Move over, Rory Gilmore. If tongues can be sharp, and words are our weapons, then women who read are dangerous. That’s what Karen Joy Fowler wants to convey in the new book Women Who Read Are Dangerous. The book includes paintings from throughout the history of art that portray women reading.
The book features over 70 artworks by artists such as Henri Matisse, Edward Hopper, Suzanne Valadon, August Sander, Rembrandt, and many more.
Women Who Read Are Dangerous is available now.
A young girl reading by Jean-Honore Fragonard
Our May by Julia Margaret Cameron
Madame de Pompadour by François Boucher
LArlesienne by Van Gogh
Lee Miller and Tanja Ramm by Theodore Miller
Portrait of Katie Lewis by Sir Edward Burnes-Jones
Rembrant van Rijn An old Woman Reading Probably the Prophetess Hannah
Girl Reading with Pug by Charles Burton Barber
Primary School Teacher by August Sander
After the Ball by Ramon Casas I Carbo
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