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Susan Signe Morrison

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The United States

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Historical Fiction, Young Adult, Memoir

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P. G. Wodehouse

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Professor of English at Texas State University, Susan Signe Morrison lives in Austin, Texas, and writes on topics lurking in the margins of history, ranging from recently uncovered diaries of a teenaged girl in World War II to medieval women pilgrims, excrement in the Middle Ages, and waste.

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Average rating: 3.61 · 424 ratings · 90 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Home Front Girl: A Diary of Love, Literature, and Growing Up in Wartime America by Joan Wehlen Morrison, Susan Signe Morrison (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.24 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2012 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grendel's Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife 3.86 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Medieval Woman's Companion: Women's Lives in the European Middle Ages 4.04 avg rating — 50 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Excrement in the Late Middle Ages: Sacred Filth and Chaucer’s Fecopoetics 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women Pilgrims in Late Medieval England 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frauen des Mittelalters: Künstlerinnen - Herrscherinnen - Denkerinnen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Another Troy by Susan Signe Morrison (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joan Wehlen Morrison 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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What Beowulf Character Are You?

This is my quiz result. NOT Grendel’s Mother!

There’s a very silly quiz available on BuzzFeed which asks, “What Beowulf Character Are You?” Having written the novel, Grendel’s Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife, I figured I’d be a shoe-in for GM. But I got Aeschere instead. I think my mistake was falling for the following question:

“Cædmon wants you to go on an episode of Carpool Karaoke. What

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“The queen held Freawaru back, saying, "Stay with me, my dear. This is man's business."

Surely, thought Freawaru, this is woman's business, too. We are the ones married off as peaceweaving brides after the blood and gore have barely dried.”
― Susan Signe Morrison, Grendel's Mother: The Saga of the Wyrd-Wife

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