I recently re-read Persuasion by Jane Austen and was struck by this description of Anne’s friend, Mrs. Smith (who is not much older than herself) … “She had no child to connect her with life and happiness again, no relations to assist in the arrangement of perplexed affairs, no health to make all the rest supportable….
Literary Heroines
The Good News about a Messy Middle
What L.M. Montgomery’s most fearless heroine teaches us about the path of true transformation … The first time I read The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery, I didn’t love it. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t consider it some of Maud’s greatest work (in league with Anne of Green Gables and the Emily of New…
If Your Story Had a Cover …
I have a question. If whatever it is you are going through right now – your current story – had a front and back cover, would it be easier to let go of the ending? This, of course, assumes you struggle with letting go, like I do. I struggle in very subtle ways I’ve come…
Are YOU a heroine?
I have a question for you, reader: are you a heroine? Is a heroine (or hero) someone who accomplishes a great feat? Who conquers a great fault? Saves someone’s life? I think that’s often how I think of “a heroine”. And yet, if I look at my own life, I don’t think of myself as…
