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  • Amelia Bassano: The Dark Lady, or Shakespeare Herself?

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s Femme Fatale Friday blog post, I am discussing Amelia Bassano, the Elizabethan poet often thought to be the Dark Lady of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Now, I first want to clear up any confusion about her name.   You see, Amelia Bassano was born in…

  • Emily Bronte’s Impact: Kate Bush, the Music Videos, and The Unthanks

    For today’s post, I would like to take a look at the lasting impact of the works of Emily Bronte.    Wuthering Heights is my favorite novel of the nineteenth-century, and that says a lot given I do love nineteenth-century literature!    While this was the only novel that Emily Bronte ever wrote, it is…

  • Colette, Rebel Author

    For this week’s Femme Fatale Friday, I have chosen to discuss the French author Colette!   She is a favorite of mine, and I adore reading her novels in the original French.   Colette was a writer who began to gain notoriety in France after she got recognized for her work, which had previously been…