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Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses by Paula Byrne 9780008322250
RRP: $52.50$29.13A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: THE OBSERVER, INDEPENDENT, SUNDAY TIMES AND BOOKSELLER 'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all' Thomas Hardy is one of the most... -
Complete Poems by Emily Dickinson
RRP: $42.00$29.11The startling originality of Emily Dickinson's style condemned her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime, but her bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since won her... -
And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
RRP: $20.98$14.28The classic collection of poetry from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS.'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMAMaya Angelou's poetry - lyrical and dramatic, exuberant and playful - speaks of love,... -
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
RRP: $27.28$19.09Dorothy Parker, more than any of her contemporaries, captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry and prose, and The Collected Dorothy Parker includes an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin Modern Classics.Dorothy Parker was the most... -
Bad Blood (4th Estate Matchbook Classics) by Lorna Sage
RRP: $23.08$15.2320th Anniversary Edition with an introduction by Frances Wilson From a childhood of gothic proportions, through teenage pregnancy in the 1960s, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and... -
A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $23.08$16.32A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller In this remarkable memoir of love, loss and literature, acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin turns her eye to another fascinating literary life: her own. She tells of a wartime childhood, Cambridge friendships and an early... -
Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works by Diane J. Rayor
RRP: $27.28$24.74Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of what survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here: substantial poems and fragments,... -
Daily Rituals Women at Work: How Great Women Make Time, Find Inspiration, and Get to Work by Mason Currey
RRP: $27.28$17.60'That word, "vacation," makes me sweat.' Coco Chanel on taking a break'You must do it irregardless, or it will eat its way out of you.' Zora Neale Hurston on writing'One has to choose between the Life and the Project.' Susan Sontag on choosing artFrom... -
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel
RRP: $20.98$13.94A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London... -
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr 9780062223074
RRP: $23.08$19.19Credited with sparking the current memoir explosion, Mary Karr's The Liars' Club spent more than a year at the top of the New York Times list. She followed with two other smash bestsellers: Cherry and Lit, which were critical hits as well. For thirty... -
Surrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration by Anna Watz 9781526167156
RRP: $31.48$23.35Surrealist women's writing: A critical exploration is the first sustained critical inquiry into the writing of women associated with surrealism. Featuring original essays by leading scholars of surrealism, the volume demonstrates the extent and the... -
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler
RRP: $41.98$37.15One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of... -
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
RRP: $27.28$19.09Jane Austen is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best-loved novelists, from the acclaimed author of Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self, Charles Dickens: A Life and The Invisible Woman'As near perfect a life of Austen as we are likely to get:... -
Frankenstein: or `The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
RRP: $12.58$8.51By the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window-shutters, I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created. He held up the curtain of the bed; and his eyes, if eyes they may be called, were fixed on me. His... -
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing by Carolyn Dinshaw
RRP: $56.68$47.88The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or... -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour
RRP: $23.08$14.95'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An... -
Educated by Tara Westover by SparkNotes
RRP: $12.58$9.24Simplify studying with this portable literature guide, filled with resources to help you thrive in English class! Educated, a memoir written by Tara Westover, follows the author's break from her survivalist family to pursue education and knowledge. This... -
Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway by John Sutherland
RRP: $18.88$13.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907776267Author John SutherlandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CONNELL PUBLISHING LTDPublisher CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD -
Why Women Read Fiction: The Stories of Our Lives by Helen Taylor
RRP: $25.18$17.70Ian 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... -
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel 9780008429973
$15.39A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London... -
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
RRP: $35.68$26.63Hermione Lee sees Virginia Woolf afresh, in her historical setting and as a vital figure for our times. Her book moves freely between a richly detailed life-story and new attempts to understand crucial questions - the impact of her childhood, the cause... -
Mothers of the Mind: The Remarkable Women Who Shaped Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath by Rachel Trethewey 9781803991894
RRP: $52.50$38.12'The relationship between my grandmother and her mother was very important and indeed crucial to her childhood and the very early days of her writing ... So, to have more insight into this particular aspect of my grandmother's early life is very valuable... -
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
RRP: $20.98$14.93A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics.For Gertrude Stein... -
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips 9780393088595
RRP: $46.18$38.96What does it mean to create, not in "a room of one's own" but in a domestic space? Do children and genius rule each other out? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Julie Phillips traverses the shifting terrain where motherhood and... -
The Complete Poems Of Sappho by Willis Barnstone
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590306130Author Willis BarnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Moments Of Being by Virginia Woolf 9780712646185
RRP: $27.28$19.09Virginia Woolf's only autobiographical writing is to be found in this collection of five unpublished pieces. Despite Quentin Bell's comprehensive biography and numerous recent studies of her, the author's own account of her early life holds new... -
Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion by Hilary Davidson
RRP: $63.00$54.29A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated examination of dress, clothing, fashion, and sewing in the Regency seen through the lens of Jane Austen's life and writings This lively book reveals the clothing and fashion of the world depicted in Jane... -
Simone de Beauvoir by Ursula Tidd
RRP: $54.58$47.52Simone de Beauvoir's groundbreaking work has transformed the way we think about gender and identity. Without her 1949 text The Second Sex, gender theory as we know it today would be unthinkable. A leading figure in French existentialism, Beauvoir's... -
Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader by Vivian Gornick
RRP: $27.28$17.41Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader is Vivian Gornick's celebration of passionate reading, of returning again and again to the books that have shaped her at crucial points in her life. In nine essays that traverse literary criticism,... -
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine
RRP: $31.50$20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140446890Author Christine de PizanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)... -
And Still I Rise by Dr Maya Angelou
RRP: $23.08$15.54A beautiful and inspiring collection of poetry by Maya Angelou, author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am... -
Enron by Lucy Prebble
RRP: $23.08$20.29The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did. One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the... -
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West
RRP: $27.28$19.09Delve into a legendary literary love affair'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf... -
A Literature Of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing by Elaine Showalter
RRP: $31.48$20.58When first published in 1982, A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transformed the field in the 1980s. Launching a major new area for literary investigation, the book uncovered the... -
Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Margaret Forster
RRP: $35.68$25.79This biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, written with reference to Browning correspondence only recently available, argues that the poet was a strong and determined woman largely responsible for her own incarceration in Wimpole Street. The author... -
The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula Byrne 9780008322205
RRP: $52.50$36.60'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April... -
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen
RRP: $52.50$38.47In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating... -
Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing by Ursula K Le Guin 9781941040997
RRP: $31.40$20.10Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941040997Author Ursula K Le GuinFormat HardbackPage Count 150Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 180mm *... -
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature by Anna Beer
RRP: $42.00$30.01Margery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. 'Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' A.L... -
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys by Miranda Seymour 9780008353254
RRP: $52.50$35.34'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best Book of the Year 2022 An...