About Emma Donoghue

My Reflection

 I chose to dedicate this website to Emma Donoghue because I knew I would later study her short story collection Kissing the Witch. I thought that learning about Donoghue’s history and some of her other works would be beneficial when studying Kissing the Witch. In order to learn more about her I created this website as a place for people to visit to learn more about her as well. I learned about Donoghue’s life, her career, and the type of works that she creates.

Through creating this website and studying Kissing the Witch I found that it truly was useful to learn about Donoghue before studying her literature in depth. While studying Donoghue’s background, experiences and learning that she was a lesbian, I was able to understand Donoghue’s objective for her twists to old tales in Kissing the Witch. I learned that Donoghue writes about her passions and she uses a lot of research in her writing. Donoghue clearly studied her fairy tales well, and then wrote these tales for interpretations from LGBTQ perspectives. Learning about Donoghue helped me make connections throughout each tale about the common theme of an interaction between women.

Creating this website has also benefitted me generally. It has helped me realize that it is important to look beyond the literature and learn more about the author when studying an author’s work. It is very helpful to research an author and learn about them and their writing before studying their works in depth because it will give you a foundation of the author and their perspectives that influence their writing.

Thank you for visiting my website; I hope you learned a lot and enjoyed your time here!

Nick Lopez