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Biggs, Joanna.
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Biggs, Joanna.
Editors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Divorced women -- Biography.
Feminism and literature.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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Biggs, Joanna.
Biggs, Joanna.
Editors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Divorced women -- Biography.
Feminism and literature.
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
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A
life
of
one
's
own
:
nine
women
writers
begin
again
/ Joanna Biggs.
by
Biggs, Joanna.
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
Call #:
809.89287 B592L
Subjects
Biggs, Joanna.
Editors -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Divorced
women
-- Biography.
Feminism and literature.
American literature --
Women
authors -- History and criticism.
English literature --
Women
authors -- History and criticism.
ISBN:
9780063073104 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Nine
women
writers
begin
again
9
women
writers
begin
again
Edition:
1st U.
S
. ed.
Description:
259 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"A few years into her marriage and feeling societal pressure to surrender to domesticity, Joanna Biggs found herself longing for a different kind of existence. Was this all there was? She divorced without knowing what would come next. Newly untethered, Joanna returned to the free-spirited
writers
of her youth and was soon reading in a fever--desperately searching for evidence of lives that looked more like her
own
, for the messiness and freedom, for a possible blueprint for intellectual fulfillment. In 'A
Life
of
One
's
Own
,' Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, and Elena Ferrante are all taken down from their pedestals, their work and lives seen in a new light. Joanna wanted to learn more about the conditions these
women
needed to write their best work, and how they addressed the questions she herself was struggling with: Is domesticity a trap? Is
life
worth living if you have lost faith in the traditional goals of a woman? Why is it so important for
women
to read
one
another? This is a radical and intimate examination of the unconventional paths these
women
took--their pursuits and achievements but also their disappointments and hardships. And in exploring the things that gave their lives the most meaning, we find fuel for our
own
singular intellectual paths."--From publisher.
Joanna Biggs is an editor at Harper’s Magazine. Previously an editor at the London Review of Books, she has written for the New Yorker, the Nation, the Financial Times, and the Guardian, among other places. In 2017 she cofounded Silver Press, a London based feminist publishing house. She lives in New York.
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Literary criticism.
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