'Women's Work': Forgotten Writers

The Pleasure of the Text

Show Notes

Articles Referenced during the Podcast:

• Homme de Plume: What I Learned Sending My Novel Out Under a Male Name by Catherine Nicols. (2015). https://jezebel.com/homme-de-plume-what-i-learned-sending-my-novel-out-und-1720637627
• VS Naipul find no woman writer his literary match – not even Jane Austen by Amy Fallon. (2011). https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jun/02/vs-naipaul-jane-austen-women-writers
• 12 Women Writers Who Wrote Under Male Pseudonyms by Helen Armitage. (2018). https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/articles/12-female-writers-who-wrote-under-male-pseudonyms/
• The often-overlooked Women Behind Male Writers by Noelle Talmon. (2019). https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/women-behind-male-writers/
• Why do so few men read books by women? By MA Sieghart. (2021). https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jul/09/why-do-so-few-men-read-books-by-women
• Male writers continue to dominate literary criticism, Vida study finds by Hannah Ellis-Peterson. (2015). https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/07/male-writers-continue-dominate-literary-criticism-vida-study-finds
• Scent of a Women’s Ink: Are women writers really inferior? by Francine Prose. (1998). https://harpers.org/archive/1998/06/scent-of-a-womans-ink/

Didn’t end up quoting, by a fascinating read nonetheless; Joanna Scutts on How We Find – and Lose – Women Writers. (2019). https://lithub.com/joanna-scutts-on-how-we-find-and-lose-women-writers/

The Complete Virago Modern Classic Collection (and there are over 717!)

PSA: Announcing a new, collaborative project!
Throughout this episode, it became abundantly clear that the growth and development of literature will remain stunted until we can collate all the overlooked writers into a new Canon, the World Canon. Gareth and I will be developing this list as time goes on, and we would like input on this project. If you are interested, send a message to [e-mail].