All Quiet On The Wench Front

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The Plath Less Travelled

Last week, in the run up to the fiftieth anniversary of The Bell Jar, Hadley Freeman wrote a piece about Ted Hughes with a fist-clenchingly unfavourable view of avid Plath fans. … Continue reading

28 January 2013

Wench

/wenCH/ noun Origin Middle English: abbreviation of obsolete wenchel, meaning child, servant, prostitute; perhaps related to Old English wancol, meaning unsteady, inconstant. Definition Girl, woman, probably a right stand-up bird.

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Herstory

her·sto·ry /ˈhərstərē/ noun Shit hot history from a female or feminist perspective.