literature Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books http://booksbywomen.org/tag/literature/ Mon, 16 May 2016 10:34:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Zillah Bethell on Writing http://booksbywomen.org/zillah-bethell-on-writing/ http://booksbywomen.org/zillah-bethell-on-writing/#respond Wed, 11 May 2016 22:19:19 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15703   Zillah Bethell’s novel Girl In Profile was inspired in part by artist Gwen John and her relationship with Rodin. Why did you choose to write about Gwen John and her experiences in Paris? I was researching Caravaggio for a short story and a book on Gwen John kept falling out of the library shelf, […]

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]]> http://booksbywomen.org/zillah-bethell-on-writing/feed/ 0 15703 Literary Snobbery http://booksbywomen.org/literary-snobbery-sara-sheridan/ http://booksbywomen.org/literary-snobbery-sara-sheridan/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2015 09:15:48 +0000 http://booksbywomenorg.netfirms.com/?p=12928 Sara Sheridan, creator of the Mirabelle Bevan Mysteries, talks about how literary snobbery is divisive within the writing community, not least between men and women. I live in a City of Literature, but I’d rather live in a City of Words. Literature, to me, isn’t necessarily a good thing – it’s exclusive, for a start. […]

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