
The Teeter-Totter of Women and Art
Recently, I recommended Erika Robuck’s novel, The House of Hawthorne, to a friend who, like me, is currently “unemployed,” which really means we’re full-time homemakers and also artists. This book, based on the life of the artist Sophia Peabody, who married the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, impressed me greatly with its beauty and candidness. Sophia was the light …