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Coming of Age in the 1950s: Observations on Social History by Clarissa W. Atkinson

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  • On Claudia Jones…
    • P.S. “A Strange and Terrible Sight” – 2019 post
    • P.S. The Windrush Generation – 2018 post
    • P.S. “Not used in Bulletin. Put in file.” (1956) – 2017 post
    • Coming of Age in the 1950s All Over Again – 2016 post
    • Finding Claudia Jones – 2015 post
    • “A Pride in Being West Indian”: Claudia Jones and The West Indian Gazette – 2012 paper
    • “A Strange and Terrible Sight in Our Country” – 2006 essay
    • “An Editorial: Colour-Bar Act Emboldens Fascists” (Claudia Jones: July 1962)
    • Claudia Jones’ Letter from Ellis Island, 1950
  • On Margery Kempe…
    • “This Creature”: 40 Years of Margery Kempe – 2015 post
    • Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and the World of Margery Kempe – 1983 book
    • Margery Kempe Society (Laura Williams & Laura Varnam)
  • About Clarissa Atkinson

Target Zone October 1962

On a bright blue October afternoon 60 years ago I put my twins in the stroller, tied the (pre-Velcro) shoes Continue reading →

Privacy, Then and Now: Reflecting on Griswold

I was the mother of three in 1965, when it became legal for married couples in Connecticut to buy and Continue reading →

P.S. A Weight Room of One’s Own

Almost 100 years ago, Virginia Woolf remarked on the food served to men and to women in the elite colleges Continue reading →

P.S. “Cut The Noise”

In 2017—just three years ago, but it feels like a century—I posted here a lament for the beautiful, vanishing birds Continue reading →

For the Duration

When one of my granddaughters asked if the Covid-19 experience was like anything I could remember, I said no. But Continue reading →

View of Statue of Liberty from Ellis Island detention window

P.S. “A Strange and Terrible Sight”

Frightened and enraged by the crimes and abuses of the Trump administration and its enablers, I look back for hope Continue reading →

D-Day Memory: Then and Now

On a Tuesday in early June 1944, near the end of 5th grade, I woke to find my mother extremely Continue reading →

#MoiAussi

Long ago, during an earlier life as a medievalist, I spent some time studying the trials of Joan of Arc. Continue reading →

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