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Open Book: A History of Women's Writing Part Three; Has Crime Writing Become Too Gory?

24/07/2011

A History of Women's Writing Part Three; Has Crime Writing Become Too Gory?

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, A History of Women's Writing Part Three; Has Crime Writing Become Too Gory?

Has crime writing has become too gory? And the history of women's writing series continues

In the week of the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, Mariella asks if the genre has become too gory. Plus the third part of her series examining the history of women's writing.

In the third instalment of her history of women's twentieth-century writing, A Book of One's Own, Mariella investigates the era of sexual liberation in the 1960s and 70s and how it ignited feminist fiction. She also traces the explosion in feminist literary theory, a development which has not been welcomed by some women writers, as Mariella finds out from novelist AS Byatt. 

In the week of Harrogate Crime Writing Festival, Mariella asks writers N.J. Cooper and Tess Gerritsen, if the genre has become too gory.

Plus with the news that houses once belonging authors JG Ballard and JK Rowling are up for sale, Olivia Cole - poet and Literary Editor at GQ - provides a countdown to her top 5 author abodes.

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