# young woman (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover young woman. Page: Feed: --- ## [Maria van Oosterwijck: Meditations on the Brevity of Life](https://tomanderson795592.substack.com/p/maria-van-oosterwijck-meditations) _2026-08-25 · Tom Anderson · Vermeer Stories_ Maria van Oosterwijck (1630–1693) is another example of a hugely talented artist overlooked for many years because of her gender. ## [‘In My Heart, A Vague Trembling of Stars’](https://elifshafak.substack.com/p/in-my-heart-a-vague-trembling-of) _2026-08-23 · Elif Shafak · Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak_ Words are pure magic. ## [Moving Hot Air - The Fan in Italy; or, Primitive Technology Takes on Climate Change (and why the President of the Republic takes part in a Ceremony of the Fan every summer)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/moving-hot-air-the-fan-in-italy-or) _2026-08-21 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Describes the history and use of hand fans in Italy and Europe, especially with regard to the current heat waves. Also describes the Italian political Ceremony of the Fan held in Rome on an annual basis before the summer parliamentary recess. ## [Judith Leyster—A Badass of the Dutch Golden Age](https://tomanderson795592.substack.com/p/judith-leystera-bad-ass-of-the-dutch) _2026-08-18 · Tom Anderson · Vermeer Stories_ But unrecognized for 200 years ## [How We Read is Who We Are](https://elifshafak.substack.com/p/how-we-read-is-who-we-are) _2026-08-16 · Elif Shafak · Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak_ ‘What is your favourite play by Shakespeare?’ a reader with a bright and bubbly smile asked me a few months back following a talk at a literary festival. ## [The Least Vermeer-y Painting by Johannes Vermeer](https://tomanderson795592.substack.com/p/the-least-vermeer-y-painting-by-johannes) _2026-08-11 · Tom Anderson · Vermeer Stories_ Saint Praxedis ## [Mortadella - the life and times of a gigantic salami](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/mortadella-the-life-and-times-of) _2026-08-10 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ or, what do Sophia Loren, the game of chess, and the city of Bologna all have in common? ## [When The Sun Shines On The Frozen Sea](https://elifshafak.substack.com/p/when-the-sun-shines-on-the-frozen) _2026-08-09 · Elif Shafak · Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak_ We have known each other for a long time, Anxiety and I. ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 9.13.1989 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-9e6) _2026-08-07 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [Thank You for Your Engagement](https://tomanderson795592.substack.com/p/thank-you-for-your-engagement) _2026-08-04 · Tom Anderson · Vermeer Stories_ For the past nine months, I have been posting weekly articles about Johannes Vermeer in my Substack publication, Vermeer Stories. Occasionally I’ve veered off course with stories about other artists, but for the most part the articles have been guided by my love for Vermeer. During this time, I have also been drafting a manuscript for a book, tentatively called ## [Crypto Payments, No Custody (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FGZH1GycxLNV) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Send crypto to merchant wallets via API with real-time updates and automatic fees. ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 9.30.1989 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-5c1) _2026-08-02 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [Helen of Troy and the Perception of Beauty](https://elifshafak.substack.com/p/helen-of-troy-and-the-perception) _2026-08-02 · Elif Shafak · Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak_ In the 1860s the British artist Frederick Augustus Sandys finished his painting of Helen of Troy — his version of Helen of Troy, that is. ## [Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, by Johannes Vermeer](https://tomanderson795592.substack.com/p/woman-in-blue-reading-a-letter-by) _2026-07-28 · Tom Anderson · Vermeer Stories_ Good News in the Mail ## [The Strange Paradox Surrounding the Odyssey](https://elifshafak.substack.com/p/the-strange-paradox-surrounding-the) _2026-07-26 · Elif Shafak · Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak_ It is the oldest story in European literature, but who wrote it, we still have no clue. ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 3.11.1992 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-39f) _2026-07-24 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [Everybody Stops for The Goldfinch](https://tomanderson795592.substack.com/p/everybody-stops-for-the-goldfinch) _2026-07-21 · Tom Anderson · Vermeer Stories_ The iconic painting by Carel Fabritius ## [“In a Football Match, Everything is Complicated by the Presence of the Opposite Team”](https://elifshafak.substack.com/p/in-a-football-match-everything-is) _2026-07-19 · Elif Shafak · Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak_ I have become a football fan. ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 11.25.1991 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-510) _2026-07-17 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [A Jan Steen Household](https://tomanderson795592.substack.com/p/a-jan-steen-household) _2026-07-14 · Tom Anderson · Vermeer Stories_ His are every bit as chaotic as mine ## ['The Heart Has Its Reasons which Reason Knows Nothing Of'](https://elifshafak.substack.com/p/the-heart-has-its-reasons-which-reason) _2026-07-12 · Elif Shafak · Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak_ We have an upcoming event at the National Gallery where as a panel we will speak about “Extraordinary Artworks from the National Gallery and Sotheby’s”, trying to answer not an easy but truly fascinating… ## [Sync Bookmarks Everywhere (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/x5QltkKOsAgY) _2026-07-12 · **Sponsored**_ Two-way sync keeps folders and toolbar intact across Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. ## [St. John's Water / L'Acqua di San Giovanni: an Italian solstice tradition that reportedly brings health, prosperity, love, and good fortune (and you do not have to be in Italy to prepare it)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/st-johns-water-lacqua-di-san-giovanni) _2026-07-10 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ The preparation of St. ## [Slow TV: Piano and Flying Carpet](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/slow-tv-piano-and-flying-carpet) _2026-07-09 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Watch now | \[with sound\] [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206276798/3df95f9636e3c75c8b40b3ac99061311.mp3) ## [Roaming the Streets of Delft](https://tomanderson795592.substack.com/p/roaming-the-streets-of-delft) _2026-07-07 · Tom Anderson · Vermeer Stories_ Retracing the footsteps of Johannes Vermeer ## [“I Don’t Know How to be Silent When My Heart is Speaking"](https://elifshafak.substack.com/p/i-dont-know-how-to-be-silent-when) _2026-07-05 · Elif Shafak · Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak_ “Writing is a dog’s life, but the onl… ## [Slow TV: Alpine Cows by Lago Federa in the Italian Dolomites](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/slow-tv-alpine-cows-by-lago-federa) _2026-07-05 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ \[with sound\] [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/205206065/10dfeb827614d9cf42839879ec8df043.mp3) ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 6.14.1990 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-392) _2026-07-03 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [Adriaen Brouwer: The Painter Who Lived in Taverns](https://tomanderson795592.substack.com/p/adriaen-brouwer-the-painter-who-lived) _2026-06-30 · Tom Anderson · Vermeer Stories_ Collected by Rembrandt and Rubens ## [‘So foul a sky clears not without a storm.’](https://elifshafak.substack.com/p/so-foul-a-sky-clears-not-without) _2026-06-28 · Elif Shafak · Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak_ It is a lovely painting, one that seizes your imagination. ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 10.8.1990 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-f93) _2026-06-26 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [The Little Street](https://tomanderson795592.substack.com/p/the-little-street) _2026-06-23 · Tom Anderson · Vermeer Stories_ In The Little Street, Vermeer captures the joy and dignity of a simple life in Delft. ## [Meet Claude, the AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1tTUckhh9Bih) _2026-06-23 · **Sponsored**_ Conversational AI to answer questions, brainstorm ideas, and help with tasks. ## [You Don't Have To Go Far To Find Your Muse](https://elifshafak.substack.com/p/you-dont-have-to-go-far-to-find-your) _2026-06-21 · Elif Shafak · Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak_ At a literature festival recently, during the book signing after my talk, a shy young woman waiting in the queue said to me: ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 1.14.1993 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-4f7) _2026-06-19 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer](https://tomanderson795592.substack.com/p/view-of-delft-by-johannes-vermeer) _2026-06-16 · Tom Anderson · Vermeer Stories_ Vermeer's Homage to his Hometown ## [For Those Who, Being Poor, Have Only Their Dreams](https://elifshafak.substack.com/p/for-those-who-being-poor-have-only) _2026-06-14 · Elif Shafak · Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak_ Happy birthday William Butler Yeats — born on 13th of June 1865. ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 3.30.1992 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-eda) _2026-06-12 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 1.31.1993 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-c5b) _2026-06-05 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [Paradise of Exiles: Di Qui Non Si Passa! (From here, no one passes!)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/paradise-of-exiles-di-qui-non-si) _2026-05-29 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Motto of the Alpini, or Black Feathers, the Italian army's specialist mountain infantry ## [Librorum: Little Free Libraries in the Veneto](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/librorum-little-free-libraries-in) _2026-05-22 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ It's Little Free Library Week (May 17-23, 2026)! ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 12.18.1990 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-ce8) _2026-05-15 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 3.4.1992 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-271) _2026-05-08 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 10.2.1990 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-053) _2026-05-01 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 5.22.1990 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-941) _2026-04-16 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s ## [Per Via Aerea: Letters from a Young Woman 11.16.1989 (Memoir)](https://beinginitaly.substack.com/p/per-via-aerea-letters-from-a-young-038) _2026-04-10 · Being in Italy · Being in Italy_ Correspondence sent to the United States from Italy in the 1980s-1990s