Scribbling Women
This week's featured website was forwarded by Phyllis Gleason from Middlesex Community College. It's an interesting site and a particularly good reference for teachers of American Literature.
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Phyllis also provided some background on the origins of the site's name:
I thought you might like a little background (if you didn't already know), the title of the site is an allusion to a quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne who "berated female writers calling them that 'damn mob of scribbling women.' In a letter to editor James T. Fields, he wrote, 'all women as author's [sic] are feeble and tiresome...' and 'should be forbidden to write, on pain of having their faces scarified with an oyster shell.'"
The title also alludes to the ancient tale of Hypatia, the Alexandriea Neo-Platonist philospher-teacher who suffered a fate similar to the one Hawthorne suggests.