By Guest Blogger Darren Garnick This is the first in a series of guest posts on heroines featured in The Heroine’s Bookshelf. My guests? Honored authors, writers, experts, historians, and more. First up is Darren Garnick, an unlikely adherent of everyone’s favorite Anne with an e. Want to combine some
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Missed the tour? Never fear! Click here for a podcast, map, and handouts for the tour and recreate the experience alone or with an intrepid friend! We finally have details on what might be the most anticipated event of my mini book tour…The Heroine’s Bookshelf Heroines of Literature Walking Tour
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Ever since I blogged about Lily Bart yesterday, I’ve been contemplating a heroine’s clothes. You know, the lovely (or tattered) duds that either hamper or enhance a woman’s rise to glory. I’m thinking Jo March’s singed dress, Scarlett’s portieres, the sunbonnets of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the cloche hats of
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Little Laura Jernegan, a girl who traveled the world on a whale ship during the 1860s, made quite the splash on the Internet yesterday (thanks, Wendy McClure, for passing on the link). Her journal, written when she was six years old, records her thoughts on various animals, the smells of
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For reasons that will become apparent sooner rather than later, I’ve been thinking about literary places. Not just real places like the Ingalls Homestead or the moors of England, but the places in which we discover the books that mean so much to us. For example, I could never stand
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