by Lynne Weiss | Mar 17, 2021 | What I'm Reading
In researching the rise of fascism in 1930s Britain, I was surprised to learn that Oswald Mosley, the charismatic founder of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), was initially a fan of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal. He formed the BUF after his effort to...
by Lynne Weiss | Mar 11, 2021 | What I'm Reading
Since I posted yesterday about Virginia Woolf and how A Room of One’s Own made me think of Tillie Olsen’s Silences, I wanted to post Olsen’s biography from the Literary Ladies site today. I remember being moved by Olsen’s Tell Me a Riddle and...
by Lynne Weiss | Mar 10, 2021 | What I'm Reading
This posting from Literary Ladies is about Virginia Woolf, but I find myself thinking about Tillie Olsen. I think they were from the same era–perhaps Olsen was a little younger. But of very different economic classes. I don’t think that Woolf was saying...
by Lynne Weiss | Jul 3, 2016 | What I'm Reading
I ran across this while looking for something else. The language is so delightfully fresh and arch. Elizabeth Hands–died in 1815, and although the Poetry Foundation does not date the poem, her book was published in 1789–so who knows? Perhaps this was...
by Lynne Weiss | Apr 7, 2015 | What I'm Reading
The 2014 VIDA Count | VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.
