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The Impact of the Idolatry of Marriage on Female Relationships Within the Church
There’s a chapter in Little Women where the March sisters join Laurie and Laurie’s English friends for a day at the beach. Alcott describes a scene where Kate Vaughn, the haughtiest of Laurie’s friends and the one closest in age to Meg, intentionally insults Meg because she’s noticed that Meg… Continue reading
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Titanic and Female Christian Thought
By the time we see Rose DeWitt Bukater having (very much having and not enjoying) her first meal on the Titanic, the cynicism revealed in her opening comments about the ship and in her attitude towards her mother and fiancé’s high society affectations has solidified into total disillusionment. When Bruce… Continue reading
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‘Of Envy’ in Christian Womanhood
I recently revisited some of the Francis Bacon essays that were assigned as reading in the first year of my literature degree and was having a grand old time enjoying the transhistoricity of Bacon’s thoughts until I got to a line in ‘Of Envy’ that made my heart drop to… Continue reading