
Feminist Book Club
Thu, Mar 28
|Leesburg
Feminism is for everyone! Come investigate feminist themes in fiction, nonfiction, and even story books with your co-hosts, Jess and Tammy.


Time & Location
Mar 28, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Leesburg, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Weaving together the stories of three extraordinary women across five centuries, Emilia Hart's Weyward is an astonishing debut, and an enthralling novel of female resilience.
2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great-aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she suspects that her great-aunt had a secret. One that lurks in the bones of the cottage, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century.
1619: Altha is awaiting trial for the murder of a local farmer who was stampeded to death by his herd. When Altha was a girl, her mother taught her their magic, a kind not rooted in spell casting but in a deep knowledge of the natural world. But unusual women have always been deemed dangerous, and as the evidence of…