By Nava Atlas | On February 28, 2019 | Updated July 1, 2021 | Comments (0)
Tasha Tudor (August 28, 1915 – June 18, 2008) not only wrote and illustrated some two dozen of her own titles, but her exquisitely detailed watercolors and drawings grace scores of other books. Her writing and art have earned her a secure place in children’s literature, yet she became nearly as famous for her unconventional lifestyle.
Anyone who knows a bit about Tasha’s private life will know that she was a consummate Corgi lover. And if this is news to you, you’re in for a lovely look at Tasha Tudor’s corgis.
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By Skyler Gomez | On February 21, 2019 | Updated January 28, 2024 | Comments (6)
Here is a tribute to the women who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in chronological order, starting from the most recent. Note, we need to update this list to include recent recipients: Annie Emaux (2022), Louise Glück (2020), and Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk-Fingas (2018).
The Nobel Prize in Literature has arguably become the most prestigious literary prize, awarded annually since 1901. It is given to an author from any country who, in the words of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, created “in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.”
The Nobel Prize has been awarded to some 894 men (as of 2023), and around 60 women in all fields combined since its inception in 1895. Seventeen of the women achieved this honor in literature. Above right, Doris Lessing receiving her award in 2007. Read More→
By Melanie P. Kumar | On February 20, 2019 | Updated July 6, 2021 | Comments (0)
There are times when you take more interest in a poet or an author after you read her obituary. This is what happened with Meena Alexander, whom I had read in passing but devoured in great detail, especially after I heard that she had succumbed to cancer on November 21, 2018 in New York.
Meena could be termed an international poet as she was of Indian origins, born in Allahabad in 1951 and raised in Kerala, India before the family moved to Sudan.
Meena finally made the U.S. and New York City her home, where she was a professor of English and Women’s Studies at City University of New York and Hunter College. Read More→
By Angelica Shirley Carpenter | On January 29, 2019 | Updated April 22, 2023 | Comments (0)
When The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett was published in 1907, she was already the successful author of Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Making of a Marchioness, A Little Princess, and some two dozen other books for children and adults.
In the course of her career, she produced more than forty novels. Of these, few but the children’s classics just mentioned, plus A Secret Garden, published in 1911, are still widely read.
In 2007 Persephone books republished The Shuttle, an entertaining story of American heiresses who marry English aristocrats. From the Persephone catalog: Read More→
By Nava Atlas | On January 1, 2019 | Updated June 19, 2026 | Comments (2)
“My name is Claudine, I live in Montigny; I was born there in 1884; I shall probably not die there.” This iconic opening line from Claudine at School (Claudine à l´Ecole, first published in 1900) by French author Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 1873 – 1954) has become more familiar to English-speaking audiences thanks to the eponymous 2018 biopic.
In 1900, Colette began publishing the series of Claudine stories that defined the teenage girl of the era. In groundbreaking fashion, these books explored the sexual, mischievous, and independent side of a young woman coming of age. Read More→
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