Caroline Jane
Bio
Warm-blooded vertebrate, domesticated with a preference for the wild. Howls at the moon and forages on the dark side of it. Laughs like a hyena. Fuelled by good times and fairy dust. Writes obsessively with no holes barred.
Achievements (15)
Stories (129/0)
Jimmy the Kid.
"You alright kid?" There was no care intended in those words. It was a means for her to feign politeness while masking a whole heap of judgement. It wasn't personal. That was how Ruby, the woman on the door of "The Bull", greeted every man that rocked up to see the show. We were all judged, belittled and processed. It was part of the charm of going there, to be greeted by a woman who didn't care who you were or which horse you had ridden in on.
By Caroline Jane3 years ago in Fiction
Marilyn's Inferno.
Marilyn felt oppressed. The heat in London was suffocating. So much so that Marilyn felt it was positively infringing on her human rights. A respectable woman, such as she, should not have to suffer the indignity of having to hang out of her second-floor window trying to catch a breeze.
By Caroline Jane3 years ago in Fiction
A Real Life Feminist Hero.
Ninny Clarke age 18. I don't have five children or a dead bigamist husband. I have never experienced my deceased husband's other family, bereft and betrayed and fuelled by scorn, coming into my home to claim it as theirs. Never have I had to fight for survival in a world of severe patriarchal and pious judgement where social security was a ration book and feminism a blasphemous enterprise.
By Caroline Jane3 years ago in Families