Author: rudymalcom

Hathitrust Digital Library, digitized copy of “The Yellow Wall-Paper” from The New England Magazine 1891-92, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924080769783&view=1up&seq=655. Accessed 12 May 2020. First published in The New England Magazine in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” is considered a seminal work of American feminist literature. The semi-autobiographical story is narrated by an unnamed woman whose physician husband has prescribed … Continue reading Mirror, Mirror on the Wall-Paper: Reflecting on a Digital Surrogate of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Seminal Story

Portrait of Alice Duer Miller by an unknown photographer, date unknown, from the Alice Duer Miller Papers, Collection BC-17-Photographs. Barnard College Library, via Wikimedia. On July 28, 1874, Alice Duer Miller — who, through her feminist poetry, would grow up to influence political opinion and the suffrage movement— was born to wealthy parents in New … Continue reading Scribbling in Alice Duer Miller’s Bibliography

Portrait, from Sojourner Truth, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828. (New York: For The Author, 1853). From the Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University. Photograph by Rudy Malcom. At the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth gave her famous “Ain’t … Continue reading Does The Sojourner Truth Project uphold its own mission?