic novel Picnic at Hanging Rock.
She began her literary career at forty years old when Through Darkest Pondelayo (1936) was published. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1966) was published when she was seventy-one. Read More→
By Tyler Scott | On March 1, 2024 | Updated July 11, 2024 | Comments (0)
Madame de Staël (April 22, 1766 – July 14, 1817) was a French intellectual, writer, and political theorist. She was a staunch supporter of freedom of speech, democracy, women’s rights as well as a political enemy of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Looking at Germaine’s portrait, with her grandiose turban, silk gown, and shawl draped over her arms, the last thing she brings to mind is an 18th-century French revolutionary, but that is precisely what she was.
The author Francine du Plessix Gray called Germaine “the first modern woman.” Read More→
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