Nineteenth Century America
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Renee Rosen
I’ve known Renee Rosen for a long time. Back before either of us were published, we both hung-out in an on-line writing forum called Backspace, which was an incubator for a lot of writing careers. She was a generous member of that community, and is a generous member of the larger writing world. Since she…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Natalie Dykstra
Natalie Dykstra is the author of Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life, a 2013 Massachusetts Book Award finalist. She received a 2005 NEH Fellowship for her research on Clover Adams and a 2018 NEH Public Scholar Award for her upcoming biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner. She is Professor of English at Hope College and…
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Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Janice P. Nimura
I loved Janice Nimura’s first book Daughters of the Samurai, so I was thrilled when I heard she had a new book on the way. I was even more thrilled when I learned it would be about Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell, whose stories I encountered when I wrote about Civil War nurses several years ago.…
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