Tag: feminist heroines
Originality of Plot in The Golden Manuscripts:: Asher Syed for Readers’ Favorite
The Golden Manuscripts by Evy Journey follows a young woman named Clarissa who feels connected to two…
Art Is In Every Book You Read
Art is in every book you read. Marcel Duchamp, notorious in the art world for having successfully…
Our Surreal Lives in a Virtual World
Pandemic life is strange. We’re forced to live even more in a virtual world. I watch as…
Origins Of My Epistolary Novel
Do you have trouble throwing stuff? Those that you might have treasured in the past but are…
First Professional Review: The Shade Under the Mango Tree
Here’s the first professional review of my latest book by Self-Publishing Review, cross-posted on the Independent Review…
Notes On Book 5: The Shade Under the Mango Tree
When I do blog tours, like the one I’m doing with the release of my latest novel,The…
Packing Lightly ― Travel in Fiction and in Life
The protagonists of my latest novel, The Shade Under the Mango Tree, travel to exotic places. An…
Paying Homage to Gaskell’s Concerns About Women’s Issues
Every time is a good time for classical literature especially those addressing women’s issues, a hot topic…
Add Details to Convey Character in Stories
Details convey character. They carry a lot of weight in fiction. “Often, a well-chosen detail can tell…
Inner-Directed Heroines: Paying Homage to Austen and Gaskell
I sometimes feel like an anachronism because I prefer inner-directed characters. Characters I’m more likely to find…
No Broad Shoulders? No Romance.
I nearly zapped a historical romance out of my iPad in exasperation, while reading it one evening….
Margaret of the North, Victorian Feminist Romance
Margaret of the North, the first novel I published, is a historical novel. It’s a sequel to…
Feminism in Victorian Novels: Gaskell’s North and South
Feminism in Victorian Novels? Impossible. Not when the status of women placed them just a bit above…