By Emma Ward | On October 2, 2017 | Updated April 23, 2023 | Comments (0)
Dodie Smith (1896 – 1990), the British novelist playwright, was best known for The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956) and her young adult novel I Capture the Castle. Following is a selection of colorful quotes from I Capture the Castle (1948).
I Capture the Castle features sisters Rose and Cassandra Mortmain, members of an eccentric family living in genteel poverty in a crumbling castle in the 1930s. This coming-of-age story has been beloved by readers of all ages ever since it was published in 1948. Critics were kind as well, as in the words of this original 1948 review:
“Finding out what happens makes rewarding reading. This is a captivating — an enchanting story, bit it is also shrewd commentary on life and art and the complexity of the human heart.” Read More→
By Taylor Jasmine | On September 30, 2017 | Updated December 11, 2022 | Comments (0)
Sister Outsider is collection of essays and speeches by Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992), the highly influential writer, speaker, and teacher, self-identified as a Black lesbian poet, and feminist. The thought-provoking quotes from Sister Outsider presented here bear witness to the depth of Lorde’s commitment to feminism and justice.
This posthumously published compilation features fifteen essential essays and speeches in which Lorde delves into sexism, racism, homophobia, and other oppressions. As demonstrated by the quotes from Sister Outsider that follow, Lorde provides a roadmap for social transformation that begins with change within the individual.
Though most of the essays in were written in the 1970s and 1980s, the struggles are all too much with us, making her writing and thinking as relevant as ever. Read More→
By Emma Ward | On September 29, 2017 | Updated May 27, 2023 | Comments (0)
George Sand (1804 – 1876) was a French author known equally for challenging gender roles and her scandalous love life as for her vast literary output.
Sand managed to write some seventy novels, not to mention countless other works in other genres, including essays, plays, and journalism. All the while, she conducted innumerable love affairs.
Indiana (1832) Lélia (1833), Mauprat (1837), Consuelo (1843), and Le Meunier d’Angibault (1845) are among her best-known novels. Autobiographical works such as Elle et Lui, about her affair with Musset, were also part of her literary output. Read More→
By Emma Ward | On September 26, 2017 | Updated June 1, 2024 | Comments (0)
Dorothy West (1907 – 1998) played a role in the cultural flourishing and experimentation of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. Here we present quotes on identity and experience by this quietly influential author best known for The Living is Easy (1948) and The Wedding (1995).
Dorothy West started writing as a child and while still in her teens, her work was praised and received awards.
Her writing is admired for its nuanced views of middle and upper middle-class African American communities and how it comments on gender, class, and social structure through storytelling. Read More→
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