JOANNA SCUTTS

Literary critic, feminist historian, and author of three books:

Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism (Seal Press/Hachette USA and Duckworth Books UK, 2022)

The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2017)

Firebrands: 25 Pioneering Women Writers to Ignite Your Reading Life (Duckworth Books UK, 2024).

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Occasional news & musings over on Substack: The Pleasure Of…

My book reviews and essays have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement, Wall Street Journal, New Republic, Washington Post, Guardian, and New Yorker online, among many others, and I am a former board member of the National Book Critics Circle.

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