cbr16bingo and also This is a collection of essays written from approximately 1950 through 1990 by proto-feminist Elizabeth Hardwick, primarily for magazines, and more importantly, magazines for the female reader such as Vogue, House & Garden, and Mademoiselle.  They are on various random topics such as cheese grits and Parsifal, but the bulk of them are on political topics or what she referred to as “the feminine principle”.  Let’s take a look. The old feminist, the brilliant, self-assertive, daring, reforming woman is as extinct as […]