"Scribbling Women"
True Tales from Astonishing Lives
$42.95
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2011
Summary
A unique collection of short biographies of women writers, from around the ages and throughout time. This book will appeal to the older YA market with an interest in literar history and women’s studies. It will have some trade appel, but we think most sales will be through the school and library market.In 1855, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his publisher, complaining about the irritating fad of “scribbling women.” Whether they were written by professionals, by women who simply wanted to con…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780887769528 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0887769527 |
| Author: | Marthe Jocelyn |
| Publisher: | Tundra Books |
| Imprint: | Tundra Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 236mm x 165mm x 19mm |
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“[CBC’s] Children’s Book Panel recommends some great summer reading for kids… Scribbling Women by Marthe Jocelyn….” —Michele Landsberg, CBC Radio“…Do you have to ask why I think this is the best sort of book for any girl who wants to be a writer, or any grown up female author who wants to know the great company she is now part of?”—Bookslut“…an astonishing, intriguing biography, sampler and study of writing and character….”—The Toronto Star “…eye-opening work….”—Booklist “Jocelyn draws on real scholarship to paint novelistic portraits of her subjects’ inner lives. The women here truly live up to their billing as ‘astonishing.’”–School Library Journal “This beautifully written text evokes women’s private lives down through history as revealed in their own, often astonishing, words… Well researched, informative and engaging… Jocelyn engages the reader’s imagination through her accessible language, attention to historical detail, creative description and narrative skill.” —Norma Fleck Award, Jury Comments
About The Author
Marthe Jocelyn
Toronto-born MARTHE JOCELYN is the award-winning author and illustrator of over twenty books. Her picture book Hannah’s Collections was short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Illustration. Her novel Mable Riley won the inaugural TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award. Marthe Jocelyn is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work.
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