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readingmattersblog.com
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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Flamingo; 176 pages; 2003. First published in 1970, Paula Fox'sDesperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it. It seemed to me obviously superior... | |
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katemacdonald.net
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| | | | | This history of the first feminist movement in the UK is terrific. The Bluestockings were an informal group of eighteenth-century middle- and upper-class women of talent, distinction, wit and intellectual brilliance. They claimed the name for their group as a badge of honour, for their informality and focus on intelligent conversation rather than behaving as... | |
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www.stuckinabook.com
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| | | | | Friends, I have exciting news! I'm going to be speaking at the Marlborough Literary Festival on 29 September - discussing all things British Library Women Writers. As you can imagine, I... | |
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anzlitlovers.com
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| | | It's two or three days since I finished reading Valley of Grace, and I'm still savouring the reading of it. It's always such a pleasure to read Marion Halligan's novels ... I save them up when a new one comes along and wait to read them in the same way that I save a box... | ||
