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Illustrated Book Tells the Stories Behind Important Female Authors

Kaley Bales/Chronicle Books/Amazon In 1835, Charlotte Brontë took up teaching at West Yorkshire’s Roe Head School, where she herself had been a student several years earlier. To say she disliked the gig would be an understatement. “Am I to spend all the best part of my life in this wretched bondage,” she wrote in her journal in August 1836, “forcibly suppressing my rage at the idleness, the apathy, and the hyperbolical and most asinine stupidity of these fat-headed oafs, and on compulsion assuming an air of kindness, patience, and assiduity?” What she really wanted to do was write, which, as we know, she eventually did. But it wasn’t an easy road, in large part because she was a woman. Poet laureate Robert Southey once told her that “literature cannot be the business of a woman s life, and it ought not to be.”

New and Forthcoming Titles on Women, Girls and Empowerment

New and Forthcoming Titles on Women, Girls and Empowerment
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Quick Studies: Books for Short Attention Spans 2021

By Liza Monroy | Jan 22, 2021 50 Things to Do at the Beach Easkey Britton, illus. by Maria Nilsson. Princeton Architectural Press, May. Big-wave surfer Britton, who has a PhD in environment and society, offers a concise, illustrated primer based on years of research and activism: she rides a surfboard made from cigarette butts to raise awareness about environmental conservation, and is the first woman known to have surfed Iran’s Baluchistan Coast. See our q&a with Easkey, “Reading the Sea.”  The Three-Minute Philosopher Midal, whose books include  The French Art of Not Giving a Sh t, is a philosopher who lectures frequently on meditation and mindfulness. Here, he distills inspiration from 40 writers and thinkers including James Baldwin, Charles Baudelaire, and Simone de Beauvoir. Each essay can be read in three minutes, serving up deep thoughts on a fast-food timeline.

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