Dead Women Reading

Dead Women Reading is a literary excavation site. We dig into the works of women who have been buried by the canon, overshadowed by their male contemporaries, or quietly erased from the syllabus. Some of our first stories, like The Yellow Wallpaper, show up in classrooms, but often in isolation and stripped of the fuller history and literary networks that shaped them.

Here, we return that depth. Through readings, reviews, essays, and multimedia storytelling, we explore these works in their original contexts, celebrating their genius, their grit, and the worlds they built despite the odds. It is part literary revival, part history lesson, part séance.

Because these women are not footnotes. They are the story.