Frida Kahlo Self Portrait
Emily Dickinson's Nature Mysticism »    
Emily Dickinson's Nature Mysticism : A Photo Poetic Labyrinth
Explore a clickable 4-circuit meander, or labyrinth, with 32 mystic poems by Emily Dickinson, combining nature spirituality and travel imagery. Also includes related commentary adapted from ED's own writings, What is a Garden? and Afterthoughts! (Slideshows), a guide to Dickinson's Herbarium, a copy of St. Teresa of Avila's Interior Castle.
Women Composers' Early Music & Ragtime MIDI (Free Downloads)

Ancient, Medieval & Renaissance Music CDs
Includes Medieval chant by women composers, including Kassia (Gregorian), and Hildegard of Bingen, songs by the Trobairitz (Medieval Women Troubadours), Chansons de Femme, performed by Sinfonye, Anonymous 4, Sequentia, Circle Dances, Marie de France, Christine de Pisan, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, Francesca Caccini, the Black Madonna, Bridget of Ireland, Sappho's Choral Music

Emily Dickinson Feminist Essays
Brilliant, early feminist essays (pub. 1886-1915) on Emily Dickinson's life, letters & poetry by:
(1) Emily Fowler Ford, (2) Ella Gilbert Ives, (3) Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, (4) Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (5) Susan Huntington Dickinson, (6) Lilian Whiting, (7) Martha Dickinson Bianchi, with Thomas W. Higginson's essays on Sappho and the ancient Greek Goddesses
CHINESE TAOISM
 The Feminine Tao (Gender-Inclusive Translations of the Tao Te Ching)
Hyperlinked Bibliography: Women Authors on the Tao Te Ching
Immortal Sister Sun Bu-er: Taoist Poetry & Historical Legend
Crookback: Women Masters in the Chuang-tzu
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ZEN & JAPANESE ARTS
 Idiophonics (Natural Sounds in Early Japanese Women's Poetry), Early Japanese Women Poets (Bibliography & Online Sources), Nukata: Songs of the Shamaness, On a Stream of Thoughts: Poems by Lady Ise, also Ablutions: Otagaki Rengetsu & Keiko Abe (marimba & waka poetry)
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Women's Prehistoric Jomon Pottery (citations, illustrations, links), Japanese Tea Ceremony (Zen-Taoist Aspects), Princess Shikishi's Wild Imaginings, and the Art & Spirituality of Japanese Gardens
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Women Zen Masters (Raihai Tokuzui)
Dogen's Ecospirit with line drawings,
& Dogen Zenji's (Gender-Inclusive)
Studies of the Way
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AMERICAN QUILTS: HISTORY & DESIGN
  Antique Geometric (Historical Quilt Designs & Free Patchwork Blocks)
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Tangram Quilt Designs: free patchwork quilt block designs 
based on solutions to an ancient Chinese puzzle
Harriet Powers: African-American Story-Bible Quilts
Rags to Riches: quilt fabric online sources
with ragtime MIDI music by women composers
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Illustration (Top): Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), Nature Mystic,
"Self-Portrait with Monkey and Parrot"
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Shelfari Bookshelf (on Nature Mysticism)