Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature Beer Anna
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature Beer Anna Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of…
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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature Beer Anna
Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literature 'Essential reading.' Claire TomalinWarned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history.Ever since Sappho first put stylus to papyrus, women who write have been labelled mad, undisciplined and dangerous. Placing the female contemporaries of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton centre stage, Anna Beer builds a vibrant new canon through Restoration wits, scandalous sensation novelists and medieval mystics.Delving into the lives and work of eight pioneers - Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemilia Lanyer, Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Funny and provocative, Eve Bites Back offers an alternative history of English literature.