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Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature

Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature

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Eve Bites Back is an alternative history of English literature that places the female contemporaries of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton center stage, revealing the struggles and triumphs of these gamechangers, ground-breakers, and genre-makers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Oneworld Publications



Warned not to write – and certainly not to bite – these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history.


‘Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force. A.L. Kennedy


Ever since Sappho first put stylus to papyrus, women who write have been labelled mad, undisciplined and dangerous. Funny and provocative, Eve Bites Back offers an alternative history of English literature. Placing the female contemporaries of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton centre stage, Anna Beer builds a vibrant new canon through Restoration wits, scandalous sensation novelists and medieval mystics.


Delving into the lives and work of eight pioneers – Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemilia Lanyer, Anne Bradstreet, Aphra Behn, Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Austen and Mary Elizabeth Braddon – Beer uncovers the struggles and triumphs of these gamechangers, ground-breakers and genre-makers.

Weight: 508g
Dimension: 163 x 241 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780861542932

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