Essex Girls

For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

Essex Girls
Sarah Perry
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Paperback
h178 x 110mm - 96pg
5 May 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781788167468
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Essex Girls are disreputable, disrespectful and disobedient. They speak out of turn, too loudly and too often, in an accent irritating to the ruling classes. Their bodies are hyper-sexualised and irredeemably vulgar. They are given to intricate and voluble squabbling. They do not apologise for any of this. And why should they? In this exhilarating feminist defence of the Essex girl, Sarah Perry re-examines her relationship with her much maligned home county. She summons its most unquiet spirits, from Protestant martyr Rose Allin to the indomitable Abolitionist Anne Knight, sitting them alongside Audre Lorde, Kim Kardashian and Harriet Martineau, and showing us that the Essex girl is not bound by geography. She is a type, representing a very particular kind of female agency, and a very particular kind of disdain: she contains a multitude of women, and it is time to celebrate them.
Praise for Sarah Perry:' A hugely talented author' -- Sarah Waters Perry is a wonderful descriptive writer with a remarkable talent for making the familiar strange . . . She bleeds light into darkness and back again * The Times *
Sarah Perry is the author of Melmoth, The Essex Serpent and After Me Comes the Flood. She has been the UNESCO City of Literature writer-in-residence in Prague and a Gladstone' s Library writer-in-residence. Her work has been translated into twenty two languages.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781788167468
Published: 5 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Serpent's Tail
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 178mm
Width: 110mm
Spine: 12mm
Weight: 80g
Pages: 96

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