Tag Archives: Feminism

Isabella Beecher Hooker

“A Mother’s Letters to a Daughter on Woman Suffrage” (1868)

A Mother’s Letters to a Daughter on Woman Suffrage
by Isabella Beecher Hooker

Tracts of Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, No. 2
Hartford, Conn.

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Mary Ann Tirone Smith

Girls of Tender Age, Chapter 22 (Final Section)

Girls of Tender Age, Chapter 22 (Final Section)
Reader Advisory: some readers may find this segment disturbing
In Chapter Twenty-Two the central horror of Tirone Smith’s childhood is almost too difficult to read. Tirone Smith is not one for sensationalism, though, and crafted detail follows crafted detail in grim succession. The aftermath of the murder of 11-year-old Irene Fiedorowicz starts with a police officer leaving for work late at night. Continue reading Girls of Tender Age, Chapter 22 (Final Section) →

Mary Ann Tirone Smith

from Masters of Illusion

Masters of Illusion (1994) was Mary-Ann Tirone Smith’s fourth novel. It is a fictional account of the Hartford Circus Fire of 1944 and the decades following. The protagonist and the fire arrive on the first page, and then there’s a life-changing meeting on an Old Saybrook beach. Continue reading from Masters of Illusion →

Mary Ann Tirone Smith

“Awhirl in a Kaleidoscope of City Memories”

With five novels and three mysteries under her belt, Tirone Smith had established a sterling reputation by 2002 when she was asked by Hartford Courant Books Editor Carole Goldberg to write the keynote essay for the newspaper’s first annual Literary Supplement, which focused on Hartford authors. A phone call from a reader helped lead to her acclaimed memoir, Girls of Tender Age. Continue reading “Awhirl in a Kaleidoscope of City Memories” →

Eleanor O'Rourke Koenig

from Herb Woman and Other Poems

from Herb Woman and Other Poems
by Eleanor C. Koenig
(New York: Harold Vinal, 1926)

RELEASE

OH, let me run with autumn winds
That pass through reeds and rushes
Let me shriek with evening gales
In ragged currant bushes.
Let me tear through aspen trees,
Roar on naked beaches,
Let me howl through bending oaks
In haunted woodland reaches.
I tell you, this, the grief I hold
Is no considerate sorrow;
This is the King of Pain who must
A fitting garment borrow. Continue reading from Herb Woman and Other Poems →