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A unique collection of short biographies of women writers, from around the ages and throughout time. This book will appeal to the older YA market with an interest in literar history and women's studies. It will have some trade appel, but we think most sales will be through the school and library market. In 1855, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his publisher, complaining about the irritating fad of ""scribbling women."" Whether they were written by professionals, by women who simply wanted to connect with others, or by those who wanted to leave a record of their lives, those ""scribbles"" are fascinating, informative, and instructive. Margaret Catchpole was a transported prisoner whose eleven letters provide the earliest record of white settlement in Australia. Writing hundreds of years later, Aboriginal writer Doris Pilkington-Garimara wrote a novel about another kind of exile in Australia. Young Isabella Beeton, one of twenty-one children and herself the mother of four, managed to write a groundbreaking cookbook before she died at the age of twenty-eight. World traveler and journalist Nelly Bly used her writing to expose terrible injustices. Sei Shonagan has left us poetry and journal entries that provide a vivid look at the pampered life and intrigues in Japan's imperial court. Ada Blackjack, sole survivor of a disastrous scientific expedition in the Arctic, fought isolation and fear with her precious Eversharp pencil. Dr. Dang Thuy Tram's diary, written in a field hospital in the steaming North Vietnamese jungle while American bombs fell, is a heartbreaking record of fear and hope. Many of the women in ""Scribbling Women"" had eventful lives. They became friends with cannibals, delivered babies, stole horses, and sailed on whaling ships. Others lived quietly, close to home. But each of them has illuminated the world through her words. A note from the author- OOPS! On page 197, the credit for the Portrait of Harriet Jacobs on page 43 should read- courtesy of Library of Congress, not Jean Fagan Yellin. On page 197, the credit for the portrait of Isabella Beeton on page 61 should read- National Portrait Gallery, London. On page 198, the credit for page 147 should be Dang Kim Tram, not Kim Tram Dang. We are very sorry about the mix-up in the Photo Credits, they will be updated on any new editions or reprints.

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[CBC's] Children's Book Panel recommends some great summer reading for kids... Scribbling Women by Marthe Jocelyn.... --Michele Landsberg, CBC Radio .. .Do you have to ask why I think this is the best sort of book for any girl who wants to be a writer, or any grown up female author who wants to know the great company she is now part of? --Bookslut .. .an astonishing, intriguing biography, sampler and study of writing and character.... --The Toronto Star . . .eye-opening work.... --Booklist Jocelyn draws on real scholarship to paint novelistic portraits of her subjects' inner lives. The women here truly live up to their billing as 'astonishing.' -School Library Journal This beautifully written text evokes women's private lives down through history as revealed in their own, often astonishing, words... Well researched, informative and engaging... Jocelyn engages the reader's imagination through her accessible language, attention to historical detail, creative description and narrative skill. --Norma Fleck Award, Jury Comments

PRAISE FOR FOLLY <br> A thoughtful, accessible and richly detailed read that moves along at a satisfying clip.... <br>- Starred Review, Kirkus<br><br> PRAISE FOR WOULD YOU? <br> It is difficult to overstate the brilliance of Would You? <br>- The Globe and Mail<br> <br>. ..[an] exquisitely honed novel.... <br>- Starred Review, Publisher's Weekly<br><br> PRAISE FOR A HOME FOR FOUNDLINGS <br> This fascinating tribute...is an excellent snapshot of the life of a foundling.... It is this personal connection to the history that makes Jocelyn's book resonate with the reader. Her research is heartfelt and it shows in her work. <br>- VOYA<br><br> . ..this is a riveting read. <br>- The Toronto Star

<p> [CBC's] Children's Book Panel recommends some great summer reading for kids... Scribbling Women by Marthe Jocelyn.... <br>--Michele Landsberg, CBC Radio<br><br>. ..Do you have to ask why I think this is the best sort of book for any girl who wants to be a writer, or any grown up female author who wants to know the great company she is now part of? <br>--Bookslut<br><br>. ..an astonishing, intriguing biography, sampler and study of writing and character.... <br> --The Toronto Star<br> <br> . ..eye-opening work.... <br> --Booklist<br> <br> Jocelyn draws on real scholarship to paint novelistic portraits of her subjects' inner lives. The women here truly live up to their billing as 'astonishing.' <br> -School Library Journal<br><br> This beautifully written text evokes women's private lives down through history as revealed in their own, often astonishing, words... Well researched, informative and engaging... Jocelyn engages the reader's imagination through her accessible language, attention to historical detail, creative description and narrative skill. <br> --Norma Fleck Award, Jury Comments<br>

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[CBC s] Children's Book Panel recommends some great summer reading for kids Scribbling Women by Marthe Jocelyn . Michele Landsberg, CBC Radio Do you have to ask why I think this is the best sort of book for any girl who wants to be a writer, or any grown up female author who wants to know the great company she is now part of? Bookslut an astonishing, intriguing biography, sampler and study of writing and character . The Toronto Star eye-opening work . Booklist Jocelyn draws on real scholarship to paint novelistic portraits of her subjects inner lives. The women here truly live up to their billing as astonishing. School Library Journal This beautifully written text evokes women s private lives down through history as revealed in their own, often astonishing, words Well researched, informative and engaging Jocelyn engages the reader s imagination through her accessible language, attention to historical detail, creative description and narrative skill. Norma Fleck Award, Jury Comments [CBC's] Children's Book Panel recommends some great summer reading for kids... Scribbling Women by Marthe Jocelyn.... --Michele Landsberg, CBC Radio .. .Do you have to ask why I think this is the best sort of book for any girl who wants to be a writer, or any grown up female author who wants to know the great company she is now part of? --Bookslut .. .an astonishing, intriguing biography, sampler and study of writing and character.... --The Toronto Star . . .eye-opening work.... --Booklist Jocelyn draws on real scholarship to paint novelistic portraits of her subjects' inner lives. The women here truly live up to their billing as 'astonishing.' -School Library Journal This beautifully written text evokes women's private lives down through history as revealed in their own, often astonishing, words... Well researched, informative and engaging... Jocelyn engages the reader's imagination through her accessible language, attention to historical detail, creative description and narrative skill. --Norma Fleck Award, Jury Comments PRAISE FOR FOLLY A thoughtful, accessible and richly detailed read that moves along at a satisfying clip.... - Starred Review, Kirkus PRAISE FOR WOULD YOU? It is difficult to overstate the brilliance of Would You? - The Globe and Mail . ..[an] exquisitely honed novel.... - Starred Review, Publisher's Weekly PRAISE FOR A HOME FOR FOUNDLINGS This fascinating tribute...is an excellent snapshot of the life of a foundling.... It is this personal connection to the history that makes Jocelyn's book resonate with the reader. Her research is heartfelt and it shows in her work. - VOYA . ..this is a riveting read. - The Toronto Star PRAISE FOR FOLLY A thoughtful, accessible and richly detailed read that moves along at a satisfying clip.... - Starred Review, Kirkus PRAISE FOR WOULD YOU? It is difficult to overstate the brilliance of Would You? - The Globe and Mail ... [an] exquisitely honed novel.... - Starred Review, Publisher's Weekly PRAISE FOR A HOME FOR FOUNDLINGS This fascinating tribute...is an excellent snapshot of the life of a foundling.... It is this personal connection to the history that makes Jocelyn's book resonate with the reader. Her research is heartfelt and it shows in her work. - VOYA ... this is a riveting read. - The Toronto Star

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Toronto-born MARTHE JOCELYN is the award-winning author and illustrator of over twenty books. Her picture book Hannah's Collections was short-listed for the Governor General's Literary Award for Illustration. Her novel Mable Riley won the inaugural TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. Marthe Jocelyn is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work.

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