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Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life serves as a beacon of inspiration to writers Author and artist Nava Atlas presents a treasury of intimate glimpses into the unfolding creative writing process across fifteen brilliant careers in women's literature and relates their stories to women writers of today. Through their journals, letters, and diaries, we get to know the struggles and triumphs of Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Gwendolyn Brooks, Octavia E. Butler, Willa Cather, Madeleine LEngle, Edna Ferber, Zora Neale Hurston, L.M. Montgomery, Anais Nin, George Sand, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf.Atlas's own insightful commentary, newly updated, lifts the curtain on these women's writing lives and provides reassuring tips and advice on such subjects as finding your voice, self-discipline, dealing with rejection, money matters, balancing family with the solitary writing process, and more. This guide will resonate with women writers in today's world, at any stage of their journey.

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"""A bountiful literary quilt of quotations and intimate glimpses of writers' work lives."" -- ""Chronogram Magazine"" ""The terrain navigated by women writers has both gender-specific pitfalls and advantages...[in] different eras. Each writer is revealed as having approached her profession with a personal motivation, a characteristic attitude, and a desire to write that surpassed the majority of her peers...As enjoyable as it is informative."" -- ""ForeWord"" ""Wouldn't it be great to have Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, or Anais Nin all hanging out in your kitchen, offering you support and wisdom, food for thought to continue on? I can turn to any page and find inspiration, guidance, and wisdom from some of the most amazing writers of the last two centuries."" -- ""Alexandra Jamieson, actress and author of Radical Alignment"""

A bountiful literary quilt of quotations and intimate glimpses of writers' work lives. -- Chronogram Magazine The terrain navigated by women writers has both gender-specific pitfalls and advantages...[in] different eras. Each writer is revealed as having approached her profession with a personal motivation, a characteristic attitude, and a desire to write that surpassed the majority of her peers...As enjoyable as it is informative. -- ForeWord Wouldn't it be great to have Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, or Anais Nin all hanging out in your kitchen, offering you support and wisdom, food for thought to continue on? I can turn to any page and find inspiration, guidance, and wisdom from some of the most amazing writers of the last two centuries. -- Alexandra Jamieson, actress and author of Radical Alignment

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Nava Atlas is an author best known as the author and illustrator of many vegan and vegetarian cookbooks and visual books on family themes, humor, and women's issues. She is also a fine artist whose work is shown and collected by museums and universities across the United States. See her work at navaatlas.com Robin Miles, named a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, has twice won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration, an Audie Award for directing, and many Earphones Awards. Her film and television acting credits include The Last Days of Disco, Primary Colors, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, New York Undercover, National Geographic's Tales from the Wild, All My Children, and One Life to Live. She regularly gives seminars to members of SAG and AFTRA actors' unions, and in 2005 she started Narration Arts Workshop in New York City, offering audiobook recording classes and coaching. She holds a BA degree in theater studies from Yale University, an MFA in acting from the Yale School of Drama, and a certificate from the British American Drama Academy in England.

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