Posts Tagged ‘Virginia Woolf’

What the papers say

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Here are a couple of excellent articles from the New York Times books section for anyone who fancies a bit of feminist inspiration. The first reviews a book by Lisa Appignanesi about the historical collision between women and the mental health establishment. Plus, Germaine Greer on Shakespeare’s wife and The Telegraph on cult books.

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Jane Austen: a life – Claire Tomalin

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

I’d been looking forward to this as something of a treat. Having finally filled in the holes in my Austen reading by completing Sense and Sensibility, Emma and the fragments Sanditon and The Watsons over the course of the last few months I had been promising myself a crack at this very well-received biography, published in 1997, next.

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