Flanders, Julia. Women Writers Online

Issues in Developing an Online Advisory System for Text Writers

An online advisory system is described which offers guidelines and recom­ mendations for text writers. The system tries to meet two essential require­ ments: easy switching from the text processing software to the online advice, and optimal access which enables the user to find relevant materials as easy as possible. The authors describe some studies with prototypes of the system. An analysis o...

Nobody's Story the Vanishing Acts of Women Writers

THE WORSE FOR SENSE AND KNOWLEDGE ” : SAMUEL JOHNSON AND WOMEN By Julia

Title of Document: “NO WOMAN IS THE WORSE FOR SENSE AND KNOWLEDGE” : SAMUEL JOHNSON AND WOMEN Julia Robertson Acker, M.A., 2007 Directed By: Laura J. Rosenthal, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of English Language and Literature Accurate understanding of Samuel Johnson’s treatment of women depends on the range of primary and secondary texts one has read. Images of Samuel Johnson have b...

Writing the Lives of Women: Recent Biographies of Eighteenth-Century Women Writers

Women Reading Megillah for Men: A Rejoinder Rabbi

Rabbi Avraham Weiss begins his recent article, “Women and the Reading of the Megillah,” with the questions: “May women read the Megillah for other women, and for that matter, may women read the Megillah for men?” Rabbi Weiss devotes the great majority of his essay to the first issue, and while a number of points as well as the conclusion remain debatable, his essential arguments in favor of a w...