Sounds and Sweet Airs
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The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man's world
Anna scrive di argomenti che la affascinano, sperando di coinvolgere anche i suoi lettori. Il suo lavoro intreccia passioni di lunga data per la musica, la scrittura, l'esplorazione della vita delle donne nel passato e le condizioni materiali necessarie per creare grande arte. Oltre ai suoi impegni biografici, insegna letteratura inglese e scrittura creativa, contribuisce a collane accademiche e appare frequentemente sui media. Il suo blog rivela anche un amore per il ciclismo, il buon cibo e il vino, e l'esplorazione delle città, spesso attraverso lunghi viaggi in treno.



The hidden history of the women who dared to write music in a man's world
John Milton was one of the world's greatest poets, the renowned author of Paradise Lost. But he was also deeply involved in political and religious controversies of his time, and authored a series of radical pamphlets on free speech, divorce, and civil rights that proposed a rethinking of the nature and practice of government. In countless biographies, Milton has been crudely sketched either as a blind, saintly artist or as a domestic tyrant. Yet as Anna Beer shows, he was neither ogre nor paragon. By closely examining all aspects of Milton's life and its social historical context, Beer succeeds in bringing an enigmatic pillar of English literature to life, four centuries after his birth.
The lives and achievements of eight women writers - a startling and unconventional history of literature