As those familiar with Louis Sachar’s humorous Wayside School series already know, the fictional elementary school is “a thirty-story building with one classroom on each
Tag: Women
Remaining The Writer of Our Own Story At Life’s End
In Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande draws attention to an issue that most of us try to avoid: how
A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Articles About Marriage Must Reference Jane Austen (Even When It Doesn’t Apply)
Did you hear the news that men are happier with smarter wives? That’s how the media has summed up a recent study on marital dissolution
Persuasion: Is It Better With Age?
As amusing as it is to have an “annotated” e-book version of Jane Austen’s Persuasion with so-called “exclusive” content identical to a Wikipedia article, I
Dating Rules for “Ordinary” Heroines (Hat Tip to Jane Austen)
Most of us don’t expect the heroines in our novels to be “ordinary,” but that’s what we get in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1803/1818). As
Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music: Portraying 19th Century Gender Norms That Still Exist Today
Emma Donoghue’s Frog Music is an engrossing novel based on real-life events that took place during the summer of 1876 in sweltering San Francisco. The
