Women of letters

By Sophie Cunningham
August 4 2012 - 3:00am
Antoine Wiertz's <i>The Reader of Novels</i> (1853) depicts a naked woman seemingly writhing in ecstasy while surrounded by books.
Antoine Wiertz's <i>The Reader of Novels</i> (1853) depicts a naked woman seemingly writhing in ecstasy while surrounded by books.

THE WOMAN READER
By Belinda Jack
Yale University Press, $39.95

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