Woman authors

Genius, captured on camera.

If you’re looking for some inspiration to set words to paper (or screen), these images of women authors at their writing desks might just do the trick.

In a celebration of the brilliant female authors of the past, we’ve collated a list of our top ten classic feminist novels. The works of these pioneering female authors serve as a reminder that women have been breaking barriers for centuries. #feministnovels #classicfeministliterature #classicbooks #readandcobooks

One of my favorite things about skulking around old bookstores is the possibility of chancing upon a first edition of a beloved author’s early work and looking at it in its original context—n…

Annie Ernaux now has a Nobel Peace Prize in Literature, so here’s what makes her work so very Ernaux: obsessive and intermittent love.

Top female writers and editors recommend other female authors who have somehow been overlooked or forgotten, either because of their gender, the language in which they wrote, or their books have gone out of print.

No wonder she’s giving you two months to read it.

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What begins as a taste for this author’s twisty plots, briny wit and bracingly bleak view of marriage can become an addiction.

Five years ago today when Justin was 8, he was hurt by another boy on the playground. Since then we call Good Friday, "bad Friday." I wrote about it here. Anne Sexton (1928-1974) There's not much that I can add to what I wrote last year - but it's refreshing to see that there are others burdened by Good Friday and Easter too for that matter. Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was a poet famous for her highly personal poems. She wrote from the 1950's until her death, she also won a Pulitzer Prize in…