{"id":379,"date":"2016-03-09T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/?p=379"},"modified":"2016-03-09T14:38:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:38:23","slug":"women-and-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/2016\/03\/09\/women-and-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>\u201cWomen and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.\u201d <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&#8211; Virginia Woolf, <em><span id=\"quote_book_link_18521\">A Room of One&#8217;s Own<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day 2016, and to remind students\u00a0that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">the Library has more than just textbooks<\/span>, we compiled a list of some books written by women in the Main Library:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Louisa May Alcott, <em>Little Women<\/em>, PS1017.L5 Alc.<\/li>\n<li>Margaret Atwood, <em>The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/em>, PR9199.3.A8 Atw.<\/li>\n<li>Jane Austen, <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em>, PR4034.P7 Aus.<\/li>\n<li>Charlotte Bront\u00eb, <em>Jane Eyre<\/em>, PR4167 Bro.<\/li>\n<li>Emily Bront\u00eb, <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em>, PR4172.W7 Bro.<\/li>\n<li>Agatha Christie, <em>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd<\/em>, PR6005.H66 Chr.<\/li>\n<li>Louise Erdrich, <em>The Round House<\/em>, PS3555.R42 Erd.<\/li>\n<li>Helen Fielding, <em>Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary<\/em>, PR6056.I4588 Fie.<\/li>\n<li>Sue Monk Kidd, <em>The Secret Life of Bees<\/em>, PS3611.I44 Kid.<\/li>\n<li>Harper Lee, <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, PS3562.E353 Lee.<\/li>\n<li>Audrey Niffenegger, <em>The Time Traveler\u2019s Wife<\/em>, PS3564.I362 Nif.<\/li>\n<li>Sylvia Plath, <em>The Bell Jar<\/em>, PS3566.L27 Pla.<\/li>\n<li>Anne Rice, <em>Interview with the Vampire<\/em>, PS3568.I265 Ric.<\/li>\n<li>Mary Shelley, <em>Frankenstein<\/em>, PR5397.F7 She.<\/li>\n<li>Kathryn Stockett, <em>The Help<\/em>, PS3619.T636 Sto.<\/li>\n<li>Alice Walker, <em>The Colour Purple<\/em>, PS3573.A425 Wal.<\/li>\n<li>Virginia Woolf, <em>A Room of One&#8217;s Own<\/em>,\u00a0<span class=\"EXLAvailabilityCallNumber\">PR6045.O72 Woo.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today we were in the Foyer of the Main Library asking students to vote on their favourite one! It was a close race, but in the end the winner was\u00a0Charlotte Bront\u00eb&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Jane Eyre!\u00a0<\/em>Other popular titles were\u00a0<em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Frankenstein<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-380 size-large alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/03\/womenwriters-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"womenwriters\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/03\/womenwriters-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/03\/womenwriters-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/03\/womenwriters-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/03\/womenwriters-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let us know on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crc.edinburgh\/\">Facebook<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/crc_eduni\">Twitter<\/a> (#happylibrary) if you have comments on the winners or suggestions of other titles! And why not borrow one of these books this week! Remember, it only takes six minutes of quiet reading to relax you.<\/p>\n<p>We will leave you this week with another image from our collections, this time of Scottish writer Joanna Baillie, who was greatly admired by Sir Walter Scott for her poems and plays:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-381 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/03\/joanna-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"joanna\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/03\/joanna-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/03\/joanna-768x1177.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/03\/joanna-668x1024.jpg 668w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/03\/joanna-624x957.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/files\/2016\/03\/joanna.jpg 1002w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Steel engraved portrait of Joanna Baillie by H. Robinson after a painting by Masquerier. 1876-1877.\u00a0Corson P.2021. Image can be accessed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/images.is.ed.ac.uk\/luna\/servlet\/detail\/UoEwal~1~1~59500~100441?qvq=q:writing;lc:UoEcha~4~4,UoEcar~3~3,UoEart~1~1,UoEcar~1~1,UoEgal~5~5,UoEecp~1~1,UoEwmm~3~3,UoEsha~5~5,UoEcar~4~4,UoEgal~2~2,UoEwmm~2~2,UoEcha~1~1,UoEart~2~2,UoEhal~2~2,UoEsha~3~3,UoEsha~4~4,UoEgal~6~6,UoEcar~2~2,UoEsha~1~1,UoEsha~2~2,UoEgal~4~4,UoEwal~1~1,UoEwmm~1~1&amp;mi=36&amp;trs=41#\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Happy International Women&#8217;s Day!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWomen and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.\u201d &#8211; Virginia Woolf, A Room of One&#8217;s Own To celebrate International Women&#8217;s Day 2016, and to remind students\u00a0that the Library has more than just textbooks, we compiled a list of some books written by women in the Main Library: Louisa May Alcott, Little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,7,8],"tags":[16],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7IvFh-67","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/universitycollectionsvolunteers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}