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Bookish broads : women who wrote themselves into history / Lauren Marino ; illustrations by Alexandra Kilburn.

Marino, Lauren, (author.). Kilburn, Alexandra, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to put pen to paper to express the multifaceted female experience. In Bookish Broads, Lauren Marino celebrates fierce, trailblazing female writers, reworking the literary canon that has long failed to recognize the immense contributions of women. Featuring more than 50 brilliant bookish broads, Marino cleverly illuminates the lives of the greats as well as the literary talents history has wrongfully overlooked. Each intimate portrait delves into one woman's works and is accompanied by vibrant illustrations depicting each literary legend in her element and time.

Record details

ISBN: 9781419746239
ISBN: 1419746235
Physical Description: 192 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Publisher: New York : Abrams Image, 2021.
Copyright: ©2021

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Murasaki Shikibu -- MEDIEVAL MYSTICS: Hildegard von Bingen -- Julian of Norwich -- Saint Teresa of Ávila -- Saint Catherine of Siena -- SECULAR SCRIBES: Marie de France -- Christine de Pizan -- SHAKESPEARE'S SISTERS: Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke -- Lady Mary Wroth -- Aemilia Bassano Lanyer -- Aphra Behn -- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz -- ON THE DANGERS OF ROMANTIC NOVELS: Charlotte Lennox -- Frances Burney -- Jane Austen -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Mary Shelley -- George Sand -- George Eliot -- The Brontë Sisters -- Elizabeth Gaskell -- ON THE USE OF PSEUDONYMS -- Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Louisa May Alcott -- Kate Chopin -- Edith Wharton -- Willa Cather -- Colette -- Zitkála-Sá (Red Bird) -- Virginia Woolf -- BELOVED CHILDREN's AUTHOR: Beatrix Potter -- Frances Hodgson Burnett -- Margaret Wise Brown -- Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Laura Ingalls Wilder -- Agatha Christie -- Zora Neale Hurston -- Margaret Mitchell -- Rachel Carson -- Eudora Welty -- Anaïs Nin -- Carson McCullers -- Doris Lessing -- Clarice Lispector -- Eileen Chang -- Rosario Castellanos -- Flannery O'Connor -- Nelle Harper Lee -- Maya Angelou -- Ursula K. Le Guin -- ROOMS OF THEIR OWN -- Toni Morrison -- Joan Didion -- Judy Blume -- Margaret Atwood -- Octavia Butler -- Jeanette Winterson -- J. K. Rowling -- Jhumpa Lahiri -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.