Writing in the Sphere of Domesticity: Lydia Maria Child’s Works for Women and Children

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Frontispiece from Letters of Lydia Maria Child, by Lydia Maria Child, collected and arranged by Harriet Winslow Sewall. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883. Via HathiTrust / public domain. Biography Lydia Maria Child was a prolific American writer who had a profound influence in the nineteenth century and beyond. Born in Massachusetts in 1802, Child … Continue reading Writing in the Sphere of Domesticity: Lydia Maria Child’s Works for Women and Children

Gender Roles, Work, and God’s Judgment in “A Day” from Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches

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Louisa May Alcotta, Hospital Sketches (Boston: James Redpath, 1863); andLouisa May Alcott, Little Women (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888). From the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. Photographs by Sophia Lola. Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches, written in 1863, comprises a series of vignettes following Tribulation Periwinkle, a nurse during the Civil War, just before and right as she begins her work treating injured and … Continue reading Gender Roles, Work, and God’s Judgment in “A Day” from Louisa May Alcott’s Hospital Sketches

The Work and Life of Zitkála-Šá

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Zitkala-Sa (1898) by Gertrude Kasebier via Wikimedia (public domain) Biography Zitkála-Šá (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) was a Native American writer, editor, translator, musician, teacher, and activist, and is regarded as one of the most prominent Native American voices of the early 20th century. Born on the Yankton Indian Reservation on February 22, 1876 to a Yankton … Continue reading The Work and Life of Zitkála-Šá