Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan LeFanu
> I accompanied Carmilla as usual to her room, and sat and chatted with her while she was preparing for bed. > "Do you think, »
Outside Over There, by Maurice Sendak
> When Papa was away at sea, And Mama in the arbor, Ida played her wonder horn to rock the baby still - but never watched. »
Witches, Midwives, & Nurses: A History of Women Healers, by Barbara Ehrenreich
The establishment of medicine as a profession, requiring university training, made it easy to bar women legally from practice. With few exceptions, the universities were closed »
The Tempest, William Shakespeare
> CALIBAN: (kneeling) As I told thee before, I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of the island. »
Le Morte D'Arthur, by Thomas Mallory
How Merlin was assotted and doted on one of the ladies of the lake, and how he was shut in a rock under a stone and »