#readmorewomen — Public Fediverse posts
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#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.
She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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“The country smelt of blood; reeked of it.”FLEMINGTON is available as a free ebook from @gutenberg_org
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/55361
#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #HistoricalFiction #ReadMoreWomen
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John Buchan called FLEMINGTON—Violet Jacob’s novel of the 1745 rising & its aftermath, published in 1911—“the best Scots romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”. It’s included on The List magazine’s Best 100 Scottish Bookshttps://list.co.uk/news/39550/violet-jacob-flemington-1911
#Scottish #literature #history #18thcentury #Culloden #Jacobites #HistoricalFiction #ReadMoreWomen
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#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
#ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 1963, Sylvia Plath's only novel, 'The Bell Jar' is published in the UK under the name Victoria Lucas. It’s republished in her own name in 1967.
Bonus article on some of the, er, curious cover choices. You can probably date yourself by which cover you recognise.
https://lithub.com/15-covers-for-the-bell-jar-ranked-from-most-to-least-sexist/#LiteraryWomen #ReadMoreWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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It's ALIVE!
#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.
https://uk.bookshop.org/a/15351/9780143131847 (affiliate link)
#ReadMoreWomen #LiteraryWomen
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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."
#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.
Watch her speech here: https://nobel-videocdn01.azureedge.net/video/lecture_1993_lit_morrison_98_496.mp4
#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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“To make something good of the future, you have to look the present in the face.”
#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1954, Simone de Beauvoir wins the Prix Goncourt with her novel ‘The Mandarins’.
She was the third woman to win the Goncourt since it was founded in 1903. Only 14 of the 114 winners have been women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #FrenchHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 2000, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for fiction for the first time, having previously been nominated 3 times (including for the Handmaid's Tale in 1986).
She wins again in 2019, jointly sharing the prize with Bernardine Evaristo.
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#OnThisDay, 16 Oct 2012, Hilary Mantel becomes the first person to win the Booker prize twice when 'Bring Up the Bodies' wins.
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#OnThisDay, 30 May 2012, Madeline Miller wins the Orange Prize (now the Baileys Prize) with her debut novel The Song of Achilles. It is a retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of Patroclus.
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#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.
She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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The battle of Culloden was fought #OTD, 16 April 1746. It has, unsurprisingly, left a significant imprint in the literature & culture of Scotland. A short 🧵
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John Buchan called FLEMINGTON—Violet Jacob’s 1911 novel of the 1745 #Jacobite rising & aftermath—“the best Scots #romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”
FLEMINGTON is available free on @gutenberg_org
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55361
#Scottish #literature #history #Culloden #Jacobites #HistoricalFiction #ReadMoreWomen
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#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
#ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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Happy Minna Canth day, Finland!
Born #OnThisDay, 19 Mar 1844, Minna Canth was a Finnish playwright and social activist. Public buildings will fly the national flag to celebrate.
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#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 1963, Sylvia Plath's only novel, 'The Bell Jar' is published in the UK under the name Victoria Lucas. It’s republished in her own name in 1967.
Bonus article on some of the, er, curious cover choices. You can probably date yourself by which cover you recognise.
https://lithub.com/15-covers-for-the-bell-jar-ranked-from-most-to-least-sexist/#LiteraryWomen #ReadMoreWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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It's ALIVE!
#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.
#ReadMoreWomen #LiteraryWomen
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#OnThisDay, 23 Dec 1815, the much-anticipated fourth novel “by the author of Pride and Prejudice”, Emma, is published.
Jane Austen died 18 months later, never seeing her work published under her name. This wasn't that unusual at the time: women who wrote would obscure their identity on their work, even if their authorship of it was common knowledge.
We're rather fond of the 2020 adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmcJEeeT-us
#WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons
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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."
#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.
Watch her speech here: https://nobel-videocdn01.azureedge.net/video/lecture_1993_lit_morrison_98_496.mp4
#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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“To make something good of the future, you have to look the present in the face.”
#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1954, Simone de Beauvoir wins the Prix Goncourt with her novel ‘The Mandarins’.
She was the third woman to win the Goncourt since it was founded in 1903. Only 14 of the 113 winners have been women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #FrenchHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 2000, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for fiction for the first time, having previously been nominated 3 times (including for the Handmaid's Tale in 1986).
She wins again in 2019, jointly sharing the prize with Bernardine Evaristo.
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It’s #IrishBookWeek and just a gentle reminder that my memoir is available from New Island Books (and of course in bookshops and wherever you buy!) 😊
Also of course to note that it's free too from the library or also helps if you request it in the library! 📚
https://www.newisland.ie/nonfiction/anseo
#irish #irishbooks #irishauthors #AuthorTalk #authors #books #book #reading #ReadMoreWomen #ireland
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A novel about the primal guilt that comes with being a mother.
MOTHERS DON’T by Katixa Agirre, translated from Basque by Kristin Addis.
#MothersDont #KatixaAgirre #motherhood #crime #womenintranslation #ReadMoreWomen #3TimesRebel #indiepublisher
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Thank you for this fantastic first year (⋮)
We can't wait to start sharing what's coming up next year for 3TimesRebel.
Stay tuned! 💜
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MOTHERHOOD COMES AT A PRICE: YOUR OWN FREEDOM
This book is halfway between a thriller and a journalistic chronicle. A novel about the primal guilt that comes with being a mother
MOTHERS DON’T by Katixa Agirre, translated from Basque by Kristin Addis
#MothersDont #KatixaAgirre #ReadMoreWomen #3TimesRebel #3TR #indiePublishers #womenintranslation #literature #booklove #bookcommunity #booktography #bookreader #bookpassion #books #BookToot
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‘From time to time, I did feel a need to be free of the baby, but whenever I left him to go for a walk by myself, it was worse; the baby's absence constantly weighed heavily on my conscience.’
💜 MOTHERS DON’T by Katixa Agirre, translated from Basque by Kristin Addis
#womenintranslation #MothersDont #ReadMoreWomen #3TimesRebel #3TR #indiePublishers #literature
#booklove #bookcommunity
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'It took me so long to understand that it was she who was the fraud. It took me so long to understand that the well in which she'd thrown me was her own unhappiness.’
#TheCarnivorousPlant🌱 by Andrea Mayo, translated from Catalan by Laura McGloughlin
#ReadMoreWomen #3TimesRebel #3TR #indiePublishers #womenintranslation #literature #booklove #bookcommunity #booktography #bookreader #bookworm #bookpassion #booksaremylife #ilovebooks
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Only women.
Only minority languages.
This is our choice.…………
#ReadMoreWomen #3TimesRebel #3TR #indiePublishers #womenintranslation #literature #DeadLands #MothersDont #TheCarnivorousPlant #Dundee #Scotland