{"title":"Voicing Female Power through Biofiction: A Conversation with Mary Sharratt","authors":"Michael Lackey","doi":"10.1080/08989575.2023.2192612","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Mary Sharratt, the author of eight critically acclaimed novels, is on a mission to write strong women back into history. Her novels include Daughters of the Witching Hill, Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen (winner of the Nautilus Book Award), The Dark Lady’s Mask: A Novel of Shakespeare’s Muse, and Ecstasy, about the life, loves, and music of Alma Mahler. Sharratt’s articles and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, Enchanted Living, Lit Hub, Minnesota Magazine, and Historical Novels Review.","PeriodicalId":37895,"journal":{"name":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","volume":"182 1","pages":"25 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"a/b: Auto/Biography Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2023.2192612","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Mary Sharratt, the author of eight critically acclaimed novels, is on a mission to write strong women back into history. Her novels include Daughters of the Witching Hill, Illuminations: A Novel of Hildegard von Bingen (winner of the Nautilus Book Award), The Dark Lady’s Mask: A Novel of Shakespeare’s Muse, and Ecstasy, about the life, loves, and music of Alma Mahler. Sharratt’s articles and essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Publishers Weekly, Enchanted Living, Lit Hub, Minnesota Magazine, and Historical Novels Review.
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a /b: Auto/Biography Studies enjoys an international reputation for publishing the highest level of peer-reviewed scholarship in the fields of autobiography, biography, life narrative, and identity studies. a/b draws from a diverse community of global scholars to publish essays that further the scholarly discourse on historic and contemporary auto/biographical narratives. For over thirty years, the journal has pushed ongoing conversations in the field in new directions and charted an innovative path into interdisciplinary and multimodal narrative analysis. The journal accepts submissions of scholarly essays, review essays, and book reviews of critical and theoretical texts as well as proposals for special issues and essay clusters. Submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to independent, anonymous peer review.