Mothers and Daughters

More Than Just a Toy: What an Old Dollhouse Taught Me About Storytelling and Family

Elise Hooper: “In a world that feels increasingly troubling and out of control, the dollhouse is where my mother and I are at our best together.”

 
By Elise Hooper  October 28, 2024
Mothers and Daughters

What We Owe Each Other: A Daughter on Her Mother’s Wish to Die With Dignity

By Marianne Brooker  September 25, 2024
Mothers and Daughters

Poetry and Painting: Visualizing Verse on the Page and the Canvas

By Cynthia Zarin  September 6, 2024
Mothers and Daughters

Beauty and Terror: On Understanding and Accepting a Schizophrenic Mother

By Nina St. Pierre  May 28, 2024
Mothers and Daughters

What Happens When You Read Your Mother’s X-Rated Novel

By Kate Feiffer  May 13, 2024
Mothers and Daughters

When Writing a Novel Bridges a Gap Between Mother and Daughter

By Tomi Obaro  August 9, 2023
Mothers and Daughters

Stripping Back the Mother-Daughter Relationship… At Magic Mike Live in Vegas

By Connie Wang  May 9, 2023
Mothers and Daughters

Writing a Memoir Taught Me How to See My Mother

By Sherry Turkle  February 28, 2022
Mothers and Daughters

Who Was Mary Shelley, Daughter?

By Samantha Silva  August 30, 2021
Mothers and Daughters

The Beginning of the End: Who Do We Become in the Face of a Parent’s Death?

By Kat Chow  August 25, 2021
Mothers and Daughters

In Praise of Wildly Permissive Parenting

By Bex O'Brian  July 20, 2021
Mothers and Daughters

Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love

By Ashley C. Ford  June 3, 2021
Mothers and Daughters

Bridged: How the Art of Writing Can Close the Divide Between Worlds

By Jennifer De Leon  March 29, 2021
Mothers and Daughters

The Secrets Mothers and Daughters Keep From One Another

By Honor Moore  March 11, 2020
Mothers and Daughters

Virginia Woolf’s Mother Haunts
Much of Her Writing

By Gillian Gill  December 12, 2019
Mothers and Daughters

The Surreal Absurdity of Preparing for a Mother’s Death

By Tiffany Midge  November 6, 2019
Mothers and Daughters

Care and Abuse: Lessons of a
Motherly Daughter

By Danielle Batalion Ola  November 4, 2019

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