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The Smelliest Women of Ancient Greece: Jason and the Argonauts Get Fragrant

We all know Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love and beauty, made sure that she was worshipped by punishing those who ignored her altars. One brief appearance of this wrath in the tale of Jason and the Argonauts turned into a particularly fragrant episode.

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10 Women Who Were Contemporary Shakespeare

Women were everywhere on the 16th- and 17th-century literary scene, writing and publishing alongside men but many of their names are still unknown.

Natalie Haynes: 'All I could understand in Finnegans Wake were the smutty Latin bits' | Books

Julian Barnes’s Talking It Over. I love a polyphonic novel. Try as I might to write a book from a single point of view, I always end up showing events from multiple characters’ perspectives. Plus I always quote the Russian motto he includes at the beginning: “He lies like an eye-witness.” The last book that made me cry Everything makes me cry. I’m a massive weeper. I reread The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper recently, and cried when the rabbits were afraid of Will, right at the start. The last book that made me laugh Calvin and Hobbes, always.