#women’s literature

[localcosmicvoid]

Balancing the melancholy in all the spring bright.

From What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez // Woman At Point Zero by Nawal El Saadawi // Forward from A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

[readingthief]

Little Women by Luisa May Alcott

4.5/5 ⭐️

I did not expect to like this book as much as I did! It is a charming story about four sisters as they learn to navigate the world. I really enjoyed learning about their lives. I did fine some parts of the story a bit heavy-handed with the morals, but given that it was written in the mid-19th century. I can definitely see why this book is a classic!

[wizardwomenwisdom]

if i see one more person rag on the HUNGER GAMES, and dismiss it because it’s popular/YA, i might scream. it’s first and foremost about the abuse colonizers afflict on those they’ve invaded, and the endless violent overproduction of their resources, which, um, isn’t some silly fluffy little fun romp. it wasn’t even really YA, it just focuses on the sensationalization of teens as “the chosen heroes” in order to draw attention away from anyone who may have political power/who is old enough to participate in democracy not actively doing their jobs. it highlights the common use of hunger as a motivator to quell revolutions and draws direct ties between the important psychological effect that threatening people’s children instead of people themselves has had in maintaining dictatorships. it presents a really well curated, multifaceted response to post-traumatic stress disorder, and the “love triangle” it so often gets boiled down to instead serves to illustrate the decision between learning to heal or continuing the patterns of abuse that most abused people experience. if you’re saying it’s not “real, deep literature” or whatever because it got popular and focuses on teens, if you insist people should read more obvious and heavy-handed “awakening” or “moby dick” type shit, then maybe you’re the one who needs to start actually analyzing the texts you’re reading.

[blvvdk3ep]

I love you people going into "useless" fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn't considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive

[inkishkingdoms]

Get to know the face behind this account and all the Inkish Kingdoms accounts.

Blogger, marketer, social media “expert”, professional reader, editor, reviewer, Nintendo fanatic and coffee addict, although tea and match are very closed to being the top 1.

I read about everything, but non-fiction is my weak spot. Love women’s literature, genre fiction, literary fiction, and theory about reading and queer reading. Love the gothic but haven’t been in the mood. I am also a mood reader 🙃🙃 and invest a lot of time on IG and TikTok. But going back to genres, I enjoy sci-fi, audiobooks, YA (sometimes) and thrillers.

Goals? Being a book “influencer” but without the influencers stigma. In other words, I just want to talk about books and help people and authors to get their work seen and hopefully read! We all have dreams and we can only accomplish them if we help each other.

I love to study but mainly literature studies. I wish of going to Oxford or Cambridge to study literature. I am sure I will struggle like a fish out of water, but it has always being a dream of mine.

Another goal? Leave my day job behind and become a full time book content creator and even write my own story! Not a bio but a novel 🔥

[laurenillustrated]

The March Sisters 📚

Little Women illustration based on the book!

[muskaanayesha]

Peace be upon the daughter who helped her parents grow up. Accepted their cold shoulder, excused their anger, pardoned their mistakes, taught them how to be human. Peace be upon the sister who paid the price of rebellion. Screaming to her fullest, shaking like a leaf but standing tall, never letting the dictatorship go without a fight, paving the path for her siblings to breathe easier. Peace be upon the first child of an immigrant father. Aching to find their own purpose in life, firm in their own beliefs, contradicting generations and generations of cultural values. Peace be upon the girl who shouldered her mother's trauma. Swindled it into her own, morphed herself into an image of the womb she once resided in, immersed herself into troubles that weren't even hers, covered up scars that she couldn't even recognize. Peace be upon the woman who forgot who she was. So determined to be the savior of everyone, to fix her family, to nurture and love everyone around her. So deeply lost that she forgot she's just as worthy of love. Peace be upon you.

[evadneares]

Caitlin Conlon, "The Surrender Theory"

[oddwomen]

Jet (February 15, 1979)

[es-al]

Yes yes

[burningvelvet]

An excerpt from the end of a letter where Mary Shelley rejects the advances of her long-time friend Edward Trelawny, 26 July 1831:

"My name will never be Trelawny. I am not so young as I was when you first knew me, but I am as proud. I must have the entire affection, devotion, and, above all, the solicitous protection of any one who would win me. You belong to womenkind in general, and Mary Shelley will never be yours.

I write in haste, but I will write soon again, more at length. You shall have your copies the moment I receive them. Believe me, with all gratitude and affection,

Yours,

M. W. Shelley."

[metamorphesque]

you are terrifying and strange and beautiful something not everyone knows how to love.

For Women Who Are Difficult To Love, Warsan Shire

[strykerlancer]

— Sylvia Plath, from “Three Women.”

[soracities]

Ankita Saxena, on her translation of Fahmida Riaz's poem "A Woman Is Laughing", pub. Modern Poetry in Translation [ID'd]

[peacefulandcozy]

Instagram credit: cosyfaerie

[die-rosastrasse]

Women & Books in Classical Art

Charles Edward Perugini, Carl Holsøe, Alfred Stevens, Edward Hughes, Alberto Piza, Léon Bazile Perrault, Alfred Stevens, Gabriel Schachinger, George Lawrence Bulleid