Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life (Revised and Updated)

Inspiration and Advice from Celebrated Women Authors Who Paved the Way

By: Nava Atlas

Narrated by: Robin Miles

Literary Ladies Guide to the Writing Life serves as a beacon of inspiration to writers

Author and artist Nava Atlas presents a treasury of intimate glimpses into the unfolding creative writing process across fifteen brilliant careers in women’s literature and relates their stories to women writers of today. Through their journals, letters, and diaries, we get to know the struggles and triumphs of Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Gwendolyn Brooks, Octavia E. Butler, Willa Cather, Madeleine LEngle, Edna Ferber, Zora Neale Hurston, L.M. Montgomery, Anais Nin, George Sand, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, and Virginia Woolf.

Atlas’s own insightful commentary, newly updated, lifts the curtain on these women’s writing lives and provides reassuring tips and advice on such subjects as finding your voice, self-discipline, dealing with rejection, money matters, balancing family with the solitary writing process, and more. This guide will resonate with women writers in today’s world, at any stage of their journey.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2011 Nava Atlas (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing

A timeless gem, to be listened to over and over

This audiobook beautifully captures the struggles and triumphs of literary women, offering inspiring stories of perseverance and creativity that left me feeling empowered and deeply moved. Highly recommended for anyone passionate about writing or women’s voices.