At the End of Women's History Month: Women in the Arts I Admire

 

George Sand--A writer who was Chopin's lover and muse. Dressed in men's clothing to show that she was equal to men at a time when women writer's were not taken as seriously otherwise as men--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ahElxN-bE8

Virginia Woolf--https://www.britannica.com/biography/Virginia-Woolf

Charlotte Bronte--https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlotte-Bronte

Emily Bronte--https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emily-Bronte

Mary Shelley--https://www.biography.com/writer/mary-shelley

Louisa May Alcott--https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louisa-May-Alcott and 

                                  https://louisamayalcott.org/ 

Willa Cather--https://www.britannica.com/biography/Willa-Cather

Giovanna Garzoni--Amazingly lovely still life paintings, my favorite being the Lemons with Bees--

Georgia O'Keefe--https://www.okeeffemuseum.org/about-georgia-okeeffe/

*Nota Bene on Limoni (è plurale per una limone):  I love lemons in art, I love the Dutch still life paintings, and I was just today fortunate to find this academic paper on this subject matter: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=12935&context=etd    

**Nota: I thank Facebook and Story Tender Donna May for introducing me to the painting I cited above, which I saw for the first time in one of her writing prompts on her prompt  cite. I love writing prompts and used to use prompts in my tEnglish Composition classes. I would often suggest to my students that they choose a quote or an image and then write about it, and usually I gave them quotes to choose from or an image. Yet even teachers and professional writers (I wrote for A & E in newspapers and did win a couple poetry and fiction awards back in the day for which I even got payed!) can benefit from prompts sometimes. 

 

~~I hope to post more women in art in history soon--

yet stay tuned for women poets in April in just a couple days.

and for the folk tale Bastianelo, an Italian tale about fools 

for 

April Fool's Day!

But I hope to get these things done and thus hope I am not fooling anyone here!  

April Showers Bring May (Lemon) Flowers,

Mary Ann