By Taylor Jasmine | On March 5, 2018 | Updated July 17, 2024 | Comments (0)
The Little Book of Feminist Saints by Julia Pierpont & Manjit Thapp is an inspiring, beautifully illustrated collection that honors one hundred exceptional women throughout history and around the world.
In this luminous volume, New York Times bestselling writer Julia Pierpont and British artist Manjit Thapp match short, vibrant and surprising biographies with stunning full-color portraits of secular female ‘saints’: champions of strength and progress. Read More→
By Taylor Jasmine | On March 3, 2018 | Updated January 1, 2025 | Comments (0)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 – 1851) is the British author, is best known for the 1818 classic, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus. In the summer of 1814, seventeen-year-old Mary ran off to Europe with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.
There she joined his literary circle, which included Lord Byron. The events that inspired the creation of the tale took place during the couple’s sojourn in Italy. It was published in 1818, when Mary was barely 21 years old.
Read in Mary Shelley’s own words how she came to write one of the most haunting tales of all time. Read More→
By Mary Ward | On February 23, 2018 | Updated August 24, 2020 | Comments (0)
The introduction to The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) by Anne Brontë is excerpted from Life and Works of the Sisters Brontë by Mary A. Ward, a 19th-century British novelist and literary critic. It’s not so much an analysis, but rather, places the novel in the context of Anne’s life.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, first published under Anne’s pseudonym Acton Bell, was an immediate success. It was considered shocking for its time, and in retrospect, it’s considered one of the earliest feminist novels.
When the novel was first published, reviews on both sides of the Atlantic identified it as the work of Currer Bell (Charlotte Brontë‘s pseudonym), author of Jane Eyre, or Ellis Bell (actually Emily Brontë), author of Wuthering Heights, or both. It was common for the three sisters to be mistaken for one writer, which was quite vexing to them. Read More→
By Taylor Jasmine | On February 19, 2018 | Updated September 1, 2025 | Comments (0)
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is the last work by this Dominican-British author. Considered a prequel and response to Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, the novella presents the perspective of Antoinette Cosway, the sensual Creole heiress who wound up as the “madwoman in the attic.”
When Wide Sargasso Sea was published in 1966, Rhys had all but disappeared from the literary scene; her previous novel, Good Morning, Midnight, was published in 1939.
Wide Sargasso Sea became her most successful novel, praised for its spare yet evocative language and its exploration of the power imbalance between men in women, between patriarchal colonizers and the original inhabitants of the Caribbean in the 1830s. It was the novel that rescued Rhys’s flagging reputation. Read More→
By Aiyana Edmund | On February 15, 2018 | Updated February 15, 2020 | Comments (0)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 – 1935) was an American novelist, poet, and pioneering feminist. An outspoken, bold woman with strong beliefs, Gilman served as a role model for generations of feminists. Here is a listing of the best know shorter works and books by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Best remembered for her semi-autobiographical work of short fiction, The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman was one of the leading activists of the late 19th and early 20th-century American women’s movement. Both her fiction and nonfiction works detail how women’s lives were impacted by social and economic bias, and are still relevant today.
Over the course of her life, Gilman wrote many pieces of fiction and non-fiction, short stories, and poetry. Here are some of the books she’s best remembered for.
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