Literary Ladies’ Guide to the Writing Life, Revised and Updated
- Author Nava Atlas
- Narrator Robin Miles
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Run Time 6 hours and 54 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Assertiveness, motivation, self-esteem and positive mental attitude, Creative writing and creative writing guides, Gender studies: women and girls, Language learning: writing skills, Literature: history and criticism, Self-help, personal development and practical advice, Society and Social Sciences, Writing and editing guides.
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What to expect
Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life serves as a beacon of inspiration to writers Author and artist Nava Atlas presents a treasury of intimate glimpses into the unfolding creative writing process across fifteen brilliant careers in women’s literature and relates their stories to women writers of today. Through their journals, letters, and diaries, we get to know the struggles and triumphs of Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Gwendolyn Brooks, Octavia E. Butler, Willa Cather, Madeleine LEngle, Edna Ferber, Zora Neale Hurston, L.M. Montgomery, Anais Nin, George Sand, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf.Atlas’s own insightful commentary, newly updated, lifts the curtain on these women’s writing lives and provides reassuring tips and advice on such subjects as finding your voice, self-discipline, dealing with rejection, money matters, balancing family with the solitary writing process, and more. This guide will resonate with women writers in today’s world, at any stage of their journey.
Critics Review
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“A bountiful literary quilt of quotations and intimate glimpses of writers’ work lives.”
Chronogram Magazine -
“The terrain navigated by women writers has both gender-specific pitfalls and advantages…[in] different eras. Each writer is revealed as having approached her profession with a personal motivation, a characteristic attitude, and a desire to write that surpassed the majority of her peers…As enjoyable as it is informative.”
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“Wouldn’t it be great to have Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, or Anais Nin all hanging out in your kitchen, offering you support and wisdom, food for thought to continue on? I can turn to any page and find inspiration, guidance, and wisdom from some of the most amazing writers of the last two centuries.”
Alexandra Jamieson, actress and author of Radical Alignment
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