Author Archives: Art for Housewives

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The Witch Within

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Art for Housewives

Lately I’ve been thinking about becoming a witch. After the overwhelming male mortality of WWI, England had a big problem—too many women and not enough men. Women were obligated to fiercely compete for the men still around. If you weren’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, female consciousness | Tagged abortion, Heinrich Kramer, Helena Scheuberin, Lolly Willowes, Malleus Maleficarum, Sylvia Townsend Warner, the Bible, the Devil, torture, witches, World War I | 2 Comments

Cats in a Garden

Posted on September 11, 2022 by Art for Housewives

World War I had much to do with creating new directions in art and literature. Virginia Woolf wrote that everything seemed to be going so well “then suddenly, like a chasm in a smooth road, the war came.” Initially idealistic … Continue reading →

Posted in art, Books, Volver the cat | Tagged banned books, cats, George Gurdjieff, Katherine Mansfield, Lee Harper, Modernist Movement, painting, To Kill a Mockingbird, Virginia Woolf, Volver the cat, women’s art, World War I | Leave a comment

Whatever Happened to Pitty Sing?

Posted on September 8, 2022 by Art for Housewives

Sometimes in the morning, on our terrace surrounded by plants and bees and butterflies, I look at our sleeping cat, Volver, and feel as if I am in a tableau vivant. Frida Kahlo lived in a tableau vivant of her … Continue reading →

Posted in Art Narratives, Books, Volver the cat | Tagged Andre Breton, “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, cats, female gothic, Flannery O’Connor, Frida Kahlo, La Sussurrata, Mexico, paintings, Paros, Pitty Sing, short stories, Southern Gothic, surrealism, tableau vivant, terrace life, Victorian Gothic, Volver the cat, women’s art | 2 Comments

Our House

Posted on September 5, 2022 by Art for Housewives

Last night I woke up hearing noises. Were they real or just residues of a dream? Not knowing, I decided to read and pulled out a book of short stories by Maeve Brennan that I hadn’t finished reading. And after … Continue reading →

Posted in Art Narratives, Books, Volver the cat | Tagged cats, Crosby Stills & Nash, Family Walls, Graham Nash, Joni Mitchell, La Sussurata, Maeve Brennan, Our House, Paros, short stories, terrace life, The Springs of Affection, Volver the cat | Leave a comment

Prediction or Prevention

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Art for Housewives

When the notorious Calabrian criminal Giuseppe Villella died, Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician, performed a post mortem on him. Lombroso discovered that Villella had an indentation at the back of his skull similar to those found in apes. Like … Continue reading →