Friday, and I'm very glad about it

A few more links! These are all related to women and writing. That's sort of how I roll, especially on a Friday afternoon.

My dissertation is about antagonism between literary women in the early eighteenth-century, so I was amused to read this piece by Jessa Crispin about searching for positive depictions of female friendship in recent novels, which includes charming email correspondence with her own best female friend.

Slightly related: this flowchart of reductive characterizations of women in fiction.

One blogger's thoughtful response to Lionel Trilling's essay on Mansfield Park (which you can and should find in this book, if you haven't read it — unsurprisingly, it's delightful).