The Tory Lover by Sarah Orne Jewett (1901)
The Tory Lover by Sarah Orne Jewett is a 1901 novel by this esteemed New England author best known for The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896). The story is partly set in Berwick, Maine, where Jewett...
View ArticleThe Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1938)
The Yearling, a 1938 novel by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896 – 1953), was the most successful work by this American author. It was an immediate bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in...
View ArticleSouth Moon Under by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1933)
South Moon Under by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was this author’s first novel, published in 1933. She struggled to gain any traction in her writing career until she and her first husband bought an orange...
View ArticleSilas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot (1861)
Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe was the third novel of George Eliot (1819 – 1880). Published in 1861, this novel, like others written by the esteemed British author (whose real name was Mary Ann...
View ArticleHow to Write a Romance by the editors of Avon Books
Are you in the mood for romance? Most of us are, at least some of the time. Are you in the mood to write a romance novel? Now, that’s a more specific desire, but if you’ve ever fancied giving it a try,...
View ArticleRomantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her...
It seems fortuitous that the 260th birthdate of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 – 1797) in 2019 dovetailed closely with the 200th anniversary in 2018 of Mary Shelley’s 1818 masterpiece Frankenstein. There’s...
View ArticleThe Borrowers by Mary Norton (1952)
The Borrowers by Mary Norton (1903 – 1992) is the first volume a classic series of children’s books by this British author. First published in Great Britain in 1952 and in the U.S. in 1954, the...
View ArticleCome Along with Me by Shirley Jackson (1968)
Come Along with Me is the novel Shirley Jackson (1919 – 1965) was working on at the time of her untimely death in 1965 at the age of forty-eight. This unfinished novel was collected in the book of the...
View ArticleThe Sundial by Shirley Jackson (1958)
The Sundial by Shirley Jackson (1916 – 1965) was this prolific American author’s fourth novel, published in 1958. It was generally well received, though she had yet to reached her peak as a novelist....
View ArticleJonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston (1934)
Jonah’s Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston (1891 – 1960) was this eminent author’s first novel, published in 1934. It’s the story of a Black plantation worker who aspires to be a preacher. Once he...
View ArticleDrinking from the Spring: On Rereading Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The last day of October marks Samhain, the end of harvest season and the beginning of winter. This Gaelic festival opens the door to the darker part of the year, and it’s also the anniversary of author...
View ArticleSeven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (1934)
Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen (1885 – 1962) is a masterful collection of short stories by the Danish author best known for Out of Africa (1937), a now-controversial memoir of her life as a coffee...
View ArticleThe Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch (1978)
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch (1919 – 1999) was the prolific British author’s nineteenth novel. Following is a review and analysis from 1978, the year in which it was published. The story of Charles...
View ArticleThe Power of Her Pen: The Story of Groundbreaking Journalist Ethel L. Payne...
The story of Ethel L. Payne (1911 – 1991), the American journalist and correspondent, is a portrait of persistence, passion, and determination. Award-winning author Lesa Cline-Ransome has told her...
View ArticleTestament of Youth by Vera Brittain (1933)
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain (1893– 1970) has endured as this British author’s best known work. A memoir on how her life, and that of her generation, were forever marked by the losses endured...
View ArticleA Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks (1945) — Two Reviews
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000) was just twenty-eight years old when her first book, A Street In Bronzeville, was published in 1945. Following are two original reviews from 1945 of A Street in...
View ArticleAriel by Sylvia Plath — a review and analyisis
Ariel was the second published collection by Sylvia Plath (1932 – 1963). It came out two years after she took her own life at age thirty. Depression had been a constant companion, leading to a life of...
View ArticleA Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf: Two 1929 reviews + quotes
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf has stood the test of time, though the fact that it remains relevant is a sorry statement of contemporary culture. Following are presented two reviews from both...
View ArticleThe Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1909)
The Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter (1863 – 1924) was the author’s third novel, published in 1909 as a sequel to Freckles (1905), both of which are stories for “children of all ages.”...
View ArticleThe Years by Virginia Woolf (1937) — views from the past and present
The Years by Virginia Woolf (1937) was the last novel she had published in her lifetime. Spanning some fifty years, it covers the trajectory of the respectable Pargiter family from the 1880s to the...
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