People have very little idea how great are the injuries which imprudence draws on them, or they would not despise this homely virtue. Especially for young women is prudence required in the conduct of love affairs. There is no end to the tale of misery we could tell resulting from… Read More »The Art of Courtship by V. R. Christensen
The husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during her marriage, or at least is incorporated or consolidated into that of her husband, under whose wing, protection and cover, she performs everything. – Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries… Read More »Women’s Rights and the Battle for Identity by V. R. Christensen
With a peculiar start of recognition, I first came across this unusual and atmospheric drawing in the 1980’s. In this haunting image of a man and woman walking in the deep woods and meeting an apparition of their higher and spiritual selves, I met myself as well. For me, the… Read More »How they met Themselves by Loretta Proctor
If walls could talk… I was brought up in the north of Scotland. Folklore and family stories were full of tales of the supernatural. Standing stones and stone circles were part of the windswept, dramatic countryside through which I had to walk when I wanted to visit friends or get… Read More »If walls could talk…by Lorraine Fraser King
…or not. While I read a lot of non-fiction books about the Victorian era, I spend as much time, if not more, in fiction contemporary to the era, Dickens, Meredith, Hardy, Eliot (etc., etc., etc.) Here I get a real feel for what it was like to live then. I… Read More »AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER by V. R. Christensen