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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: life of one's own
    sub title: nine women writers begin again
  name:
    name part: Biggs, Joanna
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: Autobiographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    edition: First U.S. edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 259 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: I took off my wedding ring for the last time, a gold band with half a line of "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath etched inside, and for weeks afterwards, my thumb would involuntarily reach across my palm for the warm bright circle that had gone. I didn't fling the ring into the long grass, like women do in the movies, but a feeling began bubbling up nevertheless, from my stomach to my throat. It could fling my arms out. I was free. A few years into her marriage and feeling societal pressure to surrender to domesticity, Joanna Biggs found herself longing for a different kind of existence. Was this all there was? She divorced without knowing what would come next. Newly untethered, Joanna returned to the free-spirited writers of her youth and was soon reading in a fever, desperately searching for evidence of lives that looked more like her own, for the messiness and freedom, for a possible blueprint for intellectual fulfillment. In A Life of One's Own, Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison and Elena Ferrante are all taken down from their pedestals, their work and lives seen in a new light. Joanna wanted to learn more about the conditions these women needed to write their best work, and how they addressed the questions she herself was struggling with: Is domesticity a trap? Is life worth living if you have lost faith in the traditional goals of a woman? Why is it so important for women to read one another? This is a radical and intimate examination of the unconventional paths these women took, their pursuits and achievements but also their disappointments and hardships. And in exploring the things that gave their lives the most meaning, we find fuel for our own singular intellectual paths.
  table of contents: Mary -- George -- Zora -- Virginia -- Simone -- Sylvia -- Toni -- Elena.
  note: Joanna Biggs.
  note: "Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd."--Title page verso.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259).
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Biggs, Joanna
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Wollstonecraft, Mary
      name part: 1759-1797
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Eliot, George
      name part: 1819-1880
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Hurston, Zora Neale
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Woolf, Virginia
      name part: 1882-1941
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Beauvoir, Simone de
      name part: 1908-1986
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Plath, Sylvia
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Morrison, Toni
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Ferrante, Elena
  subject:
    topic: Women authors
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: Women authors
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PN471 .B54 2023
  classification: 809.89287 B
  identifier: 9780063073104
  identifier: 0063073102
  record info:
    record content source: AZH
    record creation date: 230227
    record change date: 20230726204601.9
    record identifier: in00004731023