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Posted by: Meg Metcalf
This blog post examines the history of Marvel comic book characters Agatha Harkness and Wanda Maximoff and their relationship to the witches' road featuring titles from the comic book collection at the Library of Congress
Posted in: Comic Books, Women in Comics, Women's History
Posted by: Meg Metcalf
For a good many years, when I was in the library, they would not buy science fiction and fantasy books, because those were considered trash… So I fought and fought to get them on library lists.” -Andre Norton (Dream Makers Volume II: The Uncommon Men & Women Who Write Science Fiction, 1983) The first woman …
Posted in: Pulp Fiction, Science Fiction, Women's History
Posted by: Meg Metcalf
“First, no woman should say, ‘I am but a woman!’ But a woman! What more can you ask to be?” – Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), American Astronomer Meteor showers, comets, eclipses, and other celestial events have captured human interest and imagination for thousands of years. Astronomical phenomena have long been speculated over in the press, and …
Posted in: Digitized Newspapers, Newspapers, Science, Women's History
Posted by: Meg Metcalf
Acclaimed author Truman Capote was born in 1924 in New Orleans. An openly gay man from the deep south, Capote defied social expectations and lived his life authentically despite the risk. Known for his small stature and large personality, he surrounded himself with the most famous, fashionable, and wealthy women in New York, whom he …
Posted in: Fashion, LGBTQ+, Women's History
Posted by: Meg Metcalf
The following is a guest post from Meg Metcalf, a reference librarian in the Main Reading Room, currently on detail in the Serial and Government Publications Division. “Margaret Jessie Chung has Aspirations,” the Los Angeles Herald headline read on October 10, 1905. Margaret was a 16-year-old, first-generation Chinese American who was teaching English in the …
Posted in: Asian American History, Biography, Digitized Newspapers, LGBTQ+, Newspapers, Women's History