Louisa Treger, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/author/louisatreger/ Sun, 25 Oct 2020 11:10:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 The Writer With The Snake Tattoo https://booksbywomen.org/the-writer-with-the-snake-tattoo/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-writer-with-the-snake-tattoo/#respond Sun, 25 Oct 2020 11:05:16 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=33251 Sometimes your latest book has a way of getting under your skin, staying with you long after publication – as author Louisa Treger explains. I decided to get a tattoo to commemorate the publication of my second novel, The Dragon Lady, and to celebrate its protagonist, Lady Virginia Courtauld. She was a woman who refused […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/the-writer-with-the-snake-tattoo/feed/ 0 33251 Dorothy Richardson:The Forgotten Virginia Woolf https://booksbywomen.org/dorothy-richardson-forgotten-virginia-woolf/ https://booksbywomen.org/dorothy-richardson-forgotten-virginia-woolf/#comments Thu, 20 Feb 2020 05:59:45 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12379 Louisa Treger’s biographical novel about Dorothy Richardson, peer of Virginia Woolf, intrigues. Who was Dorothy Richardson? These days, Dorothy Richardson is a name few are familiar with; her work is overshadowed by that of her more famous peer, Virginia Woolf. Yet in her time, Dorothy was something of a cult figure. She was hailed as […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/dorothy-richardson-forgotten-virginia-woolf/feed/ 14 12379 A Brutal Paradise https://booksbywomen.org/a-brutal-paradise-by-louisa-treger/ https://booksbywomen.org/a-brutal-paradise-by-louisa-treger/#respond Tue, 13 Aug 2019 06:22:08 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=27484 This piece by Louisa Treger first appeared on Isabel Costello’s wonderful website THE LITERARY SOFA ‘Every writer has a myth-country,’ wrote Doris Lessing in African Laughter. Hers was an old house made of earth and grass on top of a hill in the Lomagundi District of what was then Rhodesia. My myth-country is a white house […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/a-brutal-paradise-by-louisa-treger/feed/ 0 27484 The Highs and Lows of Life After Publication https://booksbywomen.org/the-highs-and-lows-of-life-after-publication-by-louisa-treger/ https://booksbywomen.org/the-highs-and-lows-of-life-after-publication-by-louisa-treger/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2015 08:25:23 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=13519 It took years to get The Lodger published. I chose the traditional route and it was a long, bumpy journey, strewn with rejection letters from agents and publishers. Tears were shed and manuscripts ripped up. Publication was an unattainable goal, a holy grail, an end in itself. Several times, I was on the point of […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/the-highs-and-lows-of-life-after-publication-by-louisa-treger/feed/ 17 13519 Between Two Worlds https://booksbywomen.org/between-two-worlds-by-louisa-treger/ https://booksbywomen.org/between-two-worlds-by-louisa-treger/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2014 08:25:03 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12527 “I am alone in my room, between two worlds.” – Sylvia Plath “I like it better when you’re not working on a book,” my youngest daughter announced the other day at breakfast. “Really?” I asked, rather taken aback. “Why is that?” My daughter speared a piece of sausage with her fork and gave me a […]

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