Susan Stoderl
- Mar 14
- 1 min
Christine de Pizan | Biographical Details of a Medieval Woman Writer’s Life and Learning
One characteristic of Christine de Pizan’s writing is the number of autobiographi-cal details she included in all of her various genres...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 7
- 2 min
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...
Susan Stoderl
- Feb 7
- 1 min
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...
Susan Stoderl
- Jan 4
- 2 min
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,...
Susan Stoderl
- Dec 28, 2022
- 2 min
Women Writers | Beatrix Potter
I wrote a previous blog on Beatrix Potter several months ago. I have incorporated parts of that today, but I wanted to add to it. One of...
Susan Stoderl
- Dec 7, 2022
- 2 min
Genre-Bending: Not Fitting In
I was looking for a quote for the graphic on Ms. Gabaldon's website and found one that looked interesting. However, it didn't make much...
Susan Stoderl
- Nov 30, 2022
- 1 min
Twenty-Third Century BCE Woman Writer
#womenwriters, #enheduannapoetry, #ancienthistory
Susan Stoderl
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
On Madeleine L'Engle
A Wrinkle in Time was almost not published because according to its author, it “dealt overtly with the problem of evil, and it was really...
Susan Stoderl
- Sep 2, 2022
- 1 min
Sophia of the Bright Red Sneakers | Zelda Screech Cat | Chapter 14 Excerpt
#middlegradefiction, #middlegradebooks, #indieauthor, #storytelling, #sophiaofthebrightredsneakersseries, #writerscommunity , #womenwriters
Susan Stoderl
- Aug 31, 2022
- 1 min
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 27, 2022
- 2 min
Saturday Series | Amy Tan
Saturday Series | Amy Tan
Susan Stoderl
- Aug 24, 2022
- 1 min
Fanny Fern Tales | Getting Up the Wrong Way, Part 2
Part two in my Fanny Fern Tales series is based on her humorist columns published in the New York Ledger in the 1850s-70s. The articles,...
Susan Stoderl
- Aug 2, 2022
- 1 min
Late Bloomer | Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck (1927-1996) knew at age twenty that she would die from the same inherited polycystic kidney disease as her father did when...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 20, 2022
- 1 min
Going Backwards
The aria speaks of life among the destitute in 19th-century New York City. That time is returning all over this country because women are...
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 14, 2022
- 1 min
Late Bloomer|Sassy Senior: Mary Wesley
Late Bloomer | Sassy Senior | Mary Wesley (1912-2002)
Susan Stoderl
- Jul 6, 2022
- 2 min
Fanny Fern and the Cult of True Womanhood
"The Cult of Domesticity" or "True Womanhood," was established for the wives and daughters of the white American middle- and upper-class...
Susan Stoderl
- Jun 28, 2022
- 2 min
From #CronesRock to #GirlPower
The myth of the Three-Part Goddess has many sources and traditions, many associated with the phases of the moons or changing of seasons....