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The Handheld Press: Women's Weird

The Second Shelf and Handheld Press are delighted to announce another book launch at the shop, once again recovering women's writing for new generations of readers to enjoy. Melissa Edmundson will be in conversation with writer and The Second Shelf proprietor Allison Devers and Handheld Press publisher Kate Macdonald to discuss Women's Weird, her new anthology of forgotten Weird fiction by outstanding women writers, originally published from 1890 to 1940.

Thrill to the terrifying visions conjured up by Edith Wharton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, May Sinclair, Mary Butts and D K Broster.

£6

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Earlier Event: October 24
Susanna Moore's In the Cut [SOLD OUT]