The professor, a sixtyish woman with bobbed hair, wrote on the board during the first class meeting: Most Lives Will Be Lost to Time. She spoke the names of women from as far back as the sixteenth century who wrote down their life stories when no one thought it appropriate for women to write at all. By doing so, they endured. Jane’s brain lit up at the idea. She devoured the poems of Lucy Cavendish and the detailed diaries of Anne Clifford.
