From the author of the bestselling Reading Women comes Women Who Write, a celebration of female literary achievement. Literature has traditionally been a male-dominated field. In the past it was common for women authors to adopt a male pseudonym in order
Wussten Sie, dass Marilyn Monroe eine passionierte Leserin war und eines ihrer Lieblingsbücher der Ulysses von James Joyce? Dass der Studienabbrecher Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 1750 die Dichterlesung erfand, als er einer Schar junger Frauen seine Oden
A compelling selection of paintings, drawings, prints and photographs of women reading through the ages.Artists have long sought to capture the intimacy and tranquillity of reading in their work. There was a time, however, when female literacy was a radic
