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"Love is like the sea"–Zora's Quotes & Life Lessons
A Friday Bonus from Literary Ladies Guide
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Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes: An Unhappy Wedding Anniversary
A passionate, turbulent relationship turns tragic
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5 great women writers who overcame literary rejection
They were vindicated, and their books became classics
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Catherine and Heathcliff: Extreme Love in Wuthering Heights
A guest post from Mapping with Atlas
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Gwendolyn Brooks on making a life in words
Celebrating the iconic poet a day after her birth date
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Is Jessie Redmon Fauset making a comeback?
The Harlem Renaissance era writer, editor & poet is having a moment
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Literary comfort with a message: A Little Princess
In Frances Hodgson Burnett's tale, Sara Crewe is a paragon of inner strength and selflessness
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May 2025

Reclaiming "wokeness" and a basic social justice reading list
Also, could the midcentury author Edna Ferber be considered "woke"?
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Love, Resistance & Hope: Quotes by bell hooks
3 things things that are greatly needed these days
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Librarians have always been heroines
Here are some awe-inspiring trailblazers to brighten your day
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A visit to Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House
An armchair (or actual) journey to the home where Little Women was written
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Happy birthday, Daphne du Maurier
Yesterday (May 13, 1907; she passed away in 1989) was the birthdate of Daphne du Maurier, the English novelist and playwright best known for the…
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