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Before-reading Activities
Bernardine Evaristo
Building a Biography
Background
Literary Prizes
- About the Booker Prize Foundation
- A Guide To The Most Prestigious Literary Awards
- A Guide to Major Book Awards
The Joint Prize
- Why This Year’s Booker Prize Has Made Me Lose Faith in Literary Awards
- ‘Another author’: outrage after BBC elides Bernardine Evaristo’s Booker win
- ‘Racism and the Booker Prize
A Person's Politics
Writerly Contexts
- Where do the UK's political parties stand on Brexit vote?
- Which parties are pro and anti Brexit?
- Who should I vote for in the general election? A guide to all party manifestos in the UK
Considering Genre
- The Role Of Women In Victorian England
- The Status of Women in 18th Century English Society
- The 1950s Housewife
During-reading Activities
Chapter 1
Yazz
Dominique
- Why So Many People Ignore LGBTQ Dating Violence
- Love Bombing
- Goodreads: Marc's Reviews > Girl, Woman, Other
Chapter 2
Bummi
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- ‘I know first-hand that immigrants can feel alienated in their own home’
- Migrant women speak out about working life in the UK over the last 60 years
- A Girl of the Limberlost, Gene Stratton-Porter, 1909
Chapter 3
Shirley
- Education in the UK: A History
- How have attitudes to education changed over the last 30 years?
- Education Policy in England and Wales: 1979 to 2022
- Margaret Thatcher: Brief chronology 1925-90
- Margaret Thatcher, Education Reformer
- Thatcherism and Education in England: A One-way Street?
Penelope
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- What Are the Four Waves of Feminism?
- What are the four waves of feminism? And what comes next?
Chapter 4
Morgan
Hattie
Grace
- Women in the Early to Mid-20th Century (1900-1960): Introduction
- 1910-1919: A period when legislative change finally began to establish gender equality
- Race and Prejudice in Early 20th Century Britain
- 1900 – Presence of mixed race families in early 20th century Britain
Chapter 5
The After-party
Whole-text Activities
Context
Black and British
- 66 Articles About Racism In Britain & The Black British Experience
- Black British Museum Project
- National Archives: Black History
- English Heritage: Black History
British Attitudes
- LGBTQ+ Rights in Britain
- The History of British Immigration Policy (1905-2016)
- Imperialism’s long shadow: the UK universities grappling with a colonial past
Authorial Intent
- “We are pretty invisible in fiction”: Bernardine Evaristo on power, racism and her wild Eighties days
- The Little Book That Could: How Bernardine Evaristo Became an International Writer-to-Watch in 2019
- Bernardine Evaristo: ‘Older black women, who writes about that?’
Characterisation
In summmary...
Relationships
Human Desire
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Themes
Focusing Theme
Attitudes and Values
Complexities
Writer's Use of Language
Style I
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- Goodreads: Wamuyu Thoithi's Reviews > Girl, Woman, Other
Critical Reception
A Modern Audience
- The Guardian: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo review – joy as well as struggle
- The Literary Edit: Girl Woman Other Book Review
- Goodreads: leynes's Reviews > Girl, Woman, Other
Critical Interpretations
- “Being / together”: Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other and the Black British Women’s Movement
- Feminist/queer/diasporic temporality in Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other