# Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature - Hardcover

by **Anna Beer** (Author)

**Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literature**

**'Essential reading.' Claire Tomalin**

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

From the fourteenth century through to the present day, women who write have been understood as mad, undisciplined or dangerous. Female writers have always had to find ways to overcome or challenge these beliefs. Some were cautious and discreet, some didn't give a damn, but all lived complex, eventful and often controversial lives.

_Eve Bites Back_ places the female contemporaries of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton centre stage in the history of literature in English, uncovering stories of dangerous liaisons and daring adventures. From Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet, to Aphra Behn, Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Austen and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, these are the women who dared to write.

### Author Biography

**Anna Beer** is a cultural historian and biographer. She is author of _Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music_ and _Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh_, as well as biographies of Bess Throckmorton, William Shakespeare and John Milton. She is a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

**Number of Pages:** 304

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 9.3 x 5.9 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** November 08, 2022

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