My Brilliant Career · 23 January 05
Why Feminism Such a Mess Today · 24 January 05
Essays on Jhabvala's _East into Upper East_ · 29 January 05
"Independence" & "Development & Power:" Tales 3 & 4, New Delhi · 29 January 05
"Independence:" Tale 3, New Delhi (2): Self-disinheritance · 29 January 05
"Development and "Progress," Tale 4: Flotsam and Jetsam · 29 January 05
Ann Patchett's _Magician's Assistant_ _et aliae_ · 31 January 05
A Question of Cream Puffs: Patchett's _Bel Canto_ · 2 February 05
Poetry for Tuesday: Adrienne Rich's "Sisters" · 1 March 05
Finishing books: Jhabvala and Trollope · 9 March 05
_Born into Brothels_: And she was still within his reach · 19 March 05
Iconographies: Victimhood and Age, Diana and Camilla · 9 April 05
More Spectral Emanations: _Le Monde_ and _La Repubblica_ on the Windsors · 10 April 05
Women's Poetry: Two Bird Poems · 12 April 05
Upon the Death of Andrea Dworkin: Exchanging One Nightmare for Another · 13 April 05
Elfriede Jelinek's _Women as Lovers_; Joan Korenman's WMST-l · 18 April 05
Two Poems to Keep us Sane: "Keeping on Top of Things" and Stevie Smith's "Phèdre" · 18 April 05
Deborah O'Keefe on _Good Girl Messages_ · 21 April 05
Sunday Bloody Sunday and Jane Austen: Poetry by Anne Stevenson · 24 April 05
Sophocles _Electra_ on the Metro Stage: A Woman-Centered Rereading of Bloom's _Anxiety of Influence_ Using Atwood's poetry on Susanna Moodie · 27 April 05
A woman with a beautiful soul: Anna Jameson and off to New York City · 30 April 05
Marie Antoinette: how little we can know of her · 16 May 05
Jack Aubrey on Fanny Burney's _Evelina_ · 23 May 05
_Comme Une Image_: A Good film (Così fan tutti_? or _Look at Me_ :() · 24 May 05
Poetry for Tuesday: Ruth Padel · 31 May 05
Euripides via Harrison: _Hecuba_ & Vanessa Redgrave · 1 June 05
Women's War Poetry: "I shall die, but that is all I shall do for Death" · 16 June 05
Women's Poetry: Amy Lowell · 22 June 05
Alice Wu's _Saving Face_: Mothers, Daughters, and Lesbians · 27 June 05
Women's Poetry: Mary Collier, Poet and Washerwoman · 29 June 05
Ozon's 5x2 (Cinq fois deux): Failed Relationships (1) · 4 July 05
Ozon's _Cinq fois deux_ (5x2): The Impossible Task, Kindness (2) · 5 July 05
Barbie Abusers & Eva Sedgwick's "Jane Austen & the Masturbating Girl" Redux · 6 July 05
Me and You and Everyone We Know_: I hope not · 11 July 05
Barbie Doll Abuse · 12 July 05
_Me and You and Everyone We Know_: To generalize is to be an idiot · 12 July 05
Post-Modern gothic and wit: Ending Up Out, or Buried · 16 July 05
Women's Poetry: "Evening in the Sanitarium" · 17 July 05
Elizabeth Jenkins's _Harriet_: A Jane Austen Gothic · 24 July 05
Women's poetry: "Away melancholy let it go" · 25 July 05
Women's Art: sadistic masochism as effective exposure · 28 July 05
_Strong Poison_: Walter to Rogers as Petherbridge to Astaire · 29 July 05
Women's Poetry: Edith Wharton · 7 September 05
Sophie Scholl, German heroine · 24 September 05
Piercy, Adcock, Patchett: memoirs, poetry, a smart woman's felicitous concoction · 27 September 05
Amy Levy, Late Victorian Poet · 29 September 05
Poetry Day: "On the way to the castle" · 4 October 05
My life in books: _Three Women_, a modern _Little Women_? · 8 October 05
_Three Women_, a modern _Little Women_ (2) · 9 October 05
Poetic Images: Suzy McKee Charnas & Judith Wright (1) · 13 October 05
Poetic Images Suzy McKee Charnas & Judith Wright (3) · 18 October 05
Anne Seierstat's _The Bookseller of Kabul_ · 21 October 05
Cadbury Castle & Glastonbury Abbey · 22 October 05
_Fence_ and Renaissance signs · 29 October 05
Female Troubadour poetry & Christine de Pizan Imagined · 30 October 05
all the shirley temples · 9 November 05
Persephone and Ceres · 12 November 05
Bobbie Ann Mason's _Clear Springs_ · 14 November 05
_North Country_: A decent film · 15 November 05
Waiting for the light with Rosario Castellano · 19 November 05
Feminisms: "Won't you wear my ring around your neck ...?" · 28 November 05
Reading Marge Piercy's poetry: Giving dignity to pain · 6 December 05
Questions of Identity & _The Australian Emigrant_ · 8 December 05
Assassinating Oneself: On Not Coping with Freedom (_Souffrir_) · 12 December 05
_New Yorker_ Cartoons: Barbara Shermund _et aliae_ · 18 December 05
Two Wildly Disparate _Mary Poppinses_ · 22 December 05
Syriana: Jacobean tragedy brought back · 27 December 05
"To sleep among my paintings is beautiful" · 31 December 05
One more day off: Mary Wroth and Anne Cecil · 2 January 06
Anna Bilinska: _Self-Portrait with Apron and Brushes_ · 14 January 06
Women Weave Webs, but men invent, name & control technology · 8 February 06
Fanny's _Evelina_ · 12 February 06
Angelica Kauffmann: An Autograph Letter! · 13 February 06
Angelica Kauffmann: artefacts of her spirit in many forms in lovely places · 15 February 06
Memoirists and Fairy Tale Writers · 20 February 06
Heartening Film Awards & Compton-Burnett: "these secrets should not be ... They must be revealed and ended. · 21 February 06
_Transamerica_: a benign masquerade of caricatures & grotesques · 24 February 06
2 Amfortases, many Kundries; or, On Punishing Women · 27 February 06
Poetry for Tuesday: A Death and "Transcendental Etudes" · 28 February 06
Weeping, Shackled, Silent & Gardening Women: "and the soul was not afraid" · 4 March 06
The Libertine: Surreal nihilism (& more diary) · 13 March 06
Autobiography and Poetry · 19 March 06
A spring day: "Anyone can whistle" · 23 March 06
Recovery, retrieval, rescue & Jane Freilicher's _Casement Window_ · 25 March 06
Serious Radiators & Elizabeth Spencer's "Light in the Piazza" · 2 April 06
Women's Memoirs and Self-Presentation through Things · 4 April 06
Women in Cyberspace: "And then I arrived at the powerful green hill" · 6 April 06
Cyberspace & attics (& Library Thing too) · 8 April 06
The bodies of women in cyberspace & medicine · 10 April 06
At the Met: Kara Walker, Samuel Palmer & Laurie Simmons · 25 April 06
Motherhood Manifesto & Wollstonecraft's _The Rights of Woman_ · 5 May 06
Denise Levertov: audience hypocrisy · 7 May 06
Lying/women's pictures, blogs & the pressure to breast-feed · 9 May 06
Friends with Money (another college friends grown older tale) & more on _The Faith Healer_ · 15 May 06
Women's counter-universes · 25 May 06
Women's life-writing: prose and poetry · 28 May 06
Fiercely laconic: gush & spasms in women's poetry and gothic · 8 June 06
Moving in with Lucy: women's animal poetry · 10 June 06
It's the pictures: An Inconvenient Truth and The White Countess · 12 June 06
Women's faery poetry · 18 June 06
Writing to imagined friends: pseudonyms redux · 20 June 06
Carnival of Feminists and Anthologies · 23 June 06
Funny poems by women · 30 June 06
More women's funny poems & "extreme female-adventure" & detective fiction · 4 July 06
Back to the 17th century (2), Trollope & women's autobiography · 9 August 06
Women's autobiography: the mother-daughter paradigm · 12 August 06
Late summer: The Woman Within, Orlandos, & a ballad · 14 August 06
Anne Halkett's Memoir: separating out the bricolage · 16 August 06
Judy Bolton was the one I loved · 8 September 06
_Water_ and _The Quiet_: 2 films by women · 10 September 06
Pearl Luke's _Madame Zee_ · 15 September 06
Life as contingent arrangements in a marketplace: recent fiction & film · 24 September 06
An archeaology of women's experience: 20th century, 2nd half · 27 September 06
Persephone v Virago Books · 30 September 06
The Queen thrice over · 4 October 06
Poetry and a Picture: Virginia Woolf · 10 October 06
Poetry and a Picture: Virginia Woolf (2) · 16 October 06
More on Janacek's Jenufa · 18 October 06
Women's poetry · 21 October 06
The Queen: "upstairs" w/o "downstairs" · 23 October 06
Thoughts on Anne Halkett, Part Two · 31 October 06
College life (?) often a fraud · 1 November 06
"'Cast out from respectability a while'" · 4 November 06
Marie Antoinette and Co.: the latest take · 9 November 06
Babel: a powerful important fable · 16 November 06
Bresson & Lerner & Lowe, Weldon & Austen & Pinter · 27 November 06
Marchette Chute's stories from Shakespeare · 2 December 06
One of the world's oldest professions · 11 December 06
Erasing Louise Labe · 14 December 06
The Plantation 2007 -- and 2 18th Century women's memoirs · 21 January 07
Volver: flowers are tougher than you think · 30 January 07
Foremother Poet: Sara Teasdale (1884-1933) · 4 February 07
These fragments did she shore against her ruin. · 9 February 07
Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory by Marilyn Yalom · 21 February 07
Volver: a film that satisfies the heart · 26 February 07
Sesa Jeter Naslund's _Abundance_ · 2 March 07
Georgette Heyer's _Civil Contract_ · 4 March 07
_The Lives of Others_: a significant flawed melodrama · 12 March 07
The latest issue of the Women's Review of Books_ · 5 April 07
Anne Murray Halkett and the Lindsays · 7 April 07
Dorothy Wordsworth, private writer & poet · 22 April 07
Isabella di Morra (c. 1520-1545?) · 7 May 07
Another Nancy Drew poem · 10 May 07
Foremother Poet: Mary Lamb (1764-1847) · 12 May 07
Adrienne Shelly's _Waitress_: fantasy pie-making · 14 May 07
Chick lit & the 1974 Pallisers · 19 May 07
Deborah Cherry's _Painting Women_ · 24 May 07
Living in the Past · 26 May 07
"The Bear Came Over the Mountain" to _Away from Her_: How Critique Became Justification · 28 May 07
17th to 19thc womens' & actresses' memoirs; "strong" female types in movies · 31 May 07
Caroline Bowles Southey & Cowper in the 1983 _Mansfield Park_ · 2 June 07
Vittoria Colonna: 3 poems & a correspondence · 13 June 07
"The market on queens": _The Last King_ · 14 June 07
Dorothy Richardson's _Pilgrimage_ · 16 June 07
Veronica Gambara: 6 poems, 1 letter, an arrangement · 17 June 07
Sarah Cardwell on ur-texts and Andrew Davies · 25 July 07
Grace Paley (1922-2007), Poet · 4 September 07
Julie Delpy's _Two Days In Paris_ · 11 September 07
"The Lady's Maid's Bell:" ghost story & gothic film adaptation · 17 September 07
Mesmerized by _Brideshead_ all over again · 30 October 07
"Afterward:" an instance of how film must differ from text · 7 December 07
The Maze: a redemptive Christmas tale · 23 December 07
Impressionists by the Sea · 26 December 07
Three of my Colonna translations · 17 January 08
Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-po Listserv · 20 January 08
Jenny Uglow's _Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories_ · 4 February 08
The film _Cranford Chronicles_: a paean to community · 6 February 08
Why study women's poetry · 13 February 08
_North and South_ & _Clary_ (& _Vanity Fair_ too) · 19 February 08
Why study women's poetry (2) · 20 February 08
4 months, 3 weeks, & 2 days: one tough movie · 22 February 08
a woman's "novel" to be getting on with · 11 April 08
The comfort of Dickens -- or Sandy Welch? · 6 May 08
4 Womens' films: Sex & the City, Before the Rains, There She Found Me, The Namesake · 19 June 08
"Quite enough books to be going on with ..." · 25 June 08
Carrie Bushnell's _Sex and the City_ · 28 June 08
Anne Hunter, Poet, Songwriter, Wife · 30 June 08
Mary Chandler, poet & Bath milliner (1687-1745) · 7 July 08
Vittoria Colonna & Rosalba Carriera, poet & painter · 9 July 08
Summer theatre & books: Wolf Trap, Fringe Festival, _The Edge of Heaven_ & _Une Vieille Maitresse_, not to omit _Jenny Wren_ & _Truly, Madly, _Deeply_ · 27 July 08
Filmic women: mirrors, windows, & candles · 6 August 08
Upstate (with Vittoria Colonna) · 9 August 08
Betty Rizzo's _Companions Without Vows_ · 18 August 08
_Vicky, Christina, Barcelona_ by Woody Allen · 20 August 08
Foremother Poet Essay-Postings · 15 September 08
_The Duchess_ was a writing and reading girl too · 19 September 08
A review of Abigail Brundin's book on Vittoria Colonna's poetry · 6 October 08
Susan Glaspell's _Fidelity_ & Jhumpa Lahiri's _Namesake_ · 8 October 08
Foremother Poets to Wompo: Henrietta St John Knight, Lady Luxborough · 12 October 08
A political & a womens' film: _Religulous_ & _The Duchess_ · 13 October 08
Diary entry: Foremother poets, reviews & movies; Thompson, Blaine, Freilicher & books (e.g., Paul Scott); struggling for a reading plan · 27 October 08
Two Bronte Movies: _The Tenant of Wildfell Hall_ & _The Namesake_ · 31 October 08
Neglect these to your loss: Obama's _Dreams_, Nafisi's _Reading_ (Shirin's _My Iran_), Scott's Barbie, & Higson on costume drama · 24 November 08
The Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala Anglo films, _Il y a longtemps que je t'aime_,_Daisy Miller_ & on not finishing & rereading books · 1 December 08
Mary Cassatt at the National Womens' Museum; & womens' landskip art · 16 December 08
A few more books & movies to be getting on with: mostly _Clarissa_; _The Children's Hour_ & _The Women_; & _Revolutionary Road_ · 28 January 09
_Last Chance, Harvey_: an exquisitely moving long walk · 3 February 09
Poetry & foremother poet postings, pictures & groupsite stills · 10 February 09
The great cruelties of "honor" killings & a tired frightened courageous heroine · 15 February 09
Kate Winslett wins! & more women's plays & films: life such a sad cruel business · 23 February 09
Women Poets: seeing ourselves in predecessors · 5 May 09