{"id":3858,"date":"2013-02-18T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stumblingpast.wordpress.com\/?p=3858"},"modified":"2022-08-04T00:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T00:25:56","slug":"the-popularity-of-memoirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/2013\/02\/18\/the-popularity-of-memoirs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Popularity of Memoirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stumblingpast.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/awwc2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2976\" alt=\"Logo for Australian Women Writers Challenge 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/stumblingpast.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/awwc2012.jpg\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I have just posted an overview of the reviews of histories, biographies and memoirs written for the Australian Women Writers&#8217; Challenge in the first seven weeks of 2013 which you can find <a title=\"Australian Women Writers' Challenge\" href=\"http:\/\/australianwomenwriters.com\/2013\/02\/18\/histories-biographies-memoirs-roundup-1-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Overwhelmingly the reviewers preferred to read memoirs over biographies and histories.\u00a0 Why is this?\u00a0 On the Australian Women Writers&#8217; website I have posed some questions about memoirs which I hope will stimulate comments and reveal why this genre is so popular.<\/p>\n<p>Of course there are many more readers and reviewers out there who read histories and biographies written by Australian women.\u00a0 Are you one of them?\u00a0 If so I encourage you to participate in the Australian Women Writers&#8217; Challenge this year so that other readers can hear about the great histories and biographies written by Australian women.\u00a0 You don&#8217;t even need to have a blog.\u00a0 You can easily open a free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goodreads <\/a>account and post your reviews there. Click <a title=\"Australian Women Writers' Challenge\" href=\"http:\/\/australianwomenwriters.com\/2013-challenge\/sign-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here <\/a>to find out more about the Australian Women Writers&#8217; Challenge and sign up.<\/p>\n<p>Share the news about the great history writing by Australian women!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a short post about the reviewing of histories, biographies and memoirs for the Australian Women Writers&#8217; Challenge so far in 2013.  Histories and biographies are not receiving much attention.  If you have read some good histories and biographies written by Australian women, read this post to find out how to support these authors and publicise their work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[43,44,106,194,198],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Yvonne Perkins","author_link":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/author\/yvonne\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7143,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3858\/revisions\/7143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stumblingpast.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}