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  4. Part one of a history of women's writing, A Book of One's Own

Part one of a history of women's writing, A Book of One's Own

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Last broadcast on Thu, 14 Jul 2011, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Mariella Frostrup presents the first in a four part series examining the history of women's writing in the last hundred years. In A Book of One's Own: How Women Wrote The Twentieth Century, she speaks to leading novelists, critics and publishers - including AS Byatt, Carmen Calil and Kate Mosse - as she traces the evolution of women's emancipation in fiction.

Mariella begins by exploring the literature of the suffrage movement with the aid of Shirley Williams - daughter of the iconic feminist author Vera Brittain - and asks why the names of so many groundbreaking suffrage writers have been erased from our literary history.

Also in the programme, Ross Raisin, author of God's Own Country, discusses his new book Waterline. And Damian Flanagan talks about the current state of contemporary Japanese fiction

PRODUCER: ELLA-MAI ROBEY AND AASIYA LODHI.

Read the Opening Chapter of Waterline by Ross Raisin

Chapter 1: Waterline by Ross Raisin

BOOKLIST

ROSS RAISIN

God’s Own Country – Ross Raisin
Publisher: Penguin

Waterline – Ross Raisin
Publisher: Viking

A BOOK OF ONE’S OWN

Suffragette Sally – Gertrude Colmore
Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd

The Judge – Rebecca West
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd

Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks

The Odd Women – George Gissing
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks

Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
Publisher: Penguin Books

A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Penguin Classics

CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE FICTION

The Restaurant of Love Regained – Ito Ogawa
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd

Kitchen – Banana Yoshimoto
Publisher: Faber and Faber

Goodbye Tsugumi – Banana Yoshimoto
Publisher: Faber and Faber

Amrita – Banana Yoshimoto
Publisher: Faber and Faber

Bedtime Eyes - Amy Yamada
Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc

Trash – Amy Yamada
Publisher: Kodansha America

Books about romance and food:

Heartburn – Nora Ephron
Publisher: Virago Press Ltd

Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
Publisher: Black Swan

Chocolat – Joanne Harris
Publisher: Black Swan

Elizabeth Gilbert – Eat, Pray, Love
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Broadcasts

  1. Sun 10 Jul 2011
    16:00
    BBC Radio 4
  2. Thu 14 Jul 2011
    16:00
    BBC Radio 4

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