Blog Posts
Classics Spin #34
Hi, folks! It’s time for another Classics Club Spin! By now, you know the drill: participants post a list of 20 books on their Classics Club list. On Sunday,… Read more “Classics Spin #34”
Tell them that women today are ungovernable
Hi, folks, Back in 2019, I wrote about Brazilian author Júlia Lopes de Almeida and her novel A Falência (‘The Bankruptcy’, 1901), and, although at the time… Read more “Tell them that women today are ungovernable”
Coming back to this garden of mine + 20 Books of Summer 2023
Hi, folks, I’ve been absent from this [blank] garden of mine for too long – and I miss you. Since my daughter was born, last June, I’ve… Read more “Coming back to this garden of mine + 20 Books of Summer 2023”
Bookshelf
Commonplace book
“It is best for us to continue in the belief that Eve actually ate an apple, and immediately ruined Adam in consequence! I like this belief, too, it speaks so well for the progressive power of women.” – 26 July 1857, ‘Early journalism’, in The Morgesons and Other Writings
The sadness of others one should leave alone. It is a small garden, a fragile delicate Arcadia, one should not disturb it. – I Am the Brother of XX
Menagerie of Authors
Amélia de Freitas Beviláqua - Amélia Carolina de Freitas Beviláqua was born in Jerumenha, in Piauí, Brazil, on August 7th, 1860 (some sources mention her date of birth as August 6th, 1863).… Read more "Amélia de Freitas Beviláqua"
Rosemary Manning - Rosemary Manning (Rosemary Joy Manning , 9 December 1911 – 5 April 1988; pen names Sarah Davys and Mary Voyle) was an English author. Manning attended the… Read more "Rosemary Manning"
Yan Ge - Yan Ge (pen name of Dai Yuexing, 1984) is a Chinese author. She grew up in a small town in Sichuan, and earned a PhD in comparative… Read more "Yan Ge"
Carmen Boullosa - Carmen Boullosa (September 4, 1954) is a Mexican author. She grew up in a middle-class family in Mexico City and attended a Catholic school. Her mother died… Read more "Carmen Boullosa"
Elspeth Barker - Elspeth Barker (1940) is a Scottish writer. She attended Somerville College, Oxford, and, in the late 1960’s, married the poet George Barker, with whom she had five children.… Read more "Elspeth Barker"
About
About this [blank] garden
“I am younger each year at the first snow.”
– Anne Sexton, in a letter to W. D. Snodgrass, in 1958.
A Self-portrait in Letters, (2004)
This is my blank space. A white page, as good as a garden covered in snow, not yet cultivated, but with some strong Spring hidden within; something simple, clean, yet to be stained; a seed with some flower all curled up inside, first waiting, then slowly unraveling.
the [blank] garden 
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