It seems both sisterhood and Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells still means something in this day and age. As of October this year women readers and writers need no longer be shuffled over to the Women’s Fiction section of WHSmith. All thanks to two women from Tonbridge, Claire Leigh and Julia Gillick who wrote to WHSmith’s chief executive Kate Swann despairing of the pink fluffiness of the Women’s Fiction section and lack of any classics. Their appeal to Swann’s sense of sisterhood worked and now teacher Gillick is encouraging her students to write to supermarkets regarding their choice of shelving labels.
The publishing industry has yet to be queried about its need to put images of disembodied feet (though I suspect the answer to be ‘because all women like shoes’) on novels that fall comfortably into the uncomfortably successful genre of Chick Lit.
Kate
The publishing industry has yet to be queried about its need to put images of disembodied feet (though I suspect the answer to be ‘because all women like shoes’) on novels that fall comfortably into the uncomfortably successful genre of Chick Lit.
Kate
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