The Women Writers Handbook 2020

had to be written backwards.

What George Eliot’s letters added to this texture of texts to think about was the sense I always have that her real passionate self is splendidly absent from the letters kept by the people who kept them.

there should be two couples, man and woman, one alive and one dead. The novel would concern the complex relations between these two pairs

Possession about the relations between living and dead minds.”

The Virginia Prize for Fiction

#MeToo and #TimesUp

queer theory and “transfeminism” raised issues around gender identity.

Spice Girls were able to re-brand feminism under a girl-power banner and monetize their version of Britpop to a global audience.

breaking anthology, titled Six Plays by Black and Asian Women Writers ed. Kadija George.

with Germaine Greer’s adaptation of Lysistrata, Dacia Maraini’s historical play Veronica Franco, Courtesan and Poet and Nawal El Saadawi’s play Twelve Women in a Cell.