Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature

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ISBN-10:

0861542932

ISBN-13:

9780861542932

Author(s): Beer, Anna.
Released: Nov 08, 2022
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
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Description:

Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literature\n'Essential reading.' Claire Tomalin\nWarned not to write – and certainly not to bite – these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history.\nFrom the fourteenth century through to the present day, women who write have been understood as mad, undisciplined or dangerous. Female writers have always had to find ways to overcome or challenge these beliefs. Some were cautious and discreet, some didn’t give a damn, but all lived complex, eventful and often controversial lives.\nEve Bites Back places the female contemporaries of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton centre stage in the history of literature in English, uncovering stories of dangerous liaisons and daring adventures. From Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet, to Aphra Behn, Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Austen and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, these are the women who dared to write.


























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