Why Women Read Fiction

Why Women Read Fiction

The Stories of Our Lives

Taylor, Helen

Oxford University Press

01/2022

304

Mole

Inglês

9780198827696

15 a 20 dias

290

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Preface: 'A Friend, a Bible, a Perfume'
Part One: How, Where, and Why Women Read Fiction
Introduction
1: 'Cheap Sweet Vacations': Reading as a Woman
Rosie Jackson: 'What Their Books Yield or, Why I am Not Buying a Kindle'
Part Two: What Women Read
2: Reading as a Girl
U A Fanthorpe: The Poet on her childhood reading
3: Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, the Novels Women Love Best
4: Romance and Erotica: Fiction by Women for Women
5: Women, Crime, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy
dovegreyreader: The Literary Blogger
Part Three: Writers and Readers
6: Women Writers on their Reading and Readers
7: Book Clubs in Women's Life Stories
8: Festivals, Literary Tourism, and Pilgrimage
Fiction in Lives, Lives in Fiction
9: The Stories of Our Lives
Appendix: Questionnaire about women's fiction reading