My discovery of the obscure mid-20th-century novelist Isabel Bolton led to extensive research and an exploratory essay. I wasn’t surprised when early in my search I discovered critics’ comparisons of Bolton to Virginia Woolf, and when I read the first of Bolton’s modernist novels I could indeed see similarities in style and theme.
“In Search of Isabel Bolton” was jointly published this month by Bloom (linked here), one of my favorite sites for obvious reasons: a focus on late bloomers, qualified by the question “‘Late’ according to whom?”, and in the esteemed online magazine The Millions (linked here).
This project, on the heels of an earlier piece about Lillie Coit, is leading me into new territory in my writing, more research-based essays. I can hardly wait to see what happens next!
Alice Lowe -- still writing 
Alice. Your followers can hardly wait to see what comes next as well!
Kirby Kendrick
Reblogged this on Blogging Woolf and commented:
Here’s a post from Blogging Woolf contributor Alice Lowe on Isabel Bolton, who has been compared by critics to Virginia Woolf. In it, Alice links us to an essay on the mid-20th-century author that she published in Bloom and The Millions.
Vivian Gornick talks about Bolton quite a bit in her new book, The Odd Woman and the City.
that’s where I first learned about her – it’s in the essay – Grumbach via Gornick.