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Apology for the Woman Writing

Apology for the Woman Writing

by Jenny Diski
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/01/2009
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Marie de Gournay was 18 when she read, & was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until blood ran in order to show her devotion. He then made her his adopted daughter.
ISBN:
9781844083855
9781844083855
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-01-2009
Language:
English
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
198x126x10.5mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Jenny Diski

Jenny Diski was born in 1947 in London, where she lived most of her life. She was the author of ten novels, four books of travel and memoir, including Stranger on a Train and Skating to Antarctica, two volumes of essays and a collection of short stories. Her journalism appeared in publications including the Mail on Sunday, the Observer and the London Review of Books, to which she contributed more than two hundred articles over twenty-five years.

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