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Robinson recognised that, "women writers were deeply ambivalent about the myths of authorship their male counterparts had created" [29] and as a result she sought to elevate woman's place in the literary world by recognising women writers in her own work. In A Letter to the Women of England, Robinson includes an entire page dedicated to English ...
In 1963, The Star Integral poetry collection was removed from print, while another collection of poems, The Prince's Mountain, was removed from typography. [6] During these years, Kostenko's poems were published in Czechoslovak magazines and Polish newspapers. However, they only occasionally reached Ukrainian audiences, mostly via samizdat.
Jeanie Oliver Davidson Smith (1836–1925), American poet and romance writer; Amelia Solar de Claro (1836–1915), Chilean poet, playwright, and essayist; Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), American mystery novelist, poet and short story writer; Celia Thaxter (1835–1894), American writer of poetry and stories
Frances Sargent Osgood (née Locke; June 18, 1811 – May 12, 1850) was an American poet and one of the most popular women writers during her time. [1] Nicknamed "Fanny", she was also famous for her exchange of romantic poems with Edgar Allan Poe.
Throughout the 20th century, literary criticism of Barrett Browning's poetry remained sparse until her poems were discovered by the women's movement. She once described herself as being inclined to reject several women's rights principles, suggesting in letters to Mary Russell Mitford and her husband that she believed that there was an ...
May Sarton was the pen name of Eleanore Marie Sarton [1] (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), a Belgian-American novelist, poet, and memoirist.Although her best work is strongly personalised with erotic female imagery, she resisted the label of ‘lesbian writer’, preferring to convey the universality of human love.
Merle Woo is an American academic, poet and activist who has been described as "a leading member of the Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her essay "Letter to Ma" was selected for inclusion in the 1981 feminist anthology This Bridge Called My Back .
Her favourite of her own poems is 'Flowers' from Serious Concerns. Her domestic love poem 'The Orange' became increasingly viral from 2018, leading to Faber & Faber releasing a line of accompanying merchandise for it, and publishing a new edition of her works in 2023, entitled The Orange and other poems.