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A Life of One’s Own : Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Joanna BiggsThe day I took my wedding ring off for the last time--a gold band with half a line of "Morning Song" by Sylvia Plath etched inside--my thumb at first kept on reaching across my palm for the warm bright circle that had gone. I didn't fling the ring into the sea, like women do in the movies, but a feeling bubbled up nevertheless, from my stomach to my throat: it could fling my arms out. I was free. . . .
A few years into her marriage & feeling societal pressure to surrender to domesticity, Joanna Biggs found herself longing for a different kind of existence. Was this all there was? She divorced without knowing what would come next. Newly untethered, Joanna returned to the free-spirited writers of her youth & was soon reading in a fever--desperately searching for evidence of lives that looked more like her own, for the messiness & freedom, for a possible blueprint for intellectual fulfillment.
In A Life of One's Own, Sylvia Plath, Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf, George Eliot, Toni Morrison, Simone de Beauvoir, Zora Neale Hurston, & Elena Ferrante are all taken down from their pedestals, their work & lives held up to the light. Joanna wanted to learn more about the conditions these women needed to write their best work, & how they addressed the questions she herself was struggling with: Is domesticity a trap? Is life worth living if you have lost faith in the traditional goals of a woman? Why is it so important for women to read one another?
This is a radical & intimate examination of the unconventional paths these women took--their pursuits & achievements but also their disappointments & hardships. And in exploring the things that gave their lives the most meaning, we find fuel for our own singular intellectual paths.
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