The New Woman Discourses of the Fin de Siècle
Laurie Garrison writes about lesbians depicted in New Woman writing, and how the perspective on women loving women changed throughout this stand of writing.
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Just in time for the Winter Solstice, here is Claire Askew’s poem ‘What the kitchen witch said’. A mysterious recipe, an incantation, a spell.
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Yewande Omotoso writes about dangerous women in her family: her mother, her grandmother, her aunts, and, perhaps, herself.
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Comic by Maria Stoian
Award-winning artist Maria Stoian contributes another comic, this time on women writing online and the backlash they face for expressing an opinion.
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A short story by Rebecca Vedavathy
Rebecca Vedavathy writes a haunting short story about a woman who is put in a complex situation, and the transformation she undergoes.
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For two decades, Lydia Cacho, a Mexican author of 12 books and a women’s rights activist, has been persecuted for her investigative journalism.
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“A Woman’s Place is in Antarctica”
Listen to these fascinating audio recordings of geologist Janet Thomson, the BAS’s first female scientist allowed to work in the Antarctic.
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A poem by Irene Hossack
Poet and Creative Writing teacher Irene Hossack responds to the news of Margaret Thatcher’s death with her poem ‘Obituary’
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Lilian Lenton
“Whenever I see an empty house I burn it.” (Lilian Lenton, quoted in Votes for Women: The Virago Book of Suffragettes, ed. by Joyce Marlow)
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