Title: Women who love books too much : bibliophiles, bluestockings & prolific pens from the Algonquin Hotel to the Ya-Ya sisterhood /
Authors: Knight, Brenda, 1958-
Publisher: Conari Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Women authors Biography; Women book collectors Biography.; Women Books and reading.
Abstract: The author looks at the ravenous readers and rampant writers whose literary lust has driven them to extreme behaviour.
Contents: Introduction: Women Who Love Books Too Much -- First Ladies of Literature Mothers of Invention -- Ink in Their Veins Theories of Relativity -- Mystics and Madwomen Subversive Piety -- Banned, Blacklisted, and Arrested Daring Dissidents -- Prolific Pens Indefatigable Ink -- Salonists and Culture Makers Hermeneutic Circles and Human History -- Women Whose Books Are Loved Too Much Adored Authors -- Book Groups Chatting It Up.