Did I not post the figures assembled in Introduction to Women's Work for poets in recent anthologies as facts Jane requires? If not, happy to do so.
Does not my lifetime as self-supporting writer allow me to speak with some authority as bothwriter and woman? Not just of my experience but that observed and heard from other writers?
I could also quote from section in this anthology describing Guardian blog from which this was initially derived: and how the response to raising this issue there was that lifetime of experience didn't count as any kind of proof: for example, the proof of...facts and figures! So these were duly supplied and what happened? Silence fell. No more discussion or response.
This experience is itself charted in the Introduction. So, I can supply here too, some quotes as well as facts and figures in case if my own experiences (not generalised, but real experiences and those of others too) are not sufficient. As someone interested and concerned about issues of human rights, I include this issue under the category. Or, Jan, do you not think it fits here?
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