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Women Writers and Solitude


Women Writers and Solitude - by Anne Boyd

To claim, “I am a writer,” and “I'm going to write now,” while shutting the door or going to stay in a hotel (as Maya Angelou did) or renting a ...

Solitude vs Self-Isolation: Women Authors and the Sacred Inner Space

This musing will focus on well known female writers. Confinement periods can be an advantage for women writers, as their extra-curricular activities may slow ...

A Woman Alone in London: On the Literature of Solitude - Literary Hub

A woman alone in London: On the Literature of Solitude. "A Solitary Life is No Less Liberated Than One That is Lived More Publicly."

The Solitude Project - Los Angeles Review of Books

This endeavor had begun when I'd happened upon an essay by Emily Cooke about the ways some 20th-century female writers, including Sontag and ...

In search of books or movies about women enjoying solitude - Reddit

There are plenty of books and movies about introverts who spend a lot of time alone and then eventually “come out of it” and find love, or find friends.

Six Women Writers Whose Isolation Fueled Their Genius - Medium

Here are six women who not only wrote in isolation but used the ensuing craziness as the basis for their best work.

Herspace: Women, Writing, and Solitude - 1st Edition - Routledge

Women need to claim their own space, to bargain and plan and keep out of sight that solitary space in which to commune with their thoughts and feelings, to ...

Women & Solitude - Book Reviews - Hermitary

Stephanie Mills is an established environmental writer and lecturer with books, articles, and conference appearances to her credit. In this book, her insights ...

WOMEN, WRITING, AND SOLITUDE, edited by Jo - jstor

$60.00 cloth; $24.00 paper. HERSPACE: WOMEN, WRITING, AND SOLITUDE, edited by Jo. Malin and Victoria Boynton. Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies.

The Stories Women Tell of Loneliness - Public Books

Imamura's is a tale of isolation punctuated by slapstick humor. The nameless narrator is a deeply confounded, lonely, aimless person. She is ...

Why I Love to Be Alone

For me, though, being alone is one of the attractions of the writer's life. ... © 2024 Women Writers, Women's Books. All rights reserved. Premium ...

THE SOLITUDE OF WRITERS | Lin Stepp

this discipline is even harder for women. Their book Herspace: Women, Writing, and. Solitude explores the power of solitude in the lives of women writers. In ...

On Her Own: Spinsters and Women Who Write about Them

Alone. It's odd to think of Constance Beresford-Howe writing about the stultifying effects of marriage and family when you consider that she was ...

Looking for a book about a woman seeking solitude, like Walden but ...

28 votes, 23 comments. I read The Wall by Marlen Haushofer and in the afterward the author was talking about how men can go out alone in the ...

States of Solitude: On Natalie Eve Garrett's “The Lonely Stories”

Garrett notes in her introduction that the majority of writers represented in The Lonely Stories identify as women and that in a book of essays ...

How Important Is Solitude for Writers? | LiteraryLadiesGuide

Finding quiet time and privacy to write was as great a challenge for a women authors of the past. How important is solitude for writers?

Rachel Carson on Writing and the Loneliness of Creative Work

Writing is a lonely occupation at best. Of course there are ... In a letter to another young woman with whom Carson felt a deep ...

Escaping the Solitude of the Writing Life Through Letters - Literary Hub

The letter was from a woman who did not know me, as I did not know her. In the tradition of this residency, the writer whose term preceded ...

5 Novels About Women Embracing Solitude | Books & Review

Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel · Pond by Claire-Louise Bennett · An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine · Common Decency by Susannah Dickey.

How 'Alone Time' Can Be Powerful, Especially for Women

... solitude. We asked her about the book, the writing process and the stigma related to solitude, particularly when it comes to women who are alone ...