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Fein's (The London Bookshop Affair) provocative story underlines the role of women in shaping society throughout time. In 1552, former nun Lysbette Angiers writes a treatise that imagines a world where equality and fairness allow all people to live in peace and prosperity. The men around Lysbette take exception to her ideas, calling them heretical, but she is uncowed and takes the manuscript to a printer in Paris to disseminate it widely. Charlotte Guillard agrees to print the book but is arrested b...Log In or Sign Up to Read More