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Fascinating facts about Lorraine Hansberry
Honoring Ida B. Wells on her birthday
The biggest myth about Jane Austen's writing life
Out from Scott's Shadow: Zelda Fitzgerald's quest for creative autonomy
Quotable Middlemarch – George Eliot's masterpiece
Turning 50 this year – 1975 novels by women writers
Be careful what you wish for, literary ladies!
How Louisa May Alcott came to write Little Women
"Love is like the sea"–Zora's Quotes & Life Lessons
Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes: An Unhappy Wedding Anniversary
5 great women writers who overcame literary rejection
Catherine and Heathcliff: Extreme Love in Wuthering Heights
Gwendolyn Brooks on making a life in words
Is Jessie Redmon Fauset making a comeback?
Literary comfort with a message: A Little Princess
Reclaiming "wokeness" and a basic social justice reading list
Love, Resistance & Hope: Quotes by bell hooks
Librarians have always been heroines
A visit to Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House
Happy birthday, Daphne du Maurier
Have you discovered the fantastic Shirley Jackson?
Celebrating mothers who were writers / writers who were mothers
The Literary Traditions of Self-Publishing
Fascinating real-life women, fascinatingly fictionalized
Happy birthday to two incredible literary ladies born on April 27 (1759 & 1882)
My favorite kick-a** classic poems about the female experience
The Great Gatsby isn't the only big literary centenary ...
These classic novels are great for middle grade readers & "children of all ages"
Witty, Bawdy Quotes by Mae West
A literary potpourri (or smörgasbord) or what have you
Failure: not the opposite of success, but its useful companion
Classic Women Writers' Girlhood Portraits
The Excellent Marriage of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
6 homes of women writers to visit in New England
How Harriet Beecher Stowe came to write Uncle Tom's Cabin
Dear Literary Ladies (part 1): Writerly advice from classic women authors
The life and misbegotten loves of Mary Wollstonecraft, mother of modern feminism
For International Womens' Day: Feminist Quotes by Simone de Beauvoir
A picture is worth a thousand words
Can someone please write this woman's biography? And make a film about her?
Sweet Solitude — for writers, other creators — and everyone
Why do these 1920s novels still resonate today?
Quotes by Octavia E. Butler on Human Nature & Writing
Get to know these trailblazing Black women journalists
10 Essential Classic Novels (and two novelistic memoirs) by Black Women Writers
The quotable Zora Neale Hurston
How were Jewish women portrayed in 19th and early 20th-century novels?
5 Literary Birthdays & a Major Anniversary
They wrote bestsellers and/or future classics before age 25
Maya Angelou's Quotes to Live By
Should These Women Authors Be Cancelled?
Fascinating facts about Octavia E. Butler
The ever-fascinating Zora Neale Hurston