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19th Century Korean popular Buddhist Prayer Bid iconography translated by Eli Barr Landis

Susan Warner (1819-1885) was born in New York City and initially published under the pen-name Elizabeth Wetherell. She is best known for her bestseller The Wide, Wide World. As Sharon Kim tells us, her novel was "[cried] over by Jo March and loved by…

Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Ellen Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic but terrified that medications would cause her to lose her creativity and livelihood, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability…