Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives Taylor Helen
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives Taylor Helen Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary…
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Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives Taylor Helen
Ian McEwan once said, 'When women stop reading, the novel will be dead.' This book explains how precious fiction is to contemporary British women readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives.Female readers are key to the future of fiction and--as parents, teachers, and librarians--the glue for a literate society. For so many, reading novels and short stories enables them to escape and to spread their wings intellectually and emotionally.This book, written by an experienced teacher, scholar of women's writing, and literature festival director, draws on over 500 interviews with and questionnaires from women readers and writers. Women treasure the chance to read alone, but have also gregariously shared reading experiences and memories with mothers, daughters, grandchildren, and female friends.
It describes how, where, and when British women
Why Read the Classics?
The Lives of Brian
In the Lives of Puppets
The Private Lives of Trees
Stories of the Saints
Many Lives Of Pusheen The Cat
The Women of Troy
Stories of the Self