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Suzanne Valadon Broke All the Taboos
How does art change when a woman picks up the brush?
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Muriel Rukeyser and The Silencing of Women’s Voices
What happens when one woman tells the truth about her life . . .
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Simone de Beauvoir and the Courage Women Writers Need
On Facing our Fears and Blazing New Trails
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Audacious Women, Creative Lives
A mission statement of sorts for the next chapter of this newsletter
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Muriel Spark and the Whole "Art Monster" Thing
On "difficult" yet fabulous women writers
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Tove Jansson: "Work and Love"
The Finnish artist and writer knew what made a meaningful life
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Julia Margaret Cameron: Capturing Beauty
Exhibit in Paris captures the ambition and accomplishments of this pioneering artist
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Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
Reading her masterwork in Cornwall
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Women Writers and Solitude
Should we lock the door or open it?
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Janet Frame and Exile
The New Zealand writer's brilliant novel of a woman writer in exile
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Looking for Dora Maar . . .
The mistress of Picasso who was a powerful artist in her own right
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Our Fascinations with Women of the Past
What do they mean to us? How do we honor them? And what happens when we decide to write their biographies?
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