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“I also played a game with myself—could I write a biography where not a page went by without Clara’s point-of-view?”
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“It’s hard not to feel a kinship with my subject who performed the men’s works more than her own.”
“The fiction gives an immersive experience of women’s viewpoint.”
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“Luckily, with Clara Schumann, lack of information—the problem which plagues most research about women in history—was a non-issue.”
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“This contextual web forces the writer to confront (or obey) our own internalized misogyny every writing day.”
“Fritz teaches on the faculty of the Westminster Conservatory in Princeton, New Jersey.”
“If she’d promoted herself as a composer equal to the men, she would’ve lost their respect.”
“Article continues after advertisement In nonfiction of women’s histories, particularly biography, there is a pesky prominence of men’s point-of-view.”
“I’m fairly sure I succeeded, though not without considerable effort or without confronting innumerable obstacles.”
“Even feminist writers fault her for a lack of belief in herself.”
“Still, despite the fact the I might not be rewarded by prize committees, when writing my own historical nonfiction, I needed women’s voices to be not just a priority, but the priority.”
“Because I wanted to write a book I enjoyed reading, one that left me, and my women readers, feeling centered and not secondary.”
“Every time I found brief mentions in diaries and letters of Clara’s conversations with fellow women composers, even though these could have easily been cut, I included them.”
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“I highlighted men who played roles of minor heroism, the few who supported Clara’s works, in part, rather than only dwelling on her oppressors.”
“Another major obstacle, often confronted by the woman’s biographer, is her own self-perception.”