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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring George Eliot pushed the boundaries of fiction and of Victorian soc......more

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Follow along with this illustrated map to all the places mentioned in Emily Brontë’s remarkable 1847 novel. While Wuther......more

Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own is a seminal essay that explores the intersection of gender and literature, advocat......more

In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining......more

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogatio......more

National Humanities Medalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us towa......more

A powerful collection of early feminist stories from the activist and writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Gilman created a ......more

Who Were the Martyrs of Wigtown? In Wigtown, South West Scotland, there is a stake out at sea to commemorate the drownin......more

"A new collection of Susan Sontag’s essays about women, edited by David Rieff and introduced by Merve Emre"--...more

Are you seeking inspiration to brighten your day? Look no further. The Little Book Of Introverted Thoughts is bursting w......more

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In this essay, originally published anonymously in The Westminster Review (1856), George Eliot examines the state of wom......more