In an increasingly virtual world, especially with Coronavirus spreading all over the globe, a reader is able to search a text with a few keystrokes. From e-texts to digital surrogates, the internet is a library at your fingertips. Edith Wharton’s collection of stories Xingu is an example of this library at work. A digital surrogate … Continue reading A Library at Your Fingertips
Ida B. Wells/ Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library/ Biography.com. In this essay, I will sketch the biography of Wells’ life in terms of racial prejudice, highlighting her important publications within the context of her personal experiences. “The Princess of the Press,” Ida B. Wells used her voice and her pen to battle … Continue reading Ida B. Wells: The Tale of a True Journalist
The elusive Emily Dickinson, who lived from 1830 until 1886, is now a canonical figure. Work after work has been published about her, but she rarely published herself, and when she did, it was not under her own name. This is something to question. Why didn’t she publish much of her work, and why didn’t … Continue reading The Unbinding of Emily Dickinson
Joseph Henry Hatfield?, illustrator. First page of "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Stetson [Gilman]. The New England Magazine, January 1892. Image from Cornell University Library via HathiTrust. In 1892, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, later Gilman, published “The Yellow Wallpaper” in the New England Magazine, an illustrated literary monthly. A semi-autobiographical tale, Gilman’s story relays through … Continue reading “The Yellow Wall-Paper”
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