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In a dark dark wood / by Ware, Ruth.;
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Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Women novelists, English; Female friendship; Murder;
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The real Jane Austen : a life in small things / by Byrne, Paula.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.A revealing portrait of the beloved novelist, drawn from the most up-to-date scholarship and unexplored sources, presents a modern take on the woman and the world that shaped her.
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.; Novelists, English; Women novelists, English;
© c2013., Harper,
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Charlotte Brontë : a fiery heart / by Harman, Claire,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.; Novelists, English; Women novelists, English;
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The bookseller's secret : a novel / by Gable, Michelle,author.;
Includes bibliographical references.Desperate for money, struggling young author Nancy Mitford takes a job managing the Heywood Hill bookshop, where she meets a mysterious French officer who has a compelling story to tell.
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Mitford, Nancy, 1904-1973; Women novelists, English; Bookstores;
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Before I go / by Cookson, Catherine,author.;
"A story of talent, good humour and determination. Known for the wit of her writing, Catherine Cookson was the UK's most widely read novelist during her lifetime. When her Estate discovered this never-before-published memoir in the attic of her home, it was an astonishing find. "Before I Go" is the definitive story of her life, in the author's own candid words. While Cookson had authored previous autobiographies, none have truly touched upon the tragedy and personal anguish she experienced until now. For the first time, she reveals the worst years of her life--her constant battles with illness and a series of devastating miscarriages, the damaging jealousy of her friend and her struggle to be taken seriously as a writer. But what shines through most is her strength in the face of adversity, her deep love for her husband, Tom, the solace she found in her art and her unmistakable character. "Before I Go" is an inspiring story of resilience and a must for any Cookson fan."--Container.
Subjects: Biographies.; Cookson, Catherine.; Women novelists, English; Working class;
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The adventures of Miss Barbara Pym : a biography / by Byrne, Paula,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Renowned biographer and author Paula Byrne brings Barbara Pym back to centre stage as one of the wittiest and greatest English novelists: a generous, shrewdly perceptive writer and a brave woman, who only in the last years of her life was suddenly recognized for her genius. Brimming with new extracts from Pym's diaries, letters and novels, this book is a joyous introduction to a woman who was herself the very best of company.
Subjects: Biographies.; Pym, Barbara.; Authors, English; Novelists, English; Women authors, English;
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I used to live here once : the haunted life of Jean Rhys / by Seymour, Miranda,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Jean Rhys is one of the most compelling writers of the twentieth century. Memories of her Caribbean girlhood haunt the four short and piercingly brilliant novels that Rhys wrote during her extraordinary years as an exile in 1920s Paris and later in England, a body of fiction--above all, the extraordinary Wide Sargasso Sea--that has a passionate following today. And yet her own colorful life, including her early years on the Caribbean island of Dominica, remains too little explored, until now. In I Used to Live Here Once, Miranda Seymour sheds new light on the artist whose proud and fiercely solitary life profoundly informed her writing. Rhys experienced tragedy and extreme poverty, alcohol and drug dependency, romantic and sexual turmoil, all of which contributed to the "Rhys woman" of her oeuvre. Today, readers still intuitively relate to her unforgettable characters, vulnerable, watchful, and often alarmingly disaster-prone outsiders; women with a different way of moving through the world. And yet, while her works often contain autobiographical material, Rhys herself was never a victim. The figure who emerges for Seymour is cultured, self-mocking, unpredictable--and shockingly contemporary. Based on new research in the Caribbean, a wealth of never-before-seen papers, journals, letters, and photographs, and interviews with those who knew Rhys, I Used to Live Here Once is a luminous and penetrating portrait of a fascinatingly elusive artist"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Rhys, Jean.; Novelists, English; Women novelists, English; Caribbean literature (English); Dominica literature; English literature;
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Agatha Christie : a very elusive woman / by Worsley, Lucy,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.' Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending that she was 'just' an ordinary housewife, when clearly she wasn't? As Lucy Worsley says, 'She was thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. So why--despite all the evidence to the contrary--did Agatha present herself as a retiring Edwardian lady of leisure? She was born in 1890 into a world which had its own rules about what women could and couldn't do. Lucy Worsley's biography is not just of an internationally renowned bestselling writer. It's also the story of a person who, despite the obstacles of class and gender, became an astonishingly successful working woman. With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was--truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.
Subjects: Biographies.; Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976.; Authors, English; Detective and mystery stories; Women authors, English; Women novelists, English;
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My life in Middlemarch / by Mead, Rebecca.;
Includes bibliographical references.In this memoir, journalist and New Yorker staff writer Rebecca Mead, draws out the intricate ways in which the themes of George Eliot's Middlemarch -- "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people," according to Virginia Woolf -- have run through her own life. Mead also draws an uncanny portrait of the ways in which Eliots's life resonates with her own through a fascinating reading of Eliot's biography. For those who wonder about the power of literature to shape our lives, this book is a must-read.LSC
Subjects: Mead, Rebecca; Eliot, George, 1819-1880.; Eliot, George, 1819-1880; Women and literature; Women novelists, English; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.);
© c2014., Bond Street Books,
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Becoming Jane Austen : a life / by Spence, Jon;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-279 ) and index.
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Lefroy, Thomas Langlois, 1776-1869; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; Austen, Jane, 1775-1817; De Feuillide, Eliza.; Women and literature; Novelists, English;
© 2007., Hambledon Continuum,
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