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02334aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 8270F41252E511EAA613AE5697128E48 003 SILO 005 20200219010025 008 190505t20192019enka b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2019949804 020 $a 0198827687 020 $a 9780198827689 035 $a (OCoLC)1099892752 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UEJ $d ZNS $d UPM $d SINLB $d YDXIT $d UAP $d UKOBU $d YDXIT $d MNW $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a Z1039.W65 $b T39 2019 082 04 $a 028.90820941 $2 23 100 1 $a Taylor, Helen, $d 1947- $e author. 245 10 $a Why women read fiction : $b the stories of our lives / $c Helen Taylor. 246 30 $a Stories of our lives 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xxii, 276 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a Explains how precious fiction is to contemporary British fiction readers, and how they draw on it to tell the stories of their lives. Draws on over 500 interviews with and questionnaires from women readers and writers. 505 0 $a How, where, and why women read fiction. 'Cheap sweet vacations'- reading as a woman ; What their books yield or, why I am not buying a kindle / Rosie Jackson -- What women read. Reading as a girl ; The poet on her childhood reading / U.A. Fanthorpe -- Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre, the novels women love best -- Romance and erotica- fiction by women for women -- Women, crime, sci-fi, and fantasy -- The Literary Blogger / dovegreyreader -- Writers and readers. Women writers on their reading and readers -- Book clubs in women's life stories -- Festivals, literary tourism, and pilgrimage -- Fiction in lives, lives in fiction -- The stories of our lives. Conclusion. 650 0 $a Women $x Books and reading $z Great Britain. 650 0 $a Women $x Social aspects. $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Fiction $x Appreciation $z Great Britain. 941 $a 5 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221203070106.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909063813.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317021109.0 952 $l KQPC446 $d 20200901010209.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200602014430.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8270F41252E511EAA613AE5697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search