![]() ![]() More often, they have had it expressed for them by men, in what Susan Sontag calls “sentimental fantasies” of suffering. Women over the centuries have not always expressed their own pain in art and literature. With her notebook always within arm’s reach, even in her morphine-fuelled fug she wrote incessantly, recording the hallucinatory and the real, inventing stories and gathering almost enough for a collection during her time as an in-patient.Ī notebook by the bedside is hardly revolutionary, but in the hands of an ill woman, and especially one with a gynaecological illness, its symbolism speaks to the past. ![]() After an operation for endometriosis, she was writing about the need to express pain on the page. “I am fascinated by the line between writing and physical survival,” Hilary Mantel wrote in her 2010 essay “Meeting the Devil”. ![]()
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