Several signatories of the letter hid behind false names, including those of dead women writers including Emily Dickinson and Daphne du Maurier, “because of the threat of harassment by trans extremists and/or cancellation by the book industry”.
According to the signatories of the open letter, the decision to longlist Peters for the Women’s prize “communicates powerfully that women authors are unworthy of our own prize, and that it is fine to allow male people to appropriate our honours … the moment you decided that a male author was eligible, the award ceased to be the Women’s prize and became simply the Fiction prize”.
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Jessie Buckley, Adetomiwa Edun, Tilda Swinton, Kristin Scott Thomas and Vanessa Kirby
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An all-star cast of performers will present new readings of Virginia Woolf s works.
Released on 8 March (International Women s Day), the readings will be available via Audible and feature four Woolf titles from across her much-loved collected works.
Kristin Scott Thomas will perform
Mrs Dalloway, about a hostess and a soldier s lives on the same day. Jessie Buckley will read
To the Lighthouse, about repeated family holidays to the Isle of Skye, while Tilda Swinton will perform in
NYE fireworks ignite only anger as pandemic prowls
December 30, 2020 â 12.04am
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Gladys Berejiklianâs New Yearâs Eve fireworks are a big ââup yoursââ to the rest of the world suffering one of the worst pandemics in human history (ââCall off the fireworks â for goodââ, December 29).
Rick Johnston, Potts Point
Don Carter, Oyster Bay
NYE will not be a cracker night but a fizzer. Issue a free packet of sparklers to everyone. All citizens to stand on the driveway or balcony and ââignite for 2021ââ. It should be OK to throw in some Tom Thumbs and Double Happys from the olden days.
Roar writer Molly Green reviews Florence Given’s “When Women Don’t Owe You Pretty”.
“When Women Don’t Owe You Pretty” was published at the beginning of the year, I refused to read it. The overly stylised 70’s, pink and orange cover felt somehow patronising, although admittedly part of my dismissal of Florence Given was also the number of tweets I saw explaining why it wasn’t worth buying.
Recently, her name has come up again, and I felt that if I wanted to truly have a part in the argument, I should read her book. Within a few pages, I wanted to throw it away, but since I’d borrowed it from a friend I persevered. In her introduction to the book, Given writes an imagined conversation between an older, far more enlightened self, and her 13-year-old self. The gist of it is that ‘Older Floss’ spouts buzzwords to which ‘Younger Floss’, after a little resistance, is entirely receptive and becomes a newly progressive feminist.
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