Jenny Diski - Apology for the Woman Writing
Jenny Diski’s novel Apology for the Woman Writing is based on the true story of Marie de Gournay, the passionate and complex young woman who was only 18 when she was so overwhelmed by the work of Michel de Montaigne that she had to be revived with...
London Review Bookshop Podcast
January 20, 200953m 42s
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Show Notes
Jenny Diski was at the London Review Bookshop to be cheered up, apologise, and read from her latest book, Apology for the Woman Writing, a story drawn from the marginal notes that exist about Marie de Gournay, Montaigne's editor and onetime 'stalker'.
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