Joanna Biggs

Writer Joanna Biggs seeks solace and advice from her 9 writing heroines in these fine essays about their lives and work. Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, Zora Neil Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison and Elena Ferrante (the first 8 are my own female literary friends also, I may come to Ferrante, but I didn't get far into My Brilliant Friend, probably because I am not much of a 'coming of age' story person. I too have been reading these writers most of my life, and regularly revisit them.

In this volume Biggs is looking for a way forward after her divorce, and her revisiting these writers gives her ideas for framing how she can move forward, shape and form new ways of being. In her exploration she finds new things in her later readings of the works.

I certainly wanted to revisit again with these writers, and dived again into Virginia's To the Lighthouse, probably my 6th reading.

I shall certainly be revisiting these essays again.… (más)