Diana Goetsch
Life in Transition
A blog about a person, and a culture, in flux. Diana Goetsch (formerly Douglas Goetsch) is a poet and freelance teacher of writing. Her latest book is Nameless Boy.
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- Matthew
- The Second Veil
- Casualties
- Hair
- Positive Deviance
- New Minority
- Narrative Control
- The Fabric Factory, Circa 1987
- Stalkers
- Coma
- Recovery
- Second Adolescence
- Gatekeepers
- Educating
- Everybody
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Jane Austen’s Ivory Cage
By Mikita Brottman
Today we’re pouring one out for the inimitable Jane Austen, who died 200 years ago this week. She left her readers a treasure trove to devour most ardently, including Mansfield Park, arguably her most difficult novel. Read this essay to discover the dark side of the grand estates and courtly balls.
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The Hidden Lives of Tudor Women
By Elizabeth Norton
Read an excerpt from Elizabeth Norton’s new give-it-to-me-straight history of 16th-century English gals
