Port Townsend author Jody Gentian Bower celebrates the publication of her book “Jane Eyre’s Sisters: How Women Live and Write the Heroine Story” with a book-launch party, 6-8 p.m., Friday, …
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Port Townsend author Jody Gentian Bower celebrates the publication of her book “Jane Eyre’s Sisters: How Women Live and Write the Heroine Story” with a book-launch party, 6-8 p.m., Friday, March 20 at Heartspace, 204 Woodland Way, just south of Port Townsend.
“I wrote this book because I wanted to read it,” said Bower, who first began noticing a recurring pattern in novels by women sometime in the 1980s. “All the books I read about the heroine’s journey were based primarily on Joseph Campbell’s heroic quest model, but the pattern I saw in heroine-centered stories written by women – and some men, including Shakespeare, Dickens, and J.R.R. Tolkien – was totally different.”
Bower has made her living as a scientific writer and editor since the late 1980s, and moved to Port Townsend in 1999 to take a job as a medical writer with Peter Geerlof’s company Medifor (later Allscripts).
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