A Woman, Sibilla Aleramo lighting Twenty-five years ago

Twenty-five years ago

Climbing from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the Empire State Building

Skate with Me

'the unbearable lightness of being' - not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere

By the 1930s

A Woman, Sibilla Aleramo lighting Twenty-five years agoWhen her carefree, aspirational childhood in a seaside town is brought brutally to an end, the nameless narrator of Sibilla Aleramo's blazing autobiographical novel discovers the shocking reality of life for a woman in Italy at the dawn of the twentieth century. As she begins to recognize the similarities between her own predicament and the plight of her mother and the women around her, she becomes convinced that she must escape her fate. Unashamed