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“It is best for us to continue in the belief that Eve actually ate an apple, and immediately ruined Adam in consequence! I like this belief, too, it speaks so well for the progressive power of women.” – 26 July 1857, ‘Early journalism’, in The Morgesons and Other Writings

Elizabeth Drew Stoddard

The sadness of others one should leave alone. It is a small garden, a fragile delicate Arcadia, one should not disturb it. –  I Am the Brother of XX

Fleur Jaeggy

Menagerie of Authors

Amélia de Freitas Beviláqua - Amélia Carolina de Freitas Beviláqua was born in Jerumenha, in Piauí, Brazil, on August 7th, 1860 (some sources mention her date of birth as August 6th, 1863).… Read more "Amélia de Freitas Beviláqua"
Rosemary Manning - Rosemary Manning (Rosemary Joy Manning , 9 December 1911 – 5 April 1988; pen names Sarah Davys and Mary Voyle) was an English author. Manning attended the… Read more "Rosemary Manning"
Yan Ge - Yan Ge (pen name of Dai Yuexing, 1984) is a Chinese author. She grew up in a small town in Sichuan, and earned a PhD in comparative… Read more "Yan Ge"
Carmen Boullosa - Carmen Boullosa (September 4, 1954) is a Mexican author. She grew up in a middle-class family in Mexico City and attended a Catholic school. Her mother died… Read more "Carmen Boullosa"
Elspeth Barker - Elspeth Barker (1940) is a Scottish writer. She attended Somerville College, Oxford, and, in the late 1960’s, married the poet George Barker, with whom she had five children.… Read more "Elspeth Barker"

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About this [blank] garden

“I am younger each year at the first snow.”
– Anne Sexton, in a letter to W. D. Snodgrass, in 1958.
A Self-portrait in Letters, (2004)

This is my blank space. A white page, as good as a garden covered in snow, not yet cultivated, but with some strong Spring hidden within; something simple, clean, yet to be stained; a seed with some flower all curled up inside, first waiting, then slowly unraveling.

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