Catch up with Emily Howes on The Shift Bookclub Live
Art, sexism, mental health, The Painter's Daughters really got us talking last night
Just a quick one to let you know that last night’s The Shift Bookclub Live with Emily Howes, author of The Painter’s Daughters, is now live for you to catch up on YouTube.
Thank you to everyone who read it and came along last night. It’s so good to see so many regular names and faces popping up.
As usual, the conversation was pretty varied. Emily whose “day job” is as an existential psychotherapist had literally just finished work so she had to switch from her therapist head to her writer head in super-quick time. We discussed all sorts from the expectations on women in 18th century society (and how they still resonate to a certain extent now) to what freedom and choice mean when you don’t have any money, mental health, shaming women for their looks, their behaviour and their bodies, family secrets, sisterhood, self-sacrifice and the family history that made Emily realise she had to tell Peg and Molly Gainsborough’s stories.
You can watch any time by clicking the button below.
P.S. Free…