Date: 1791, 1794
"Such were the dreadful images that haunted her distracted mind, and nature was sinking fast under the dreadful malady which medicine had no power to remove."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1963
"Words dimly familiar but twisted all awry, like faces in a funhouse mirror, fled past, leaving no impression on the glassy surface of my brain."
preview | full record— Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963)
Date: 1980
"And here we find our greatest affinity with water, for like reflections on water our thoughts will suffer no changing shock, no permanent displacement."
preview | full record— Robinson, Marilynne (b. 1943)