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Star by star by Sheena Wilkinson
Anabel recommends: Star by star by Sheena Wilkinson Last autumn, I recommended some Suffragette stories for younger women that had recently been added to stock. Star by star is an addition to that list...
View ArticleKamila Shamsie’s Home Fire: A Question of Family, Love and Morality
Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire was long-listed for last year’s prestigious Man Booker Prize. It’s an elegant, thought provoking and socially relevant tale of clashing cultures, family loss, grief and a...
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We had another session of our Book Picnic with Rosie, Gaby, Wendy and Pauline. And as usual wonderful book recommendations were shared: Small White Monkeys by Sophie Collins This wonderful publication...
View ArticleReview: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black
The Cruel Prince is the much-anticipated maiden novel of acclaimed American young adult author Holly Black’s latest fantasy trilogy. Having read and very much enjoyed the magic and musings on morality...
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Our most recent Book Picnic took place on Friday 20th and as usual was filled with exciting new recommendations. The Driver’s Seat // Muriel Spark Spark paints a detailed picture of eccentric and...
View ArticleWomen, Fear and Fairy Tails: A Review of Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen...
Stories crafted from or inspired by fairy tales have been my favourites since I was a child, when they would fill me with wonder and excitement. These days, when I hear about a book of newly crafted...
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Muriel Spark: What is this I’m reading?
We hear from Hannah Van Hove who is currently researching and writing at Glasgow Women’s Library ahead of ‘Narrative Experiments’ on Saturday 25th August, 2pm to 4pm which will spend an afternoon...
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A month of specials and travels
Mamma mia, have the past four weeks rushed by fast. So fast in fact that facing this blog post I feel like not even two days have passed between the last one and this blog post and that it feels like I...
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Review: Wir haben sie noch alle! – a publication by the Berlin feminist archive
Glasgow Women’s Library recently received a neat parcel coming straight from Berlin. We opened the packaging with anticipation and were delighted to find a book and a letter sent to us by our friend...
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Bad Girls from History: Wicked or Misunderstood? By Dee Gordon.
Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History. -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich And yet, it is obvious that they demand of women greater constancy than they themselves have, for they who claim to be of this strong and...
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The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse
A book review by our volunteer Elaine. I recently saw an interview on TV with Kate Mosse, who was discussing her new book “The Burning Chambers” advising that it is the first of four volumes. So how...
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Burned At The Stake-The Life of Mary Channing/The Yorkshire Witch-The Life...
I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself….You must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it...
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Menna Elfyn’s Bondo, Antonella Anedda’s Archipelago and Tatiana Shcherbina’s...
“Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.” ― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories “Every act of communication is a miracle of translation.” ― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and...
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Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker and Julia Scheele.
We queer things when we resist the regime of normal: the normative ideals of aspiring to be normal in identity, behaviour, appearance and relationships. -Michael Warner Trouble with Normal, (1999)...
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Our volunteers and staff recommend… Book Picnic of the month
Our most recent book picnic took place on Wednesday 5th of september, and our staff and volunteers gave us new exciting recommendations that we wanted to share with you. The Things I Would Tell You:...
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First Hurrah Fares Well (Book Review)
“Swansong” by Kerry Andrew (Hardback – Jonathan Cape/ Penguin 2018) FICTION reviewed by Jay Andrew, Front of House volunteer I will admit that it was the author’s last name that first drew me,...
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Hitherto Unknown: Research Workshops Tillie Olsen Wish List
Tillie Olsen ‘Silences’ at GWL. Credit: GWL “Literary history and the present are dark with silences.” Tillie Olsen, ‘Silences’, 1978. Ahead of the first of a series of research workshops inspired by...
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Review: Schicksalsfäden – Women’s histories in thread and fabric
GWL is delighted to announce that we were gifted another German book for our international collection. When Morag visited the Women’s Cultural Museum in Fürth, Germany, in May, she received a copy of...
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Book review: What the Suffragists Did Next
What the Suffragists Did Next: how the fight for women’s rights went on. By Mavis Curtis (to be found in the History section at GWL: H7.1 Cur) Loved the title! Highly recommended I assumed this...
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Our volunteers and staff recommend… Book Picnic of the month
What a great way to welcome autumn and October with our monthly Book Picnic. Here are the books recommended on Wednesday 3rd October. It was funny to notice that most of the covers of the books brought...
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