Women’s History Month
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Happy International Women’s Day 2022!
Happy International Women’s Day 2022! Enjoy these women’s history online exhibitions to museum from home today. read more
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Mini-Post | Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House
On this day in 1888, the author Louisa May Alcott passed away. In her life, she wrote more than thirty novels and short stories and poem collections. Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts, is where she lived with her family from 1857 to 1877 – and a visit to Orchard House is like stepping into the read more
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Happy World Poetry Day!
To celebrate, I’m sharing some lines from Hannah More’s 1786 text The Bas Bleu: or, Conversation, which I go back to over and over again in my research. In it, More celebrates conversation as central to friendship, curiosity and female knowledge, specifically the Bluestocking Circle. So, not only good for World Poetry Day, but Women’s read more
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Happy International Women’s Day 2021!
Read and learn more about International Women’s Day here. “You never know what little girl is going to benefit from that pebble you put down. All it takes is a pebble to change a girl’s life. Sometimes all it is is a message that they hear. It is that simple sometimes. Some girl somewhere sees read more
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Review: “Forgotten Royal Women: The King and I”, by Erin Lawless
For my last-but-one Women’s History Month post, I’m so excited to share my review of Erin Lawless’ book Forgotten Royal Women: The King and I, which Pen & Sword Books kindly sent me a copy of to review. A positive in the craziness that the world is going through right now (and I sincerely hope read more
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Spotlight on Literary Heroines: Anne Shirley
I confess, I came to Anne Shirley later in life than I think you’re supposed to read her. The eleven-year-old (in the first book of L. M. Montgomery’s series, Anne of Green Gables) became a kindred spirit of mine when I was twenty-two. I was twice her age in the book, yet I became captivated read more
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Review: “Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837”, edited by Louise Duckling, Sara Reid, Felicity Roberts & Carolyn D. Williams
It seems rather fitting on World Book Day, during Women’s History Month, to post my review of Exploring the Lives of Women, 1558-1837, which was published to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 (WSG). I’d like to thank Pen & Sword Books for gifting me a copy of this wonderful book read more
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Spotlight on Literary Heroines: Nancy Drew
For Women’s History Month this year, I’ve been so excited to write lots for my blog and have been thinking of themes to go with – and then it hit me when I was reading a really interesting book by the Women’s Studies Group. Reading Women. I’ve been wanting to read more and more books read more
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