Read by Robin Miles

Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life serves as a beacon of inspiration. Popular author Nava Atlas explores what it is like to live the writing life through the journals, letters, and diaries of twelve celebrated women writers, including such renowned authors as Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Madeleine L'Engle, Anais Nin, George Sand, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf. Atlas's own insightful commentary, newly updated, lifts the curtain on these women's lives and provides reassuring tips and advice on such subjects as dealing with rejection, money matters, and balancing family with the solitary writing process. This guide will resonate with women writers in today's world. "A bountiful literary quilt of quotations and intimate glimpses of writers' work lives." "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." "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."

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