celebrating great writing by women-
Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
“Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpeck’d cherries,
Melons and raspberries,
Bloom-down-cheek’d peaches,
Swart-headed mulberries,
Wild free-born cranberries,
Crab-apples, dewberries,
Pine-apples, blackberries…
A page from The House of Mirth in the author’s original hand
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Edith Wharton’s quietly eerie and darkly funny ghost story
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“Ain’t I a Woman?”
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There is a palpable sense of loneliness and the artistry of shadow which promise to stay with a reader
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A lovely vintage poem about autumn and fairies by Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr.
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One of the most well-educated women of her time, Shelley poured her erudition into the creation of her masterpiece.
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The Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded 109 times to 113 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2016. Out of those, women have received 14.
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The Thornfield Review 