Lady Murasaki's novel idea: she wasn't waiting around.(Herstory)

New Moon | July 1, 2006| | Copyright

Did you know that no one knows the name of the world's first novelist? That's because in Japan, 1,000 years ago, no one wrote down a girl's name at birth unless she was royalty. So no one knows the name of the woman who wrote The Tale of the Genji. Instead, people call her by her nickname, Lady Murasaki, or Murasaki Shikibu.

Lady Murasaki was born during the Heian era, a time of peace. Her father raised her, which was unusual. In Japan, a mother and father often had separate houses. The children lived in the mother's house. But Murasaki's mother had died when she was ...

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