Female Authorial Shame
In my focus on studying “long eighteenth-century” women writers, especially my favorite, Frances Burney, but also Haywood, Behn, etc., and also later writers such as...
On Bradstreet’s “The Author to her Book”
Bradstreet’s “The Author to her Book,” published in 1678 in the second edition of Bradstreet’s Several Poems, according to the editorial note, sums up some...
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream, with Lady Mary Wroth
Lady Mary Wroth’s sonnet sequence, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, begins in the dark and by the end of this first section we are studying, P36 (within...
Lanyer’s Salve Deus, Mirror to Upper-Class Women
In her 10 dedicatory poems to Salve Deus—first “to the Queens most Excellent Majestie,” then as follows (her spelling): the Lady Elizabeths Grace; to all...
What does it mean to be ‘an unnecessary woman’?
The aspect of Rabih Almeddine’s An Unnecessary Woman: A Novel (2014) that most powerfully strikes me is the seamless movement across time, across micro places...