Women authors
Deepen Your Appreciation of P.D. James.
Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews a new autobiography by P.D. James.
A Charmed, Comic Circle of Villages Make Up Angela Thirkell's Fictional Countryside.
Book Critic Maureen Corrigan reviews two re-issues from novelist Angela Thirkell, The Headmistress and Growing Up. The publishing company is Moyer Bell. Both books were originally published in the 1940s in Great Britain. Thirkell had a loyal following of readers who in the late 1930s and 40s would set up reading groups called "Thirkell Circles." Thirkell wrote nearly 40 novels.
A New Anthology Looks Back at Catholic Girlhood
Maureen Corrigan, who is a lapsed Catholic herself, reviews the book Catholic Girls, a collection of essays by other lapsed Catholics. The writers' feelings about being raised Catholic range from nostalgic to angry.