In her book “How to Suppress Women’s Writing” (https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/russ-how-to-suppress-womens-writing), Joanna Russ discusses methods that society uses to undermine the work of women writers. The excerpts that follow below describe “some unpleasant possibilities” (Joanna Russ’ words) of the kinds of treatment…
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Anne Askew and Catherine Parr; John Foxe and David Hume
A tragic story links our today’s additions to the Library – the works of Anne Askew, Catherine Parr, John Foxe and David Hume. Anne Askew and Catherine Parr are two writers contemporaries who each have a distinction of being the…