Jeanette Winterson". The Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 26 April 2018 . Retrieved 26 April 2018. KT Richardson, Sexual and Domestic Violence Prevention Worker Written on the Body is a much needed story of violence against transgender and gender nonconforming people that is deeply needed. Not just for the community, but for everyone who wishes to understand the violence that trans people are facing. It's a story for us, by us and this is the space where voices are needed most. Thank you for bring together so many narratives and creating a space for voices to be heard in a world that does not validate the experiences of trans folk. Bamby Salcedo, President & CEO of The TransLatin@ Coalition Written on the Body beautifully paints the picture of what happens to people of trans experience when it comes to sexual assault and violence. This book provides the opportunity to tell our stories on a way that is our own, because these are our experiences. It is a way for us to find some type of healing, to find comfort and to provide some type of hope to many of us who are still dealing with these difficult issues.

Sarah Schulman, “Guilty with Explanation: Jeanette Winterson’s Endearing Book of Love,” Lambda Book Review 3. 9 (1993): 20.Lowdon, Claire. "12 Bytes by Jeanette Winterson review — but was it written by a robot?". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021 . Retrieved 19 September 2021. Leigh Gilmore, “An Anatomy of Absence,” The Gay 90’s ed. Thomas Foster et al. (New York: New York UP, 1997): 224–51. Cath Stowers, “Journeying with Jeanette,” (Hetero)sexual Politics, ed. Mary Maynard and June Purvis (London: Taylor & Francis, 1995): 139–58. The narrator and Louise become lovers. The narrator tells Jacqueline right away, allowing her the dignity of walking away before the lies become too much to overcome. Jacqueline takes the news with outrage, destroying the apartment she shared with the narrator in an attempt to injure in response to her own pain. The narrator is not bothered by Jacqueline's anger and instead focuses on Louise. Louise tells her husband about their affair, also reluctant to live with lies. For a time Louise and the narrator carry on their relationship in her husband's house. However, Elgin eventually has enough of their relationship. Louise decides to file for divorce.

Winterson published her first novel to immediate acclaim in the mid-1980’s. Although she is both a lesbian and a feminist, the themes that Winterson explores are not limited to specifically lesbian or feminist issues, nor do they display any overt political posturing. It is through form rather than content that Winterson might arguably be seen to contribute a new voice and perspective to literature by women. The richness and value of her work comes through her freely employing and mingling many different styles and literary forms in her exploration of a variety of large themes—notably sexuality, gender, time, and freedom. All of her novels experiment with narrative form, creating disorienting shifts in time and character, the latter often presented as sexually ambiguous. Thomas-Corr, Johanna (20 May 2019). "Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson review – an inventive reanimation". TheGuardian.com. Archived from the original on 2 June 2019 . Retrieved 14 June 2019.The first part could be seen as a recollection of the narrator's previous lovers, a lot of which were married women, and love experiences compared to meeting Louise. The narrator questions adultery and marriage, clichés of marital happiness, of settling down and commitment. The ever-growing obsession with Louise begins-the narrator is at first reluctant because of her marriage but, given that Louise is showing the same interest, gives into passion. How interesting it might have been if Winterson had pursued her examination of the dramatic way the narrator’s boyfriend Frank marked his body by running a gold chain through nipple rings. This would have been an opportunity to delve deeply into the ways persons “write” their bodies and their bodies “write” them. Instead, the narrator simply says, “The effect should have been deeply butch but in fact it looked rather like the handle of a Chanel shopping bag”: quite amusing, yes, and also studiously dismissive of any other way the chain and nipple rings might be “read” by gay or straight culture. sj Miller, author of Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth, series co-editor, Social Justice Across Contexts in Education, series co-editor, Queering Teacher Education Across Contexts After she moved to London, she wrote her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against convention. [10] which won the 1985 Whitbread Prize for a First Novel. Winterson adapted it for television in 1990. Her novel The Passion was set in Napoleonic Europe. [11]

Winterson, Jeanette (9 October 2009). "The story of my Spitalfields home". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Archived from the original on 13 January 2019 . Retrieved 12 January 2019– via www.thetimes.co.uk. Celia Shiffer, “‘You see, I am no stranger to love’: Jeanette Winterson and the Ecstasy of the Word,” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46. 1 (2004): 50.

The first-person narrator of WRITTEN ON THE BODY (whose name and gender are left unstated) is alone at the end of a hot dry summer when the novel begins. It has not always been so for the narrator; she or he recalls other summers, lush and fertile, filled with mutual desire. The path between then and now, a trail strewn with male and female lovers alike, is what the narrator must traverse again to determine how Louise, the great love of the narrator’s life, was lost. Becoming your self is the most daring act you will undertake in your lifetime. In some ways it's a bigger deal than being born, because it requires courage, determination, vision and a body that is your own. Written on the Body shows us how beautifully it's being done in the 21st Century and reminds us that the business of becoming your authentic self is never finished The diseased character is dead the second she receives her diagnosis. There is no character arc, development, and certainly no resolution.” Jaggi, Maya (28 May 2004). "Redemption songs". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013 . Retrieved 23 November 2019.

Jeanette Winterson". Bookclub. 4 April 2010. BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 26 November 2016 . Retrieved 18 January 2014. BBC 100 Women 2016: Who is on the list?". BBC. 21 November 2016. Archived from the original on 23 December 2016 . Retrieved 7 December 2016.Winterson, Jeanette (12 June 2010). "Once upon a life: Jeanette Winterson". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 5 July 2018 . Retrieved 12 January 2019– via www.theguardian.com.