Philippa Gregory’s book The White Princess has come to the screen via Starz in April, 2017. As with The White Queen, figures in the series are taken from history, with considerable fictionalizing. Here are some of the...
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Known for: a freethinker who worked for racial justice and for the education of African Americans;...
Read MoreThe only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby. Nick, they called me a goddamn juvenile delinquent, now do I get the part? (quoted in Gavin Lampert’s 2004 biography of Natalie Wood) In so...
Read MoreI know how a volcano must feel With molten lava Smoldering in its breast. from “Prelude” – Ariel Williams Holloway
Read MoreVannozza dei Cattenei was the mother of Lucrezia Borgia, Cesare Borgia and two (or maybe one) other children of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, who later became Pope Alexander VI. Borgia’s mistress, she was also an innkeeper....
Read MoreLouisa May Alcott wrote this biting satire on life in a 19th century Utopian community, based on her own family’s experience at Fruitlands. She portrays the father figure as a dreamer and idealist, and the mother as the practical one who has to do all the work to meet worldly needs like food and shelter.
Read MoreLouisa May Alcott wrote this Thanksgiving story in 1881. In this selection you’ll find a vivid description of a New England family, “poor in money, but rich in land and love,” and their Thanksgiving dinner. The...
Read MoreIn 1882, Louisa May Alcott, a neighbor and friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson, wrote her memories of Emerson for publication. Here’s the essay she wrote.
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