Rosalind Miles Considers Progress, Change, and Lady Novelists
February 5, 2021
Women make progress in times of change, when the old certainties break down and create cracks and fissures in the monoliths they previously could never hope to penetrate.
Some spirited women found their natural home in untamed pockets of the globe like the Wild West of the young USA. In the early days of the American frontier, the daredevil horsewoman and army scout Martha Jane Cannary wore men’s clothes for safety as well as convenience, and earned the nickname “Calamity Jane” by warning any men who messed with her that they were “