(Not to be confused with Sweatin’ to the Oldies!) I’m in Writing Mode, which for my long-suffering boyfriend means having to deal with someone who is clumsier, more preoccupied, and spacier than ever. But spewing out the world’s most terrible first draft isn’t always (or ever) a cakewalk, and I
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Ah, Jane Eyre. You have sucked up innumerable hours of my time and God knows what kind of space in my head and heart over the years. And your covers always tend to feature bland, bleak, gray-clad governesses who don’t really point to an appealing book within. In honor of
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This is the story of a woman whose work was lambasted as unchristian, immoral, anything but the work of an upstanding lady. She was nervous in temperament and given to moody depression and moments of utter despair, sadness that the unfettered moors of her childhood home heightened. She wore spectacles
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One of the most gratifying parts of writing The Heroine’s Bookshelf was discovering the backstories behind the women who wrote some of my favorite books. And it wasn’t all fun and friends. During the course of the book, I got to look at the underbelly of some of these women’s
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Jane Eyre – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront ë
I remembered that the real world was wide…
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