Tag: literature
An overwhelming number of coming-of-age narratives feature boys. Where are all the young women coming into adulthood? Maria Torres-Quevedo explores this.
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An outspoken critic of colonial inefficiency and corruption, writer of novels and short stories
Juliet Shields teaches British and American literature at the University of Washington in Seattle. She’s currently writing a book about nineteenth-century Scottish women writers, many of whom were quite dangerous. Flora Annie Webster Steel (1847-1929),Continue reading
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‘Dangerous’ didn’t always mean what it does today… Isabel Davis reveals what it meant to be a ‘dangerous woman’ in the Middle Ages. You’ll be surprised!
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