Neglected Women Writers (LIT 27)

  • Day and time: 2nd Monday of the month 14:30 - 15:45
  • Length of course: 2 terms. Autumn (3 Weeks), Spring (3 Weeks)
  • Number of places: 10
  • Start date: 13 October 2025
  • Description:

    The British Library Women Writers series is a curated collection of novels by female authors who enjoyed broad, popular appeal in their day, but are perhaps now rather neglected. In a century during which the role of women changed radically, their fictional heroines highlight women's experiences of life inside and outside the home through the first half of the 20th century. For the first session we will read A Pin To See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse published in 1934, but set in the 1920s. I would hope to read a selection across the decades but we can decide on subsequent reads as a group. The complete list of books in the series can be found at https://shop.bl.uk/collections/british-library-women-writers

  • Format: Discussion

  • Co-ordinator: Maxine Fay
  • I have been running a book group for three years and I look forward to discovering new novels by 20th century women authors and discussing them with the group.


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