Books: Washed-up by the bards behaving badly

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: June 14, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be" Robert Southey sternly warned Charlotte Bronte. I'd better not write this review, then. Silly me. I should stick to shopping lists. Cutlets, not couplets. I've made a living from writing for 20 years and yet, two centuries after Southey's veto, it is still so hard to reconcile the demands of a literary career with the needs of a family and household that I am reduced to tears of exasperation at times.

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