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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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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Wintry Colorado can be an unforgiving place, especially with single-digit temperatures and March (usually our snowiest month) still ahead. I’ve got tea to warm my fingers, but my thoughts are turning to food…the kinds of food my literary heroines would have enjoyed. This morning I saw an article featuring a
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Now that the illustrious day has arrived, I can let the cat out of the bag: My panel with fellow Laura fan and writer Wendy McClure, Loving Laura in a Lindsay Lohan World, has been accepted for the 2010 Laurapalooza Little House on the Prairie fan and academic convergence this
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