Book presentation
Katharine Mitchell will be in conversation with Caterina Soffici.
This study looks at the work of three of the most significant women writers of Post-Unification Italy: La Marchesa Colombi, Neera, and Matilde Serao. These writers, whose works had been largely forgotten for much of the last century, only to be rediscovered by the Italian feminist movement of the 1970s, were widely read and received considerable critical acclaim in their day.
In their realist fiction and journalism, these professional women writers documented and brought to light the ways in which women participated in everyday life in the newly independent Italy, and how their experiences differed profoundly from those of men.
Katharine Mitchell is Lecturer in Italian in the School of Humanities at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Caterina Soffici is an Italian Journalist and writer.
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