Women Who Love Books Too Much: Bibliophiles, Bluestockings & Prolific Pens from the Algonquin Hotel to the Ya-YA Sisterhood

By Brenda Knight

Book Overview

Updated from its original version with an introduction by Ntozake Shange, Wild Women and Books is a celebration of perhaps the most revered and radical women writers of history. Beginning with the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573240249
• ISBN13: 9781573240246
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Conari Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 6.2"

Customer Reviews

On every woman's bedside table, & hopefully some men's...

Portray after portray of women writers, from expected Sapho to not so expected Barbara Cartland & today's news J.K. Rowlings are presented in this fantastic book, nice to look at with its fantastic layout & nice to feel the weight of in the hand. The authors are revealed under imaginative headlines like "Ink in Their Veins", "Sisters in Crime" and "Women Whose Books Are Too Much Loved"...You get thrilled and mused while reading about those female writers. Brenda Knight writes tremendously well - she has knowledge and she knows to share it with us in an entertaining way!As a European Editor, publishing this book in my own language, I am very proud to present some female writers (like Anne Rice and Maya Angelou) for the first time to my countrymen. This is a tremendous gift to buy to a friend who also love books too much (or to oneself!).

On every woman's bedside table, & hopefully some men's...

Portray after portray of women writers, from expected Sapho to not so expected Barbara Cartland & today's news J.K. Rowlings are presented in this fantastic book, nice to look at with its fantastic layout & nice to feel the weight of in the hand. The authors are revealed under imaginative headlines like "Ink in Their Veins", "Sisters in Crime" and "Women Whose Books Are Too Much Loved"...You get thrilled and mused while reading about those female writers. Brenda Knight writes entertainingly well. As a European Editor, publishing this book in my own language, I am very proud to present some female writers (like Anne Rice) for the first time to my countrymen. This is a tremendous gift to buy to a friend who also love books too much (or to oneself!).

Absorbing, revealing, fun reading.

Women Who Love Books Too Much blends cultural and social history with a dash of comic angst, considering how readers and writers interact as a group and affect society. Writers' biographies form the foundation of this consideration, documenting authors whose works changed both their lives and those of others. An absorbing, revealing work is created which is both fun to read and pointed in its observations.