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Literary Blueprints: The Mad Woman
In this second installment of the Literary Blueprints series, we’ll look at the Mad Woman. Don’t forget to read the first Blueprint, The Byronic Hero. Origin Story: Also referred to as “The Mad Woman...
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Try to Become Him
One thing I’ve learned teaching in the Cornell Prison Education Program is that a person in prison, more often than not, is someone whose whole life has felt like a long imprisonment. People don’t...
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Violence Against Women in Fiction
Four of us writers were critiquing each other’s novellas which all happened to have female protagonists. Three of the protagonists were victims of sexual assault, which then caused these characters to...
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Fiction Responding to Fiction: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Doris Lessing
The Fiction Responding to Fiction series considers the influence that a short story has on another writer; all entries can be found here. The iconic story “The Yellow Wallpaper” was published in 1892...
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Realism and the Weird in “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “The Story We Used to Tell”
Two women staying in grand country houses lose their grip on reality as they attempt to cope with the unexplainable. Their breakdowns are each closely tied to a piece of art that is more than it...
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