Are we always on the cusp of change? Possibly, but do we realize it when it’s happening. Probably not. That’s why a look back can be valuable, especially for a […]
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An Interview with Kathleen Williams Renk, author of Vindicated: A Life of Mary Shelley
Winner of 2021 SCN’s Sarton Historical Fiction Award Kathleen Williams Renk says her goal as a writer is to bring the stories of women to life, especially stories that haven’t […]
Read MoreBlooming in Winter
Jacomena van Huizen Maybeck must have been a startling figure when the author of her biography, Pam Valois, met her at the Maybeck compound of homes in Berkeley, California, back […]
Read MoreBetty Gillies, WAFS Pilot
Imagine, if you will, what it must have been like to be one of the first women pilots flying for the United States military in the World War II era. […]
Read MoreBy and By, I Reckon
Brenda O’Bannion pens a lovely, lyrical narrative of her grandmother’s life in By and By, I Reckon. Her story explores one woman’s life in rural Louisiana where inhabitants scraped a […]
Read MoreEdith: The Rogue Rockefeller McCormick
This is a fascinating, well-researched book about the life of John D. Rockefeller’s most intelligent, creative and misunderstood child. Edith was the fourth of five children born into the richest […]
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