5 Mar 2022

Women's Day: Aphra Behn

 Homage to Aphra Behn on Women's Day, 8th of March 2022

Virginia Woolf said of her in a Room of  One's Own: 

"All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn,  for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."                                                               


"The Ballad of the Sad Café" by Carson McCullers

Intonations of melancholy in Carson McCuller’s The Ballad of the Sad Café   Once upon a time ... there was a dreary Southern town, imbued wi...