Women Writers

Susan Stoderl

Jun 20
2 min

Women Writers | The Revolutionary Power of Girl Talk

In an opinion by Mattie Kahn, in Time magazine, she opens with “It started like most revolutions do: with gossip.” Ms. Kahn has a new...

Susan Stoderl

Jun 2
2 min

Women Writers

Women Writers | Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), an 18th-century British woman writer and early feminist, wrote about the place of women within society....

The Shockingly Modern 19th-Century Anglo-Irish Novels of Maria Edgeworth

Susan Stoderl

May 9
2 min

Women Writers

The Shockingly Modern 19th-Century Anglo-Irish Novels of Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth began writing in a variety of forms in the mid-1790s when she was in her late twenties, including novels for adults and...

Maria Edgeworth & Louise Swanton Belloc | Collaborators on Children's Books & Stories

Susan Stoderl

May 5
1 min

Women Writers

Maria Edgeworth & Louise Swanton Belloc | Collaborators on Children's Books & Stories

Edgeworth (1768—1849) wrote many children’s novels that conveyed moral lessons. One of her main collaborators was her friend Louise...

Anglo-Irish Writer of Children’s Stories and Novels About Irish Life | Maria Edgeworth (1768—1849)

Susan Stoderl

May 2
2 min

Women Writers

Anglo-Irish Writer of Children’s Stories and Novels About Irish Life | Maria Edgeworth (1768—1849)

Maria Edgeworth is a woman writer I would have liked to have known. Edgeworth lived in England prior to her family moving to their estate...

Children’s and Middle-Grade Stories | Frances Browne (1816–1879)

Susan Stoderl

Apr 28
2 min

Women Writers

Children’s and Middle-Grade Stories | Frances Browne (1816–1879)

Frances Browne was an Irish poet and novelist who was blind from the age of eighteen months. She is best known for her collection of...

Sun, Moon, and Stars. Astronomy for Beginners | Agnes Giberne’s Middle-Grade Books on Science

Susan Stoderl

Apr 21
2 min

Women Writers

Sun, Moon, and Stars. Astronomy for Beginners | Agnes Giberne’s Middle-Grade Books on Science

Agnes Giberne (1845-1903) was a prolific British writer, writing around one-hundred-thirty books. She is one of the first women to...

Writing Children’s Fiction Ages 8-12 | Letting Children Know They Are Not Alone

Susan Stoderl

Apr 18
1 min

Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers

Writing Children’s Fiction Ages 8-12 | Letting Children Know They Are Not Alone

Children want to know how to cope with situations that seem overwhelming, that they feel are beyond their years and ability to cope....

Middle-Grade Detective Book Excerpt | Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors

Susan Stoderl

Apr 14
2 min

Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers

Middle-Grade Detective Book Excerpt | Mission 2: Unexpected Visitors

Chapter 1. Apartment 4B—with a Capital “B” for Bo-o-oring! A cloud of doom hovered over the MacGregor household. Sophia propped her...

Christine de Pizan | Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orléans

Susan Stoderl

Mar 28
2 min

Women Writers

Christine de Pizan | Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orléans

"The Poem of Joan of Arc" is dated July 31, 1429, and was the first poem to honor the historic Jeanne d’Arc. Several legends attributed...

Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008) Poems III & IV

Susan Stoderl

Mar 24
1 min

Women Writers

Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008) Poems III & IV

These poems were written for song a cycle in 2008, Prairie Girl. I wrote about my life as a child growing up in a rural county of Kansas...

Christine de Pizan | Not the Ordinary Woman Writer

Susan Stoderl

Mar 21
2 min

Women Writers

Christine de Pizan | Not the Ordinary Woman Writer

The Book of the Body of Policy was the first political treatise written by a woman c. 1407. It counsels the knights, noblemen, and common...

From Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008)

Susan Stoderl

Mar 17
1 min

Women Writers

From Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008)

During my second career, after singing and running a small opera company, I began composing art songs and opera. In 2008, I wrote about...

Christine de Pizan (1364-1430) | First Paid Woman Writer

Susan Stoderl

Mar 7
2 min

Women Writers

Christine de Pizan (1364-1430) | First Paid Woman Writer

Many years ago, I discovered the medieval writer Christine de Pizan (also spelled Pisan) (1364-1430) when doing research for an opera...

A First Century Birthday Invitation | Claudia Severa to Sulpicia Cerialis

Susan Stoderl

Feb 28
1 min

Women Writers

A First Century Birthday Invitation | Claudia Severa to Sulpicia Cerialis

Sometime between the years 97-103 CE, Claudia Severa invited her sister Sulpicia Lepedina Cerialis to come to her birthday celebration on...

Anne Duffy | The First Female Scottish Poet Laureate Ever (2009-19)

Susan Stoderl

Feb 7
1 min

Women Writers

Anne Duffy | The First Female Scottish Poet Laureate Ever (2009-19)

Being a middle-grade female writer, came upon the work of Anne Duffy. The poem that really spoke to me was “In Mrs. Tilscher’s Class.” It...

Women Writers | The Poetry of Madeleine L'Engle

Susan Stoderl

Jan 4
2 min

Women Writers

Women Writers | The Poetry of Madeleine L'Engle

The quote in the image posted with this entry is from the preface of Lines Scribbled on an Envelope: and Other Poems (1969, Farrar,...

Late Bloomer, not once, but twice | Eugenia Lovett West

Susan Stoderl

Aug 31, 2022
1 min

Late Bloomers & Sassy Seniors

Late Bloomer, not once, but twice | Eugenia Lovett West

Eugenia Lovett West was born in February 1923. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College amidst WWII and took jobs with Harper’s Bazaar...

Susan Stoderl

Aug 17, 2022
1 min

Fanny Fern Series

Fanny Fern Tales | Getting Up the Wrong Way

This will be the first in a series of readings of Fanny Fern's columns which were published in The New York Ledger. Excerpt two will be...

Susan Stoderl

Aug 10, 2022
0 min

Fanny Fern Series

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