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Emily Midorikawa is the author Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice, which tells the stories of six enterprising women of the nineteenth century, whose apparent abilities to contact the dead brought them astonishing levels of fame, fortune and social influence. She is also the coauthor of A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontё, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, co-written with Emma Claire Sweeney and with a foreword by Margaret Atwood. (The UK title is A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Brontё, Eliot and Woolf.)

Emily is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Her journalism has been published in the Paris Review, TIME, The Times (of Lo ...more

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Emily Midorikawa Having written two group biographies - A Secret Sisterhood (2017), co-written with Emma Claire Sweeney and Out of the Shadows (2021) - I am now workin…moreHaving written two group biographies - A Secret Sisterhood (2017), co-written with Emma Claire Sweeney and Out of the Shadows (2021) - I am now working on a novel. It's set in the same period, the Victorian era, as my most recent non-fiction book and has already involved a great deal of historical research. Although I could have taken a different approach, I felt that my subject, which is based on real events, was better suited to fiction this time round. I'm enjoying the challenge of writing in a different way and am looking forward to discovering where this story takes me.(less)

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Emily Midorikawa With two small children about the house, at the moment it's more of a case of carving out enough time to write rather than struggling with writer's bl…moreWith two small children about the house, at the moment it's more of a case of carving out enough time to write rather than struggling with writer's block. However, I've had lots of past experiences of getting stuck and really struggling to move forward. Over the years, I've developed a few strategies for getting past this feeling. In less serious cases of getting stuck (when, for instance, it's just a short section of the book I'm working on that's causing me problems) I might simply try to push through it. I'll keep turning up at my desk at my usual writing time, keep my fingers close to the keys and keep thinking about the work. Often, if I stick to my routine I'll find that the feeling of being blocked starts to solve itself. When things are more serious than that, and if circumstances allow, I will switch to a different writing project for a while or work on research related to the book I am writing, which might well lead to me getting inspired in new ways. Other tactics include walking and making soup. Moving one foot forward then the other, or continuously stirring the pot, can be very effective for freeing the imagination. They work for me, anyway.(less)

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	A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf by Emily Midorikawa (Goodreads Author), Emma Claire Sweeney, Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 3.67 avg rating — 1,014 ratings — published 2017 — 14 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
	Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice 3.69 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2021 — 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
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