Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional History of Literature \'Essential reading.\' Claire Tomalin Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history.
Delving into the lives and work of eight pioneers - Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemilia Lanyer, Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Austen and Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Beer uncovers the struggles and triumphs of these gamechangers, ground-breakers and genre-makers..
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.
Funny and provocative, Eve Bites Back offers an Alternative History of English literature.
Ever since Sappho first put stylus to papyrus, women who write have been labelled mad, undisciplined and dangerous.
Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional History of Literature \'Essential reading.\' Claire Tomalin Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history
