![]() ![]() Since the onset of COVID-19, women’s careers, especially in the humanities, have been increasingly undervalued. Their stories speak to the lived experiences of women professionals today. In their own times, these women were lonely fighters for cultural authority in professional worlds that often questioned their identities, refused to print their work, and required them to revise and resubmit under male names. ![]() At the moment, George Eliot, Phillis Wheatley, Amy Lowell, Mary Wroth, Charlotte Brontë, Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf - the list goes on - are sitting far apart from one another in the stacks, isolated on separate shelves and surrounded by many better-known male authors. IN 2021, HARVARD’S Houghton Library of rare books and manuscripts will reopen with an exhibition on women authors. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Quarry for Middlemarch: manuscript, undated. ![]()
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