| I n honor of Mother's Day, I thought it would be fun to write about great mothers in literature. So I sat down and thought of the great works and all my favorites old and new, and saw that if saintly Marmee March of "Little Women," stalwart-in-the-face-of-hardship Ma Joad of "The Grapes of Wrath," and Grendel's devoted but bloodily vengeful mother from "Beowulf" were all I could come up ... |
