Celebrating Women
Women Writing on Women: Family, Friends, Feminism and Fun
Seiten
2025
Batsford (Verlag)
978-1-83733-004-1 (ISBN)
Batsford (Verlag)
978-1-83733-004-1 (ISBN)
Celebrating Women is a captivating collection of women's writing – including everything from poetry, letters, novels, memoir, and journals – that celebrates the joy of being a woman.
A captivating collection of women's writing – including poetry, letters, novels, memoir, and journals – that celebrates the joy of being a woman.
This glorious collection takes a refreshing look at everything there is to enjoy about the experience of womanhood. Chapters include ‘Firsts’ with voices such as Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and Marie Curie, the first female Nobel prize-winner; ‘Festivities’ which emphasises frivolity and pleasure; ‘Friends’ exploring the depth of connection experienced through female friendship; ‘Family’ on mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts and grandmothers; and other chapters celebrate women’s creativity, passion and love of life.
From Amy Tan representing the uplifting comfort of parties with friends in The Joy Luck Club to Sylvia Plath considering the fierce and confusing love she feels for her mother, and Elizabeth I embracing her role as Britain’s first successful woman ruler, Celebrating Women includes a diverse range of voices from across the ages that explore the breadth of experience in different women’s lives.
A captivating collection of women's writing – including poetry, letters, novels, memoir, and journals – that celebrates the joy of being a woman.
This glorious collection takes a refreshing look at everything there is to enjoy about the experience of womanhood. Chapters include ‘Firsts’ with voices such as Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and Marie Curie, the first female Nobel prize-winner; ‘Festivities’ which emphasises frivolity and pleasure; ‘Friends’ exploring the depth of connection experienced through female friendship; ‘Family’ on mothers, daughters, sisters, aunts and grandmothers; and other chapters celebrate women’s creativity, passion and love of life.
From Amy Tan representing the uplifting comfort of parties with friends in The Joy Luck Club to Sylvia Plath considering the fierce and confusing love she feels for her mother, and Elizabeth I embracing her role as Britain’s first successful woman ruler, Celebrating Women includes a diverse range of voices from across the ages that explore the breadth of experience in different women’s lives.
Sarah Gristwood is a biographer, journalist, and commentator on royal affairs. Her previous books include the best-selling Arbella: England’s Lost Queen, The Tudors in Love, Secret Voices, and biographies of Beatrix Potter, Winston Churchill, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, and HM Queen Elizabeth II. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an honorary patron of Historic Royal Palaces and regularly contributes to TV documentary series and coverage of royal events. She lives in Kent.
Introduction
Firsts
Family
Feasts and Festivity
Friends
Fashion
Falling in Love
Foundations
Futures and Faith
Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 12 illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 211 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-83733-004-2 / 1837330042 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-83733-004-1 / 9781837330041 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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