Lives of the Wives
Book description
"The five marriages that Carmela Ciuraru explores in Lives of the Wives provide such delightfully gossipy pleasure that we have to remind ourselves that these were real people whose often stormy relationships must surely have been less fun to experience than they are for us to read about."-Francine Prose, author…
Why read it?
1 author picked Lives of the Wives as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love the way in which this fascinating group biography of the female partners of renowned male writers brings these usually ignored figures into the limelight.
Ciuraru argues that behind the careers of many acclaimed literary figures stand the important contributions of their wives. These women offered intellectual as well as practical support.
Many of these literary wives shelved their own creative aspirations to tend to the careers of their husbands.
But after their husbands’ deaths, some of these women found they finally had space for their own literary lives to start blossoming.
From Joel's list on literary women you’ve never heard of.
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