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SUMMARY:How Women Writers and Readers of the late 1800s Changed Books Forever
DESCRIPTION:Virginia Pye will speak about her novel\, The Literary Undoing 
 of Victoria Swann\, and her research into the "New Women" of the late 1800s 
 who changed the face of publishing and books forever. Dime novels and other 
 romance tales sold in the hundreds of thousands and helped young women find 
 forbidden information for services and products illegal under the Comstock 
 Laws. Voracious women readers and prolific women writers hold the key to 
 understanding parallels to today\n\nVirginia Pye is the author of four 
 award-winning books of fiction\, including two post-colonial historical 
 novels set in China\, River of Dust and Dreams of the Red Phoenix\, and the 
 short story collection\, Shelf Life of Happiness. Her most recent novel\, 
 The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann\, is a love story to writers and 
 readers set in Gilded Age Boston. Her essays have appeared in The New York 
 Times\, Literary Hub\, Publisher’s Weekly\, Writer’s Digest and 
 elsewhere. Virginia holds an MFA in Fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and 
 a BA from Wesleyan University. A Tin House Summer Workshop scholar\, fellow 
 at the Virginia Quarterly Review Conference\, and a repeat fellow at the 
 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Virginia has taught writing at New 
 York University and the University of Pennsylvania\, and\, most recently\, 
 at Grub Street in Boston. She is Fiction Editor at the literary journal 
 Pangyrus and serves on the boards of the Women’s National Book 
 Association\, Boston Chapter and History Cambridge. Visit her at: 
 https://www.virginiapye.com/\n\n\n\nSponsered by the Friends of the 
 Wellesley Free Library\n\n
LOCATION:Wakelin Room
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CATEGORIES:Author Talk, History
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URL:https://wellesleyfreelibrary.libcal.com/event/12651267
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