The Hidden Library: How Women Preserved Their Writings Across 4,000 Years
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This article discusses the author's novel "The Hidden Library," which imagines a 4,000-year-old secret library of women's writings preserved across centuries. It honors Enheduanna, a Mesopotamian high priestess who was the first known author to sign her own work. The piece explores how women throughout history have hidden their writings to protect them from destruction by authorities who forbade women from reading and writing, framing these women as warriors and guardians of knowledge fighting to preserve women's voices across time.
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· 5 pulledMy novel, The Hidden Library, explores a 4,000-year-old library of women's writings that has been hidden.
Hidden to protect the manuscripts from fire, destruction, or neglect.
Hidden by women who themselves faced death at the hands of authorities who forbade women from reading and writing.
The first author that we know of who signed her own work was a high priestess in Mesopotamia.
The Hidden Library is in honor of Enheduanna, that high priestess 4,000 years ago who wrote with
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