Jane Franklin not famous...her favorite brother Ben, quite the opposite. Tnis book explores her life through letters to and from her famous sibling. Women during the 1700s were at disadvantage, no political power, poorly educated and generally considered as subordinate. Despite her poor spelli...
Jill Lepore explores the roots of Wonder Woman, creating a fascinating biography of her creator and his influences. The book serves double duty as a survey of feminism from the early 1900's through the 1950's (with later topics covered in the epilogue). Lepore's presentation of the life of Marsto...
She took out her Book of Ages: June the 12-1764 Died a beloved & Deservedly Lamented Daughter Sarah Flagg. She has Left four Children. Jane. Mary Josiah & Sarah. Jane’s daughter Sarah had married a housewright named William Flagg. And then, just before her twenty-seventh birthday—almost e...
or “breast milk,” including one about what to call it when it’s no longer in a mother’s breast. An explanation, nomenclatural: “expressed human milk” is milk that has been pressed, squeezed, or sucked out of a woman’s breast by hand or by machine, but not by a baby, and stored in a bottle or a ja...
—LANGSTON HUGHES, “I, Too” Augusta Savage returned from Paris in September 1931. Straightaway, Joe Gould began threading himself into her life. “Miss Savage is giving a party,” he wrote to Countee Cullen that November, “and she asked me to invite you.”1 But, later, he admitted that when Savage re...