Finding a Voice
Friday, March 24, 2006
defining women
Re. Evelyn Underhill:
She died in 1941, ten years before her husband, and is buried with him in a grave in the churchyard of St. John's in Hampstead. If one pushes away the weeds and brambles that have grown up over it, one can read the inscription on the stone -- "H. Stuart Moore and his wife, Evelyn, daughter of Sir Arthur Underhill." The defining of this prominent female writer in terms of the men in her life, while historically appropriate, is ironic for those of us who follow her.
http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/873912greene.html
Ironic, indeed. What defines a woman?
She died in 1941, ten years before her husband, and is buried with him in a grave in the churchyard of St. John's in Hampstead. If one pushes away the weeds and brambles that have grown up over it, one can read the inscription on the stone -- "H. Stuart Moore and his wife, Evelyn, daughter of Sir Arthur Underhill." The defining of this prominent female writer in terms of the men in her life, while historically appropriate, is ironic for those of us who follow her.
http://www.spiritualitytoday.org/spir2day/873912greene.html
Ironic, indeed. What defines a woman?
posted by Colleen McCubbin at 9:53 AM
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