Clara Tice

Clara Tice

Marti Savage (Tice’s great-niece) illustrated Clara Tice’s eccentricity in a single question during our phone [...]

29
Apr
Dr. Jack Mearns on John Sanford

FM: Who is John Sanford?  JM: John Sanford was born Julian Shapiro in 1904 in [...]

29
Apr
Dr. Mathilde Roza on Robert M. Coates

FM: Who is Robert M. Coates? MR: Robert Myron Coates is a novelist and short [...]

30
Jan
Introduction

A generation ago, I was preparing to leave Canada to start my graduate program at [...]

19
Nov
Susan Ertz’s Sisyphean Women

The 36-year-old Anglo-American writer Susan Ertz began a late career as a novelist in 1923 [...]

19
Nov
“Fragments of A Great Confusion”: The Psychological War Sketches of Mary Borden

Between 1914 and 1918, American heiress Mary Borden bankrupted herself to establish a field hospital [...]

19
Nov
From Infamy to Exile: the Poetic Evolution of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven from “Cast-Iron Lover” to “Heir”

In 1919, when the exclamatory love poem “Mineself——Minesoul——and——Mine——Cast-Iron Lover” first appeared in the Little Review [...]

19
Nov
Claire Spencer (1895-1987) – A Lost Scottish Modernist

In the scholarship on interwar Scottish modernist literature, Claire Spencer is a completely forgotten writer. [...]

19
Nov
Pamela Colman Smith: From Tarot Artist to Suffrage Activist

Today, Pamela Colman Smith is primarily remembered for designing the storied 1909 tarot deck that [...]

19
Nov
Writing Hatterrese, Reading Desani

Govindas Vishnoodas Desani was born in Nairobi, Kenya to Indian parents in 1909. When he [...]

19
Nov