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Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

Finding Your True Self in Middle Age: Ten Midlife Coming-of-Age Novels

Sarah McCraw Crow on the Richest Time for Finding Our Truer Selves

By Sarah McCraw Crow | July 21, 2022

“Child, Failure, Old, Dead.” At What Age Are People Unhappiest?

“Child, Failure, Old, Dead.” At What Age Are People Unhappiest?

Bobby Duffy on What It Means to Have Happiness as a Goal

By Bobby Duffy | November 19, 2021

Searching for Representations of Middle-Aged Women

Searching for Representations of Middle-Aged Women

Woman’s Hour and Writing Female Characters in Their Mid-40s">Chibundu Onuzu on Woman’s Hour and Writing Female Characters in Their Mid-40s

By Chibundu Onuzo | November 9, 2021

She Said She Would Write the Essay Herself: Reading Virginia Woolf in Middle Age

She Said She Would Write the Essay Herself: Reading Virginia Woolf in Middle Age

Mrs Dalloway">Heather O'Neill Discovers Many Ways to See the Self in Mrs Dalloway

By Heather O'Neill | August 28, 2020

On Writing a Character Who Confronts Middle Age and the Necessity of Change

On Writing a Character Who Confronts Middle Age and the Necessity of Change

Laura van den Berg and Karolina Waclawiak in Conversation

By Literary Hub | August 12, 2020

15 Great Books That Speak to the Lives of Middle-Aged Women

15 Great Books That Speak to the Lives of Middle-Aged Women

Ada Calhoun Offers a Long Overdue Reading List

By Ada Calhoun | January 9, 2020

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Against Clarity (or In Praise of Youthful Wisdom)

By Steven Church | May 1, 2018

Writing Middle-Aged Love

By Beth Ann Fennelly | October 10, 2017

How Many Times Am I Touched in a Week? A Study

By Stephanie Gangi | August 15, 2017

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Mrs. Dalloway at the Same Age as Mrs. Dalloway">Rereading Mrs. Dalloway at the Same Age as Mrs. Dalloway

"I Will Gather the Folds of My Life Together, in the Way Clarissa Does"

By Carole Burns | August 3, 2017

The Search for a Lost Self in the Far North

The Search for a Lost Self in the Far North

Sallie Tisdale Wanders Out Onto the Ice

By Sallie Tisdale | May 4, 2017

Unlearnable Lessons on My Father's Deathbed

Unlearnable Lessons on My Father's Deathbed

Marina Benjamin Considers the Reality of 'Second Childhood'

By Marina Benjamin | March 21, 2017

Don't I Know You?

Don't I Know You?

Marni Jackson

By Lit Hub Excerpts | August 24, 2016