Eve Bites Back Book Launch!

Join us this fine autumn evening to rewrite history!

We'll be bringing women to the forefront, and queering the canon as we do so. The women writers Anna Beer surfaces were meant to be written out of our collective history - she's making sure that won't happen.

Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. From the fourteenth century through to the present day, women who write have been understood as mad, undisciplined or dangerous. Female writers have always had to find ways to overcome or challenge these beliefs.

Some were cautious and discreet, some didn't give a damn, but all lived complex, eventful and often controversial lives. Eve Bites Back places the female contemporaries of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton centre stage in the history of literature in English, uncovering stories of dangerous liaisons and daring adventures. From Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Aemilia Lanyer and Anne Bradstreet, to Aphra Behn, Mary Wortley Montagu, Jane Austen and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, these are the women who dared to write.

Our host : Rosa Campbell is an Associate Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of St Andrews, where she researches and teaches twentieth and twenty-first century poetry, particularly by women and queer writers, the relationship between poetry and visual art, and feminist/queer theory. She is also a poet and writer, and the author of Pothos (Broken Sleep, 2021), a fragmentary memoir about grief and houseplants. She tweets sporadically as @rosaetc.