Events at the Shop
Jenny Diski - Apology for the Woman Writing
Tuesday 20 January 2009
Jenny Diski’s novel Apology for the Woman Writing is based on the true story of Marie de Gournay, the passionate and complex young woman who was only 18 when she was so overwhelmed by the work of Michel de Montaigne that she had to be revived with hellebore.
A Young Woman Learning to Read
Listen now (22:08)
Audience Questions I: Men’s Ambition, Women’s Madness
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Audience Questions II: Invention, Biography and History
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Recorded and edited by Adrian Leibowitz and Brett Wilson
Common Custom:documentary & archive
Jenny Diski is the author of several novels, including Nothing Natural, Only Human – A Comedy and Apology for the Woman Writing, and the acclaimed memoirs Skating to Antarctica, Stranger on a Train and On Trying to Keep Still. She is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books.
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