From one Woman on the Page to another, here Sarah Waters introduces Angela Carter’s iconic novel, Nights at the Circus. Fly this way to read of Fevvers…
“I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying – trying to support what I believe in.” Roxane Gay
Naomi Wolf, author of the iconic The Beauty Myth, introduces the new Vintage Feminism Short Edition, which distils the essence of this ground-breaking tract.
‘They relied on their faith in ideas and their belief that words matter.’ Charlotte Gordon, prize-winning poet and biographer, tells the Penguin Blog about the rule breakers that were Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.