Olga Peters Hasty. How Women Must Write. Inventing the Russian Woman Poet, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2019 [review]

In the volume here under review, Olga Peters Hasty pursues two main objectives. First, she sets out to rediscover ties among Russian women authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing “underlying continuity” (xi) in their biographical and literary paths, and questioning cases of rivalry or jealousy between these women. Second, she seeks to reveal unapparent strategies used “to encode subversive messages” (18), through which these women authors turned the tables and somehow benefited from readers’ biases, or what she terms “reader-imposed censorship” (5).