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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Taylor, Helen, 1947- author.     Subjects     Women -- Books and reading -- Great Britain.     Women -- Books and reading -- Social aspects.     Fiction -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Taylor, Helen, 1947- author.       by title:      Why women read ficti...         MARC Display

Why women read fiction : the stories of our lives / Helen Taylor. by Taylor, Helen, 1947- author. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2019. Subjects Women -- Books and reading -- Great Britain.   Women -- Books and reading -- Social aspects.   Fiction -- Appreciation -- Great Britain. ISBN:  9780198827689 (hardcover) : 0198827687 (hardcover) Description:  xxii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  How, where, and why women read fiction. 'Cheap sweet vacations'- reading as a woman ; What their books yield or, why I am not buying a kindle / Rosie Jackson -- What women read. Reading as a girl ; The poet on her childhood reading / U.A. Fanthorpe -- Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, the novels women love best -- Romance and erotica- fiction by women for women -- Women, crime, sci-fi, and fantasy -- The Literary Blogger / dovegreyreader -- Writers and readers. Women writers on their reading and readers -- Book clubs in women's life stories -- Festivals, literary tourism, and pilgrimage -- Fiction in lives, lives in fiction -- The stories of our lives. Conclusion. Requests:  0 Summary:  Explains how precious fiction is to contemporary British fiction readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Draws on over 500 interviews with and questionnaires from women readers and writers.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 028.9082 Ta Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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