Four Stories by American Women: Rebecca Harding Davis, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Edith Wharton (Penguin Classics)
Ed Gorman Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Todd Mason forwarded me the following list of writers' favorite scary stories. I reply after the list Martin Morse Wooster reports to the FictionMags list: In their October 28 WASHINGTON POST fiction page, the editors of BOOK WORLD asked writers, "What story scares the hell out of you?" Anne Rice: M.R. James, "Count Magnus" Scott Smith: Stewart O'Nan, A PRAYER FOR THE DYING Douglas...
Nothing Elegant (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
I f I didn't live in a cookie-cutter apartment with very strict rules against painting or altering the walls in dramatic ways, I would plaster every room with flowery, psychedelic wallpaper perfectly fit for hysterical visions ala Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper." The Barbara Hulanicki wallpaper collection at Graham and Brown would be an apt place to start. Hulanicki , who...
The Writing Nag (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society -- more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
14theditch (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
Here's the list of ghost stories left in the comments section of my post the other day about your favorite ghost story . I'm not familiar with all of them. Some that I am, I'm skeptical as to whether I'd consider them ghost stories, but I'm not about to disabuse anyone of their notion as to what makes a ghost story. Big favorites were "Oh, Whistle and I'll come to you, My Lad" by M.R. James,...
Philobiblon (Free subscription) | 09/20/2009
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland, published in 1915, created a new sub-genre, the feminist utopia. There’s something delightfully ironic about the creation, for there’s no doubt her world, an all-female one getting along very nicely thank you, would have horrified the original creator of the form, Sir Thomas More, and indeed it initially horrified her three [...]
The Rhetorical Situation (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Following up on Solon's post on "Anxiety and Motherhood," here is the comment that bothers me: "Since, as Katie points out, so few of history's famous thinkers and poets have been mothers, the intense ordinary swoon we feel about our babies has been neglected. But I think that we sing Auden’s lullaby quite as much to our children as to our lovers." I think this is a vast overstatement,...
Blotting paper (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
in alphabetical order ‘La femme adultère’, Albert Camus, 1957 ‘So Much Water So Close to Home’, Raymond Carver, 19?? ‘Draupadi’, Mahaswetha Devi, 1997 ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1892 ‘Diary of a Mad, Old Man’, Nikolai Gogol, 1835 ‘The Metamorphosis’, Franz Kafka, 1915 ‘The Basque and Bijou’,...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 08/17/2009
Go away. Why won't you leave? Are you simply and by nature a cruel animal? Why would you stay when you know you are invading a person's solitude? Isn't there somewhere else you can be? Like, jumping in a lake, maybe? Or, even just hopping a bus to Farawayland? No? So what is it that brings you and keeps you here? Oh, but naturally, you want something from me. And I'll bet I can guess what that is,...
The Fill in the Gaps 100 Project (Free subscription) | 07/07/2009
I'm new to blogging and starting a bit late here but excited about this challenge. A forced read of sorts to get all the books that have been staring at me for years into my head. Corrections for misspellings and categorizations are welcome. Science Fiction: 1. 1984 - George Orwell 2. Animal Farm - George Orwell 3. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 4. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 5. Children of Dune - Frank...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/30/2009
A 15-year-old war orphan is abducted by an elderly woman and her spinster daughter, stripped, beaten and locked in an attic - or so she claims. The plot of the popular 1940s crime novel The Franchise Affair was based on an 18th-century case. Sarah Waters on an intriguing tale of class, fear and sexuality The ghost story tradition is full of echoes. Haunted houses resemble each other, curses work themselves...
life liberty and the pursuit of (Free subscription) | 05/19/2009
"This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place... and the world waits while she powders her nose." Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935) was a prominent American sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and non fiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when...
So Quoted (Free subscription) | 04/30/2009
Wherein Woman may born you love you and mourn you but a woman is a sometime thing wiki description : Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination. It first appeared...
Hugo Schwyzer (Free subscription) | 03/24/2009
In the very first women’s studies course I took at Cal, more than two decades ago, the very first novel we read was Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s famous utopian fantasy, Herland. (Parenthetically, we live three blocks away from Gilman’s home in Pasadena, now a registered historic site.) The novel, published in 1915, tells the [...]
one INDELIBLE MOMENT (Free subscription) | 02/22/2009
“Life is a verb.” - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 - 1935) Investments are a noun. Investing is a verb. Paint is a noun. Painting is a verb. Proposal is a noun. Proposing is a verb A gift is a noun. Shopping for or giving one is a verb. We care much more about verbs than nouns. We care about things that move, that are happening, that change. We care about experiences and events and the...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 01/30/2009
In one of her lesser-known works, Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman imagines a women-only utopia.
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