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romaine2424 · 2 years

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Romaine's HP fanfics on AO3...hmm a few haven't quite made it on there, but will in the future.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Currently these are my Drarry stories (not including drabbles), Scarry (including drabbles), Other Slash pairings, and Het pairings. I will be adding My gen fics, gift drabbles, etc... as I get more time. Most can all be found on AO3 right now but just not organized. :)

Just a quick note about commenting on my fics. I love comments and to engage with my readers. If you have a question, comment, or whatever I'm open to discussion. As long as it's not a flame, I'll usually respond back. I do ask that you read my tags, warnings, and notes as many of my fics contain controversial genres and situations. I don't bite or even claw so feel free to inquire.

Hi! Welcome to my HP fanfic collection. I became an HP fanfic reader in 2005 and then writer in 2006. I took an almost decade break in 2012 but put my toes back into the waters now and then to respond to comments or make a post on LJ. I came back into fandom full force in June 2021 when I signed up for HP_fan_fair. H/D, HPDM, or Drarry has always been my OTP, but Scarry is my second. But I also love to write the rare-pair now and then along with gen short stories. I've separated my fics out by my writing era and then by ship.

All of my fics are individually rated and have warnings. However, we did rate and tag things differently back in the day, so if you think I should add a warning or tag, send me a message. I assure you, there were no bad intentions involved.

My Drabbles can be assumed to be G to PG, unless otherwise noted. I love writing drabbles and I hope that some readers will take the time to look at a few of them. *g*

Most of my stories are now posted on AO3 and are not to be copied to any other site without my permission. (historically they were originally posted on various HP fanfic sites. Majority of H/D were on Hex Files.

As I was a prolific writer back-in-the-day (2006-2012) and then took a very long hiatus (10 years), I'll be listing my current stories first. After that, it will be a mishmash of ships and gen. I hope you find something you like!

Current Stories (with summaries)

(2024)

Drarry & Haphne (Harry/Daphne)

The Azkaban Letters (WIP 2024): This WIP was started in 2007 and has been updated bi-weekly since summer of 2023.

Summary: Harry and Draco’s lives are headed in two different directions. One is destined for death or glory, while the other is going to Azkaban. Harry needs answers, and he goes to visit his Slytherin nemesis while being held for trial. The meetings in a barren, white cell changes Harry’s life. He learns the beginnings of his rich family history that had been denied him. And that there's much more to fight for than just ridding the world of Voldemort. HBP compliant.

Note: This fic was started before HPDH was released. It is canon divergent after HBP. This fic has two Main Pairings and both are treated with respect and will have a happy ending. I chose to use AO3's: Creator Chose Not to Use Archive Warnings because of the underage sexual scenes (all are 17 and consensual).

Rating: Explicit Wordcount: 210K (estimate: 300K) Warnings & Enticements: Angst, Drama, Hurt/Comfort, Romance, Sexual Content (M/M & M/F), Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon divergence after HBP, Azkaban, Mental Health Issues, Potter Family History, Potter family Estate, Character Deaths (not major but not minor), Upholding family bloodlines, Wizarding Traditions, Worldbuilding, Magical Theory, Blood and Violence, Wartime Violence, Bisexual Harry Potter

Pansmione (Pansy/Hermione)

The Supergrass (Valentine's 2024) written for HP Sapphic's Valentines (prompt Auror/Criminal)

Summary: For the past year, Auror Hermione Granger has been coming monthly to Sister Hildegard's Wellness Emporium (attached to St Mungo's) for her Healer-ordered full-body massage because of work-induced stress and injuries. It was the perfect cover for meeting with the DMLE's main supergrass, Pansy Parkinson, who was now a trained masseuse thanks to the Ministry's Criminal Rehabilitation Act. An Act that Hermione Granger had pushed for through her connections at the Wizengamot. A contractual promise was made to Pansy that after one year, if her information led to the arrests and convictions of wanted Dark Wizards, her court-ordered probationary period of ten years for supporting Voldemort and those that served him, would be reduced to time already served. She would be free from all Ministry restrictions.

Today, Valentine's Day, is their last meeting.

Note: Supergrass is a British slang term for an informant who turns King's evidence, often in return for protection and immunity from prosecution.

Rating: Explicit Wordcount: 6.8K Warnings & Enticements: Auror Hermione Granger, Spa Day, Valentine's Day, Dom/sub Undertones, Informant Pansy Parkinson, Lesbian Pansy Parkinson, BAMF Hermione Granger, Bisexual Hermione Granger, Plot with a little porn, One guess on who is seducing who.

(2023)

Drarry:

More Than A Legend (Christmas 2023) A Drarry Christmas Story

Summary: Harry volunteers to be Father Christmas at Hogwarts, without truly understanding what it entails.

The first 5 chapters of this fic were written in 2009. I finally completed the final 2 chapters in 2023. In addition, the amazing Ihopeyoustaysafefromharm Illustrated this fic (FTH). This fic is a lot of fun and filled with Father Christmas Cheer!

Rating: Mature Wordcount: 18K Warnings & Enticements: Romance, Explicit Language, Sexual Content, Christmas Legend, Mentions of: Animal Sacrifice, Slavery, and Prostitution. Liberties taken with historical accuracy of Christmas' origins.

Terminal Lucidity (Autumn 2023) written for hd_career-fair

Summary: Harry leaves his Auror position when his dreams drive him to a new profession. One that brings peace to the soul before Death arrives.

This is one of my shortest but probably on of most impactful fics. It was written for gnarf and deals with caring for someone at the end of their life (not Harry or Draco). Harry is the Master of Death.

Rating: Gen Wordcount: 3.2K Warnings: MCD. Enticements: Harry and Draco become a couple later in life. In this fic, they are probably in their early 50s and have merged their families. The whole family will miss their beloved Nana Narcissa.

(2022)

Drarry

The Roommate (Winter 2022) written for @hd-erised

Summary: After one year in Azkaban and two years of home arrest, Draco is going off to college. Myrrdin College is Oxford’s magical college, where one Harry Potter is currently attending. Both are going for their teaching certificates with Draco specialising in Potions and Harry in Defence Against the Dark Arts. The Headmistress has insisted all incoming professors must be degreed. However, the Board of Governors insist that Draco also must live in a Muggle house with limited allowance and take Muggle elective courses before he can become Hogwarts' new Potions Professor. Harry is coerced by others into helping Draco Malfoy survive in the Muggle world.

This is a soft fic. I wouldn't say fluffy as there are major subjects discussed and dealt with but angst between the two is not present. Harry's goal is to make Draco fall in love with the Muggle world...and he might have succeeded to well. So wrap yourself up in the warm blanket of The Roommate, oh and Scamp the cat, too!.

Rating: M Wordcount: 42K Warnings: This fic contains a brief fatphobic comment, implications of past food insecurity, and references to past corporal punishment of a child. In addition, mentions of Trichotillomania and lice are briefly discussed. Enticements: Scamp the cat, Draco learning about Muggle appliances, Blaise insisting Draco watch Legally Blonde.

Eight Days a Week (Summer 2022) written as a chapter fic...just because.

Summary: This is foremost a love story and second it's about those growing up years. Becoming adults with adult lives and adult decisions. Yes, Harry's a Trainee-Auror and Draco's a Healer-in-Training after the war. Yes, Harry eventually moves into 12 Grimmauld Place. And, yes, attraction happens between Harry and Draco and they fall in love, but then there's more. Draco is now free from Voldemort, free from fear of going to Azkaban, free from his Father's beliefs, and free to be the person, the witch, the woman she always felt she should be. And for Harry, it’s time to lose the shackles of his childhood and discover who he really is and what’s truly important in life. This story begins one year or so after the Battle at Hogwarts and follows their relationship faithfully for two years. The final chapter will take place later in their lives.

This is a positive transition story without body dysphoria, but will contain moments where prejudice and slights arise. This story is categorized as M/F.

Rating: E Wordcount: ~120K Warnings: (Tranfem- Draco, Transition. See story for complete listing but no majors.) Enticements: Healthy relationship, gender euphoria, pansexual!Harry, Interesting OCs consisting of International Aurors.

25 Days of Draco and Harry (2022) (25 Holiday Scenes for Eight Days a Week (December 2022). sponsored by @slythindor100

Summary: The holiday scenes cover 2001-2023 followed by a future scene. The majority are under 500 words, but there are a few over 1K. The complete set is very family oriented as we learn more about the children's backgrounds and how Harry and Libby cope. Lots of fun!

Threesome: H/G/D

Every Cottage Has A Story (March 2022) written for Salt and Pepper Fest 2022

Summary: Harry and Ginny Potter live in a cottage in Hogsmeade. The previous owner was their eldest son James Sirius Potter, but he now lives in the home he grew up in, 12 Grimmauld Place. The switch happened years before, when his third child came along, and the cottage was too small for the family and Grimmauld Place was too large for his parents. How Draco Malfoy fit into his parents lives he wasn’t quite sure. James did know that his brother and brother-in-law were the instigators of the situation, though. When they became friends in the House of Slytherin, eventually their parents did too. After the death of Astoria, Draco was known to bring a friend, always a different friend, to family occasions. Then after a decade or so he would just show up alone. When his parents moved into the Hogsmeade cottage, so did Draco Malfoy. Rating: Gen Audience Wordcount: 5.5K Warnings: Threesome F/M/M

(2021)

Home is Where the Cat is (Winter 2021) written for @hd-erised. Gift for @m0srael

Summary: It’s summer and the war is over. Harry is busy in Auror training, attending Wizengamot trials for Slytherin classmates, and having tea with Narcissa Malfoy. Draco is at Hogwarts sharing deep dark secrets with classmates whilst helping with the reconstruction. Someone on the Wizengamot doesn’t think the older Slytherin students should be allowed to return to Hogwarts, whilst Harry does. Repressed emotions get the better of him. After storming out of the Ministry swearing never to come back, but before he lifts his wand for the Knight Bus outside of the Leaky Cauldron on his quest for a normal life, there’s a kiss in the Slytherin boys’ dormitories. Rating: Explicit Warnings: Nothing Major Word count: 41447

A/N: This was so much fun to write. It might be the softest of the longer fics I've written but I wouldn't say fluffy as serious concepts are dealt with. It does feature a purring Draco...literally.

This Ain't the Garden of Eden (Autumn 2021) written for@hd-fan-fair (career edition).

Summary: In 2020, Hit Wizard Harry is starting to enjoy his life. He’s divorced, and no longer Head Auror. His biggest project these days is trying to remodel 12 Grimmauld Place for him and the kids. Draco Malfoy is recovering from his wife’s death. But is happy with his Ministry position as Temporary Head of the Department of Intoxicating Substances, and with his son who he adores. This all changes quickly when Minister Shacklebolt decides not to run for another term. The assumption is that 'all is well' in the British Magical world, and that Hermione Granger-Weasley will easily be voted in as the next Minister for Magic. However, Draco knows better. He knows she has a strong competitor who is wooing those who live in Knockturn. And if he wins, the Ministry, and all that has been accomplished the previous twenty odd years, will be destroyed Rating: Explicit Warnings: Nothing Major. Some Violence and Minor character death (Hey Harry is a Hit Wizard). Oh and Draco has a thing for silk lingerie Word count: ~131,000

A/N: This is an action/political/adventure/romantic fic. It's epilogue compliant and takes place in 2020 and 2021. In other words...H/D are a bit older. Kingsley and Narcissa play special roles along with some worldbuilding for Knockturn and Grimmauld Place. Enjoy!!!

25 Days of Harry Draco 2021 (Additions to This Ain't the Garden of Eden) (Winter 2021) This was sponsored by@slythindor100 A/N: These 25 additions to This Ain't the Garden of Eden cover the missing days in the month of December along with one New Year's Day story. They are individually rated but the majority are G. As the Main Story was way too long for a fic fest (LOL), there were some plot points (most minor but a few major) that I didn't resolve at the end. So the 25 Days of H/D gave me the format to wrap things up. The additions range from 100 to 1500 words. So much fun!

Fics (2006-2013) (Summaries not included, 2 WIPS not included)

(chronological order of latest to earliest. Except Sequels are listed right after the originals.) Some fics I've added the original fest posting links. This is more for me so I don't lose track of them. Most of these stories were re-betad after the fests as my grammar was quite poor and my betas rushed.

Harry/Draco

Level Two: Series One (November 2013) I wrote Chapter 7. Rating: Explicit Word Count: 113499 Enticements: 10 authors each wrote a chapter for this story. Murder Mystery, Crime Fighting, Drama. Warning: Side relationship for Draco.

The Tell-Tale Owl (Winter 2012 HD-Holidays) Rating: E (barely) Word count: ~23K Warnings: Time Travel, AU. Epilogue compliant. Time Travel.

A Day in the Life (Summer 2012 Glompfest) Rating: Mature Word Count: 6.1K Enticements: Accidental Bonding.

Yuan Fen (Winter 2011 HD Holidays) Rating: Mature Word Count: 14.4K Enticements: Outside Observer view of H/D Warning: 2nd POV (try it. promise you'll like it).

Laundry (December 2010) Rating: Gen Word Count: 475 Enticements: Harry wears Draco's clothes

Souls Lost and Found (Fall 2010 Glompfest) Rating: Teen Word Count: 8.6K Enticements: Beyond the Veil.

The Minister's Master (Summer 2010 Kinkfest 2010) Rating: Explicit Word Count: 2.4K Enticements: Public Sex, Collaring, Sometimes the Master also needs a bit of training. Warning: BDSM

The Taste of Magic (Spring 2009 HP10K_showcase) Rating: Mature Word Count: 10K Enticements: Environmental Cause. Loss of Magic. Warning: High Angst, Mentions of Violence, Mentions of Death

Hades Paradox (Autumn 2008 HD_Inspired-Back to Hogwarts. Original fest posting: original Hades Paradox) Note: original was heavily betad before being reposted to AO3) Rating: Explicit Word Count: 32.7K Enticements: Threesome H/D/H. Warning: Chronic painful curse

My Nawa Jūjun (Spring 2008 HD_Inspired-Animagus (original fest posting: original My Nawa Jūjun )) Rating: Explicit Word Count: 50K Enticements: Shibari, Coven. Warning: Rope Bondage, Animagus gone wrong.

Vanishing Cabinets (Spring 2008 hds_beltane) Rating: Explicit Word Count: 17.8K Enticements: Draco Politician. Warning: Dubious Consent.

Vanishing Cabinets Sequel: Stolen Moments: Rating: Mature Word Count: 304 Enticements: Harry Obsessed

Survival of the Species (Winter 2007) Rating: Explicit Word Count: 47K Enticements: Dragons, Mythology, Island Warning: DubCon (ritual sex scene) Veela, Mpreg, Surgical Procedure, Suicide Attempts. A/N: This is probably the best story I wrote in my earlier years. And one final thing. I will not engage in further conversation about the ritual sex scene and whether it's DubCon or NonCon.

Jolene (Summer 2007 HD_Inspired Mpreg (Original fest posting: Jolene original. Note it has been re-edited on AO3.)) Rating: Explicit Word Count: 21.4K Enticements: Hidden identity, sex toys Warning: Mpreg, Use of Gender Potion. A/N: Member of the Guns & Handcuffs H/D Bookcase #2.

Sequel: Jolene Deux (Autumn 2008 Fall-Fantasia): Rating: Explicit Word Count: 5K Enticements: Violet makes an appearance Warning: Bittersweet Fluff.

Pass the Chocolate (Summer 2007) Rating: Teen Word Count: 1.7K Enticements: Dialogue only, Harry writes fanfic. Warning: No warnings but read if you've gotten "one of those" comments to your fic.

Sequel: Pass the Ogdens (Summer 2010 Birthday Bash H & D turn 30) Rating: Teen Word Count: 660 Enticements: Dialogue only, Harry laments the death hd fanfic.

The Birthday Kiss (Spring 2007) Rating: Gen Word Count: 2K Enticements: First Kiss, Kissing Game.

Silver and Gold (February 2007) Rating: Explicit Word Count: 71K Enticements: Wolf Draco, Good Narcissa. Warning: Suicide attempt, Death of non-major character.

Double Edged Sword (2006-2008) Rating: Explicit Word Count: 555K Enticements: Soulmates, Powerful Harry and Draco, Life story, Too much to list here! Warning: First story I wrote, Suicide attempt, Death of character, Depression, consensual infidelity, tragedy. A/N: I've written a 15th Anniversary post for this story and gave the history, etc... DES 15th Anniversary.

Harry/Scorpius

*All of my Scarry has Scorpius as an adult)*

For these 2 fics, I've added the original fest posting links. This is more for me so I don't lose track of them. These stories were re-betad after the fests as my grammar was quite poor and my betas rushed. However, it's fun to have the original comments.

There are no Innocent Vampires (Autumn 2009 HP-SAS (Shag-a-Son: Original fest post: Original There are no Innocent Vampires)). Rating: Explicit Word Count: 31K Enticements: Scottish Mythology vampires, Vampire lore, Vampire Hunter. Warning: Blood and Violence, Death of non-major character. EWE

Possession of the Heart (Autumn 2008 hp-crossgen-fest (Original Fest posting: Original Possession of the Heart)) Rating: Explicit Word Count: 56K Enticements: Starts from the very beginning of when Scorpius is sorted into Ravenclaw, Hit Wizard Scorpius. Political Intrigue. Draco and Harry confrontations. Warning: Blood and Violence, Death of Major and non-major characters (not H/S or Draco). Terrorist attack. Assassination. Consensual infidelity (Harry/OC but is married to Ginny). Epilogue compliant. Notes: If you ever wondered how this ship could happen, then this story is for you. Chapter 14 is the Advent Drabbles (Winter 2008) filling in missing scenes before, during and after the original story.

Drabbles for Scarry

Old Men Rating: Gen Word Count: 200 words Summary: Draco tries to console his son but the roles reverse. Warning: MCD - Harry. Note: Probably my fav Drabble I've written

Street Affairs Rating: Teen Word Count: 100 words Summary: Scorpius needs a Remembrall. Enticement: Role playing. Note: If you want a quick laugh!

Curiosity Killed the Dragon: Rating: Teen Word Count: 207 words Summary: Scorpius needs to move out of his parents' home. Note: If you want another quick laugh!

Drabbles for harryscorp100 LDWS challenge Winter 09-10 *First Place* 9 Drabbles for harryscorp100 LDWS 2009-2010. Ratings and Genres Vary Age Ranges listed for each Drabble (all in the adult range)

Other Slash Pairings (these have summaries *shrugs*)

Eternal Glory Harry/Cedric (February 2008) Written for HPValensmut for eliminate. Rating: Explicit Word Count: 12112 Summary: Five years after the war, Harry finds that the future laid out for him is not one that he wants, but is the one that the wizarding community needs to ensure the peace. The answer to his problems comes to him in his dreams. Enticement: This is HPDH compliant. Warning: suicide attempt Note: This was my first adventure into bloodplay and as requested this is not a romantic story. I gave the warning suicide attempt as it was closest to the warning of suicidal themes, which is what I would have chosen.

Drabbles for Albus/Scorpius LDWS challenge September 2010...second place) 10 Drabbles for ass_ldws (2010). Ratings and Genres vary. Warnings: #7 MCD Enticements: #8 LOL Note: The link goes to my Livejournal account. I'll add it to AO3 someday.

Trinity Harry/Lucius, Harry/Draco, Harry/Scorpius (November 2008): A set of three drabbles written for Pushdragon's goodbye party. Rating: Mature Word Count: 300 Summary: Harry's relationships with the Malfoy men in the family. Warnings: MCD Note: The link goes to my Livejournal account. I'll add it to AO3 someday.

Het Pairings (mostly rare-pairs)

The Minister's Affair Harry/Astoria, Harry/Ginny, Draco/Astoria (Christmas 2009). This was written for Adventdrabbles 2009. Rating: Explicit. Warnings: Infidelity, MCD. Word Count: 4786 Summary: Members of two families keep one secret to the very end. Note: I think this is an honest examination of how an affair happens, continues, and ends. People get hurt.

So Good Draco/Cho, Helena Ravenclaw/Bloody Baron (Christmas 2007). This was written for JournalFen's smutty_clause 2007 for SelinaKyle47. Rating: Explicit Word Count: 9204 Summary: A ghostly Christmas Eve dance leads another Ravenclaw and Slytherin to a different ending. Notes: This is probably the hottest Draco I've written. *spicy*

Shades of Grey Narcissa/Kingsley (Summer 2007). The was written for Insane Journal's Phoenix Flies for cyan_snape. Rating: Explicit Word Count: 1636 Summary: Prompt #50: Someone is giving an important speech at the Ministry. His lover is under the podium giving him a blow-job. Notes: This turned out darker than anticipated. The link goes to Phoenix Flies on Insanejournal. I'll add it to AO3 someday.

Rotten Wood Draco/Pansy (Summer 2007). Rating: Mature Word Count: 2999 Summary: Missing Moment from canon. Draco is returning for his seventh year at Hogwarts. He boards the train knowing his status among his fellow Slytherins is in question. HPDH Compliant. Warning: This is not a Romantic fic Note: The title ‘Rotten Wood’ is a line from the song “Crooked Teeth” by Death Cab for Cutie. The song was the inspiration for this story. Probably the most in-character Draco I've written.

Green Boots Lucius/Hermione (Spring 2008). This was written for Shiv5486's 40th birthday. She is a huge Lumione fan and has a thing for shoes. Rating: Explicit Word Count: 600 (in drabble form). Summary: Lucius has a fetish for someone's green boots. Note: The link goes to cult-of-blonds on LiveJournal. I'll add it to AO3 someday.

#romaine2424 fics #romaine fics #drarry fic #collection #scarry fics #scarry drabbles #rare pair fics #scorbus drabbles

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wonder-rooms · 3 years

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The Lure of the Garden (1911) - Hildegarde Hawthorne

#Wonder Rooms #Cabinet of Curiosities #Public Domain #20th Century #Hildegarde Hawthorne #The Lure of the Garden #Natural History #Natural History Art #Botanical Gardens #Flora #Nature Art

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violettesiren · 5 years

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Sing me a sweet, low song of night Before the moon is risen, A song that tells of the stars' delight Escaped from day's bright prison, A song that croons with the cricket's voice, That sleeps with the shadowed trees, A song that shall bid my heart rejoice At its tender mysteries! And then when the song is ended, love, Bend down your head unto me, Whisper the word that was born above Ere the moon had swayed the sea; Ere the oldest star began to shine, Or the farthest sun to burn, -- The oldest of words, O heart of mine, Yet newest, and sweet to learn.

A Song by Hildegarde Hawthorne

#hildegarde hawthorne

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even-in-arcadia · 3 years

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tagged by @worriedaboutmyfern

Last Song: In the Green cast recording. It’s a chamber musical based on Hildegarde von Bingen’s time living with/as an anchorite, written by someone I used to work with. It’s odd but beautiful and I’ve always loved her voice.

Last Movie: Singin’ in the Rain. It’s one of my most reliable comfort movies and boy do I need some comfort watching these days.

Currently Reading: The House of the Seven Gables by Nathanial Hawthorne - it’s been on my list for years and autumn always makes me miss New England. Also working my way through Riverkeeper about the fight to protect the Hudson River.

Currently Watching: I’m still recovering from The Haunting of Bly Manor just like half of tumblr. Also watching the last season of Schitt’s Creek and very unsure what I’ll watch after.

Currently Craving: Hope.....and the sea, New England fall, serotonin, a job

Currently Working On: Don’t know if I’ve mentioned but I’m really into darning socks. I would like to start other projects, to organize, to actually embroider something real, but only mostly I’m working on not falling into an abyss.

tagging @soup-enthusiast @notwiselybuttoowell @ohappylivingthings @streamersinthefirmament @motleystitches and....anyone else with book/tv recs?

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chipslater · 3 years

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There Shall Be No Misunderstanding ♦ By Hildegarde Hawthorne ♦ Horror & ...

#classic horror #Supernatural Fiction #short story

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uwcairns · 4 years

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Forgotten feminist authors of supernatural fiction:

A Jessica Amanda Salmonson appreciation post

While working on the ~spooky~ ghost story posts for Halloween, I noticed that quite a few works had the same editor: Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Salmonson, an author in her own right, edits anthologies of oft-forgotten women authors of supernatural fiction. Salmonson's introductions of these collections include detailed biographical information and in-depth literary analysis. She won a 1989 Lambda Literary Award for her anthology What Did Miss Darrington See? (which we don't have in the Cairns Collection, but UW does have downstairs in Memorial Library) The authors she profiled were late 19th/early 20th century feminists, most were New Englanders, and some were likely queer*.

Interested in learning more? Come visit us at Special Collections, where you can sit in our reading room all day** and read the following works edited by Salmonson:

The Shell of Sense: Collected Ghost Stories of Olivia Howard Dunbar. Ed. by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Uncasville, CT: Richard H. Fawcett, Publisher, 1997. Call number:PS1555 D9 S54 1997.

Faded Garden: the collected ghost stories of Hildegarde Hawthorne. Ed. by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. [United States?]: The Strange Company, 1985. Call number: PS509 G5 H3 1985

Lady Ferry and Other Uncanny People. Sarah Orne Jewett. Ed. by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Ashcroft, B.C.: Ash-Tree Press, 1998. Call number: BAL 10949 supp. z

The Wind at Midnight. Georgia Wood Pangborn. Ed. by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Ashcroft, B.C.: Ash-Tree Press, 1999. Call number: PS3531 A44 W56 1999

The Moonstone Mass and Others. Harriet Prescott Spofford. Ed. by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Ashcroft, B.C.: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Call number: PS2897 M66 2000

Sinister Romance: Collected Ghost Stories. Mary Heaton Vorse. Ed. by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Ashcroft, B.C.: Ash-Tree Press, 2002. Call number: PS3543 O88 S56 2002

All art in this post is by Wendy Wees, who has illustrated several of Salmonson's works.

-Samantha, graduate student employee.

November 22, 2019

*We don't know how she would have identified today, but Sarah Orne Jewett was in a long-term "Boston Marriage" with Annie Fields, and it is widely acknowledged that several of her stories include lesbian characters and/or subtext. While it's unclear if the feelings were requited, Harriet Prescott Spofford's friend Louise Chandler Moulton often referred to Harriet as "beloved" or "the woman I love." Finally, Salmonson argues that Olivia Howard Dunbar wrote her short story The Dream Baby in support of Harper's Bazaar editor Elizabeth Garver Jordan, who "with her lesbian lover adopted from France an infant to raise together!"

**Monday-Friday 9am-5pm

#Cairns Collection of American Women Writers #special collections #women writers #herstory #queer literature #ghost stories #short stories #scary stories #literature #queer lit

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myhauntedsalem · 4 years

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Hawthorne Hotel Salem, Massachusetts

If you’re familiar with the dark history of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, then you’re sure to know Salem, Massachusetts. Twenty people were accused of witchcraft and hung by “The Witch Hanging Judge”, Judge John Hathorne. This story isn’t about the Judge. It is about one of his descendants, classical writer Nathaniel Hawthorne who was inspiration for this modern hotel– the Hawthorne Hotel. It’s also a story about how a city embraced its dark past and looked toward the future.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. Hawthorne’s father, Nathaniel Hathorne, Senior, died just four years later of yellow fever in Suriname. Maternal relatives, the Mannings, looked after the young author, his mother and his two sisters. At the insistence and with the financial support of his Uncle Robert, Nathaniel was sent to Bowdoin College in 1821. Despite an affinity for gambling and drinking, Hawthorne’s habits managed to evade detection, and he was able to avoid expulsion and graduate from Bowdoin in 1825. At some point between his graduation and 1827, the author added the letter “w” to his surname, changing it from “Hathorne” to “Hawthorne”. Some speculate this change was made to further distance himself from his great-great grandfather the “Witch Hanging Judge”. Though he moved around New England a lot, meeting many other famous authors, he would occasionally find himself returning to Salem to visit family.

Nathaniel Hawthorne is noted for his classical literature. Two of his most famous novels are The Scarlett Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. His connections to the town of Salem were not few and far between, so when, years later, it was decided Salem needed a hotel, who better to name it after than one of Salem’s own– famous author Nathaniel Hawthorne!

When the need for a “modern Hotel for Salem” became evident, the town of Salem rallied together. In one week in July 1923, two hundred thirty volunteers sold more than half a million dollars worth of stock for the proposed hotel. It was to be built on the location of the then existing Salem Marine Society, which has been having meetings in this location since 1830. The society made a deal with Salem to use this location for the new hotel if the town would allow them to continue having their meetings in a special rooftop room in the new hotel. Built entirely from the funds earned by selling stock, the Hawthorne Hotel celebrated its grand opening on July 23, 1925. Hawthorne’s granddaughter, Hildegarde, was at the hotel that evening.

Since opening, the hotel has become famous for its history, weddings and a two-episode television appearance on Bewitched. Due to its central location downtown, it has become well-known as a hub for travelers who have come to catch a glimpse of Salem’s rich history.

#Hawthorne Hotel #Salem Massachusetts #haunted locations #paranormal #ghost and hauntings #ghost and spirits

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canon divergences on my blog episode by episode.

this list is subject to change the more i think about my version of lilith and develop her. i’ve tried to avoid altering events that are particularly significant to other characters, and where other characters are impacted, i think my divergences do offer either a more interesting, a more realistic, or at least a passably sufficient alternative.

chapter one: october country

lilith does not kill mary. rather, she possesses her, using her as a living vessel.

lilith does not send a scarecrow to attack sabrina in the orchard of the malum malus. rather, she casts an illusion on the tree that makes it difficult, almost impossible, for sabrina to discern the real fruit from among false ones that would offer her fabricated visions of her future as a witch. salem climbs the tree and finds her the true malum malus, leading to her vision.

i find the scarecrow bit particularly stupid and incoherent on the part of the show especially since later lilith threatens the batibat for attempting to hurt sabrina and makes it clear that satan wants her unharmed. like??

chapter two: the dark baptism

n/a.

chapter three: the trial of sabrina spellman.

n/a.

chapter four: witch academy.

stolas is caught following the weird sisters when they are alone together, having a private conversation. he was not spying on them or anyone in the shower.

lilith does not meet zelda or hilda face-to-face at this time. she visits the spellman mortuary magically cloaked and is never visible to either. they may eventually feel something off or wrong about the house, and may find whatever protection spells they use subtly disturbed, but with no tangible evidence of anyone breaking in.

chapter five: dreams in a witch house.

n/a.

chapter six: an exorcism in greendale.

lilith’s fake backstory does not involve being edward’s secretary, nor being in love with him, nor a coven in new hampshire, nor even being a witch engaged to a mortal. in summary, her fake backstory is that when “she” (mary) was a professor, she and edward corresponded on an occult subject and developed a friendship. she became anxious and concerned for the spellmans’ safety as edward’s marriage to diana caused an uproar in his coven and, after their sudden death, she felt that something wasn’t right. she moved to greendale to keep an eye on sabrina from a distance and has been doing so ever since. she is not an excommunicate in this version although she is a covenless witch.

this lines up way better with the documented events of mary’s own life, as they stand on my blog, e.g. it’s blog canon that she came to greendale 16 years ago.

also sorry i think the show’s fake backstory is dumb and really obvious. like... don’t you think hilda and zelda would have MET someone who had such a prolonged working relationship with their brother, since everybody was in the same coven and all wld have been seeing each other at coven events and doing witch shit together?

apophis does tell sabrina that jesse is “a sodomite” and “an abomination” but at some point somebody bothers pointing out how stupid that is and that it’s not correct.

the exorcism ritual does not invoke hildegard of bingen.

SORRY BUT IT’S SO DUMB. SHE WAS A LITERAL NUN.

chapter seven: feast of feasts.

n/a.

chapter eight: the burial.

n/a.

chapter nine: the returned man.

n/a.

chapter ten: the witching hour.

lilith does not reveal any true form to hawthorne at the end of the episode. she does not peel off her face, she does not shapeshift. she kills and eats him while in mary’s body.

#☛ violent dark revolt of being ( lilith headcanon tag. )#this is going to be linked on one of my pages somewhere #do not reblog /

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Historical Garden Books: The lure of the garden by Hildegarde Hawthorne (1911) – 49 in a series

THE LURE OF THE GARDENINTRODUCTIONIN spite of its material of green leaf and fragrant flower, a garden is the work of man. It requires human care, human companionship, human love; and yields a return that is peculiarly mingled of nature and art, bestowing upon any who enter its exquisite precincts something of the sanity, wholesomeness, and simplicity of the world of out-of-doors, together with the better portion of the grace, interest, and social charm of the world within the house. Its fountains murmur a lilt not too distant from the laughter or the tears of those who carved the stone basins into which the water drips. In bower and green way a compre- hending solitude lies waiting for whoever comes to seek its quiet pleasures, and there is hardly a mood known to man for which the garden has neither solace nor inspiration. While any gathering of friends or comrades becomes more intimate there, where even the shyest takes heart of grace, where the most self-con- scious forgets to pose, where words come readily to the silent, and where silence is never irksome.

#garden #gardening #history #books #farm #grow #plants

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Hildegarde's Gardening Book

Hildegarde’s Gardening Book

The granddaughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hildegarde Hawthorne (Oskinson) followed in the family business and published a wide variety of works over her lifetime (1871-1952), including children’s books, travel books, poetry, and biographies. I posted previously on one of her “rambles” books, Old Seaports of New England, because it features Salem prominently, but it is not my favorite of her…

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#Art #books #Garden Books #gardening #Gardens #Graphic Design #Hawthorne #horticulture #illustration

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Think of Elizabeth Bailey Seton, a widow with 5 children, cut off from her own family’s fortune due to her conversion, conceiving of what we have come to think of as Catholic elementary education, and essentially inventing a means for the children of the poor and the marginalized to become educated and competitive in the “new world.” Think of Teresa of Avila, who not only reformed a corrupted religious order, but then went on to build 16 monasteries, both for men and women, while often in paralyzing pain. Oh, and she wrote a few books that are considered classics of theology, and is now a Doctor of the Church. Not bad for a woman who had spent her youth reading romance novels. Think of Henriette DeLille, the daughter of freed slaves, and Katharine Drexel, the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, both founding individual orders of women who spent their time and energy building schools and hospitals for Native Americans and African Americans in the deep south. Think of Catherine of Siena, counselor to both popes and royalty, dictating her letters to two scribes at a time. Another Doctor of the Church. Interestingly Catherine was almost entirely uneducated and “unaccomplished” by worldly standards, but the church – hardly an elitist institution – calls her “Doctor” just as it does Saint Hildegard of Bingen, an intellectual giant of music, science, medicine, letters and theology. Just as it does Saint Therese of Lisieux, who entered a Carmel at age 15 and never left it, but whose influence has traveled far.... Rose Hawthorne, daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, founded the Hawthorne Dominicans, an order of nuns who take care of cancer patients – free of charge – and who subsist entirely on donations. An American woman named Vera Duss received her medical degree from the Sorbonne and, less than a week later entered a Benedictine abbey in Paris, where she hid and treated Jews who were being hunted by Nazis. After Patton liberated Paris, Mother Benedicta Duss felt called to return to America, and establish a Benedictine abbey in Connecticut where, ironically, Patton’s granddaughter is a member of the community.

Elizabeth Scalia, “Power in the Church? Women Have Always Had It”

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When Zora Neale Hurston Died, Alice Walker Bought Her A Headstone

US writer Alice Walker pauses during an interview with the Associated Press in Gaza City, Tuesday, March 10, 2009. Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. author Alice Walker said a catastrophe has befallen Gaza and that she hopes she and others can help President Barack Obama “see what we see.” Walker, 65, and members of the U.S. anti-war group “Code Pink” toured Gaza this week, including an area destroyed in Israel’s recent war on the territory’s Islamic militant Hamas rulers. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

Black sisterhood is a remarkable bond that has helped drive our communities for centuries. There is nothing better than sisters looking out for each other. Personally, part of my growing and evolving into a better black woman was to embrace other black women. I am grateful that I grew out of the not wanting to befriend women stage and I recognize my life has become so much better with the number of black women I surround myself with. I am grateful for every black woman/femme/non-gender conforming person that has embraced me, both good and bad to help me unpack my problematic ways and to shine like the star I am meant to be. I read this story about Alice Walker buying Zora’s headstone and the gesture is nothing but love. I hope you enjoy it too.

From the Paris Review:

“Zora!” Alice Walker howled in the cemetery. “I hope you don’t think I’m going to stand out here all day, with these snakes watching me and these ants having a field day.” It was August 1973. Zora Neale Hurston, who was then thirteen years dead, was a mudslinging protofeminist novelist-folklorist-playwright-ethnographer, not to be crossed, and she had climbed to minor literary stardom in the thirties with her accounts of the Southern African American experience, specifically black Southern womanhood. She was, in the words of her friend Langston Hughes, “the most amusing” among New York’s “Niggerati.” She hailed herself as their queen. But Hurston was complicated. “Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves,” she once wrote. “It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you.” She declined to recall a single memory of racial prejudice in her autobiography. Her sycophantic attitude toward her white patrons, Red-baiting, and eventual criticism of Brown v. Board of Education had rotted her name. “She was quite capable of saying, writing, or doing things different from what one might have wished,” Walker admitted. But she forgave Hurston. As Hurston herself declared, “How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?”

And so: nearly a decade before Walker published The Color Purple, a sister masterpiece to Their Eyes Were Watching God, the contributing editor at Ms. magazine stood in weeds up to her waist in Florida while sand and bugs poured into her shoes, looking for Hurston. Walker had flown from Jackson, Mississippi, to Orlando and driven to nearby Eatonville, the prideful all-black town where Hurston was raised, but not, as Walker learned from an octogenarian former classmate—Mathilda Moseley, teller of “woman-is-smarter-than-man” tales in Hurston’s Mules and Men—where she was put under.

Walker’s quest took her to Fort Pierce, on the Atlantic Coast, to the dead end of Seventeenth Street, to the Garden of Heavenly Rest.

“In fact, I’m going to call you just one or two more times,” Walker swore. Hurston was somewhere in the crummy segregated burial ground; trouble was, her grave was unmarked. “Zo-ra!” Walker roared. And, as if Hurston had shoved her, Walker stumbled into a sunken rectangle in the heart of the yard: presumably Zora.

At the local monument maker, Walker clocked a queenly headstone called Ebony Mist. It reminded her of Hurston when she was learning witchcraft at temples in Louisiana, and though Walker dearly wanted it, the issue of lucre obliged her to settle for a modest one—“pale and ordinary, not at all like Zora”—which she had cut with A GENIUS OF THE SOUTH.

I studied cultural anthropology at Orlando’s liberal-arts college, where Hurston was a bona fide heroine. She herself had done her anthropology studies at Columbia University, where she along with Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead were protégées of Franz Boas, the giant who institutionalized the vital participant-observation method. Papa Boas sent Hurston to Harlem with phrenology calipers to measure the skulls of pedestrians and give lie to the notion of Negro inferiority. She never finished her Ph.D., and turned instead to literature. When she came back down to Florida to do fieldwork, she essentially went AWOL on Boas, though she still shipped him oranges.

One summer, in what was mainly a ruse to dwell with a boyfriend in his parents’ beach house, I fulfilled my chemistry requirement at the local community college. We drove by Hurston countless times—we stopped to coo over manatees in waters minutes from her resting place. But until I, too, tried to look her up in Eatonville, I’d had no clue Hurston was so close by.

When I visited last October, the cemetery’s grass was buzzed down, but the Garden of Heavenly Rest remained dumpy. I offered Hurston a pair of ripe grapefruits. People often leave her balls of citrus, which figured into her fiction. People often leave purple things, too, in recognition, I think, of the Walker connection. The plot was flush with cash, dominos, a rhinestone statement necklace, a pack of cigarettes, a bottle of sparkly red nail polish, and two bottles of Guinness.

Whether this corpse in this sandy earth belonged to Hurston is still uncertain. What’s more, the gravestone is wrong: it reads “1901–1960.” Zora had fibbed on her age and was born a full decade earlier, in 1891. She returned to Fort Pierce at the end of her life, in 1957. Her options had evaporated and she had scraped by, twice divorced, as a chambermaid, office clerk, substitute teacher, a journalist on a murder trial, and, if one of Walker’s sources had it right, a horoscope columnist. She was at work on an uncontracted biography of Herod the Great—a project fourteen years in the pipe—when she had a stroke and passed away in a county welfare home on January 28.

After my visit, I itched to read Hurston again. Her first published story was a ghost story, and when I spotted it collected among Restless Spirits: Ghost Stories by American Women, 1872–1926—branded “feminist, turn-of-the-century American supernatural literature”—#MeToo was stirring and the timing seemed right. But I accidentally shipped the book to my parents’ address in Florida, then had the parcel rerouted to New York City. Once I had it in hand, I put off cracking it open.

Earlier this month, I packed Restless Spirits when I left for Paris during the cyclone bomb. Lo: the plane flew without luggage; my bag did not surface for weeks. As a result, I began leafing the 1996 anthology of twenty-two ghost stories by Hurston, Kate Chopin, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edith Wharton, and others on the first anniversary of the Women’s March, which, in Paris, was pissed on by bitter weather and not well-advertised. Near the Eiffel Tower, a crowd of approximately a hundred people carried banners such as ENCORE FÉMINISTES and exhorted American expats to vote absentee in the midterms.

Reading this literature has been no comfort—your spine won’t shiver but your hands will wring. It ran in popular magazines such as Harper’s, Vogue, and The Atlantic over a fifty-year period during which, as the book’s editor remarks, the industrial revolution bent ideologies about the nature and role of being female to more brutal degrees. The short stories are organized into themes: matrimony, motherhood, sexuality, madness, widowhood, and spinsterhood. In them, fearful, enraged, desirous, pained, and restless American women have been made so by a culture we can still recognize today. The editor notes in her introduction that the supernatural was a safe way for the authors to confront their dissatisfaction via allegory. When they wrote about their world, she asks, is it any wonder that the ghosts they conjured, and those who saw, heard, and were able to listen to them were chiefly women?

In fact, “Spunk” (1925), Hurston’s Eatonville-set story about possession, supplies the anthology’s rare male ghost. In it, a gutless hubby manages to comes back to kill his wife Lena’s lover, who had killed him first. Only Lena survives the love triangle. It is pure woman-on-top Hurston, as she lived and breathed: the force who tripped Alice Walker in the cemetery when she dared to shout, “Are you out there?”

#Alice Walker #black women #black writers #feminism #womanism #Zora Neale Hurston #Art #CULTURE #FEATURES #Read &amp; Chill

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The Lure of the Garden (1911) - Hildegarde Hawthorne

#Wonder Rooms #Cabinet of Curiosities #Public Domain #20th Century #Hildegarde Hawthorne #The Lure of the Garden #Natural History #Natural History Art #Botanical Gardens #Flora #Nature Art #Book Cover

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The Evolving Role of Women’s Contributions to Brewing Beer

June 29, 2017

Women and female brewers have a long history in the story of beer.

In the dawn of civilized brewing, making beer was a woman’s job. It continues to be so in indigenous cultures around the world and is once again becoming an important workplace for women in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

Let’s start at the very beginning …

Early Evidence Found in China

Dr. Patrick McGovern is the world’s preeminent expert on ancient alcoholic beverages, as well as the scientific director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Laboratory for Cuisine, Fermented Beverages, and Health at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. McGovern notes that in mankind’s earliest days, “While men were out hunting, women were out gathering the ingredients they needed to make other foods and drink to go with the wooly mammoth or mastodon.”

McGovern explains the female’s role became even more critical once agriculture took hold because fermentation was often part of the food processing. Some of this fermentation was initiated by women chewing the grains to start the process.

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The earliest documented beer evidence was found in Jiahu, China, dating 7000-5600 BCE. Dogfish Head Craft Brewing makes a Chateau Jiahu. McGovern consulted with the brewery on the project, doing analyses to determine the beer’s contents of rice beer, honey mead and hawthorn fruit wine.

Rice beer, according to Chinese legend, was first brewed by Yi Di, the wife of Yu the Great. McGovern writes that in areas of Japan and Taiwan, “You can still find women sitting around a large bowl, masticating and spitting rice juice into the vessel as they prepare the rice wine.”

The Ancient Beer Goddesses

Stained glass window shows an artistic depiction of Ninkasi. (Credit: Founders Brewing Co.)

The oldest extant beer recipe, written in cuneiform, dates to ancient Mesopotamia, around 1800 BCE. The Hymn to Ninkasi, the Sumerian goddess of brewing, is both a song of praise to Ninkasi and an ancient recipe for brewing.

While written down around 1800 BCE, the hymn is probably much older since archeological evidence for brewing the beer goes back to 3500-3100 BCE at the Sumerian settlement of Godin Tepe in modern-day Iran. In ancient Babylon women were bakers/brewers and also distributed the beers.

According to the preeminent beer historian Alan Eames, another Sumerian beer goddess was Siris, who watched over the daily ritual of brewing. Eames notes that only women were allowed to brew and their beers included all manner of strange ingredients such as spices, peppers, tree bark and powdered crab claws. Sounds much like modern craft brewers — except for the powered crab claws part.

Perhaps the most interesting of these brewsters was Kubaba. While the circumstances of her elevation are unknown, Kubaba is the only female listed in the Sumerian King List, compiled around 2100 BCE, and probably the first recorded woman ruler. The Sumerian King List names her as the woman tavern-keeper. Legend says she reigned for 100 years (which may be a stretch).

Eames also notes that women ran the beer halls and taverns, with the price of beer being raw grain. The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, from about 1500-2000 BCE, harshly states that if a tavern owner (a woman) does not accept barley as the price of beer, but if she receives money and the price of the drink is less than the that of the barley, she shall be convicted and the judges shall throw the brewster into the water. It also states that if conspirators meet at a tavern but are not captured then the tavern-keeper shall be put to death. Ouch.

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Ninkasi and Siris were not the only ancient brewing goddesses. Nearby Egypt had Tenerit, the goddess of beer, and Hathor, the goddess of drunkenness. Egyptian hieroglyphics show women both brewing and drinking beer.

Early Brewing Traditions in Europe

Egyptian hieroglyphics show women both brewing and drinking beer. (Public Domain)

From the Middle East beer brewing spread through Egypt to Greece, where beer was a distant second favorite to strong wine; to Rome where people also preferred strong wine; and throughout Europe.

The Romans reported that traditional German societies drank ale produced by women, mainly made from fermented honey. Women in the migrating Germanic tribes often brewed in forests to avoid pillaging raiders, some of whom were Vikings.

Based on archaeological finds in Northern Bavaria, Germans were brewing beer as early as 800 BCE. This continued for centuries after the Christian era, and once again brewing was the domain of the hausfrau.

From the 8th through the 10th century Vikings rampaged throughout North Africa and Europe. Viking beer was called Aul from which we obtain the name “ale.”

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According to Eames, “Viking women were the exclusive brewers in Norse society and law dictated that all brewhouse equipment remained the property of women.”

A record in England shows that women probably were the vast majority of brewers until the 13th century. These women, known as alewives, brewed beer in their kitchens.

Eames writes that, “Beer remained an essential diet and selling surplus beer became important to the economy of most households. When a housewife had extra beer to sell, an ale-stake — a long handled pole or broom handle — would be placed over the front door or in the road.”

Often there was a garland of hops atop the broomstick.

This marker continues to be seen throughout the world, especially in indigenous societies and probably is related to the brewer’s star which was hung outside pubs in Germany when fresh beer was available.

Photo shows women making Chicha beer. (Public Domain)

One of the regions where similar flags or notices are put out when beer is ready is Peru. The local corn-based Chicha beer is made in small homes and batches and a flag is displayed out front when Chicha is available.

A friend from our local homebrew club, who toured the Inca Trail, reports that she went off on her own for part of a day to find the local Chicha beer: “On that last day… I went for a long walk. I ended up in a village and knocked on a door that was flying the flag. When I walked back to the spa, I noticed another woman was actually making Chicha on the road and selling Chicha she made a few days earlier. This Chicha was very different because the natural microbial mixture was most likely different.”

Later her tour guide took her to a Chicha brewing friend and she reports she was told that the women enjoy the whole interaction because, “The men drink and the women laugh at them when they act silly.”

She also relates that virtually the same story exists in Nepal, according to a friend who taught her how to brew Chang, the beer of the Himalayas. Clearly, the brewing responsibility in indigenous societies comes with a bunch of societal fun for the brewing wives.

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A Shift from Women to Men

Several events evolved over time, conspiring to transfer the art of brewing from women to men.

Hildegard von Bingen, one of the great women in all of history, was a German abbess in the early 12th century. She was a consultant to popes and emperors, a writer of sacred music and madrigals, a philosopher and author of numerous scientific and medical writings.

Her Physica Sacra pharmacopeia was the first written reference to the preservative benefits of hops. This breakthrough allowed beer to last longer and, among other factors, led to larger breweries.

A second was the growth of monasteries which served as safe hotels and inns for weary travelers. That safety included serving beer rather than the local water which often was polluted. Much of the beer profits went to help run the monastery just as it is in today’s European monastery breweries. The monks became quite proficient at brewing and essentially initiated brewing as a profession.

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The Black Plague in the 1400s was another turning point. With the attendant labor shortage wages increased and the financial ability to buy ale, which was safer than water (and more tasty), sharply increased. Brewing moved from the home to larger establishments.

As it became commercialized it segued into the hands of men who had the financial and legal resources to develop the growing industry. At the time, married female brewers had few legal rights and unmarried women had little capital.

Brewing originally did not involve much education, apprenticeship training or land, as long as it was confined to the home — but that changed.

The ale market changed from being dominated by single and married women into one that was commercial, professional and male-governed. By the 16th century in England and Germany, guilds also centralized and regulated brewing more heavily, which further contributed to the decline of women throughout the trade (although there were some guild women).

By the 18th century, women brewers seem to have largely disappeared from the profession — though many still served as tavern-keepers and often brewed the ales they served. While this may seem like a romantic notion, it was very hard work and often done out of necessity — and frequently by widows who needed the income.

Female Brewers Begin Making Inroads

In Europe in more modern times there have been inroads for women in the brewing industry.

Perhaps the most notable person is Franciscan Sister Doris of the Mallersdorf Abbey in Bavaria. Mallersdorf is one of the few brewing monasteries in Europe and perhaps the only nunnery.

Sister Doris began her brewing apprenticeship in 1966. She became the brewmaster in 1975, taking over from another sister who had been brewing there since the 1930s. Like St. Brigid, the second most famous saint in Ireland, Sister Doris is renowned for converting water in beer.

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More recently Anne-Françoise Pypaert became the first female Trappist brewmaster. Yes, that reads correctly. She is the brewmaster at the world famous Orval Trappist monastery.

While she was the only woman at Orval in 1992 when she was hired, the brewery now employs eight other women: two in the lab, one in Research and Development, four in the office, and one in the cheese factory.

Brewmaster Pypaert tells us, “The feminization of brewers helps to bring a certain nobility to the beer. Beer is no longer a product intended only for men, but also for women who enjoy it more and more.”

Similar things are happening in England. Sara Barton opened her own brewery, aptly called Brewster’s Brewery, in 1997. In 2013 she was named England’s Brewer of the Year.

Another woman, Emma Gilleland, was the first female head brewer in England and now is the director of supply chain for Marston’s Brewery, the leading independent brewery in England. Gilleland oversees the brewing and distribution of over 60 beers from five Marston breweries including the beers using the famous Burton Union system.

Marston’s, the only brewery in England still using Burton Unions, was described to us years ago by a brewer at the time as “The cathedral of British brewing.”

The increased visibility of these women and others has played a big part in attracting other women, many in various aspects of the industry.

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Women Brewing in Early America

In the New World, colonial and subsequent Americans followed their homeland traditions. Early colonial women continued to brew for family and friends in their kitchen brewery.

While this changed in the cities with the growth of regional breweries, in rural areas it remained the same for a long time. These women brewed with what was available to them including corn, pumpkins, oats, wheat and honey.

America has a similar history to England. As brewing became a commercial enterprise, men dominated the trade. However, there were still some women involved in the industry. Mary Lisle was the first recorded but unofficial brewster in the colonies. She inherited her father’s brewery, the Edinburgh Brewhouse, in 1734. Her sister, Elizabeth, inherited his malt house. Mary ran the brewery until 1751 when Robert Steel bought it.

As families moved to the cities and the local breweries grew, refrigeration and industrialization essentially ended women’s involvement in the brewing system. Prohibition did not help and there were few small breweries for a long time after the passage of the Volstead Act and the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ended Prohibition.

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American Women Among the Craft Brewing Pioneers

Women have been among the pioneers in the craft beer resurgence beginning in the 1980s and have attracted an increasing number of women to the craft brewing industry.

Women such as Mellie Pullman (Schirf), Carol Stoudt (Stoudts), and Teri Fahrendorf (Steelhead), three of the first women brewers, and Kim Jordan (New Belgium), Irene Firmat (Full Sail), Deb Carey (New Glarus), and Marcy Larson (Alaskan) who helped open some of the early breweries and served in numerous capacities other than brewer.

Carol Stoudt co-founded Stoudt’s Brewing in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1986. (Credit: Stoudts Brewing)

Deb Carey’s page on the New Glarus website says, “She does everything except brew beer.”

The trailblazing continues with people like Andrea Stanley who opened one of the first craft malteries in 2010. She also serves as president of the craft maltsters guild.

Several of these women mention the difficulty of raising funds to open a brewery, but mostly because the idea of making craft beer in the 80s and 90s was still foreign to a lot of people.

“Everyone just thought we were crazy for wanting to build a brewery,” Irene Firmat says. “It was not a woman’s issue.”

And it was hard work. Kim Jordan talks about “serving beers on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, delivering a newborn son the following Wednesday, and opening a new brewery the subsequent Monday.”

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Does the Gender Gap Exist?

These pioneers say that they generally have not encountered sexism in the craft brewing world. Kim Jordan tell us, “Craft brewers tend to be more progressive and open-minded.”

Andrea Stanley tells us she’s had a similar positive experience.

“In seven years I never had a bad word from anyone in the craft industry,” Stanley says. “Men in craft brewing are willing and want to support.”

Granted, this isn’t the case for everyone. When Fahrendorf was first looking for work as a brewer, she remembers getting questions like, “Can you lift a 50-pound stack up the stairs?”

She moved on with determination and help from other industry people.

Mentoring a New Generation of Women in Beer

Teri Fahrendorf founded the Pink Boots Society to empower women beer professionals. (Credit: Pink Boots Society)

Most often their industry mentors were men since there were few women brewing at the time. Sometimes the mentors merely provided moral support and encouragement. Fahrendorf remembers when Paul Shipman, the founder of Redhook Ale, told her that he did not have any openings but, “One day you will be a brewery owner or brewmaster.”

Years later he does not remember the experience, but Fahrendorf certainly does.

Many of the women pioneers are now mentors themselves.

Stanley is working to get women on the board of the maltsters guild. She’s also working with other women to do the same for the craft industry as a whole.

Among the more ambitious and largest such program is the Pink Boots Society (PBS). When Fahrendorf took time off in 2007 to drive across the country brewing at various places, she found at least 60 women brewers asking at different breweries, “Are there others like us?”

She realized they had no connections.

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She eventually developed a list of the women brewers which became the start of the PBS. PBS works to, “Assist, inspire, and encourage women beer professionals through education.” From the original 60 members there now are over 30 chapters across the world with more than 2,000 members from all aspects of the industry.

Fahrendorf also helped organize Barley’s Angels, a group for women who are interested in craft beer but not brewing. Barley’s Angels works with breweries, brewpubs, restaurants, alehouses and other places “to advance the female consumer craft beer enthusiast, resulting in increased patronage and revenue from women, while encouraging education and interest in craft beer among this often under-recognized demographic group.”

While mostly in the U.S., there are now more than 100 chapters around the world.

Kim Jordan ends a quick trip down a spiral slide at the New Belgium Fort Collins facility. The slide remains in place to this day. (Credit: New Belgium Brewing)

Advice to the Next Generation of Women in Beer

Jennifer Glanville, a brewer at Boston Beer/Sam Adams, thinks she has been called a pioneer “because I survived this long.” When she met Sister Doris at Mallersdorf she says: “We talked about beer and brewing, not about women in brewing.”

“We joke that brewers’ events are the only place where there is not a line to the women’s room,” Irene Firmat says.

Fahrendorf relates that when she started brewing she often did not go on trips because there was no one to share a room with.

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That old norm clearly is changing, but there still is work to be done, and these pioneers have advice for women starting in brewing.

Firmat: “Feel strong and empowered. We have a better palate. Have a sense of confidence without expecting conflict.”

Stoudt: “Knowledge helps gain respect.”

Jordan: “Make sure you love it and work hard.”

Fahrendorf: “If you become discouraged, don’t give up. Be stubborn. If you don’t get a particular job then go elsewhere, be amazing, and make them jealous. When you get 5-10 years down the road stop thinking about yourself and become a mentor to others.”

At this point, Ninkasi probably is looking down from the pantheon of beer goddess and smiling.

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The Brews Brothers journalism team has focused on craft beers since shortly after the first shots were fired early in the ‘craft beer revolution.’ Publications and writings include American Brewer; Mid-Atlantic Brewing News; the Gazette Newspapers where we wrote monthly craft beer columns for 23 years for the metropolitan Washington, DC area; and Beerhistory.com. We also give lectures and host beer tastings. Steve likes classical music, the gym, walking my dog Barley on the C&O Canal and beercations. Arnie enjoys jazz, drinking craft beer and beercations. Read more by this author

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Hawthorne Hotel Salem, MA.

On September 23, 2005 I had the privilege of staying the night in this hotel with two college roommates. The three of us had flown to Massachusetts for a fourth roommate’s wedding. We spent the week following the wedding traveling around New England and ended up staying at the Hawthorne Hotel on a whim for $207 for one night! (A lot of money for someone in their mid-twenties.)

The hotel originally boasted 150 rooms, each with a centrally located bathroom between every two rooms, as was customary in the early 1900’s. The hotel now has 89 rooms, several of them having been combined to accommodate the need for modern guests to have private lavatories.

Unfortunately, I cannot recall which room my roommates and I had stayed– I think it was somewhere on the third or fourth floor, but I’m not certain. I do remember our room had a view of the park on the other side of Washington Square, but it was still close to State Highway 1A. We also didn’t spend a lot of time at the hotel, arriving fairly late in the evening and leaving moderately early in the morning so we could see some of Salem’s sites that we’d missed days earlier. I do remember the feeling as I entered the hotel that night– I was bubbling with excitement at the lavishness of the hotel. The trio of us giddily rode the elevator up to our floor. The hallways were dimly lit, but the creme and white wallpaper sparkled with a design of stripes and decorative flourishes. The rooms were extravagantly decorated with armchairs, tables, paintings and closets. The television was ensconced in an ornate wooden armoire. Did I mention the closets? We explored our room and discovered it had FOUR! The beds were giant and quite cozy. The bath was very rustic feeling. Overall, it was a very whimsical stay for us… and, even though it had that “old hotel” (creepy) feeling, we experienced nothing out of the ordinary. Hawthorne Hotel Room

Hawthorne is rumored to be haunted for the place has stories of several mysterious phenomenon having happened to staff and guests alike.

In a room referred to as “The Library” or the “Lower Deck”, which is where the Hotel staff set up tables for weddings and other events. One staff member, having set up the room for an event, returned to the location only to discover the room had been “rearranged”– tables and chairs had been stacked and moved about. The employee refused to work night shifts after this experience.

Room 325 and Suite 612 have had some strange reports of hearing someone in an adjoining room come into their bathroom, turn on the water, turn the lights off and on and wander about. No one was ever seen and, when the guests complained of the disturbances, they were informed that the adjoining room was locked from the hallway and no one could have gotten inside the room. Guests of these rooms have also complained of objects moving about the room such as keys, which were placed on the nightstand having been moved to somewhere else in the room.

Room 628 has had similar reports of objects being moved. Some guests have claimed to have had someone sit on the end of their bed or they awoke because they thought they were being touched.

The hallway outside of Room 612 boasts of having had reports of a woman’s apparition haunting the hallways.

The whole sixth floor is reputedly haunted– some say captains from the Salem Marine Society are causing mischief in the afterlife. There is rumor that these sailors also toy with the nautical themed ships wheel in the restaurant “Nathaniel’s”, formerly “The Main Brace”. Several people have claimed to have seen the ship’s wheel turn on its own. Some of those who have seen it have stopped the wheel only to see it continue turning after walking away.

While there is no physical evidence that’s been recorded to substantiate the presence of ghosts at the Hawthorne Hotel, there are several guest reports that suggest otherwise and staff members seem to agree.

#Hawthorne Hotel #Salem Massachusetts #paranormal #ghost and hauntings

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