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Why women read fiction : the stories of our lives / Helen Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Helen, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Books and reading--Great Britain.
- Women.
- Women--Books and reading--Social aspects.
- Fiction--Appreciation--Great Britain.
- Fiction.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (299 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Explains how precious fiction is to contemporary British fiction readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Draws on over 500 interviews with and questionnaires from women readers and writers.
- Contents:
- How, where, and why women read fiction. 'Cheap sweet vacations'- reading as a woman ; What their books yield or, why I am not buying a kindle / Rosie Jackson
- What women read. Reading as a girl ; The poet on her childhood reading / U.A. Fanthorpe
- Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, the novels women love best
- Romance and erotica- fiction by women for women
- Women, crime, sci-fi, and fantasy
- The Literary Blogger / dovegreyreader
- Writers and readers. Women writers on their reading and readers
- Book clubs in women's life stories
- Festivals, literary tourism, and pilgrimage
- Fiction in lives, lives in fiction
- The stories of our lives. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed January 27, 2025).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780192562678
- 0192562673
- 9780192562661
- 0192562665
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