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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

Scandal in the poetry world!

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?

And the Oscar goes to …

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

A literary love sampler

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

Anaïs Nin: Writing as a way to find meaning

Jan. 1, 1818: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published