{"product_id":"essex-girls-for-profane-and-opinionated-women-everywhere","title":"Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere","description":"Review      Praise for Sarah Perry:'A hugely talented author' -- Sarah WatersPerry is a wonderful descriptive writer with a remarkable talent for making the familiar strange ... She bleeds light into darkness and back again ― The TimesA polemic that makes room for both Kim Kardashian and Harriet Martineau ― Guardian Biggest Books of Autumn 2020The always-enthralling Perry returns with a spiky and subversive look at the power of all things Essex - and a feminist defence of \"Essex girls\". ― the i PaperThe ever-brilliant Sarah Perry tackles Essex Girls and how women such as Rose Allin, abolitionist Anne Knight and Kim Kardashian (not from Essex but showing off the traits) know how to shake things up. ― StylistFull of delights... Perry celebrates forward-thinking women who have been largely written out of history ― IndependentIn each account, as in her fiction, Perry displays her gift for peeling back the layers of our present day to exhume forgotten lives. The arguments are clear, the prose is stiletto sharp... The Essex Girl daringly holds up a mirror to the rest of Britain. ― Daily TelegraphVery enjoyable ... fascinating -- Jane Garvey, BBC R4 Woman's HourIt's an absorbing read, full of fondness. -- Francesca Carington ― Tatler      Product Description      A Guardian Best Book of the Year 2020'Not all Essex girls are party girls. They can be sages, martyrs, leaders. In her neat and provocative little book, Sarah Perry celebrates their courage and vivacity.' Hilary MantelA defence and celebration of the Essex Girl by the best-selling author of The Essex SerpentEssex 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.      Book Description      A defence and celebration of the Essex Girl by the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent      About the Author      Sarah Perry is the author of Essex Girls,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. She lives in Norwich","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40151417913429,"sku":"9781788167451N","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/20eeb49f-18fa-494f-99c0-c6beb7fa7126.jpg?v=1657016191","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/essex-girls-for-profane-and-opinionated-women-everywhere","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}