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Available
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Publication
Sellers Publishing (2011), 192 pages
Description
Nava Atlas presents twelve celebrated women authors and draws on their diaries, letters, memoirs, and interviews to show how they expressed their views on the subjects of importance to every writer, from carving out time to write, to conquering their inner demons, to developing a "voice," to balancing the demands of family life with needs to write. Atlas provides her own illuminating commentary as well and reveals how the lessons of classic women writers of the past still resonate with women writing today.
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LibraryThing member debnance
Thank you to the publisher for sending me this lovely book. Literary Ladies’ Guide to the Writing Life shares excerpts of advice and recommendations from famous literary women on writing and on the life of a writer. Author Atlas draws on the thoughts of some of my favorites including Madeleine
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L’Engle and Jane Austen and L. M. Montgomery and Virginia Woolf. It’s was a great way to spend a morning, browsing through these thoughtful quotes. Show Less
LibraryThing member Jane-Phillips
This is a beautifully designed book containing excerpts from letter, diaries etc of some of the classic female writers such as Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, L.M. Montgomery and Virginia Woolf. It gives insight into their writing careers and the trials and tribulations of same. For the aspiring
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writer it is inspitational, but also interesting reading for a reader of the classics. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
ISBN
1416206329 / 9781416206323