Kim Echlin's Elizabeth Smart: A Fugue on Women and Creativity (2004) When I included Elizabeth Smart on my list of reading for Women Unbound, I was sure that she belonged. Then, when I started into the reading in earnest, I wasn't sure; she seemed decidedly bound by her relationship with
Desmond Pacey's Ethel Wilson (1967) After finishing the delightful novel, The Innocent Traveller, I found myself wanting to know a little more about the woman who penned it. And, as some of you out there have also been bitten by the Ethel Wilson bug, I'll share some bits and pieces
Some of you may recall my debating over which book to read for Freedom to Read week, but the question was settled for me when I came upon an entry in Elizabeth Smart's Journals (which I was reading for the Women Unbound Reading Challenge). On July 26, 1933 she records the
I love it when one read brushes up against another and this happened twice with two of mine this reading month.First, in Christina Longford's Making Conversation (1931), I came across this: "Miss Spencer at the High School had always scolded her for saying 'well,' and used to ask, 'Where's
1949; New Canadian Library 1990 I don’t really need an answer to the question I’ve posed. I understand why Persephone would have chosen to print Hetty Dorval over The Innocent Traveller: Ethel Wilson’s first book is certainly a striking work and brings to mind other brilliant novellas (e.g.
