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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
I began this reading journey to gain wisdom about how to be a good writer. I felt I couldn’t properly write, without a good base of knowledge about what had, in years and eras past, been successfully...
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Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience originated as a Concord Lyceum lecture delivered on 26 January, 1848. In May of 1849, it was published under the title “Resistance to Civil Government” in Elizabeth Peabody‘s...
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A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
I’ve wanted to read this essay for so long! I was so certain I’d like it I named my blog after it before I read it — and before I had read anything by Virginia Woolf! This essay sealed my certainty...
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The Four Loves by CS Lewis
In Philosophy class a couple weeks ago, my professor assigned The Four Loves as homework over the weekend and then told us to write down on a scrap of paper the different ways that we love (for...
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“The Transcendentalist” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Care to skip ahead? This post is a long discussion of my first essay by Emerson! Written mostly for my own records, and to work out my thoughts as I enter the Transcendentalist works. The first part of...
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century by Margaret Fuller
In Which I Go From Hating This Book To Not Absolutely Detesting It In The Course of Writing This Post - This book was not fun to read. At. All. I liked the last ten pages of this book; I dredged...
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Walden by Henry David Thoreau
I feel like if I had stumbled upon Thoreau’s cabin in 1845, my boot soles snow-crusted and curmudgeonly Thoreau himself stood in the halo of the front door of his tiny cabin, he’d have welcomed me in,...
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On Fairy-Stories by J.R.R. Tolkien
The following was written Sunday evening and pre-scheduled to post today. A couple hours after I wrote it, I received a comment from James at Following Pulitzer that actually answers back to this post...
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