“The Garden Party” and “Mr. and Mrs. Dove”. Mansfield once said “Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." She was among an emerging female professional class and saw herself as a writer first, a woman second. The death of her young brother, Leslie, in the First World War devastated her and she found solace in her remembrance of the country of their childhood. These remembrances were transformed into some of her finest writing of which “The Garden Party” is one. Enjoy!
Tolstoy is considered by many as the best writer of all time. War & Peace. Anna Karinina. Well, if you’ve read these, you can...
Here is another episode of the “The Golden Slipper and Other Problems for Violet Strange” by Anna Katherine Green. Green has been called the...
This is the story of a reluctantly retired farmer. We are all somewhat “reluctantly retired” at the moment, due to the shelter-in-place order. I...