With excerpts from Emily Dickinson, Vivian Gornick, Marilynne Robinson, Elena Ferrante, Nancy Mitford, Colette, Sue Limb, Dorothy L. Sayers, Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Bowen, Anaïs Nin, Judy Blume, Winifred Holtby, Margaret Atwood, L. M. Montgomery, Emilia McKenzie, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Curtis Sittenfeld, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Charlotte Brontë, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, Muriel Spark, and others.
