I reviewed Anne Duggan's The Lost Princess for this week's @the.tls We tell ourselves stories of women's progress that efface many women writers from early periods. Feminist history is exhuming them, but their work must also be canonized: www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the...#writersofinstagram

Canonical literature’s neglected heroines

Two literary-historical paths diverged in a wood. One, the story of fairy tales lined with names such as Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and Walt

Edited and excised, "pruned down and branched out" though they are, no books make me feel quite as seen as L.M. Montgomery's diaries. #writingcommunity

The rush of adrenaline when you've already pitched an article before 9 am 🏎 ✨️ #writerscommunity

Possibly a revealing metaphor for my brain that a lot of my thoughts live in a beaten-up @WHSmith notebook held together with bread ties. #WritingCommunity

A couple of years back NYC was advancing a policy to have them involuntarily committed. Bloody horrifying.

Charlotte Brontë was born #OTD#Books#Readerswww.smithsonianmag.com/history/an-e...

An Early Charlotte Brontë Story Speaks to the Author's Lifelong Fascination With the Supernatural

The 1830 account details an eerie encounter with a stranger who predicted the death of the writer's father

"I'm just going to write because I cannot help it." — Charlotte Brontë, born on this day in 1816 #AmWriting

#PSA#Motivation

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Thoughts on my last teaching day: We train young people to be risk averse at the expense of their dreams. BIG mistake: being alive and innovative involves risk. I hope I've taught my students to act on what they love & believe in, even when it's scary not to conform. #teaching #highered

Thoughts on my last teaching day: We train young people to be risk averse at the expense of their dreams. BIG mistake: being alive and innovative involves risk. I hope I've taught my students to act on what they love & believe in, even when it's scary not to conform. #teaching#highered

Belvedere Galley--lots of Klimt. And have a look at the book/movie The Woman in Gold: an amazing legal story that will also make you want to go see the Palais Adele Bloch-Bauer.