Apology for the Woman Writing by Jenny Diski

Apology for the Woman Writing

Jenny Diski

288 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

fiction historical informative reflective slow-paced

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Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in or...

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