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Martha Wright, Two-Hundred-Year-Old Feminist Abolitionist, Made Me Laugh Out Loud
Martha Wright, Two-Hundred-Year-Old Feminist Abolitionist, Made Me Laugh Out Loud
Don’t let that prim cap and long list of serious accomplishments fool you.
Amy Colleen
Apr 21, 2022
The Reclusive Ghostwriter Behind “Little Women” and “Anne of Green Gables”
The Reclusive Ghostwriter Behind “Little Women” and “Anne of Green Gables”
Evangeline Cartwright was the hidden brain and invisible pen behind two famous children’s classics — then she disappeared into obscurity.
Amy Colleen
Apr 1, 2022
The Victorian Lady’s Column Is Now Accepting Submissions
The Victorian Lady’s Column Is Now Accepting Submissions
What you need to know to write for us
Amy Colleen
Mar 15, 2022
If Our Future Descendants Talk About Shoes the Way We Talk About Corsets Today
If Our Future Descendants Talk About Shoes the Way We Talk About Corsets Today
Back in the olden days when people wore shoes, feet became permanently deformed due to being restricted in leather and foam. See this…
Amy Colleen
Jan 19, 2022
The Integrity and Responsibility of a Period Piece
The Integrity and Responsibility of a Period Piece
Here’s why the inattention to costume accuracy in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women bothered me so deeply.
Amy Colleen
Dec 29, 2021
Edgar Allan Poe’s Very Deliberate and Very Meta Writing Process for the Spookiest, Most Angsty…
Edgar Allan Poe’s Very Deliberate and Very Meta Writing Process for the Spookiest, Most Angsty…
How Poe purposefully set out to make “The Raven” evoke gothic melancholia — with no creative flights of fancy involved.
Amy Colleen
Oct 30, 2021
“Say What Is True” — A Review of Little Women (2017)
“Say What Is True” — A Review of Little Women (2017)
How the BBC miniseries beautifully brings to life the heart of a novel that has captured readers’ hearts for a hundred and fifty years.
Amy Colleen
Oct 14, 2021
Sarah Boone, Pioneer of the Hinged Ironing Board
Sarah Boone, Pioneer of the Hinged Ironing Board
The story of the Black Victorian dressmaker who engineered the prototype for an object we still use today.
Amy Colleen
Apr 26, 2021
Grass Stains By the Shores of Silver Lake
Grass Stains By the Shores of Silver Lake
A review and analysis of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s coming-of-age novel.
Amy Colleen
Apr 17, 2021
Why Didn’t People Smile In Old-Timey Photographs?
Why Didn’t People Smile In Old-Timey Photographs?
You might have learned a myth about this in school.
Amy Colleen
Apr 14, 2021
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