Open Book: Chick lit, The Woman Reader and Writing Britain

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4.2 • 824 Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2012

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jane Green and Adele Parks discuss why Chick Lit arouses such passion and how the genre, which is more often ignored than celebrated or reviewed in the press, has helped to expand the literary market. Belinda Jack joins us to explore the rich and chequered history of women’s reading, and the controversies it has inspired. And Jamie Andrews, the lead curator of the British Library’s Writing Britain exhibition, discusses Rural Dreams and the countryside.

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1:21.0	Hello, on today's programme with apologies for the more throaty tones than normal.
1:26.0	Chicklet comes of age, we talk to Adele Parks and Jane Green
1:29.1	about the rise and fall of the genre. Winnie the Pooh meets cider with Rosie at the British Library
1:34.9	as we look at rural dreams in literature and keeping us in our place, how books have been
1:40.9	corrupting virtuous women down the centuries.
1:47.1	The Roman historian Salas'd condemned learned women.
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