Author: Jenny Diski
Title: Apology for the Woman Writing
Description: Virago Press Ltd 2009 Paperback, 288pp. 'So overwhelmed was Marie de Gournay by the work of French essayist and philosopher Michel de Montaigne that when she finally met him, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in order to show her devotion. An awkward, obsessive character, she set herself against the world in her determination to achieve her ambitious dreams. Only her servant, Jamyn, really knew her.'--P. [4] of cover. (ISBN: 9781844083862). Good.

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