By Julie Parks | On May 4, 2025 | Updated June 24, 2025 | Comments (0)
Literary gift boxes are a fun and thoughtful way to celebrate great books and authors. These boxes are perfect for book lovers who enjoy reading and want something special. These are great for birthdays, holidays, or book clubs.
You can fill these boxes with items inspired by famous women writers. With the right packaging, items, and design, you can create a gift box that reflects the writer’s theme.
Let’s explore some unique ideas to create a gift box that every book lover will appreciate and cherish. Read More→
By Nava Atlas | On April 29, 2025 | Comments (0)
There’s a lot of hoopla around 2025 being the centenary of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1925. It’s the quintessential novel of what’s come to be known as the Jazz Age.
But it’s not the only centenary worth celebrating in 2025. There was some great 1925 fiction that came from the pens (and typewriters of women writers, including Virginia Woolf, Zora Neale Hurston, Willa Cather, Anita Loos, Anzia Yezierska, and more.
Poor Scott Fitzgerald didn’t live long enough to see the lasting legacy of his work (he was gone by 1940, at the age of 44). There’s a LOT (this is the listing on Google News alone) of news and editorializing about Gatsby. It’s kind of cool that a book is getting so much attention in the midst of all the horrors we’re living through — kind of a testament to the power of literature. Read More→
By Nava Atlas | On April 27, 2025 | Updated July 19, 2026 | Comments (0)
When Edna St. Vincent Millay lost a national poetry contest in 1912, it created quite a scandal in the world of American poetry! Yet that loss, and the controversy, went a long way to launching her storied career.
Vincent (as she was called by those closest to her) was just nineteen when she began to compose “Renascence” toward the end of 1911. Written at a time of uncertainty about her future, it was a poem about herself, yet it dealt with the common human struggle to find hope in the face of hopelessness.
She had been an outstanding student in her tiny Maine high school, and a star contributor to the popular children’s publication St. Nicholas Magazine. Once she had passed the age limit (eighteen) for submissions, she was left without an outlet for her poetry. Read More→
By Alex J. Coyne | On March 6, 2025 | Updated July 8, 2025 | Comments (0)
Zelda Fitzgerald was an American author, artist, and socialite. Although she is best remembered as the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald, she was a talented writer and artist in her own right, which caused the couple a great deal of conflict.
Zelda wrote one novel (Save Me the Waltz) and an unstaged play, Scandalabra. What is less known is that she wrote various articles for periodicals, including College Humor, Harper’s Bazaar, and the New York Tribune. Here, we’ll take a closer look at five of these forgotten features. Read More→
By Nava Atlas | On February 28, 2025 | Updated November 1, 2025 | Comments (4)
It’s incredible (and sad) that we’re still grappling with the same issues presented in these five 1920s novels by women writers. Four of them fell out of print and were rediscovered and reissued decades later; one has never gone out of print. It’s wonderful that all are available in fresh new or recent editions.
In these reissues, fascinating new introductions, forewords, or afterwords re-introduce these writers aren’t known enough and/or shouldn’t have been forgotten in the first place: Ursula Parrott, Radclyffe Hall, Anzia Yezierska, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
As Edna St. Vincent Millay famously wrote, it’s not one damn thing after another, it’s the same damn thing, over and over. One hundred years or so after these books came out, we’re still grappling with their central themes in the culture and in personal lives. And while that’s frustrating, it’s also why these novels are still relevant to contemporary readers. Read More→
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