I write about women, privileged and not, real (Jane Addams, Ida B. Wells, Edith and Alice Hamilton, Charlotte Perkins Gilman) and imagined (Jo March, Marjorie Morningstar). My recent book, "Well-Read Lives" tells moving stories of how young women born in Victorian times lost—and found—themselves in books and worked out a life purpose around them. By discovering the meaning of reading to women in the past, today's readers can gain insight into their own lives. I taught at Trinity College for many years and live in West Hartford, Conn. with my Maine Coon cat, Sascha. http://uncpress.unc.edu/books/T-8614....