Wild Women and Books by Brenda Knight

From religious transcribers and political dissidents to erotic playwrights and romantic poets, no subject or literary form is left untouched. In honor of those women whose pens pioneered, persevered, and proved that the female voice is brilliant, we invite you to listen.

(PRWEB) February 26, 2006 -- “This book is a testament to the relationship and contributions of women writers, lest we forget their impact and inspiration. Brenda paints the portraits of women writers with her energetic and enigmatic words in an accessible and engaging manner. Please join me on this amazing journey through women’s history – I know you will be as inspired by it as I have been.”
~ Ntozake Shange from the Foreword to
Wild Women and Books (Conari Press, March 2006)

Brenda Knight brings more than one hundred female authors to life for today's readers. She makes their tumultuous and admirable paths to literary expression easily accessible in chapters such as Literary First Ladies; Ink in Their Veins; Banned, Blacklisted, and Arrested; and Women Whose Books Are Loved Too Much.

From religious transcribers and political dissidents to erotic playwrights and romantic poets, no subject or literary form is left untouched. In honor of those women whose pens pioneered, persevered, and proved that the female voice is brilliant, we invite you to listen.

The book features a directory for book groups and reading resources with sixty illustrations and photographs. Also featured are quotes from two hundred of the greatest women writers including Kate Chopin, Agatha Christie, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Simone de Beauvoir, Virginia Woolf, Djuna Barnes, J.K. Rowling, Anne Rice, and Iris Murdoch.

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Brenda Knight is the author of Women of the Beat Generation, which won an American Book Award, and a dozen other books. A scholar of medieval literature and modern poetry, she lives in San Francisco.

Wild Women and Books
Bibliophiles, Bluestockings, and Prolific Pens
From Aphra Behn to Zora Neal Hurston and
from Anne Rice to the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Foreword by Ntozake Shange
Brenda Knight

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