The Book of Old Ladies - Saxton, Ruth O
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A book lover's guide to embracing beauty, sensuality, creativity, connection, wonder, and joy in late life, The Book of Old Ladies introduces readers to thirty fictional texts featuring "women of a certain age" who prepare for the journey of aging, inhabit the territory, and increasingly become their truest selves.

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A book lover's guide to embracing beauty, sensuality, creativity, connection, wonder, and joy in late life, The Book of Old Ladies introduces readers to thirty fictional texts featuring "women of a certain age" who prepare for the journey of aging, inhabit the territory, and increasingly become their truest selves.
Autorenporträt
Dr. Ruth O. Saxton is a Professor Emerita of English at Mills College in Oakland, CA. Over the course of her forty-two-year career, she has studied, taught, and published works on fiction by women for decades, focusing on how narratives limit or expand what we imagine to be possible. Dr. Saxton served as the college's first Dean of Letters, cofounded the Women's Studies program, and founded the Rhetoric and Composition program. Her scholarly works include The Girl, Constructions of the Girl in Contemporary Fiction by Women; Approaches to Teaching Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (with Eileen Barrett); and Woolf and Lessing: Breaking the Mold (with Jean Tobin). She currently resides in Oakland, CA.