It takes the average reader 6 hours and 40 minutes to read The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters by Norma Clarke
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If Aphra Benn is widely regarded as the first important woman writer in English, who was the second? In literary history, the eighteenth century belongs to men: Pope and Swift, Richardson and Fielding. Asked to name a woman, even the specialist stumbles. Jane Austen? She didn't publish until 1811. Aphra Benn herself? She died in 1869. The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters tells the remarkable but little-known story of women writers in the eighteenth century - of poets, critics, dramatists and scholars celebrated in their own time but all but forgotten by the beginning of the new century....
The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters by Norma Clarke is 400 pages long, and a total of 100,000 words.
This makes it 135% the length of the average book. It also has 122% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 6 minutes to read The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters aloud.
The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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