During the 1800s, there were some arts that women were considered "OK" to dabble in. Young women were supposed to…
In modern times, we often think of it as quite normal and natural to have female members of a classical…
I adore Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). Maybe it's because she lived in Amherst, Massachusetts, only about an hour from where I…
Sometimes we wonder why there weren't more women novelists in the earlier parts of America's history. And then we have…
I grew up utterly enraptured with the music of Janis Joplin. Maybe I related to her music so much because…
If you wander through most museums, you might get the mistaken idea that only men painted in the 1600s. Nothing…
It's one of those strange juxtapositions. In the 1800s, women were expected to be talented painters. They were trained with…
It's almost a cliche that poets write poetry because they are depressed. Maybe when someone is depressed one of the…
When we think of famous literary novels, we often think of men. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D.…
Go ahead, name a classical composer that's well known. You might come up with Beethoven and Brahms, Mozart and Tchaikovsky.…