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Bookworm: Celebrate Women s History Month with these books In a time of great division, two new books explore the Civil War Terri Schlichenmeyer By Lauren Marino, illustrations by Alexandra Kilburn c. 2021, Abrams Image “The Girl Explorers” “The Women s History of the Modern World” By Rosalind Miles $16.99, $21.00 Canada; 432 pages Fifty percent of the population. Give or take, that s how many women there are in the world, women who work, raise families, care for others, paint and create and dance. So, this month – Women s History Month – why not celebrate those who wrote, explored, and made change? You know how much you love a really good book, so look for this one: “Bookish Broads” by Lauren Marino, illustrations by Alexandra Kilburn. ....
Virginia Woolf laid out her views pretty clearly in A Room of One’s Own, the book-length essay based on the lectures on Women and Fiction that she gave at two colleges in 1928: “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” She could afford to be an idealist, but for the rest of us, a quiet place to work without distractions is difficult to come by (and money is an entirely separate matter). So how did Woolf and other female writers create their own writing spaces?