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- Jane Austen's bookshelf : a rare book collector's quest to find the women writers who shaped a legend. by Romney, Rebecca.;
Long before she was a rare book dealer, Rebecca Romney was a devoted reader of Jane Austen. She read and reread all her books, often wishing Austen wrote just one more. But Austen wasn't a lone genius. She wrote at a time of great experimentation for women writers--and clues about those women are sprinkled like bread crumbs throughout Austen's work. Every character in Northanger Abbey who isn't a boor sings the praises of Ann Radcliffe. The phrase "pride and prejudice" came from Frances Burney's second novel, Cecilia. The women who populated Jane Austen's bookshelf profoundly influenced her work. So where had these women gone? Why hadn't Romney--despite her training--ever read them? And why were they no longer embraced as part of the wider literary canon? In "Jane Austen's Bookshelf", Romney investigates the lives and work of the women writers whom Austen loved: Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Lennox, Hannah More, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, and Maria Edgeworth. In each chapter, Romney explores how these women became writers, how they influenced Austen, and how they've been forgotten in the years since. Romney collects the once-famed works of these writers, physically re-creating Austen's bookshelf and making a convincing case for why these books should be placed back on the to-be-read pile of all book lovers today. In "Jane Austen's Bookshelf" will encourage you to look beyond assigned reading lists, question who decides what belongs there, and build your very own collection of favorite novels.Library Bound Incorporated- Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women; LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist;
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- The world according to Joan Didion / by McDonnell, Evelyn,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life's telling details. Her insights continue to influence creatives and admirers, encouraging them to become close observers of the world, unsentimental critics, and meticulous stylists. An antidote to a global view that narrows our vision to the smallest screens, The World According To Joan Didion is a meditation on the people, places, and objects that propelled Didion's prose and an invitation to journalists, storytellers, and life adventurers to "throw themselves into the convulsions of the world," as she once said. Evelyn McDonnell, the acclaimed journalist, essayist, critic, feminist, native Californian, and university professor who regularly teaches Didion's work, is attuned to interpret Didion's vision for readers today. Inspired by Didion's own words--from her works both published and unpublished--and informed by the people who knew Didion and those whose lives she shaped, The World According to Joan Didion is an illustrated journey through her life, tracing the path she carved from Sacramento, Portuguese Bend, Los Angeles, and Malibu to Manhattan, Miami, and Hawaii. McDonnell reveals the world as it was seen through Didion's eyes and explores her work in chapters keyed to the singular physical motifs of her writing: Snake. Typewriter. Hotel. Notebook. Girl. Etc. One of the first books to be published after the revered writer's death in 2021, The World According to Joan Didion is a literary companion for those embarking on new journeys and a guide to innovative ways of being. It will radically transform the way you explore the world, and will help you answer the question as you sit in a café, or on a plane or train, pondering the future: What would Joan Didion have seen?"--- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Didion, Joan; Didion, Joan.; Authors, American; Women authors, American;
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