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Scribbling Women (2011)

by Marthe Jocelyn(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0887769527 (ISBN13: 9780887769528)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Tundra Books

review 1: This was a cool idea for a book and I learned about a bunch of extremely interesting, yet unknown historical women figures, but the way in which their stories and writings were portrayed was a bit of a letdown. Instead of a collection of extensive pieces of writing with some background information, it was more of a mini-biography for each woman with a couple of short quotes. Not sure if this was a copywrite issue or simply the writer's choice, but I would've really enjoyed a lot more primary source writing, or even actual pictures of the documents.
review 2: Maybe I should have given this book 5 stars. I REALLY liked it. For any woman who loves to write, or even if you just journal or blog, you might really love this book. In the forward, the author tells us... more that the title began as a sneer made by Nathaniel Hawthorne (author of the Scarlett Letter), in a letter to his publisher, in which he complained about what he considered the irritating fad of "scribbling women". At the end of the book, she encourages us to write and says, "Get scribbling..." less

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